The entrepreneurship dynamic : origins of entrepreneurship and the evolution of industries /

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Imprint:Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2001.
Description:xxii, 451 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4515405
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Other authors / contributors:Schoonhoven, Claudia Bird.
Romanelli, Elaine.
Balboa Bay Conference on the Entrepreneurship Dynamic (1998 : Newport Beach, Calif.)
ISBN:0804737894 (alk. paper)
0804737908 (pbk.)
Notes:Papers presented at the Balboa Bay Conference on the Entrepreneurship Dynamic held in Newport Beach, Calif. in Nov. 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-440) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • 1. Introduction: Premises of the Entrepreneurship Dynamic
  • Part I. The Origins of Entrepreneurial Activity and New Organizations
  • 2. The Company They Keep: Founders' Models for Organizing New Firms
  • 3. The Local Origins of New Firms
  • 4. The Role of Immigrant Entrepreneurs in New Venture Creation
  • 5. The Magic Beanstalk Vision: Commercializing University Inventions and Research
  • 6. Knowledge Industries and Idea Entrepreneurs: New Dimensions of Innovative Products, Services, and Organizations
  • 7. From the Technology Cycle to the Entrepreneurship Dynamic: The Social context of Entrepreneurial Innovation
  • Part II. Entrepreneurship in the Evolution of Industries
  • 8. Learning and Legitimacy: Entrepreneurial Responses to Constraints on the Emergence of New Populations and Organizations
  • 9. Entrepreneurial Action in the Creation of the Specialty Coffee Niche
  • 10. The Power of Public Competition: Promoting Cognitive Legitimacy Through Certification Contests
  • 11. Social Movement Theory and the Evolution of New Organizational Forms
  • 12. Entrepreneurship in Context: Strategic Interaction and the Emergence of Regional Economies
  • 13. The Legal Environment of Entrepreneurship: Observations on the Legitimation of Venture Finance in Silicon Valley
  • 14. Emergent Themes and the Next Wave of Entrepreneurship Research
  • References
  • Index