Entrepreneurialism and Society

Robert N. Eberhart is the Associate Director of Research of the entrepreneurship and society project at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He is also a visiting professor at Kobe University, and at Oxford’s Space Science Initiative.Michael Lounsbury is a Professor at the Alberta School of Business and adjunct in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is also the Director of the eHUB entrepreneurship centre. Howard E. Aldrich is Kenan Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Business at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. He is a fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, and an Affiliate in the Strategy Department at Duke University.

The two volumes are a tour de force that serve to crystallize a novel way of conceptualizing the interplay between society and entrepreneurship. They have led to a sea change in scholarship on entrepreneurship and will inspire new and exciting research for years to come.

• Entrepreneurialism and Society: An Introduction; Robert N. Eberhart, Howard E. Aldrich, and Kathleen M. EisenhardtChapter 1. Freedom is Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose: Entrepreneurialism and the Changing Nature of Employment Relations; Robert N. Eberhart, Stephen Barley, and Andrew NelsonChapter 2. Entrepreneurialism as Discourse: Towards a Critical Research Agenda; Koray Caliskan and Michael LounsburyChapter 3. Entrepreneurship as Cultural Theme in Neoliberal Society; Patricia Bromley, John W. Meyer, and Ruo JiaChapter 4. Neoliberal Ideology and the Myth of the Self-made Entrepreneur; Steven K. VogelChapter 5. How to Break Free: An Orders-of-Worth Perspective on Emancipatory Entrepreneurship; Violina P. Rindova, Santosh B. Srinivas, and Luis L. MartinsChapter 6. The Unique Vulnerabilities of Entrepreneurial Ventures to Misconduct; Donald Palmer and Tim Weiss