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Dear ENT Colleagues, 

David Obstfeld (a collaborator and colleague) has just released a new book "Getting New Things Done: Networks, Brokerage, and the Assembly of Innovative Action" published by Stanford University Press. This book is very relevant for entrepreneurship scholars as it tackles a networked-based view of how entrepreneurs orchestrate action while also attempting to bridge and extend bricolage and effectuation perspectives. 

The book also has some wonderful endorsements from scholars well known to the entrepreneurship community (e.g., Ted Baker and Phil Anderson) and from prominent scholars in the broader management community (e.g., Amy Edmondson and Steve Borgatti).  Here is Ted's endorsement of the book: "This book will quickly become essential reading for scholars and serious students of entrepreneurial action in any context. Using clear and accessible arguments, Obstfeld develops a social network-based perspective that integrates much of what we've learned about entrepreneurship over the last twenty years. A vital contribution that serves up challenges and tools for future research."

For those wishing to incorporate cutting edge networks perspectives into entrepreneurship research, I recommend you take a look at this book. I saw many of the relevant chapters prior to publication, and they are extremely meaningful and enlightening for entrepreneurship scholars. 

Also, you can get a 20% discount off the book price at the Stanford Press website (www.sup.org) with the code "NEWTHINGS".  

Kind regards, 

Greg