The sociology of entrepreneurship

This volume takes stock of entrepreneurship research within organizational sociology, critically examining the theoretical presuppositions of the field and situating extant research within the sociological canon. The contributors to this volume exemplify how the disciplinary lens of sociology provid...

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Other Authors Ruef, Martin, Lounsbury, Michael
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2007.
SeriesResearch in the sociology of organizations ; v. 25.
Subjects
Entrepreneurship.
Organizational sociology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849504980
ISSN0733-558X ;
Physical Description1 online zdroj (viii, 368 p.).

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the sociology of entrepreneurship / Martin Ruef, Michael Lounsbury
  • Boundary formation in emergent organizations / Hongwei Xu, Martin Ruef
  • Revisiting the enclave hypothesis : Miami twenty-five years later / Alejandro Portes, Steven Shafer
  • The force of regulation in the land of the free : The persistence of Chinatown, Washington DC as a symbolic ethnic enclave / Ching Lin Pang, Jan Rath
  • From vulnerable to venerated : the institutionalization of academic entrepreneurship in the life sciences / Jeannette A. Colyvas, Walter W. Powell
  • Start-ups in science : entrepreneurs, diverse backing, and novelty outside business / James A. Evans
  • Turning identity into form : the cause and consequence for Kaiser Permanente of becoming an HMO / Carol A. Caronna
  • A life course perspective on occupational inheritance : self-employed parents and their children / Howard E. Aldrich, Phillip H. Kim
  • Closure and exposure : mechanisms in the intergenerational transmission of self-employment / Jesper B. Sørensen.

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