This book presents the current state-of-the-art in all major and upcoming areas of entrepreneurship research. Thousands of scholars around the world are currently working to broaden our understanding of the entrepreneurial phenomenon. The disciplines involved are numerous, as are the topics of interest, with substantial efforts to enhance the existing knowledge. This book is specifically designed to facilitate high-level, high-intensity discussions and fruitful exchanges between scholars involved in entrepreneurship research. The articles address a variety of topics ranging from self-employment, technology, growth patterns and job creation, and success and failure rates, to historical, conceptual and comparative international approaches. "This book takes entrepreneurship beyond the individual, size of the venture, entrepreneurial personality, and looks at entrepreneurship as a long term complex process that is heterogeneous, content dependent with an emphasis on innovation and growth. A must read for individuals interested in entrepreneurship, today and in the future, on a domestic and global basis." - Robert D. Hisrich, Director - Walker Center and Garvin Professor of Global Entrepreneurship, Thunderbird School of Global Management "Entrepreneurship is perhaps not just the most multifaceted but also the most important concept of the modern socio-economic disciplines. This book makes an invaluable contribution in this fascinating area: it presents a multifaceted socio-economic examination of the impact of entrepreneurship for growth." - Roy Thurik, Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam and Montpellier Business School

This book deals with the Neglected Links in economics and society. These neglected links are the inner bonds and lines which keep the society and economy together and are almost interconnected although they are very often treated and discussed separately in different discourses. Contemporary discussion has forgotten to think universally and to integrate items into one common field of observation. Instead, too often particular items are studied and discussed as being independent of each other without acknowledging a broader context. The book gives an exemplary instruction on how to treat reciprocal links and how to work in an interdisciplinary way, which tackles history, sociology and economics at least. By so doing, the book as also serves as an educational instruction for integrative and interdisciplinary science instead of recapitulating mono-disciplinary approaches. Discussion includes topics such as social and economic inequality research, limits of rationality, and orthodoxies and heterodoxies of economic research, as well as a discussion of the heroes of interdisciplinary thought.

This book explores the restructuring of the labour market and the opportunities that have resulted from economic globalization. The historical, political, geographical, and social relationships that female workers have had within the production process and the politics of work are examined to provide an understanding of the positioning of women within the global production system and the international division of employment. Unheard Voices: Women, Work and Political Economy of Global Production aims to give the reader an understanding of new workplace arrangements and the changing gendered patterns of work. The book is relevant to those interested in labour economics, the political economy, and gender studies.

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the world of consumption, covering different topics and including sociological, economic and marketing aspects. The term 'consumption' is vague and even in academic disciplines the term is used in a variety of ways. Consumption research asks how earnings and spending are related to each other. More generally, consumption research investigates how people, social classes or societies realize their consumption practices. The question of how consistent preference structures are due to changing empirical backgrounds of time, space and related culture is frequently asked. Which context variables (historical time, geographical framework, cultural background) specify the practice of consumption and in which way do attributes such as age, gender, class, occupation and life-style have their own impacts on the way in which consumption is realised? This book will be of interest to researchers working in economics, sociology, marketing, aesthetics and design, anthropology and communication studies.

This book deals with the Neglected Links in economics and society. These neglected links are the inner bonds and lines which keep the society and economy together and are almost interconnected although they are very often treated and discussed separately in different discourses. Contemporary discussion has forgotten to think universally and to integrate items into one common field of observation. Instead, too often particular items are studied and discussed as being independent of each other without acknowledging a broader context. The book gives an exemplary instruction on how to treat reciprocal links and how to work in an interdisciplinary way, which tackles history, sociology and economics at least. By so doing, the book as also serves as an educational instruction for integrative and interdisciplinary science instead of recapitulating mono-disciplinary approaches. Discussion includes topics such as social and economic inequality research, limits of rationality, and orthodoxies and heterodoxies of economic research, as well as a discussion of the heroes of interdisciplinary thought.

This book explores the restructuring of the labour market and the opportunities that have resulted from economic globalization. The historical, political, geographical, and social relationships that female workers have had within the production process and the politics of work are examined to provide an understanding of the positioning of women within the global production system and the international division of employment. Unheard Voices: Women, Work and Political Economy of Global Production aims to give the reader an understanding of new workplace arrangements and the changing gendered patterns of work. The book is relevant to those interested in labour economics, the political economy, and gender studies.

This book presents the current state-of-the-art in all major and upcoming areas of entrepreneurship research. Thousands of scholars around the world are currently working to broaden our understanding of the entrepreneurial phenomenon. The disciplines involved are numerous, as are the topics of interest, with substantial efforts to enhance the existing knowledge. This book is specifically designed to facilitate high-level, high-intensity discussions and fruitful exchanges between scholars involved in entrepreneurship research. The articles address a variety of topics ranging from self-employment, technology, growth patterns and job creation, and success and failure rates, to historical, conceptual and comparative international approaches. "This book takes entrepreneurship beyond the individual, size of the venture, entrepreneurial personality, and looks at entrepreneurship as a long term complex process that is heterogeneous, content dependent with an emphasis on innovation and growth. A must read for individuals interested in entrepreneurship, today and in the future, on a domestic and global basis." - Robert D. Hisrich, Director - Walker Center and Garvin Professor of Global Entrepreneurship, Thunderbird School of Global Management "Entrepreneurship is perhaps not just the most multifaceted but also the most important concept of the modern socio-economic disciplines. This book makes an invaluable contribution in this fascinating area: it presents a multifaceted socio-economic examination of the impact of entrepreneurship for growth." - Roy Thurik, Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam and Montpellier Business School

Dieter Boegenhold nahert sich dem Thema Konsum aus soziologischer Perspektive und bezieht dabei wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Themen wie Marketing und Konsumoekonomik sowie andere angrenzende Fachgebiete ein. Der Leser bekommt auf diese Weise einen UEberblick uber die vielen Facetten dieses Forschungsbereiches. Die Rolle des Konsums in der Ideengeschichte wird ebenso angesprochen wie das Verhaltnis zwischen Konsum und Mode oder die "McDonaldisierung" des Konsums.

Vieles deutet darauf hin, dass der Terminus der Sozialokonomik aus dem spaten 19. Jahrhundert wieder mit ernsthaftem und positivem Leben neu gefullt wird. Tendenziell bewegen sich Soziologie und Okonomik wieder auf ein Konzept zu, das Elemente der Historik, Soziologie, Psychologie, Okonomik und Religionswissenschaften zunehmend ernster nimmt und wechselseitig integriert. Wenn insgesamt das akademisch-konzeptionelle Bewusstsein eines Culture Matters" gestiegen ist, so mussen davon zwangslaufig Lehr- und Forschungsinhalte sozialwissenschaftlicher Kulturwissenschaften profitieren: Wirtschaftssysteme sollen weniger "in abstracto," sondern starker" in concreto "mit ihren Spezifika verschiedener Institutionen betrachtet werden. Die Soziologie und ihre Nachbarwissenschaften sind hier gefordert, diese Entwicklungen zu perzipieren und eigene Kompetenzen einzubringen. Alle beteiligen Wissenschaften sind standig in Veranderung und gehen neue Verbindungen ein. Der Band stellt eine Reihe von interessanten Denkansatzen in dem Bestreben zusammen, mit weiteren Denkanstossen zu gegenwartigen akademischen Auseinandersetzungen beizutragen. "

Die Autoren stellen in diesem essential fest, dass Selbstandigkeit und Unternehmertum Ausdruck von sozialem und oekonomischem Wandel sind. Sie geben Antworten auf die Fragen, welche Strukturen selbststandiger Erwerbstatigkeit sich warum herausgebildet haben. Es wird die Heterogenitat beruflicher Selbstandigkeit mit Blick auf Einkommen und Arbeitszeiten sowie die Zusammensetzung nach Geschlecht, Alter und Herkunftslandern der Akteure, aber auch nach den Betriebsgroessen und den Branchen ihrer wirtschaftlichen Existenzen aufgezeigt.

Dieter Boegenhold beschaftigt sich mit der Frage, wie die Facher der Soziologie und OEkonomik zueinander positioniert sind. Nachdem zu Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts eine strikte Einheit zwischen ihnen bestand, differenzierten und entkoppelten sich die beiden Facher im Laufe der weiteren Jahrzehnte. Heute sieht es danach aus, als sei dieser Trend zum Stoppen gekommen. Immer starker reintegriert die OEkonomik wieder Wissensgebiete und Methodiken der Soziologie, aber auch der Psychologie und der Historik. Hierin liegen zweifelsohne auch grosse Chancen fur die Soziologie, die ihre Domanen und Kompetenzen reklamieren muss. Das Buch beinhaltet ein Pladoyer fur interdisziplinare Studien.