How Alternative is Alternative?: The Role of Entrepreneurial Development, Form, and Function in the Emergence of Alternative Marketscapes

by Matthew M. Mars (Editor), Hope Jensen Schau (Editor)

Overview

There is a growing class of entrepreneurs who, for a range of reasons, are working to create viable alternatives to mainstream production and consumption models. Existing literature that cuts across multiple fields illustrates the unique features, challenges, and value propositions of alternative forms of entrepreneurship. Yet, the complexities associated with how alternative marketscapes form and function remain “fuzzy.” Volume 29 of Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth asks, “How alternative are alternative marketscapes?”

In doing so, greater clarity is gained on the underlying economic, organizational, and social conditions and environments within which alternative marketscapes develop. The volume includes theoretical arguments and case studies that view alternative entrepreneurship not as co-existing with, but rather transforming mainstream entrepreneurship, and challenge the understanding of alternative entrepreneurship as being inherently altruistic.

The exploration of ingenuity and innovation, in conjunction with cases that illustrate the diversity of alternative market contexts, generates organizational and system-level applications. The volume authors provide entrepreneurs and companies a concise understanding of alternative marketscapes that paves the way for development and success.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800717749
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date:	08/23/2022
Series:	Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Economic Growth , #29
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Matthew M. Mars is Associate Professor of Agricultural Leadership and Innovation in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at The University of Arizona. Mars’s research is focused on how entrepreneurial logics and strategies become embedded in and influence academic cultures, community development initiatives, and social movements.

Hope Jensen Schau is Eller Professor of Marketing at University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management. Schau’s research focuses on market practices, consumption journeys, brand building, integrated marketing communications, the impact of technology on marketplace relationships, and collaborative value creation.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Towards a Theory of Misfit Entrepreneurship: Insights from Alternative Enterprises and Misfit Entrepreneurs; Craig A. Talmage, Kaleb Boyl, and T. Alden Gassert
Chapter 2. Alternative Entrepreneurship: Tracing the Creative Destruction of Entrepreneurship; Jessica Lindbergh, Karin Berglund, and Birgitta Schwartz
Chapter 3. Van Gogh’s Yellow House and Organizational Centrifugalism: The Avant-Garde’s Search for Alternative Organizational Spaces from Impressionism through Modernism; Gordon E. Shockley
Chapter 4. Overlooking the Not-So-Routine? An Analysis of Everyday Ingenuity in the Social Entrepreneurship Research; Matthew M. Mars
Chapter 5. A Visual Analysis of Local Food Product Framing Across Alternative and Conventional Marketspaces; Tyler E. Thorp
Chapter 6.The Pitfalls within Alternative Food Networks: A Comparison between Japan’s Wholesale Market System and Alternative Market Distribution Challenge; Chika Kondo and Atushi Suzuki
Chapter 7. Community Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development: A Case Study of Startup Tucson; Liz Pocock