Challenges for spatially oriented entrepreneurship research

Trettin, Lutz; Welter, Friederike

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“…Different localities offer different types of entrepreneurial opportunities. Most research addressing the spatial dimensions of entrepreneurship focuses on the regional level (Trettin and Welter 2011;Hindle, 2010). These studies find that regions with high population density, such as cities and metropolitan areas, with easy access to stocks of human, social and financial capital, have more entrepreneurial activity than regions that are lagging behind in these respects.…”

Section: Regional and Local Differencesmentioning

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Entrepreneurship as Everyday Practice: Towards a Personalized Pedagogy of Enterprise Education

Blenker¹,

Frederiksen²,

Korsgaard³

et al. 2012

Industry and Higher Education

102

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Adopting the perspective of ‘entrepreneurship as an everyday practice’ in education, the authors conceptualize opportunities as arising from the everyday practice of individuals. Opportunities are thus seen as emanating from the individual entrepreneur's ability to disclose anomalies and disharmonies in their personal life. The paper illustrates how opportunities unfold depending on regional differences, local heritage and gender, to show how entrepreneurship education must take into account differences in context, culture and circumstance. Rather than perceiving entrepreneurship education as universalistic and searching for a generally applicable teaching approach, the authors argue that there is a need to tailor entrepreneurship education to the particular. They therefore propose that the pedagogy of entrepreneurship education should be personalized and they build a conceptual framework that contrasts two opposing views of entrepreneurship education: ‘universalistic’ and ‘idiosyncratic’. Following this distinction, they explore how different elements of entrepreneurship education may be fitted to the particular needs of each individual learner. This insight is relevant for didactic reflections on single entrepreneurship courses and for the construction of an entrepreneurship education curriculum.

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Section: Regional and Local Differencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurship as Everyday Practice: Towards a Personalized Pedagogy of Enterprise Education

Blenker¹,

Frederiksen²,

Korsgaard³

et al. 2012

Industry and Higher Education

102

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“…(2013) argue that there is a dearth of studies exploring the effects of local and societal institutional practices on entrepreneurial behaviors, while Trettin and Welter (2011) observe that the socio-spatial contexts in which entrepreneurs operate daily are largely absent in the entrepreneurship literature. Other studies emphasize the complexities in conceptualizing the relationship between (new) regulative institutional frameworks and traditional cultural values predominant in the countryside (Lang et al, 2014;Marti et al, 2013).…”

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Entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Sector: A Literature Review and Future Research Opportunities

Fitz-Koch

Nordqvist

Carter³

et al. 2017

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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This version is available at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/61277/ Strathprints is designed to allow users to access the research output of the University of Strathclyde. Unless otherwise explicitly stated on the manuscript, Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Please check the manuscript for details of any other licences that may have been applied. You may not engage in further distribution of the material for any profitmaking activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute both the url (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/) and the content of this paper for research or private study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge.Any correspondence concerning this service should be sent to the Strathprints administrator: strathprints@strath.ac.ukThe Strathprints institutional repository (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk) is a digital archive of University of Strathclyde research outputs. It has been developed to disseminate open access research outputs, expose data about those outputs, and enable the management and persistent access to Strathclyde's intellectual output. 1 ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR: A LITERATURE REVIEW AND FUTURE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES AbstractHeeding calls for contextualizing entrepreneurship research and for greater attention to the role of sector in entrepreneurship research, we conduct a systematic literature review of extant research in agricultural entrepreneurship. Recent and rapid vertical integration and rationalization within the agricultural sector provides a dynamic setting for scholars to investigate entrepreneurship theory and practice. We identify three key contextual dimensions of the agricultural sector; identity, family, and institutions, which provide promising opportunities for future research and the potential to contribute to and extend current theoretical and empirical analyses of entrepreneurship research.

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“…Combining Hudson's system level diagnosis with emerging resource-focused conceptualisations in entrepreneurship makes several contributions. Firstly, Hudson's analysis as well as the remainders of the fields of geography and regional development have given limited attention to the micro-level processes of entrepreneurship (Trettin and Welter, 2011). Consequently, it offers limited explanations of how system level outcomes such as regional resilience are (partly) produced by entrepreneurial actions.…”

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“…Depth and complexity is thus added to the entrepreneurial function at the localized level opening a possibility for an increased sensitivity to the process of creative recombination of resources, the importance of socio-spatial embeddedness, and the multiplicity of values sought and realized in entrepreneurial processes. Similarly, dominant micro-level explanations of opportunistic entrepreneurial action have underemphasised socialized, environmental and, in particular, spatial dimensions (Anderson, 1998;Hindle, 2010;Korsgaard and Anderson, 2011;Korsgaard et al, Forthcoming;Trettin and Welter, 2011). Integrating the micro-level view with Hudson's spatially and environmentally sensitive analysis of production and regional resilience provides a framework for understanding how entrepreneurship is socially, spatially and materially grounded -where dominant concepts of entrepreneurship have emphasised primarily the economic and to some limited extent, social embeddedness (Welter, 2011).…”

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Entrepreneurship as re-sourcing

Korsgaard

Anderson

Gaddefors

2016

JEC

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of entrepreneurship that can help researchers, policymakers and practitioners develop entrepreneurial responses to the current economic, environmental and socio-spatial crisis. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a conceptual approach. Hudson’s diagnosis of the current patterns of production is applied to the two dominant streams of theorising on entrepreneurship: the opportunistic discovery view and the resourcefulness view of, for example, effectuation. Findings The analysis indicates that the opportunistic discovery view and, to some extent, the resourcefulness view are both inadequate as conceptual platforms for entrepreneurial responses to the economic, environmental and socio-spatial crisis. Instead, an alternative perspective on entrepreneurship is developed: Entrepreneurship as re-sourcing. The perspective emphasises the importance of building regional-level resilience through entrepreneurial activity that sources resources from new places and uses these resources to create multiple forms of value. Practical implications The paper draws attention to dysfunctions in the current theorising on entrepreneurship in light of the economic, environmental and socio-spatial crisis. Instead, the authors offer an alternative. In doing so, the paper also points to the difficult trade-offs that exist between, for example, long-term resilience and short-term competitiveness and growth on a regional, as well as firm level. Originality/value This paper adds to research by offering an alternative view of entrepreneurship grounded – not in economics – but in economic geography, thus highlighting the importance of productions’ grounding in material reality and the importance of addressing non-economic concerns in our way of thinking about entrepreneurship.

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Challenges for spatially oriented entrepreneurship research

Cited by 124 publications

References 115 publications

Entrepreneurship as Everyday Practice: Towards a Personalized Pedagogy of Enterprise Education

Entrepreneurship as Everyday Practice: Towards a Personalized Pedagogy of Enterprise Education

Entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Sector: A Literature Review and Future Research Opportunities

Entrepreneurship as re-sourcing

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