Entrepreneurship Research in Europe: Outcomes and Perspectives

by Alain Fayolle (Editor)

In this vital new book, leading international scholars highlight the unique characteristics and rich variety of European research in entrepreneurship. They pursue several different perspectives and focus on the key issues and most significant developments in the field. The authors illustrate current conceptions of entrepreneurship research and identify critical methodological and theoretical questions. They also discuss innovations in European research methodologies which often result from holistic and systemic approaches, as well as from multi-disciplinary research. They move on to study entrepreneurship, innovation and culture as a set of interrelated fields, highlighting the role of culture in the growing phenomenon of entrepreneurship. They demonstrate how culture has to be understood in a broad sense and at different levels, such as professional culture, corporate culture and national culture. In this way, the book provides powerful tools to help identify, elaborate and understand the importance of European cultural roots within the international entrepreneurship landscape. Including detailed comparative studies at both the national and corporate level, this book will be informative reading for researchers, students and practitioners interested in the education, management issues and practices surrounding entrepreneurship. It will also be of value to those working in the fields of technology and innovation policy, and to anyone wanting to understand the unique European notions of entrepreneurship, which are often quite distinct from current American views.

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

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[Danijel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Entrepreneurship research in Europe: outcomes and perspectives

pg. 35 (author Per Davidsson)- inspired by Austrian economics and by empirical work at the intersection of innovation and entrepreneurship, Sankaran Venkataraman (1997, cf. Shane and Venkataraman, 2000; Van de Ven et al., 1989; Van de Ven et al., 1999) has suggested that entrepreneurship is about the processes of discovery and exploitation of opportunities to create future goods and services.

Pg. 55 (author Frederic Delmar)- we define entrepreneurship as the process of how, by whom, and with what consequences opportunities to discover future products and services are discovered, evaluated and exploited (Ventkataraman, 1997).

Pg. 80 (author Tatiana Iakovleva, Lars Kolvereid)- one of the central question in the study of entrepreneurship is concerned with why some new ventures succeed and other do not (Cooper in Gascon, 1992). An understanding of why firms fail or succeed is crucial to the stability and health of the economy (Gartner et al., 1999; Storey et al., 1987).

Pg. 88- it is generally believed that a successful entrepreneur is a result of the special set of personal abilities and characteristics, rather than other factors.

Pg. 89- it was found that knowledge and situational characteristics are more important determinants of risk-taking than personality (Delmar, 2000).