Creating Entrepreneurial Space: Talking Through Multi-Voices, Reflections on Emerging Debates

by David Higgins, Paul Jones, Pauric McGowan

Overview

Interest in the field of entrepreneurship and the small firm has developed exponentially in recent decades. However, concerns have been expressed regarding the need to effectively engage more critically with the lived experiences of practicing entrepreneurs through alternative approaches and methods seeking to account for and highlight the social, political and moral aspect of entrepreneurial practice. 

By drawing recognition to the lived practice of the entrepreneur, one can begin to position the notion of action as a process of socially constructed emergent practice. Such discussion would seek to give an alternative perspective as a method of re-shaping and understanding what it means to practice as an entrepreneur. This volume seeks to critically explore alternative dimensions to entrepreneurial and small firm research and practice. In addition, the authors seek to promote ideas from other research traditions and perspectives which are culturally enriched and challenge what we term entrepreneurial and small firm practice.  

Including topics drawn from discussions with leading scholars, researchers and practitioners alike, this collection of papers aims to generate new and exciting opportunities for a holistic view of entrepreneurial research agendas, and advance the manner in which academics and researchers think about and engage with various aspects of entrepreneurial practice and development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787563728
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date:	12/10/2018
Series:	Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research , #9
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Higgins is Lecturer in Management at the University of Liverpool. His research interests lay in the fields of SME and entrepreneurial learning through action. 
Paul Jones, PhD, is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Swansea University.  His research interests include entrepreneurship, small business management, information technology and entrepreneurship education. 
Pauric McGowan holds the Chair for Entrepreneurship and Business Development in the Ulster Business School, where he is also Professor of Entrepreneurship and Business Development. His research interests include the areas of technology entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship pedagogy.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Creating Entrepreneurial Space: Talking through Multi voices, reflections on emerging debates; David Higgins, Paul Jones and Pauric McGowan 
Chapter 2. An Extended Stage Model for Assessing Yemeni SMEs’ E-Business Adoption; Ahmed Abdullah, Gareth R.T. White and Brychan Thomas 
Chapter 3. What does it mean to think as an entrepreneur? Using threshold concept theory to inform entrepreneurship education; Lucy Hatt 
Chapter 4. Exploring decision-making: an information processing perspective; Marian Evans 
Chapter 5. Facilitation of learning in Transformative Learning Circles: Enabling entrepreneurial mindsets through co-creation of knowledge; Martin N. Ndlela, Åse Storhaug Hole, Victoria Konovalenko Slettli, Hanne Haave, Xiang Ying Mei, Daniela Lundesgaard, Inge Hermanrud, Kjell Staffas and Kamran Namdar
Chapter 6. Business support as regulatory context: exploring the enterprise industry; Oliver Mallett 
Chapter 7. The Role of Mentoring in Youth Entrepreneurship Finance: A Global Perspective; Robyn Owen, Julie Haddock-Millar, Leandro Sepulveda, Chandana Sanyal, Stephen Syrett, Neil Kaye and David Deakins 
Chapter 8. Reflections on Technium Swansea: Ambition, Learning & Patience; Gareth Davies, Sian Roderick, Michael D. Williams and Roderick Thomas 
Chapter 9. Entrepreneurship in the Open Space: A New Dynamic for Creating Value; David Rae 
Chapter 10. Researching Entrepreneurship: Conflictual Relationships in a Team-based Project; Oswald Jones

Editorial Reviews

Researchers who approach entrepreneurial/small firm research from alternative dimensions discuss means of advancing the manner in which people think about and engage with various aspects of entrepreneurial practice and development. Their topics include the legitimacy of teachers in entrepreneurship education: lessons from a literature review, understanding how immigrant entrepreneurs view business opportunity formation through ethnicity, extending cross-gender succession theories: mother-son succession in family business, small company export performance in Algeria: a configuration approach, and exploring the perceived impact of strategic learning plans on growth-focused small service firms.

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Part of a two-volume series that provides critical perspectives on current entrepreneurship research, theories, methods, assumptions, and beliefs, this volume brings together 10 chapters by entrepreneurship, business, and management researchers from Europe. They discuss the use of an extended stage model for the evaluation and adoption of e-business in the small business sector in the Middle East; entrepreneurship curriculum development and the role of thinking as an entrepreneur; the decision-making processes past the start-up stage for small businesses growth; the process of facilitation of entrepreneurial learning; the interactions of formal and informal forms of small business support; the role of volunteer business mentoring in improving financing and financial management in youth enterprises in deprived under-served neighborhoods; the Technium initiative in Wales to encourage business startups and growth in the knowledge economy sector; dimensions of the "open space" of freely available resources for entrepreneurship; and conflict relationships in a team-based research project.

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