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Record Nr.

UNINA9910348239903321

Autore

Grebel Thomas <1970->

Titolo

Entrepreneurship : a new perspective / / Thomas Grebel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

9786610224968

9781134296347

1134296347

9781134296354

1134296355

9781280224966

1280224967

9780203478745

0203478746

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Collana

Studies in global competition ; ; v. 22

Classificazione

85.00

Disciplina

338/.04

Soggetti

Entrepreneurship

Economic development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-195) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Plan of Book; Acknowledgments; List of Symbols; 1. A Historical Sketch of the Research on Entrepreneurship; 2. The Neoclassical Era; 3. The Austrian School; 4. Synthesis and Summary; 5. Evolutionary Economics; 6. Synthesis of Evolutionary Ideas; 7. Point of Departure; 8. The Homo agens in a Socio-Economic Context; 9. The Model; 10. Conclusions and Prospects; Appendix; A Quantum Theory; B Percolation; C Social Networks; D Basic Entrepreneurship Model; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The entrepreneur has been neglected over the years in formal economic theorizing.  Previously there has been only eclectic theories such as human capital theory and network dynamics which discuss certain perspectives of entrepreneurial behaviour. This insightful book closes this gap in entrepreneurship literature. Inspired by modern physics, author Thomas Grebel brings together an evolutionary methodology,



along the way implicating quantum, graph, and percolation theory. Here, Grebel has provided a synthesis of all the main theories of entrepreneurship.  Taking an interdisciplinary a