Organizing entrepreneurship / Anna Grandori and Laura Gaillard Giordani with James Hayton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grandori, Anna.

Contributor:

Giordani, Laura Gillard.

Hayton, James C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Entrepreneurship.

Strategic planning.

Risk management.

Interorganizational relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Entrepreneurship has regained centre stage in the contemporary knowledge-intensive and innovation-driven economy, as well as in research. Integrating classic and recent insights into the organization, economics and management of entrepreneurial activities, Organizing Entrepreneurship aims to blend rigor with relevance, and connects theory with practical problems around key questions, such as: Is there any method in having 'good ideas' and discovering opportunities? Through which mechanisms can human, social, technical and financial resources be att

Contents:

1.1 Structural sources of opportunities: reducing and creating disequilibria1.2 Relational sources of opportunities: social network management; 1.3 Cognitive sources of opportunities: entrepreneurial decision making; 2. Entrepreneurial resources: access problems and networked solutions; 2.1 Entrepreneurial resource attraction: barriers and problems; 2.2 Networked human resources; 2.3 Networked access to technology; 2.4 Networked finance; 3. Entrepreneurial firms; 3.1. Governance, ownership, and legal forms; 3.2. The internal organization of entrepreneurial firms

4. The internal and external growth of entrepreneurial firms4.1 The boundaries of the entrepreneurial firm; 4.2 Networked growth (and networked birth); 5. Organizing entrepreneurship in established firms; 5.1 Organizing for innovation in established firms: "corporate entrepreneurship", "corporate disaggregation" and other movement; 5.2 Structural practices; 5.3 Human resources and industrial relations practices; 6. Organizing environments for entrepreneurship; 6.1 The spatial clustering of economic activity; 6.2 Variety and evolution of territorial entrepreneurial networks

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-71785-4

0-203-81583-1

1-136-71786-2

9780203815830

OCLC:

764572384