Research handbook on strategic entrepreneurship

Contents:

1 Strategic entrepreneurship research: an introduction 1
Vishal K. Gupta, A. Banu Goktan, Galina V. Shirokova, and Amit Karna
2 Decomposing the knowledge structures of absorptive capacity 8
Nachiket Bhawe and Shaker Zahra
3 The economic firm as a manifestation of strategic entrepreneurship 24
Susanne C. Bylund and Per L. Bylund
4 Opportunity-seeking behaviors in strategic entrepreneurship:
What do we know from the effectuation literature? 50
Florian Bayer and Christian Landau
5 Exploring new venture creation through incubators and
accelerators: What value is created and who captures it?
Implications for research, teaching, and practice 82
Riley Doyle, Kris Irwin, Josie A. Burks, Paul L. Drnevich, and Craig
E. Armstrong
6 Holistic view of strategic entrepreneurship’s results:
Estimating the implications for performance mean and variability 106
Oleksiy Osiyevskyy, Kanhaiya Kumar Sinha, Galina V. Shirokova,
and Mehrsa Ehsani
7 Historical cognition and strategic entrepreneurship 125
Diego M. Coraiola, Fernanda Yumi Tsujiguchi, and Roy Suddaby
8 Making strategic entrepreneurship visible: An
ethnomethodology primer 144
Betsy Campbell
9 The eye as a window to the soul: Entering the strategic
entrepreneurial mind 164
Jef Naidoo, Ron Dulek, Elliott Miller Graves, and Yeong Hyun Hong
10 New frontiers? Approaches to computerized text analysis in
strategic entrepreneurship research 197
Anna M. Pastwa and William J. Wales
11 Endogeneity in strategic entrepreneurship research 233
Brian S. Anderson

This Research Handbook provides a solid foundation for exploring the vibrant field of strategic entrepreneurship, with an examination of important topics from theoretical, psychological and economic perspectives.

Analysing new directions for future research, this Research Handbook spans the comprehensiveness of the field and offers insights into specific topic areas within strategic entrepreneurship including historical cognition, ethnomethodology and the strategic entrepreneurial mind. With contributions from scholars across diverse backgrounds, the Research Handbook not only critically analyses existing research at the intersection of strategy and entrepreneurship, but also identifies new avenues for future inquiry. The editors provide useful guidance for travelling new paths within the domain of strategic entrepreneurship research, and across other disciplines, based upon distinct theoretical foundations.

PhD students, scholars, and researchers alike who want to investigate further into strategic entrepreneurship in depth as well as uncharted territories, will find this Research Handbook a valuable resource.