1st Edition
Contemporary Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in Context
Contemporary Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in Context is the core debut for the Routledge Applied Enterprise & Entrepreneurship Series (AEES). This book introduces contemporary sectoral discussions and the theories, considerations, and contexts relating to them from a wide range of contemporary academics, thinkers and entrepreneurs.
This book brings together many of today’s discourse in the area of enterprise and entrepreneurship alongside relevant and experienced practitioners to launch the AEES series’ foundational book. The book’s structure will distinguish but pull together theoretical underpinning and practitioner accounts of enterprise and entrepreneurship in context.
This book is suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the area of business studies, innovation, entrepreneurship and enterprise. The book will also be of interest to a range of roles in the enterprise and entrepreneurship community including academics and practitioners.
1. Introduction
Emily Beaumont, Jenny Hall, Russ Hepworth-Sawyer and Mark Marrington
2. Modelling Contextualised Entrepreneurial Development
Victoria Mountford-Brown, Robert Newbery and Simon Brown
3. Reasons For a Reassessment
Simon Bridge
4. Context-Enhanced Social Entrepreneurship: How Social Entrepreneurs Leverage entrepreneurial ecosystems to address societal problems
Philip T. Roundy
5. Supporting Sustainable Start-ups: Different Approaches Applied by Business Incubators
Meike Siefkes and Gero Stocksmeier
6. Academic Startup Clinic: Applying Effectuation Principles to Educate and Support Academic Entrepreneurs
Basel Hammoda
7. Reflective Practice as Continuing Professional Development for Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs
Russ Hepworth-Sawyer and Mike Wilson
8. Value Hidden in Plain Sight – An Allied Health Professional Case Study
Andrew Paul Clarke, Claire E Mercer and PA MacKrell
9. Social Capital and Entrepreneurial Loneliness: Mapping the Startup Journeys of London-Based Fashion Entrepreneurs
Beki Gowing and Ashley Evenson
10. Innovation in Sports: Institutional Entrepreneurship at Play
Amy Gresock
11. Entrepreneurship in the Arts and Cultural Sectors: The Role of the Intermediary
James Cunningham
12. Change via Institutional Entrepreneurship
Amy Gresock
13. Cultural Entrepreneurship in Historical and Contemporary Context: Perspectives on Repertoire Construction and Recording Practice in the Field of Classical Guitar Performance
Mark Marrington
14. Regulatory Institutions and Productive Entrepreneurship: A Focus on Small Businesses in Iran During Covid-19
Afsaneh Bagheri and Masoud Karami
Biography
Russ Hepworth-Sawyer is an Associate Professor at York St John University. Russ also acts as a consultant and author alongside running several businesses when not at university. Russ’ experience is in the music industry and as an academic in music production practice, creative business, and entrepreneurship. Russ leads the Executive MBA programme at York Business School and is a seasoned author with Routledge, including the Innovation In Music series of books linked to the conference of the same name.
Mark Marrington is an Associate Professor (Music Production) at York St John University, among whose primary research interests are the history of record production and classical music recording. His recently published book, Recording the Classical Guitar (2021), won the 2022 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.
Jenny Hall is a Senior Lecturer at York St John University, United Kingdom. As a cultural geographer, she specialises in the geographies of tourism, leisure, sport, and heritage. Her work is interdisciplinary and draws from across the social sciences. Issues of sustainability, social and ecological justice are central to her work, and she has focused on the intersectional experiences of inequality in adventure. Working with public agencies, her research has influenced policy in mountaineering organisations in the United Kingdom.
Emily Beaumont is an academic and business owner, residing in Plymouth, Devon, UK. As an academic, Emily has studied at some of the leading Higher Education Institutions in the UK including the UCL, the University of Exeter and Loughborough University. She has dedicated her teaching and research to the disciplines of enterprise, entrepreneurship and employability, and the quality of her work in this area saw her voted to be President for Enterprise Educators UK (2021-2023) and awarded with Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, and Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
