Made, as well as found: Researching Entrepreneurship as a Science of the Artificial
Saras D. Sarasvathy, Nicholas Dew, Venkataraman, S., Yale University Press, forthcoming 2010


Overview

This book offers a collection of foundational readings designed to support a doctoral seminar in entrepreneurship. However, unlike most collected readings books, in this volume there are five chapters written from scratch. Each section of the book begins with a chapter that frames and narrates the individual readings, drawing attention to the themes and issues in each reading that the editors believe are important to the field of entrepreneurship.


Part I -- Motivation: A pluralistic approach to entrepreneurship research

Buchanan, J. M., & Vanberg, V. J. 1991. The Market as a Creative Process. Economics and Philosophy, 7: 167-186.

Davidson, D. 2001. Three varieties of knowledge, Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective: 205-220. New York: Oxford University Press Incorporated.

Simon, H. A. 1996a. The sciences of the artificial. Third edition. Cambridge and London: MIT Press. CHAPTER 1.


Part II – Maker: Entrepreneurial agency

James, W. 1880. Great Men, Great Thoughts, and the Environment. The Atlantic Monthly, October,

Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. 2000. The embodied mind, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought: 16-44. New York: Basic Books.

March, J. G. 1982. The technology of foolishness. In J. G. a. J. P. O. March (Ed.), Ambiguity and choice in organizations: 69-81. Bergen, Norway: Universitetsforlaget.

Slovic, P. 1995. The construction of preference. American Psychologist, 50: 364-371.

Todd, P. M., & Gigerenzer, G. 2003. Bounding rationality to the world. Journal of Economic Psychology, 24(2): 143-165.


Part III – Making: Entrepreneurial process

Goodman, N. 1988. Words, works, worlds, Ways of Worldmaking: 1-22. Indianapolis Lancaster: Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated Gazelle Book Services Limited Distributor.

Jerome Bruner, 1978. Actual Minds, Possible Worlds. Chapter excerpts.

Gould, S. J., & Lewontin, R. C. 1979. The spandrels of San Marco and the panglossian paradigm: A critique of the adaptationist programme. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 205(1161): 581-598.

Hayek, F. A. 1984. Competition as a discovery procedure. In C. Nishiyama, & K. Leube (Eds.), The essence of hayek: 257. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Boudreaux,D.J. and Holcombe, R.G., 1989. The Coasian and Knightian theories of the firm. Managerial and Decision Economics, 10:147-154.


Part IV – Made: Entrepreneurial outcomes

Simon, J. L. 1996. From the past to the future, The State of Humanity: 641-660. Malden: Blackwell Publishing Incorporated.

Simon, J. L. 1996. Introduction, The State of Humanity: 1-28. Malden: Blackwell Publishing Incorporated.

De Soto, H. 2000. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs In The West And Fails Everywhere Else. New York: Basic Books. LAST CHAPTER.

Gerschenkron, A. 1962. Chapter 3: Social attitudes, entrepreneurship and economic development. In Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective.

Sen, A. 1999. The Possibility of Social Choice. The American Economic Review, 89(3): 349-378.


Part V – Method: Studying entrepreneurship as a three-legged artifact

James, W. 1907. What Pragmatism Means, Pragmatism: A new name for some old ways of thinking: 17-32. New York.: Longman Green and Co.

Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. 1980. Conceptual metaphor in everyday language. The Journal of Philosophy, 77(8): 452-486.

Pearl, J. 2000. The art and science of cause and effect, Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference: 331-358. Toronto: Cambridge University Press.

Rorty, R. 1989. Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. SELECTED PAGES, pp.3-9; 19-22; 23-29.

Simon, H. A. 1998. Economics as a historical science. Theoria, 13.(32): 241-260.


Conclusion

Hayek, F. A. 1977. Creative Powers of a Free Civilization. In F. Morley (Ed.), Essays on Individuality: 284-289: Liberty Press.