Sophie Bacq is Professor of Social Entrepreneurship and Coca-Cola Foundation Chair in Sustainable Development at IMD, Switzerland.Katrin M. Smolka is Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK.Angelique F. Slade Shantz is Associate Professor of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management, University of Alberta, Canada.Pursey P.M.A.R. Heugens is Professor of Organization Theory at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands.

Necessity Entrepreneurship: Getting Beyond the Binary, edited by Sophie Bacq, Katrin Smolka, Angelique Slade Shantz and Pursey Heugens, offers profound insights into necessity entrepreneurship, a widespread and growing phenomenon around the globe. This comprehensive volume is invaluable for scholars, practioners and policy-makers eager to delve into the intricacies of necessity-driven entrepreneurial activities. The editors of the volume and authors of the chapters represent a compelling blend of experts in necessity entrepreneurship and/or related areas. The aim of the volume is to challenge orthodox perspectives dichotomizing necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship to provide a revisionist view that captures the wide variety in the creation of organizations out of need. The volume is unique in that it not only provides new and compelling conceptual frameworks from a variety of perspectives, including institutional, communal and cognitive notions, but also new holistic ways of viewing necessity combined with innovative methods which will aid scholars researching this critical topic. For anyone invested in necessity entrepreneurship, this book is an essential read, providing not just knowledge, but the inspiration to explore new paradigms within the field.

• Introduction: From an orthodox to an emerging revisionist view of necessity entrepreneurship; Sophie Bacq, Katrin M. Smolka, Angelique F. Slade Shantz, and Pursey P.M.A.R. HeugensSection A. Towards a New Heterodoxy in Necessity Entrepreneurship ResearchChapter 1. Towards a shared agenda for necessity entrepreneurship research: Definitions, theories, and perspectives; Katrin M. Smolka, Pursey P.M.A.R. Heugens, Sophie Bacq, and Angelique F. Slade ShantzSection B. Necessity Entrepreneurs’ Inhabited Cognitive ProcessesChapter 2. Stopping the slide and rising above the tide: Entrepreneurial education to move out of necessity into opportunity; Saras D. Sarasvathy and Maelle A. PerezChapter 3. Towards a strengths-based view of necessity entrepreneurship; Ketan M. GoswamiSection C. Poverty and Informality Perspectives on Necessity EntrepreneurshipChapter 4. Necessity entrepreneurship as a misnomer: Lessons learned from working with poverty entrepreneurs; Michael H. Morris and Susana C. SantosChapter 5. Constellations in the galaxy: Ethnic enclave membership and venture behavior among necessity entrepreneurs in a South African township informal economy; Mohammed Bendaanane, Siddharth Vedula, Robert Nason, and Andrew CharmanSection D. Institutional Views on Necessity EntrepreneurshipChapter 6. Health provider or debt collector? The unintended consequences of integrating income-generating activities with community health interventions in Kenya; Kenneth Ngari Ogendo, Emily Block, Andrea Caldwell Marquez, and Bertha OchiengChapter 7. Navigating intersectional inequalities: Resource assemblage for firm profits; Kylie Heales, Charlene Zietsma, and Luciano Barin CruzSection E. Methods around Necessity EntrepreneurshipChapter 8. Measuring necessity entrepreneurship: Challenges and implications; Chad D. Coffman, Sanwar A. Sunny, and Griffin W. CottleChapter 9. Quantitative methods in the field of necessity entrepreneurship; Laura Rosendahl Huber and Caroline WitteChapter 10. From the ground up: Unpacking the visual representation of necessity entrepreneurship; Bernadetta A. Ginting-SzczesnyChapter 11. Moving beyond ‘jump in, jump out’ interviewing: Using more complex qualitative methodologies to build deeper theory in the Global South; Patrick Shulist