Theorizing Entrepreneurship for the Future
eBook - ePub

Theorizing Entrepreneurship for the Future

Stories from Global Frontiers

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Theorizing Entrepreneurship for the Future

Stories from Global Frontiers

About this book

Presenting a new interpretation of entrepreneurial behaviour, this book focuses on how entrepreneurs consider the future, looking at their social practices, language and rituals through which they neutralize or smoothen future unknowns. The study theorizes entrepreneurial behaviour as 'future-work': the social practices, language and rituals through which entrepreneurs neutralize or smoothen future unknowns. The study is grounded in ethnographic case material from global frontiers: second-hand car dealers in West Africa; exporters of fresh fish from Lake Victoria, East Africa; farmed fish entrepreneurs in Greece; and investment bankers in Financial America. It targets students and scholars from the social sciences and economics, and it has theoretical and practical implications.

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Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781805390046
eBook ISBN
9781805390053
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Entrepreneurship
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Prologue
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction. The Problem of the Future in Studying Entrepreneurship
  9. Chapter 1. Time and Entrepreneurship in Social Theory: Barth, Schumpeter and Keynes
  10. Chapter 2. The Social Construction of Individualism: Fish Entrepreneurs on Lake Victoria, Uganda
  11. Chapter 3. Profit-Making and Dreaming of Fortunes: Second-hand Car Dealers in Cotonou, Benin
  12. Chapter 4. Telling Stories with Numbers: The Social Life of Investment Bankers
  13. Chapter 5. The Relevance of the Policy Context: Aquaculture Entrepreneurs in Greece
  14. Conclusions
  15. Epilogue: Value and Validity of the Case Study Method
  16. References
  17. Index of Subjects
  18. Index of Key Thinkers