Entrepreneurship has always been a key factor in economic growth, innovation, and the development of firms and businesses. More recently, new technologies, the waning of the 'old economy', globalization, changing cultures and popular attitudes, and new policy stances have further highlighted the
importance of entrepreneurship and enterprise.
Entrepreneurship is now a dynamic and expanding area of research, teaching, and debate, but there has been no standard reference work which is suitable for both established scholars and new researchers. This book fills that gap. All the
major aspects of entrepreneurship are covered, including:
* the start-up and growth of firms,
* financing and venture capital,
* innovation, technology and marketing,
* women entrepreneurs,
* ethnic entrepreneurs,
* migration,
* small firm policy,
* the economic and social history of entrepreneurship.
This is a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art research in entrepreneurship, written by an international team of leading scholars, and will be an essential reference for academics and policy makers, as well as being suitable
for use on masters courses and doctoral programmes.
1. Mark Casson, Bernard Yeung, Anuradha Basu and Nigel Wadeson: Introduction
Part I: Theory and History
2. Martin Ricketts: Theories of Entrepreneurship: Historical Development and Critical Assessment
3. J. Stanley Metcalfe: Entrepreneurship and Evolution
4. Nigel S.
Wadeson: Cognitive Aspects of Entrepreneurship
5. Martin Carter: Entrepreneurship and Marketing
6. Tony Corley: Historical Biographies of Entrepreneurs
Part II: Small Firms
7. Robert Cressy: Determinants of Small Firm Survival and Growth
8. Zoltan Acs: Start-ups and Entry
Barriers: SME Population Dynamics
9. Carole Howorth, Mary Rose and Eleanor Hamilton: Definitions, Diversity and Development: Key Debates in Family Business Research
10. David J. Storey: Evaluating SME Policies and Programmes: Technical and Political Dimensions
Part III:
Innovation
11. David B. Audretsch and Max Keilbach: Entrepreneurship, Growth and Restructuring
12. Walter Kuemmerle: Innovation in Large Firms
13. Luca Berchicci and Chris Tucci: Entrepreneurship, Technology and Schumpeterian Innovation: Entrants and Incumbents
Part IV:
Finance
14. Robert Cressy: Venture Capital
15. Gary Dushnitsky: Corporate Venture Capital: Past Evidence and Future Directions
Part V: Employment, Self-Employment and Buy-Outs
16. Simon Parker: Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and the Labour Market
17. Deniz
Ucbasaran, Paul Westhead and Mike Wright: Habitual Entrepreneurs
18. Mike Wright and Andrew Burrows: Entrepreneurship and Management Buy-Outs
Part VI: Social and Cultural Aspects
19. Amir N. Licht and Jordan I. Siegel: Social Dimensions of Entrepreneurship
20. Kathy Fogel,
Ashton Hawk, Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung: Institutional Obstacles to Entrepreneurship
21. Anuradha Basu: Ethnic and Minority Enterprise
22. Andrew Godley: Migration of Entrepreneurs
23. Candida Brush: Women Entrepreneurs
24. Marina Della Giusta and Zella King: Enterprise
Culture
Part VII: Spatial and International Dimensions
25. Philip McCann: Regional Development: Clusters and Districts
26. Peter J. Buckley: International Expansion: Foreign Direct Investment by SMEs
27. Saul Estrin, Klaus E. Meyer and Maria Bytchkova: Entrepreneurship in
Transition Economies
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Mark Casson is Professor of Economics at the University of Reading. His publications include The Entrepreneur (1982; new edition, 2002), Entrepreneurship and Business Culture (1995) and Enterprise and Leadership (2000). He has contributed articles on entrepreneurship to the New Palgrave
Dictionary of Economics, the International Encyclopaedia of Social Science, the Fortune Dictionary of Economics and the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Economic History. His most recent work focuses on links between entrepreneurship and theories of the firm. Bernard Yeung is Abraham Krasnoff Professor of
Global Business, Economics and Strategy, Stern School of Business, New York University. He was Vice-President of the Academy of International Business, 2000-2002. He has published widely at the interface of economics, finance and strategy, with special reference to SME performance, family business,
corporate finance, capital market functionality, and foreign direct investment. He edited Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in the Global Economy (1999) with Zoltan Acs. Anuradha Basu is Associate Professor, College of Business, San Jose State University, and formerly Visiting Scholar, Center for
Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform, Stanford University (2002-3). She has published widely on Asian business, and on ethnic minority businesses in the UK. She was a member of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office UK India Consultative Group (2001-2). Nigel Wadeson is Lecturer in
Economics at the University of Reading. He has published on information costs and the theory of the firm in a number of journals. His teaching currently includes MSc courses in both Entrepreneurship and Small Business Economics. He is also an expert in Computer Science, and has several years'
experience of working in entrepreneurial ventures in the IT industry.
