Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship as Practice

This Research Handbook advances entrepreneurship theory in new ways by integrating and contributing to contemporary theories of practice. Leading theorists and entrepreneurship experts, who are part of the growing Entrepreneurship as Practice (EaP) research community, expertly propose methodologies, theories and empirical insights into the constitution and consequences of entrepreneuring practices.

 
This comprehensive Research Handbook pushes boundaries in the scholarship concerning what entrepreneurship is and what it can become. It is split into four Parts covering new foundations, new theoretical advances, new methodological advances and new empirical advances. Together, with an insightful Foreword by William B. Gartner, chapters examine the nature and consequences of entrepreneurship, its practices and relations, as well as novel research methods for conducting empirical EaP research. Collectively, this Research Handbook marks a bright future for EaP research.

This insightful Research Handbook will provide an excellent up-to-date introduction to EaP research for entrepreneurship, management and organization scholars as well as scholars new to theories of this practice. Practitioners and researchers will also benefit from the wider perspective that this book provides in a novel, exciting and powerful way to fully understand entrepreneurship.

Edited by Neil Aaron Thompson, Associate Professor, Department of Management and Organization, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Orla Byrne, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, UCD College of Business, University College Dublin, Ireland, Anna Jenkins, Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, The University of Queensland, Australia and Bruce T. Teague, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Florida Gulf Coast University, US