The Entrepreneurship Dynamic - 9780804737906

The Entrepreneurship DynamicOrigins of Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Industries\nAuthor(s): Claudia Bird Schoonhoven, Elaine Romanelli\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford Business Books,US\nISBN-13: 9780804737906, 978-0804737906\nSynopsis\nScholars and popular writers have written a great deal about entrepreneurs and the formation of new companies, but they have not succeeded in predicting when and where large numbers of new organizations will emerge. This volume attempts, from the viewpoint of the interdisciplinary field of organization studies, to answer two major questions about entrepreneurship: First, what are the conditions that prompt the founding of large numbers of new organizations or entirely new industries? Second, what are the real and significant effects of such entrepreneurial activities on existing industries, economies, and societies?\n\n The authors emphasize that new organizations do not emerge full blo.