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Journal of Economic Geography Advance Access originally published online on August 27, 2008
Journal of Economic Geography 2009 9(2):291-293; doi:10.1093/jeg/lbn034
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Changes in regional firm founding activities: a theoretical explanation and empirical evidence

Dirk Fornahl

Changes in regional firm founding activities: a theoretical explanation and empirical evidence
Dirk Fornahl
London and New York: Routledge, 2007. ISBN 978-0-415-40409-9 (hardback). 288 pp. Price: £80.00.

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Entrepreneurship studies have been one of the forefronts of economic geography for a long time. While different ontological perspectives and methodological approaches have been applied in analyses of entrepreneurship dynamics, in his PhD research reported in this book, Fornahl attempts to develop and test a set of new methods. His analytical approach and results seek to define a new research path, although some of his analyses follow neoclassical and behavioural approaches. However, looking heedfully at selected approaches and the new methodological contributions of contemporary research, he knowingly chooses to undervalue one of the major research perspectives. The author emphatically reasons the volume is not ‘aimed at explaining variations of start-up activities between different regions, but the unit of analysis is the increasing or decreasing likelihood of firm foundings within a certain region’ (p. 173). Developing such a narrow (although engaging) perspective unnecessarily limits the research: the likelihood of start-ups cannot . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Grzegorz Micek

Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, Kraków


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