Nascent Entrepreneurship and Learning

Mine Karataş-Özkan, Professor in Strategy and Entrepreneurship, University of Southampton, UK and Elizabeth Chell, Professor of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research Consultant, Small Business Research Centre, Kingston Business School, Kingston University, UK

’This work by Karataş-Özkan and Chell provide fresh insights on entrepreneurial learning and the entrepreneurship process. Employing a well informed social constructivist perspective, it combines theory with a richly grounded empirical analysis at three distinct but inter-related levels; the micro, the mesa, all set in the macro context of the enterprise culture. A strength of the work is the multiple levels of analysis which sheds new light on entrepreneurial learning as part of the entrepreneurial process. The result is a processual view that captures, conceptualises and explains the transitive process of becoming an entrepreneur.'

• Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Setting the Discursive Context: Enterprise Culture Debates in the UK 3. Academic Discourses on Entrepreneurship 4. Nascent Entrepreneurs: Characteristics of Nascent Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurial Learning 5. Methodological Approach: Social Constructionist Paradigm and Bourdieu’s Relational Methodology 6. Research Design and Methods 7. Case Study I: KBrandArt – A Story of the Venturing Process 8. Case Study II: Setting up R-Games – Rosie’s Venturing Story 9. A Multi-layered Framework of Nascent Entrepreneurship from a Learning Perspective 10. Conclusions and Implications for Research, Policy and Practice References Index