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Prelims -- Introduction: creating entrepreneurial space: talking through multi-voices, reflections on emerging debates -- Chapter 1: The legitimacy of teachers in entrepreneurship education: what we can learn from a literature review -- Chapter 2: Enterprise education competitions: a theoretically flawed intervention? -- Chapter 3: Understanding how immigrant entrepreneurs view business opportunity formation through ethnicity -- Chapter 4: Context matters: entrepreneurial energy in the revival of place -- Chapter 5: Extending cross-gender succession theories: motherson succession in family business -- Chapter 6: SMES' export performance in Algeria: a configuration approach -- Chapter 7: Resistance and change in a depleted community: personal, pragmatic and paradoxical -- Chapter 8: Grappling with the challenges of start-up in the designer fashion industry in a small economy: how social capital articulates with strategies in practice -- Chapter 9: Exploring the perceived impact of strategic learning plans on growth-focused small service firms -- Chapter 10: Scholarly practice and meaningful research: utilising voice by enabling action if it was only that simple! -- About the editors -- About the authors -- Index.

Interest in the field of entrepreneurship and the small firm has developed exponentially in recent decades. However, concerns have been expressed regarding the need to effectively engage more critically with the lived experiences of practicing entrepreneurs through alternative approaches and methods seeking to account for and highlight the social, political and moral aspect of entrepreneurial practice. By drawing recognition to the lived practice of the entrepreneur, one can begin to position the notion of action as a process of socially constructed emergent practice. Such discussion would seek to give an alternative perspective as a method of re-shaping and understanding what it means to practice as an entrepreneur. This volume seeks to critically explore alternative dimensions to entrepreneurial and small firm research and practice. In addition, the authors seek to promote ideas from other research traditions and perspectives which are culturally enriched and challenge what we term entrepreneurial and small firm practice. Including topics drawn from discussions with leading scholars, researchers and practitioners alike, this collection of papers aims to generate new and exciting opportunities for a holistic view of entrepreneurial research agendas, and advance the manner in which academics and researchers think about and engage with various aspects of entrepreneurial practice and development.

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