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Book review: An Evolutionary Approach to Entrepreneurship: Selected Essays by Howard E. Aldrich

the decision-making literature. The third subheading ‘Opportunity Exploitation’ contains four chapters on liability of newness, entrepreneurial groups, governance and socio-network theory. Finally, two chapters on the psychology of entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurship are grouped under the subheading ‘Integrative Works’. Although these chapters differ in their approach and scope, they all focus on theories and concepts commonly used in entrepreneurship research, as well as discussing their roots and historical development. While together all the chapters cover different parts of the entrepreneurial process, they should be regarded as examples of different theories rather than any complete overview. There are ample opportunities to extend this selection of chapters with additional works examining other important theories and concepts not covered by this book. Part III, ‘Economic History and Entrepreneurship Research’, consists of four chapters. This part differs from the rest of the book by taking an economic history perspective. Landström and Lohrke argue that economic history has been neglected for a long time in entrepreneurship research, and thus they aim to reintroduce interest in this perspective. The first chapter gives a detailed overview of the use of historical reasoning in the development of entrepreneurship as a field of research, while the remaining three chapters provide examples of the use of historical reasoning to examine entrepreneurship in different contexts: Great Britain, Sweden and East Asia, respectively. The strength of an edited book like this is that it draws together contributions from a diverse set of well-known and competent scholars. The trade-off is that these contributions do not necessarily build on each other. In this book there is no explicit link between the overview of the history of entrepreneurship research provided in Part I, and the specific theories and concepts scrutinised by the chapters in Part II. Moreover, Part III stands out from the rest of the book with a different perspective. Hence, the different chapters provide interesting examples or pieces of the puzzle, but the reader will not get a complete overview from reading all the chapters. I regard this more of a limitation than a weakness of the book, because many trade-offs would be needed to make a complete overview. Providing many high-quality examples illustrates the diversity of perspectives and approaches which makes entrepreneurship such an exciting field. To conclude, I think this book makes an important contribution to entrepreneurship research in at least two ways. First, it shows in a very convincing way the importance of history to our current understanding of entrepreneurship and the theories used in this field. Second, in Part II the chapters actually examine the roots and history of several important theories. Many of the book’s chapters should be essential reading for anyone using the specific theories examined, and reading the whole book is likely to provide most entrepreneurship researchers with a broader perspective of the field. Landström and Lohrke aimed to create an increased awareness that history matters in entrepreneurship research, and I believe that they have accomplished this aim in a very convincing way.