Prelims

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Creating Entrepreneurial Space

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Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research

Series Editor, Volumes 1–6: Gerard McElwee

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Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research, Volume 9B

Creating Entrepreneurial Space: Talking Through Multi-Voices, Reflections on Emerging Debates

Edited by

David Higgins

University of Liverpool, UK

Paul Jones

University of Coventry, UK

Pauric McGowan

Ulster University, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China

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ISSN: 2040-7246 (Series)

Contents

List of Contributors

Series Editor’s Preface

The Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Emerald Book Series aims to provide a platform for leading edge research that reflects on contemporary themes of interest to the entrepreneurship discipline. The volumes of this series are proposed and edited by established scholars drawn from the membership of the ISBE community. All contributions are double blind peer reviewed by subject experts from the discipline.

The ninth volume (A & B) in the series, Creating Entrepreneurial Space: Talking through Multi-voices, Reflections on Emerging Debates edited by David Higgins, Paul Jones and Pauric McGowan, has collected sufficient material to present two volumes. Particular thanks to David Higgins for leading the guest editing process from project initiation to completion. These collections were developed in recognition of the need for the entrepreneurship literature to engage more critically with the lived experiences of practising entrepreneurs through alternative approaches and methods, seeking to account for and highlighting the social, political and moral aspects of entrepreneurial practice (Tedmanson, Verduyn, Essers, & Gartner, 2012). Thus, this volume is an attempt to supplement and enhance this evidence base with studies drawn from several different contexts of entrepreneurial practice and behaviour.

Some words of thanks to conclude this introduction. To the guest editors, authors and reviewers, for all their hard work and diligence in taking this volume to completion. To Katy Mathers and Pete Baker and the Emerald production team, for their efforts in taking the volume through the production processes by the required deadlines. To ISBE, in supporting the development of the volume and its promotion. In line with the objectives of the series, this volume contributes a new peer-reviewed body of evidence, which provides fresh insights and perspectives and informs and further engages the entrepreneurship discipline.

Paul Jones

(Editor – ISBE Emerald Book Series)