Table of Contents

Contents:

Introduction
Alain Fayolle, Sarah Jack, Wadid Lamine and Didier Chabaud

PART I THE EVOLUTION OF NETWORKS ACROSS ENTREPRENEURIAL STAGES
1. Entrepreneurial Network Composition and the Venture Creation Process: An Empirical Investigation
Tammi C. Redd, Michael A. Abebe and Sibin Wu

2. Dynamic Social Networks of Entrepreneurs: Five Years of Change in the Networks of Dutch Entrepreneurs
Marianne de Beer, Gerald Mollenhorst and Veronique A.J.M. Schutjens

3. Entrepreneur’s Social Networks and Formation of Business Opportunities: An Exploratory Study
Didier Chabaud and Joseph Ngijol

4. Start-ups Repositioning in Business Networks
Lise Aaboen and Frida Lind

PART II FORMAL NETWORKS: A NEW RESEARCH AGENDA?
5. Business and Professional Networks: Scope and Outcomes in Oxfordshire
Helen Lawton-Smith and Saverio Romeo

6. Women Entrepreneurs and the Process of Networking as Social Exchange
Claire M. Leitch, Richard T. Harrison and Frances M. Hill

7. Cooperation vs. Coordination Relations in SME’s Network: A New View of Collective Strategy Dynamics
Christophe Leyronas and Stéphanie Loup

PART III CONTEXT: A BENIGN NEGLECT?
8. The Competitiveness of Entrepreneurial Firms from a Network Perspective
Christian Lechner

9. The Role of Family Members In Entrepreneurial Networks: Beyond the Boundaries of the Family Firm
Alistair R. Anderson, Sarah L. Jack and Sarah Drakopoulou Dodd

10. Social Network Structures of Nascent Entrepreneurs: An Exploratory Study of Advisor Networks in MENA Countries
Sarfraz A. Mian and Shahid Qureshi

11. Ubuntu in Family Businesses: A Case in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Albert B.R. Lwango

PART IV DEBATES AND PERSPECTIVES: THEORETICAL CHALLENGES
12. Entrepreneurial Mingling Secrets: Investigating the Performance Impact of Network Structure for Control-based Entrepreneurship using Agent-based Simulation
Willem Jansen, René Mauer and Malte Brettel

13. Actor- Network Theory and the Entrepreneurial Process
Wadid Lamine, Alain Fayolle and Hela Chebbi

Index

About the Author

Edited by Alain Fayolle, Entrepreneurship Professor, IDRAC Business School, France and Visiting Professor, Turku School of Economics, Finland, Sarah L. Jack, Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg Professor of Innovative and Sustainable Business Development, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, Wadid Lamine, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada and Didier Chabaud, IAE de Paris/Sorbonne Graduate Business School, France

Reviews

'This rich collection of articles reminds us that network research in entrepreneurship must push boundaries. Fayolle, Jack, Lamine and Chabaud have selected studies emphasizing network processes of creation and change. They nudge us beyond social networks to consider business networks; to study relationship coordination rather than just cooperation. They help us ''try-on'' new theoretical lenses and they provide insight to novel research contexts such as the Middle East and Africa. This book moves us toward topics that warrant more attention.'
*Nicole Coviello, Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada*