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Scott Shane resolves this by considering the nexus of enterprising individuals and valuable opportunities and by using that nexus to understand the processes of discovery and exploitation of opportunities, the acquisition of resources, entrepreneurial strategy and the organizing process.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherElgar Publishing, Incorporated, Edward
ISBN-101843769964
ISBN-139781843769965
eBay Product ID (ePID)30789966
Product Key Features
Number of Pages352 Pages
Publication NameGeneral Theory of Entrepreneurship : the Individual-Opportunity Nexus
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEntrepreneurship
Publication Year2004
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaBusiness & Economics
AuthorScott Shane
SeriesNew Horizons in Entrepreneurship Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight18.5 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN03-045753
Reviews'. . . Shane's book is a fountain of knowledge and must-reading for everybody who tries to arrive at an integrated theory of entrepreneurship since the field is never isolated at a domain of one academic discipline. Among the plenty of new books in the field, the book by Scott Shane is a highlight and masterpiece since it tries to bring a new theoretical concept into debate which is, in fact, "a general theory of entrepreneurship". The study ends up with a variety of open questions that raise hope that the author continues to work in an attempt for "The General Theory of Entrepreneurship".', 'For me the General Theory of Entrepreneurship has been the most important compilation of knowledge in the 25 years that I have been teaching and researching in the field of entrepreneurship. As far as I can tell this may be the most important piece of literature in entrepreneurship since Schumpeter's 1911 contribution. I have been recommending it to colleagues, requiring it of PhD students, suggesting it to MBA students and even trying to encourage undergraduates to read it.', ' A General Theory of Entrepreneurship is undoubtedly a very important contemporary book in the field of entrepreneurship. It should be mandatory reading for PhD students who enter the area, and can be warmly recommended to those who already are "entrepreneurship researchers".'
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingA
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal338/.04
Table Of ContentContents: Foreword by Sankaran Venkataraman 1. Introduction 2. The Role of Opportunities 3. The Discovery of Entrepreneurial Opportunities 4. Individual Differences and the Decision to Exploit 5. Psychological Factors and the Decision to Exploit 6. Industry Differences in Entrepreneurial Activity 7. The Environmental Context of Entrepreneurship 8. Resource Acquisition 9. Entrepreneurial Strategy 10. The Organizing Process 11. Conclusions References Index
SynopsisIn the first exhaustive treatment of the field in 20 years, Scott Shane extends the analysis of entrepreneurship by offering an overarching conceptual framework that explains the different parts of the entrepreneurial process - the opportunities, the people who pursue them, the skills and strategies used to organize and exploit opportunities, and the environmental conditions favorable to them - in a coherent way. Given the level of interest devoted to entrepreneurship in the economy and among academics at business schools, one would think that researchers would have deep insights into this phenomenon. However, those who look closely at academic investigations of entrepreneurship realize that scholarly understanding of this field is quite limited. Unlike its sister fields of accounting, marketing, finance, organizational behavior and strategic management, entrepreneurship is rather poorly explained by academics. Scott Shane resolves this by considering the nexus of enterprising individuals and valuable opportunities and by using that nexus to understand the processes of discovery and exploitation of opportunities, the acquisition of resources, entrepreneurial strategy and the organizing process. This authoritative study will be a central reference and standard text for researchers, academics, and students in the field of entrepreneurship., Explaining the differing aspects of the entrepreneurship process - such as the opportunities and the people who pursue them or the skills and strategies they employ - this text offers an overall framework for organisational purposes.