The sociology of entrepreneurship /

Other Authors: Ruef, Martin.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2007.
Series:Research in the sociology of organizations ; v. 25
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=193645
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the sociology of entrepreneurship / Martin Ruef and Michael Lounsbury
  • A life course perspective on occupational inheritance: self-employed parents and their children / Howard E. Aldrich and Phillip H. Kim
  • Closure and exposure: mechanisms in the intergenerational transmission of self-employment / Jesper B. Sørensen
  • Boundary formation in emergent organizations / Hongwei Xu and Martin Ruef
  • Revisiting the enclave hypothesis: Miami twenty-five years later / Alejandro Portes and Steven Shafer
  • The force of regulation in the land of the free: the persistence of Chinatown, Washington, DC as a symbolic ethnic enclave / Ching Lin Pang and Jan Rath
  • From vulnerable to venerate: the institutionalization of academic entrepreneurship in the life sciences / Jeannette A. Colyvas and Walter W. Powell
  • Start-ups in science: entrepreneurs, diverse backing, and novelty outside business / James A. Evans
  • Turning identity into form: the cause and consequence for Kaiser Permanente of becoming an HMO / Carol A. Caronna
  • Entrepreneurship at the margins of society: founding the dynamics in gray (sex shops) and black markets (Mafia) / Luca Solari.