The Entrepreneurship Dynamic:

Origins of Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Industries

edited by: Claudia Bird Schoonhaven and Elaine Romanelli is now available from Stanford Business Books, Publishers.

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Table of Contents listed below

Preface

Introduction: Premises of the Entrepreneurship Dynamic 

(Claudia Bird Schoonhoven and Elaine Romanelli)

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The Company They Keep: Founders' Models for Organizing New Firms 

(M. Diane Burton)

The Local Origins of New Firms 

(Elaine Romanelli & Claudia Bird Schoonhoven)

The Role of Immigrant Entrepreneurs in New Venture Creation

(Annalee Saxenian)

The Magic Beanstalk Vision: Commercializing University Inventions and Research

(Anne S. Miner, Dale T. Eesley, Michael Devaughn, and Thekla Rura-Polley

Knowledge Industries and Idea Entrepreneurs: New Dimensions of Innovative Products, Services, and Organizations.

(Eric Abrahamson and Gregory Fairchild)

From the Technology Cycle to the Entrepreneurship Dynamic: The Social Context of Entrepreneurial Innovation

(Johann Peter Murmann and Michael L. Tushman)

Learning and Legitimacy: Entrepreneurial Responses to Constraints on the Emergence of New Populations and Organizations

(Howard E. Aldrich and Ted Baker)

Entrepreneurial Action in the Creation of the Specialty Coffee Niche

(Violina P. Rindova and Charles J. Fombrun)

The Power of Public Competition: Promoting Cognitive Legitimacy Through Certification Contests

(Hayagreeva Rao)

Social Movement Theory and the Evolution of New Organizational Forms

(Anand  Swaminathan and James B. Wade)

Entrepreneurship in Context: Strategic Interaction and the Emergence of Regional Economies

(Ari Ginsberg, Erik R. Larson, and Alessandro Lomi)

The Legal Environment of Entrepreneurship: Observations on the Legitimation of Venture Finance in Silicon Valley

(Mark C. Suchman, Daniel J. Steward, and Clifford A. Westfall)

Emergent Themes and the Next Wave of Entrepreneurship Research

(Claudia Bird Schoonhoven and Elaine Romanelli)