This chapter reconstructs the roots of configurational analysis in organization theory and organizational economics, focusing on the elements of configurational thinking that are particularly relevant to organizational design; and outlining some future prospects for a configurational theory of...

The design of a proper formalization of economic relationships, through contractual and non-contractual documents, and its interaction with informal governance, is a re-emerging issue in organization theory. In fact it is of considerable importance in an era of increasing uncertainty and risk,...

1. Sources of entrepreneurship opportunities -- 2. Entrepreneurial resources : access problems and network solutions -- 3. Entrepreneurial firms -- 4. The internal and external growth of entrepreneurial firms -- 5. Organizing entrepreneurship in established firms -- 6. Organizing environments...

Entrepreneurial opportunities -- Structural sources of opportunities -- Relational sources of opportunities -- Cognitive sources of opportunities -- Entrepreneurial resources : access problems and network solutions -- Entrepreneurial resource attraction : barriers and problems -- Networked HR --...