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Swedberg, Richard (ed.). Entrepreneurship: The Social Science View. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

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I. Introduction
1. The social science view of entrepreneurship: introduction and practical applications (Richard Swedberg).

II. Different Social Science Perspectives on Entrepreneurship
2. Entrepreneurship as innovation (Joseph A. Schumpeter).
3. Entrepreneurship before and after Schumpeter (Mark Blaug).
4. The entrepreneur and profit (Ludwig von Mises).
5. Values and entrepreneurship in the Americas (Seymour Martin Lipset).
6. The modernization of entrepreneurship (Alexander Gerschenkron).
7. Economic spheres in Darfur (Fredrik Barth).

III. Entrepreneurship and the Firm (Small Firms, Large Firms, and How can a Manager also be an Entrepreneur?)
8. When a thousand flowers bloom: structural, collective, and social conditions for innovation in organization (Rosabeth Moss Kanter).
9. Entrepreneurial strategies in new organizational populations (Howard E. Aldrich).
10. Innovation in large and small firms (Kenneth J. Arrow).
11. The economic sociology of firms and entrepreneurs (Mark Granovetter).

IV. Entrepreneurship in a Changing World (New Actors, New Questions, New Strategies)
12. The network entrepreneur (Ronald S. Burt).
13. The origins and dynamics of production networks in Silicon valley/AnnaLee Saxenian).
14. Entrepreneurship and culture: the case of Freddy, the Strawberry man (Monica Lindh de Montoya).
15. Ethnic Entrepreneurs (Roger Waldinger, Howard Aldrich and Robin Ward).

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