Research handbook on entrepreneurial behavior, practice and process

Includes bibliographical references and index. TOC:-- 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Entrepreneurial Behavior, Practice and Process-- PART I PERSPECTIVES-- 2 Expert skills: implications for studying the behavior of entrepreneurs-- 3 Advancing entrepreneurship as practice: previous developments and future possibilities-- 4 Entrepreneurial process: mapping a multiplicity of conversations-- PART II METHODS-- 5 Ethnography's answer to the plus zone challenge of entrepreneurship-- 6 Performing affirmation: autoethnography as an activist approach to entrepreneurship-- 7 Searching for the roots of entrepreneuring as practice: introducing the enactive approach-- 8 Practicing participant observations: capturing entrepreneurial practices-- 9 Capturing action from within: the use of personal diaries-- 10 Collecting digital research data through social media platforms: can "scientific social media" disrupt entrepreneurship research methods?-- 11 Perspectives in multilevel research in entrepreneurship-- PART III INSIGHTS-- 12 Temporality and embodied practice: theorizing the relationality of entrepreneurial events -- 13 Socially situated entrepreneurial cognition: promising linkage and directions in studying entrepreneurial behavior, practice and process -- 14 A longitudinal project of new venture teamwork and outcomes -- 15 Designing experiential entrepreneurship education based on entrepreneurial practice and behavior--

What do entrepreneurs do? In a comprehensive and detailed exploration using three perspectives - behavior, practice and process - this Research Handbook demonstrates specific methods for answering that question and provides insights into the implications of pursuing that question. ; The authors demonstrate a variety of methods including ethnography, autoethnography, participant observation, diaries, social media platforms and multilevel research techniques to delve into the foundations of entrepreneurial behavior. In addition to reinvigorating this long dormant area of scholarship, these chapters provide scholars with the idea that the disparate perspectives on this topic are really headed in the same direction. They also demonstrate the notion that similar tools can be utilized to answer the same type of questions emanating from these different perspectives. The contributors go on to offer insights to a wide range of scholarship on organizations. ; Entrepreneurship scholars, PhD students, and upper level graduate and undergraduate students who want a current overview on the theories, methods and implications of studying entrepreneurship will welcome the insights explored in this Research Handbook.