ABSTRACT

This book dives deep into everyday entrepreneurial stories with an engaging narrative, based on theory, while providing practical implications by highlighting diverse entrepreneurial examples in emerging themes. It provides a collection of concise authentic entrepreneurship case studies, organized into three main themes: digital entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial learning innovations, and challenging entrepreneurship. The featured case studies are based mainly on primary data gathered from entrepreneurs and active members within the entrepreneurship ecosystem all over the globe, at different stages of the entrepreneurial process. Thus, it moves away from the typical unicorns and flagship start-up stories, which are abundant in management literature, to dive deep into realistic everyday entrepreneurial narratives. This edited collection will be of interest to researchers, academics, practitioners, and students in the fields of entrepreneurship and small business management, international business, and management education.

chapter 1|6 pages

Introduction—Contemporary issues in entrepreneurship research

The diversity, practicality, and contemporariness predicaments

part I|31 pages

Digital entrepreneurship

chapter 2|10 pages

From books to blogs

The digitalization journey of a contentpreneur

part II|41 pages

Entrepreneurial learning

chapter 5|10 pages

Digital skills platform from Silicon Valley

Training new generations using experiential learning principles

chapter 6|10 pages

Design thinking

A teaching and learning pedagogy for building an entrepreneurial mindset

chapter 7|10 pages

Students creating value for microenterprises in live casework

Cases from the Scandinavian Growth Creators project

chapter 8|9 pages

What we don't talk about in entrepreneurship

Moving the spotlight from the “hero entrepreneur” to the “unremarkable” everyday lives of student entrepreneurs

part III|44 pages

Entrepreneurial challenges

chapter 10|9 pages

Entrepreneurial resilience amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Echoes of a British catering and hospitality startup

chapter 11|9 pages

A healthtech startup internationalization dilemma

Challenges expanding into the established U.S. market

chapter 12|9 pages

Circular economy business model challenges in entrepreneurial realties

Navigating the value chain of a recycling startup

chapter 13|6 pages

Conclusion—contemporary entrepreneurship

Global perspectives and cases