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Creating Entrepreneurial Space: Talking Through Multi-Voices, Reflections on Emerging Debates [Kõva köide]

Edited by (University of Liverpool, UK), Edited by (Ulster University, UK), Edited by (University of Swansea, Wales)
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Entrepreneurship is still regarded by many as in the theory building stage, which has led to some commentaries to suggest that the field is fragmented and at a nascent stage of development.

Developing a critical and constructive position towards current theories, methods, assumptions and beliefs, the book seeks to question the prevailing assumptions currently dominating entrepreneurial researching and practice. The book brings together leading thinkers, practitioners and researchers in the field to draw upon new theoretical perspectives and approaches as a means of illustrating the inherently social and contextualized nature of entrepreneurial practice, and advance the manner in which we critically think about and engage with various aspects of entrepreneurial practice and development.

Including a unique combination of studies that illustrate critical perspectives of current entrepreneurship research, the book covers a broad spectrum in terms of topics and approaches, as well as in terms of diversity and critique in their perspectives towards entrepreneurial practice and scholarship.


The book draws upon new theoretical perspectives and approaches as a means of illustrating the inherently social and contextualized nature of entrepreneurial practice, and advance the manner in which we critically think about and engage with various aspects of entrepreneurial practice and development.

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Part of a two-volume series that provides critical perspectives on current entrepreneurship research, theories, methods, assumptions, and beliefs, this volume brings together 10 chapters by entrepreneurship, business, and management researchers from Europe. They discuss the use of an extended stage model for the evaluation and adoption of e-business in the small business sector in the Middle East; entrepreneurship curriculum development and the role of thinking as an entrepreneur; the decision-making processes past the start-up stage for small businesses growth; the process of facilitation of entrepreneurial learning; the interactions of formal and informal forms of small business support; the role of volunteer business mentoring in improving financing and financial management in youth enterprises in deprived under-served neighborhoods; the Technium initiative in Wales to encourage business startups and growth in the knowledge economy sector; dimensions of the "open space" of freely available resources for entrepreneurship; and conflict relationships in a team-based research project. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *

List of Contributors
vii
Series Editor's Preface ix
Chapter 1 Putting `Thought' into the Theory/Practice Debate
1(8)
David Higgins
Paul Jones
Pauric McGowan
Chapter 2 An Extended Stage Model for Assessing Yemeni SMEs' e-Business Adoption
9(18)
Ahmed Abdullah
Gareth R. T. White
Brychan Thomas
Chapter 3 What Does it Mean to Think as an Entrepreneur? Using the Threshold Concept Framework to Inform Entrepreneurship Education
27(18)
Lucy Halt
Chapter 4 Exploring Decision-making: An Information Processing Perspective
45(28)
Marian Evans
Chapter 5 Facilitation of Learning in Transformative Learning Circles: Enabling Entrepreneurial Mindsets through Co-creation of Knowledge
73(22)
Martin N. Ndlela
Ase Storhaug Hole
Victoria Konovalenko Slettli
Hanne Haave
Xiang Ying Mei
Daniella Lundesgaard
Inge Hermanrud
Kjell Staffas
Karnran Namdar
Chapter 6 Business Support as Regulatory Context: Exploring the Enterprise Industry
95(20)
Oliver Mallett
Chapter 7 The Role of Mentoring in Youth Entrepreneurship Finance: A Global Perspective
115(22)
Robyn Owen
Julie Haddock-Millar
Leandro Sepulveda
Chandana Sanyal
Stephen Syrett
Neil Kaye
David Deakins
Chapter 8 Reflections on Technium Swansea: Ambition, Learning and Patience
137(16)
Gareth Huw Davies
Sian Roderick
Michael D. Williams
Roderick Thomas
Chapter 9 Entrepreneurship in the Open Space: A New Dynamic for Creating Value?
153(20)
David Rae
Chapter 10 Researching Entrepreneurship: Conflictual Relationships in a Team-based Project
173(24)
Oswald Jones
About the Editors 197(2)
About the Authors 199(6)
Index 205
David Higgins is Lecturer in Management at the University of Liverpool. His research interests lay in the fields of SME and entrepreneurial learning through action.  Paul Jones, PhD, is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Swansea University. His research interests include entrepreneurship, small business management, information technology and entrepreneurship education.  Pauric McGowan is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Business Development at the Ulster University Business School. His research interests include the areas of technology entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship pedagogy.