Contextualizing Entrepreneurship Theory will critically review the current debate and existing literature on contexts and entrepreneurship and use this to synthesize new theoretical and methodological frameworks that point to important directions for future research.

Ted Baker is George F. Farris Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Rutgers Business School, Newark and New Brunswick, New Jersey, and Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business.

Friederike Welter is President and Managing Director of the Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn, and holds a professorship at University of Siegen, Germany.

Part I: Understanding contexts and entrepreneurship 1. Why contexts play an ever-increasing role for entrepreneurship research 2.Synthesizing the context debate in entrepreneurship research Part II: Theorizing contexts 3. Constructing contexts: enacting, talking, seeing 4. Problematizing, making choices and asking who our research serves Part III: Studying contexts 5.Some heuristics for researchers embracing a Critical Process Approach 6. Narrating and visualizing contexts Part IV: Going forward 7. Why it's hard to look back once you have embraced contexts