Richard Swedberg: Introduction
A Guide to the Social Science Literature for
Entrepreneurs-To-Be
Part I: Different Social Science Perspectives on
Entrepreneurship
1: Joseph A. Schumpeter: Entrepreneurship as Innovation
2: Mark Blaug: Entrepreneurship Before and After Schumpeter
3: Ludwig von Mises: The Entrepreneur and Profit
4: S. M. Lipset: Values and Entrepreneurship in the Americas
5: Alexander Gerschenkron: The Modernization of
Entrepreneurship
6: Fredric Barth: Economic Spheres in Darfur
Part II: Entrepreneurship and the Firm. Small Firms, Large Firms,
and How a Manager can also be an Entrepreneur
7: Rosabeth Moss Kanter: When a Thousand Flowers Bloom
Part III: Entrepreneurship and the Firm
8: Rosabeth Moss Kanter: When a Thousand Flowers Bloom: Structural,
Collective, and Social Conditions for Innovation in
Organization
9: Howard Aldrich: Entrepreneurial Strategies in New Organizational
Populations
10: Kenneth Arrow: Innovation in Large and Small Firms
11: Mark Granovetter: The Economic Sociology of Firms and
Entrepreneurs
Part IV: Entrepreneurship in a Changing World
12: Ronald Burt: The Network Entrepreneur
13: AnnaLee Saxenian: The Origins and Dynamics of Production
Networks in Silicon Valley
14: Monica Lindh de Montoya: Entrepreneurship and Culture: The Case
of Freddy, the Strawberry Man
15: Roger Waldinger, Howard Aldrich, and Robin Ward: Ethnic
Entrepreneurs
Richard Swedberg is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University.
During his career he has been a Visiting Scholar at the Department
of Sociology, Harvard University (1987/88), the Russell Sage
Foundation (1990/91), the Russell Sage Foundation in New York
(Summer 1993), and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European
Studies at Harvard University (summers of 1995, 1996, and 1997). He
is an editorial member of Administrative Science Quarterly
and an advisory member of the journals Current Sociology and
Geschichte und Gegenwart: Vierteljahreshefte fur Zeitgeschichte,
Gesellschaftsanalyse und politische Bildung.
`This is a useful book for students of entrepreneurship because it
brings together a number of excellent works from the social
sciences whose focus is broadly relevant to the subject of
entrepreneurship. It is undoubtedly worth reading just to revisit
Joseph Schumpeter's theories of entrepreneurship and Rosabeth Moss
Kanter's concepts on corporate enterprise'
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