The Social Science View of Entrepreneurship: Introduction and Practical Applications

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Academic entrepreneurship (re)defined: significance and implications for the scholarship of higher education (2010, background): “For instance, Swedberg (2000) provided a compelling illustration of a notable (and arguably) problematic gap between entrepreneurial theory and practice that exists within and is exacerbated by economic and other social science-based research.”
Entrepreneurship at Country Level: Economic and Non-Economic Determinants (2006, result): “This is also implied by the research findings published by Carree, van Stel, Thurik and Wennekers (2002). Using a data panel of 23 OECD countries for the period 1976-1996, they show the actual rate of business ownership to influence economic growth through deviations from a hypothesized 'equilibrium”
Explaining the lack of strategic planning in SMEs: The importance of owner motivation (2007, background): “Rather than ‘economic rationality’, this behaviour is more aptly described as “economic irrationality” (Holmes 2001, p.6) and a strong argument can be made that SME owner-managers “are certainly not economic [individuals]” (Schumpeter 1946 in Swedberg 2000, p.16).”