The Entrepreneurial Group : Social Identities, Relations, and Collective Action.
Title:
The Entrepreneurial Group : Social Identities, Relations, and Collective Action.
Author:
Ruef, Martin.
ISBN:
9781400835201
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (307 pages)
Series:
The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE: Concepts, Theories, and Puzzles -- CHAPTER ONE: Who Is an Entrepreneur? -- CHAPTER TWO: Images of Entrepreneurial Groups -- CHAPTER THREE: Empirical Puzzles -- PART TWO: Creating the Entrepreneurial Group -- CHAPTER FOUR: Group Formation -- CHAPTER FIVE: Boundaries of the Startup Firm -- PART THREE: Collective Action within the Group -- CHAPTER SIX: Allocation of Rewards and Control -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Effort and Opportunism -- PART FOUR: Performance of the Group -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Innovation -- CHAPTER NINE: Goals and Group Dynamics -- CHAPTER TEN: Implications and Extensions -- APPENDIXES -- A. Data Sources -- B. Sampling of Groups -- C. Analysis of Groups -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Recent surveys show that more than half of American entrepreneurs share ownership in their business startups rather than going it alone. Yet the media and many scholars continue to perpetuate the myth of the lone visionary who single-handedly revolutionizes the marketplace. In The Entrepreneurial Group, Martin Ruef shatters this myth, demonstrating that teams, not individuals, are the leading force behind entrepreneurial startups. This is the first book to provide an in-depth sociological analysis of entrepreneurial groups, and to put forward a theoretical framework for understanding activities and outcomes within them.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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