Synopses & Reviews
This book emphasizes that entrepreneurship is a social activity that takes place within and among organizational systems rather than as an individual activity. To provide a comprehensive view of entrepreneurship as an organizational phenomenon, new theory building and empirical chapters are supplemented by previously published work updated to reflect current developments.
Synopsis
This book emphasizes that entrepreneurship is a social activity that takes place within and among organizational systems rather than as an individual activity. To provide a comprehensive view of entrepreneurship as an organizational phenomenon, new theory building and empirical chapters are supplemented by previously published work updated to reflect current developments.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-210) and index.
About the Author
Stephen Mezias and
Elizabeth Boyle are at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business.
Table of Contents
Entrepreneurship: Typologies from an Organization Theory Perspective * Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship * Social Movements and Entrepreneurship * Strategic Entrepreneurship * Entrepreneurship at the Level of Populations of Organizations * Empirical Studies of Entrepreneurship from an Organization Theory Perspective * Entrepreneurship and Innovation * Competition, Random Walks and Mortality: The Birth of the American Feature Film Industry * A Study of the Impingement of the Legal Environment on Foundings * Before DOS and the Internet there were Feature Films: How Innovation Effects Industry Evolution * The Effect of Mass Media on Industry Legitimacy and Firm Reputation