Book review: Transformational entrepreneurship

• Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Bruno
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11110/1630
• topic: Transformational entrepreneurship

The field of entrepreneurship, specifically transformational entrepreneurship, is exciting due to its relatively recent emergence and the need to assess the results of innovative behaviour. The difference between transformational and other entrepreneurs is a function of individual, environmental and cultural factors. Transformational entrepreneurship is a specific type of entrepreneurship and has an interdisciplinary nature with connection to anthropology, economics, sociology, tourism and local development. In specific contexts, this kind of entrepreneurship tries to reconcile the economic and social disparities in society. Entrepreneurs involved in transformations encourage positive action that has a flow on effect, which enables business ventures to deliver outcomes that change the surrounding environment by viewing things in a different way. Transformational entrepreneurship is related to the concept of challenge-based entrepreneurship, as it is an important and socially significant type of entrepreneurship that transcends cultural barriers.