Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship
About the Book Series
This series extends the meaning and scope of entrepreneurship by capturing new research and enquiry on economic, social, cultural and personal value creation. Entrepreneurship as value creation represents the endeavours of innovative people and organisations in creative environments that open up opportunities for developing new products, new services, new firms and new forms of policy making in different environments seeking sustainable economic growth and social development. In setting this objective the series includes books which cover a diverse range of conceptual, empirical and scholarly topics that both inform the field and push the boundaries of entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship and Global Cities: Diversity, Opportunity and Cosmopolitanism
1st Edition
Edited
By Nikolai Mouraviev, Nada K. Kakabadse
March 31, 2021
Global cities with a largely cosmopolitan environment, such as Auckland, Berlin, Dubai, London, New York, Shanghai or Singapore, are successfully developing and attracting entrepreneurs from all over the world. This book elucidates the policy approaches related to the formation of the ...
Time, Space and Entrepreneurship
1st Edition
By James Fiet
March 31, 2021
Identifying opportunities is essential to successful entrepreneurial activity; but good opportunities may be missed if entrepreneurs fail to understand when and where to search for them, or appreciate the significance of timing and place in their search. This book identifies and addresses three ...
Enterprising Education in UK Higher Education: Challenges for Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Gary Mulholland, Jason Turner
December 18, 2020
The UK may be ranked as one of the best countries in the world to start a business, but evidence from growing skills gaps, and the decline in graduates’ entrepreneurial aspirations suggest that higher education may not be contributing as it should to the enterprise environment. Enterprising ...
Entrepreneurial Learning: New Perspectives in Research, Education and Practice
1st Edition
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By David Rae, Catherine Wang
December 18, 2020
This book explores the development of the rapidly evolving field of entrepreneurial learning by bringing together contributions from an international team of researchers, who offer new understanding of its emerging development and its potential scope for the future. Using the three domains of ...
International Enterprise Education: Perspectives on Theory and Practice
1st Edition
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By Jason Turner, Gary Mulholland
December 18, 2020
The important debate on the growing graduate skills gaps, the value of universities to their business communities, and their role (or lack of ) in building entrepreneurial attributes among graduates is growing internationally.Using case studies from universities across the globe, this edited book ...
Social Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics: Understanding the Contribution and Normative Ambivalence of Purpose-driven Venturing
1st Edition
By Anica Zeyen, Markus Beckmann
December 18, 2020
Social entrepreneurs are change makers that aim to solve society’s unsolved problems. Not surprisingly, social entrepreneurship has thus created high expectations. To better understand the potential as well as the limitations of social entrepreneurship, however, a more nuanced approach is needed in...
Cultural Entrepreneurship: The Cultural Worker�s Experience of Entrepreneurship
1st Edition
By Annette Naudin
December 06, 2019
This book explores the lived experience of cultural entrepreneurship examining the challenges associated with cultural labour including the insecurities of managing precarious working conditions. Drawing on interviews conducted with cultural workers, Cultural Entrepreneurship focuses on how ...
Entrepreneurship in the Informal Sector: An Institutional Perspective
1st Edition
By Colin Williams
December 06, 2019
How many businesses start-ups conduct some or all of their trade ‘off-the-books’? And how many enterprises continue to do some of their work off-the-books once they are more established? What should be done about them? Should governments adopt ever more punitive measures to eradicate them? Or ...
The Informal Economy: Exploring Drivers and Practices
1st Edition
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By Ioana Horodnic, Peter Rodgers, Colin Williams, Legha Momtazian
December 05, 2019
During much of the twentieth century, informal employment and entrepreneurship was commonly depicted as a residue from a previous era. Its continuing presence was seen to be a sign of "backwardness" whilst the formal economy represented "progress". In recent decades, however, numerous studies have ...
Toward Entrepreneurial Community Development: Leaping Cultural and Leadership Boundaries
1st Edition
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By Michael Fortunato, Morgan Clevenger
June 06, 2019
Toward Entrepreneurial Community Development is about developing entrepreneurial communities, and goes beyond theories of the firm to demonstrate how local and regional society contributes in important ways to the vitality of entrepreneurs. The literature is rich with insights about leadership and ...
The Habitual Entrepreneur
1st Edition
By Paul Westhead, Mike Wright
August 06, 2018
Increasingly, entrepreneurship research recognizes a wide variety in entrepreneurial behaviour. One such difference is marked between experienced or habitual entrepreneurs and novices. This book, authored by established experts in the field, introduces and explores the habitual entrepreneur ...
Entrepreneurship and Cluster Dynamics
1st Edition
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By Cristina Boari, Tom Elfring, Xavier Molina-Morales
June 08, 2018
Entrepreneurship and Cluster Dynamics focuses on the origin and development of clusters and specifically on the role played by the strategic entrepreneurship in these contexts. Although separately entrepreneurship and cluster studies have already attracted the attention of academics and ...