Theorizing Entrepreneurship for the Future

Joost Beuving is a lecturer and senior researcher in economic anthropology, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen. He is the co-author of Doing Qualitative Research: The Craft of Naturalistic Inquiry with Geert de Vries (Amsterdam University Press, 2015).

“I think this is an excellent accomplishment. It makes an important theoretical contribution to the understanding of entrepreneurship, on the basis of comparing and contrasting grounded case studies, taken from the author’s own decades-long ethnographic research trajectory and, in one case, from an intelligent reading of a prominent stockbroker’s life. Readers will relish the clarity, the accessible writing style and the stimulating diversity of case studies.” • Christoph Brumann, Max Planck Institute in Halle

• List of IllustrationsPrologueAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Problem of the Future in Studying EntrepreneurshipChapter 1. Time and Entrepreneurship in Social Theory: Barth, Schumpeter and KeynesChapter 2. The Social Construction of Individualism: Fish Entrepreneurs on Lake Victoria, UgandaChapter 3. Profitmaking and Dreaming of Fortunes: Second-hand Car Dealers in Cotonou, BeninChapter 4. Telling Stories with Numbers: The Social Life of Investment BankersChapter 5. The Relevance of the Policy Context: Aquaculture Entrepreneurs in GreeceConclusionEpilogueReferencesIndex