Entrepreneurship is undoubtedly a social process and creating a firm requires both the mobilisation of social networks and the use of social capital. This book addresses the gap that exists between the need to take these factors into consideration and the understanding of how network relationships are developed and transformed across the venturing process.

Expert contributions from key scholars in the field illustrate how social networks evolve across entrepreneurial stages, using studies from different regions across the world. Offering a comprehensive understanding, they emphasize the role of formal networks created inside professions and firms. Also examined is the impact of context including both family and internationally variable institutions that can help entrepreneurs to access resources and competencies useful for their projects. The book concludes by emphasizing the various research challenges: which theories are useful for our endeavors and which new methods can be used to understand the dynamics of the venturing process?

Dynamic and eminently practical, this book will be invaluable to scholars and students studying the entrepreneurial process and the impact of social networks. It will also prove a useful tool in aiding entrepreneurs to optimize the development of their networks and better manage their entrepreneurial processes.

Contributors include: L. Aaboen, M.A. Abebe, A.R. Anderson, M. Brettel, D. Chabaud, H. Chebbi, M. de Beer, S. Drakopoulou Dodd, A. Fayolle, R.T. Harrison, F.M. Hill, S.L. Jack, W. Jansen, W. Lamine, H. Lawton-Smith, C. Lechner, C.M. Leitch, C. Leyronas, F. Lind, S. Loup, A.B.R. Lwango, R. Mauer, S. Mian, G. Mollenhorst, J. Ngijol, S. Qureshi, T. Redd, V. Schutjens, M. Virahsawmy, S. Wu

About the Author
Edited by Alain Fayolle, Entrepreneurship Professor, IDRAC Business School, France and Visiting Professor, Turku School of Economics, Finland, Sarah L. Jack, Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg Professor of Innovative and Sustainable Business Development, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, Wadid Lamine, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada and Didier Chabaud, IAE de Paris/Sorbonne Graduate Business School, France

Reviews
'This rich collection of articles reminds us that network research in entrepreneurship must push boundaries. Fayolle, Jack, Lamine and Chabaud have selected studies emphasizing network processes of creation and change. They nudge us beyond social networks to consider business networks; to study relationship coordination rather than just cooperation. They help us ''try-on'' new theoretical lenses and they provide insight to novel research contexts such as the Middle East and Africa. This book moves us toward topics that warrant more attention.' -- Nicole Coviello, Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada



Book Information
ISBN 9781785364877
Author Alain Fayolle
Format Hardback
Page Count 384
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd