Entrepreneurship as experience how events create ventures and ventures create entrepreneurs

Do entrepreneurs create ventures or do venture experiences create entrepreneurs? The authors of Entrepreneurship as Experience propose that the answer is 'both'. This important volume examines how individuals experience the creation of a venture as it happens and how that experience determ...

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Main Author: Morris, Michael H.
Other Authors: Pryor, Christopher G., Kuratko, Donald F., Schindehutte, Minet
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, U.K Edward Elgar c2012
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Collection: Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Do entrepreneurs create ventures or do venture experiences create entrepreneurs? The authors of Entrepreneurship as Experience propose that the answer is 'both'. This important volume examines how individuals experience the creation of a venture as it happens and how that experience determines the types of entrepreneur and venture that ultimately emerge
1. Entrepreneurship as experience -- 2. Anthropology and experience -- 3. Psychology and experience -- 4. Sociology and experience -- 5. Processing of the entrepreneurial experience -- 6. Experiencing and the entrepreneur : the role of affect -- 7. A conceptual model of entrepreneurial experiencing -- 8. Emergent outcomes of the entrepreneurial experience -- 9. Entrepreneurship as peak experience -- 10. Applications of the experiential lens : intuition, effectuation, and passion -- 11. Comparing experiences of different types of entrepreneurs -- 12. Conducting research on the entrepreneurial experience -- 13. Toward new insights and new questions
Physical Description:xv, 329 p ill
ISBN:9781781005187
9781848440487