The Social Science View of Entrepreneurship: Introduction and Practical Applications

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Abstract The basic argument of this introduction —as well as the rationale for this whole reader —is that the social sciences have a very important contribution to make, not only to the theoretical understanding of entrepreneurship but also to entrepreneurship as a practical enterprise.1 This viewpoint has tended to get lost in the surge of studies in this field, which has characterized the development during the last ten to fifteen years within the business school community. The social sciences, I argue, can provide new and fresh ideas about the theory and practice of entrepreneurship, by looking at innovative business behaviour in other times, in other societies, and in other cultures-and also by looking at entrepreneurship from novel angles and from the perspective of a much wider range of actors than is commonly done.

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