Entrepreneurship is a missing component of several leading theories of the firm. Entrepreneurship is key to the growth and survival of firms in a volatile environment, because ent repreneurial judgement is necessary to success in making complex decisions under uncertainty. The addition of entrepreneurship is not a minor refinement of the theory of the firm, but represents a radical change. The ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the emerging practice of social entrepreneurship by exploring the historical and theoretical antecedents of social enterprise and its contemporary practice. By exploring key theoretical concepts, the paper draws comparisons between “for-profit” and social entrepreneurs. The paper seeks to discuss the contemporary practice of social entrepreneurs...

This paper explores the morality associated with entrepreneurship. It has been argued that there is no moral space in entrepreneurship, but such instrumental views may the miss out much of the nature of enterprise and how it is understood. Consequently we propose that a social constructed perspective, based upon the meanings of entrepreneurship, may help to understand the morality of entreprene...

Work on social entrepreneurship constitutes a field of study that intersects a number of domains, including entrepreneurial studies, social innovation, and nonprofit management. Scholars are beginning to contribute to the development of this new discipline through efforts that attempt to trace the emergence of social entrepreneurship as well as by comparing it to other organizational activities...

Successful entrepreneurship is an emergent outcome in a fundamentally economic sense that is distinguishable from emergence understood more generally. Successful entrepreneurship entails a process of forming innovative capital combinations that result in the enhancement of value. Value may be seen to have been created, to have emerged from the process. Successful entrepreneurship occurs within ...

The question of how new organizational forms are created remains an unsolved problem in new institutional theory. We argue that one important way that new organizational forms emerge is through a process of bridging institutional entrepreneurship, which involves an institutional entrepreneur combining aspects of established institutional logics to create a new type of organization underpinned b...

This introductory, non-technical, article offers a reflective overview of what Economics adds to our understanding of entrepreneurship. It is designed primarily to showcase to young entrepreneurship scholars several interesting research questions and a toolbox of methods to answer them. First, I will illustrate the kinds of questions that can be posed and answered using Economics. Then I will p...

Many researchers have discussed the relation between entrepreneurship and innovation based on the process, structure, and strategy of either entrepreneurship or innovation (Littunen, 2000, Cornwall and Perlman, 1990, Caird, 1988; Casson, 1982). While others have touched on the conceptual relationship between entrepreneurship and innovation (Schumpeter, 1934, Drucker, 1994, Legge and Hindle, 199...

This article focuses on entrepreneurship in economic geography and aims at a systematic investigation of regional variation in knowledge-based entrepreneurial activity. We develop and test a three-phase structural model for regional systems of entrepreneurship after introducing a systems approach to entrepreneurship. The model is built upon the absorptive capacity theory of knowledge spillover ...

This study aims to investigate the relationships between human resource management and entrepreneurship in the view of owner-managers and employees, and among employees with in the SME in Thailand. The research method used qualitative method to confirm the phenomenology interest with top management position which women are regarding their career path by using purposive sampling method. The resu...