The Persistence of Entrepreneurship Myths

Triggered largely by claims that small businesses were the main source of new jobs, an 'explosion' of interest in enterprise, entrepreneurs and small business has led to the establishment of a conventional wisdom about enterprise.

Autorentext

Simon Bridge is an author and a visiting professor at the Ulster University Business School, UK.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: An evolving understanding of enterprise, but with problems 2. Conventional wisdom and assumptions about enterprise: There is a questionable conventional wisdom but, if its foundations are not clearly recorded, what might be the assumptions behind it? 3. Knowledge is often imperfect: How knowledge forms, how we learn, why there are possible distortions and why we should expect the emergence of a 'conventional wisdom' 4. A policy research disconnect: Why policy failings were not resolved through a meaningful dialogue with research and consequent 'trial and error' improvements 5. Exploring the assumptions: The suggested assumptions: are they credible and were they made? 6. Questioning the Assumptions: If the assumptions were made, were they correct? 7. Reviewing the evidence: Reviewing the case that conventional enterprise wisdom rests on a foundation of interlinked, but misguided, assumptions 8. Reclaiming Enterprise: The implications of changing the paradigm