TY - BOOK ID - 78727157 TI - Contextualizing entrepreneurship theory AU - Baker, Ted AU - Welter, Friederike PY - 2020 SN - 1351110632 1351110624 1351110616 9781351110624 9781351110631 9781351110617 9781351110600 1351110608 081537156X 9780815371564 1032174471 PB - New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Entrepreneurship. KW - Entrepreneur KW - Intrapreneur KW - Capitalism KW - Business incubators KW - Critical Management Studies KW - contexts KW - Economics KW - Economic geography KW - EMPIRICAL KW - entrepreneurs KW - Research Methods KW - research KW - Small Business Management KW - Sociology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78727157 AB - "As the breadth and empirical diversity of entrepreneurship research have increased rapidly during the last decade, the quest to find a "one-size-fits-all" general theory of entrepreneurship has given way to a growing appreciation for the importance of contexts. This promises to improve both the practical relevance and the theoretical rigor of research in this field. Entrepreneurship means different things to different people at different times and in different places and both its causes and its consequences likewise vary. For example, for some people entrepreneurship can be a glorious path to emancipation, while for others it can represent the yoke tethering them to the burdens of overwork and drudgery. For some communities it can drive renaissance and vibrancy while for others it allows only bare survival. In this book, we assess and attempt to push forward contemporary conceptualizations of contexts that matter for entrepreneurship, pointing in particular to opportunities generating new insights by attending to contexts in novel or underexplored ways. This book shows that the ongoing contextualization of entrepreneurship research should not simply generate a proliferation of unique theories - one for every context - but can instead result in better theory construction, testing and understanding of boundary conditions, thereby leading us to richer and more profound understanding of entrepreneurship across its many forms. Contextualizing Entrepreneurship Theory will critically review the current debate and existing literature on contexts and entrepreneurship and use this to synthesize new theoretical and methodological frameworks that point to important directions for future research"-- ER -