Entrepreneurship

Richard Swedberg is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. During his career he has been a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Sociology, Harvard University (1987/88), the Russell Sage Foundation (1990/91), the Russell Sage Foundation in New York (Summer 1993), and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University (summers of 1995, 1996, and 1997). He is an editorial member of Administrative Science Quarterly and an advisory member of the journals Current Sociology and Geschichte und Gegenwart: Vierteljahreshefte fur Zeitgeschichte, Gesellschaftsanalyse und politische Bildung.

This is a useful book for students of entrepreneurship because it brings together a number of excellent works from the social sciences whose focus is broadly relevant to the subject of entrepreneurship. It is undoubtedly worth reading just to revisit Joseph Schumpeter's theories of entrepreneurship and Rosabeth Moss Kanter's concepts on corporate enterprise

• PART I: DIFFERENT SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP; PART II: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE FIRM. SMALL FIRMS, LARGE FIRMS, AND HOW A MANAGER CAN ALSO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR; PART III: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE FIRM; PART IV: ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN A CHANGING WORLD