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| Robert Blackburn | Kingston University, UK |
| Candida G Brush | Babson College |
| © 2008 | 2248 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd |
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| Hardcover | ISBN: | 9781412934374 | £750.00 | |
| VOLUME I | |
| PART ONE: SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND THEORY DEVELOPMENT | |
| The Developing Domain of Entrepreneurship and Small Business | |
| Entrepreneurship Research in Emergence | L Busenitz, G P West, D Shepherd, T Nelson, G N Chandler & A Zacharakis |
| Past Trends and Future Directions | |
| Is There an Elephant in Entrepreneurship? Blind Assumptions in Theory Development | W B Gartner |
| The Adolescence of Entrepreneurship Research | M B Low |
| Specification and Purpose | |
| The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research | S Shane & S Venkataraman |
| The Focus of Entrepreneurial Research | D Ucbasaran, P Westhead & M Wright |
| Contextual and Process Issues | |
| PART TWO: RESEARCH APPROACHES | |
| Methodological Issues and Debates | |
| Levels of Analysis in Entrepreneurship Research | P Davidsson & J Wiklund |
| Current Research Practice and Suggestions for the Future | |
| Working in the Field | R Holliday |
| Researching Entrepreneurship through Phenomenological Inquiry | J Cope |
| Philosophical Issues | |
| Case Study Method in Small Business and Entrepreneurial Research | L Perren & M Ram |
| Mapping Boundaries and Perspectives | |
| Discourses and Critiques of the Field | |
| New Meanings for Entrepreneurs | U Hytti |
| From Risk-Taking Heroes to Safe-Seeking Professionals | |
| Mythicizing and Reification in Entrepreneurial Discourse | J O Ogbor |
| Ideaology - Critique of Entrepreneurial Studies | |
| Government Discourses on Entrepreneurship | L Perren & P Jennings |
| Issues of Subjugation and Power | |
| PART THREE: POPULATIONS OF ENTREPRENEURS | |
| Owner-Managers and Entrepreneurs | |
| Differences Between Entrepreneurs and Managers in Large Organizations | L Busenitz & J Barner |
| Biases and Heuristics in Strategic Decision-Making | |
| Differentiating Entrepreneurs from Small Business Owners | J W Carland, F Hoy, W R Boulton & J A C Carland |
| A Conceptualization | |
| The Entrepreneurial Personality | E Chell |
| A Few Ghosts Laid to Rest | |
| A Psychosocial Cognitive Model of Employment Status Choice | J Katz |
| Female Entrepreneurship and Feminist Perspectives | |
| Why Research on Women Entrepreneurs Needs New Directions | H Ahl |
| Time for a Change? Women's Accounts of the Move from Organizational Careers to Self-Employment | M Mallon & L Cohen |
| A Gendered Perspective on Organizational Creation | B J Bird & C G Brush |
| Research on Women Business Owners | C Brush |
| Past Trends, a New Perspective and Future Directions | |
| A Theoretical Overview and Extension of Research on Sex, Gender, and Entrepreneurship | E M Fischer, A R Reuber & L S Dyke |
| Feminist Insights on Gendered Work | K. Mirchandani |
| New Directions in Research on Women and Entrepreneurship | |
| Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Businesses | |
| Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship | H E Aldrich & R Waldinger |
| Ethnic Minority Business Support | G Barrett, T Jones & D McEvoy |
| Theoretical Discourse in Britain and North America | |
| VOLUME II | |
| PART THREE: POPULATIONS OF ENTREPRENEURS (CONTINUED) | |
| Continues from Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Businesses | |
| Minority Business Access to Mainstream Markets | T Bates |
| The Absence of African-American Owned Business | R Fairlie |
| An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self-Employment | |
| Apprentice Entrepreneurs? Ethnic Minority Workers in the Independent Restaurant Sector | M Ram, T Abbas, B Sanghera, G Barlow & T Jones |
| Outsiders' Business | J Rath & R Kloosterman |
| A Critical Review of Research on Immigrant Entrepreneurship | |
| Family Business | |
| The Pervasive Effects of Family on Entrepreneurship | H E Aldrich & J E Cliff |
| Toward a Family Embeddedness Perspective | |
| Trends and Directions in the Development of a Strategic Management Theory of the Family Firm | J J Chrisman, J H Chua & P Sharma |
| Help One Another, Use One Another | A Stewart |
| Toward an Anthropology of Family Business | |
| International Comparisons | |
| The Normative Context for Women's Participation in Entrepreneurship | C Baughn, B L Chua & K E Neupert |
| A Multi-Country Study | |
| The Sociocultural Environment for Entrepreneurship | T M Begley & W Tan |
| A Comparison Between East Asian and Anglo-Saxon Countries | |
| Entrepreneurship and its Determinants in a Cross-Country Setting | A Freytag & R Thurik |
| Cross-National Comparisons of the Variation in New Firm Formation Rates | P D Reynolds, D J Storey & P Westhead |
| PART FOUR: FORMS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP | |
| Social Enterprise | |
| Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship | J Austin, H Stevenson & J Wei-Skillern |
| Same, Different or Both? | |
| Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship | E Chell |
| Towards a Convergent Theory of the Entrepreneurial Process | |
| Social Entrepreneurship Research | J Mair & I Marti |
| A Source of Explanation, Prediction, and Delight | |
| Franchising | |
| Why Do Firms Use Franchising as an Entrepreneurial Strategy? A Meta-Analysis | J Coombs & D Ketchen |
| Multi-Unit Franchising | P J Kauffman & R P Dant |
| Growth and Management Issues | |
| Colas, Shakers and Burgers | J Stanworth & J Curran |
| Self-Employment | |
| Self-Employment Entry Across Industry Groups | T Bates |
| Does Entrepreneurship Pay? An Empirical Analysis of the Returns to Self-Employment | B Hamilton |
| Self-Employment Career Dynamics | B Granger, J Stanworth & C Stanworth |
| The Case of `Unemployment Push' in UK Book Publishing | |
| Self-Employment | D G Blanchflower |
| More May Not be Better | |
| VOLUME III | |
| PART FOUR: FORMS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP (CONTINUED) | |
| Entrepreneurship and Small Firms in Transition and Developing Economies | |
| The Growth of the Firm in Planned Economies in Transition | M W Peng & P Heath |
| Institutions, Organizations, and Strategic Choice | |
| Self-Employment in the Era of the New Economic Model in Latin America | M J Pisani & J A Paán |
| A Case Study of Nicaragua | |
| New Private Enterprises in Three Transitional Contexts | K Robert & C Zhou |
| Central Europe, the Former Soviet Union and China | |
| The Distinctiveness of Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies | D Smallbone & F Welter |
| Globalization and Internationalization | |
| Effects of Age at Entry, Knowledge Intensity and Imitabilty on International Growth | E Autio, H Sapienza & J Almeida |
| Small Firm Dynamism in East Asia | F Iqbal & S Urata |
| An Introductory Overview | |
| Internationalisation: Conceptualizing an Entrepreneurial Process of Behaviour in Time | M V Jones & N E Coviello |
| Defining International Entrepreneurship and Modelling the Speed of Internationalization | B M Oviatt & P P McDougall |
| PART FIVE: ENTREPRENEURIAL PROCESSES AND ACTIVITIES | |
| New Venture Creation | |
| Improvising Firms | T Baker, A S Miner & D T Eesley |
| Bricolage, Account Giving and Improvisational Competencies in the Founding Process | |
| Properties of Emerging Organizations | C G Brush, L Edelman & T Manolova |
| An Empirical Test | |
| Exploring Start-Up Event Sequences | N Carter, W B Gartner & Reynolds |
| Competing Models of Entrepreneurial Intentions | N F Krueger, M D Reilly & A L Carsrud |
| Challenges of Development, Growth and Performance | |
| A Multi-Dimensional Model Venture Growth | J R Baum, E A Locke & K G Smith |
| Strategic Management of Small Firms in Hostile and Benign Environments | J G Covin & D P Slevin |
| Organizational Growth | K Eisenhardt & C Schoonhoven |
| Linking Founding Team, Strategy, Environment and Growth Among US Semiconductor Ventures, 1978-1988 | |
| An Examination of the Influence of Industry Structure on Eight Alternative Measures of New Venture Performance for High Potential Independent New Vent | K C Robinson |
| Business Planning | |
| Does Business Planning Facilitate the Development of New Ventures? | F Delmar & S Shane |
| What do Investors Look for in a Business Plan? A Comparison of the Investment Criteria of Bankers, Venture Capitalists and Business Angels | C Mason & M Stark |
| Institutional Forces and the Written Business Plan | B Honig & T Karlsson |
| VOLUME IV | |
| PART FIVE: ENTREPRENEURIAL PROCESSES AND ACTIVITIES (CONTINUED) | |
| Finance and Financial Management | |
| The Economics of Small Business Finance | A N Berger & G F Udell |
| The Roles of Private Equity and Debt Markets in the Financial Growth Cycle | |
| Competition, Small Business Financing and Discrimination | K S Cavalluzzo, L C Cavalluzzo & J D Wolken |
| Evidence From a New Survey | |
| Patterns of Venture Capital Funding | P G Greene, C G Brush, M M Hart & P Saparito |
| Is Gender a Factor? | |
| Innovation and Regional Growth in Small High Technology Firms | R P Oakey |
| Evidence from Britain and the USA | |
| Access to Finance by Ethnic Minority Businesses in the UK | D Smallbone, M Ram, D Deakins & R Baldock |
| Human Resource Management and Employment Relations | |
| Managing Human Resources in Small Organizations | M S Cardon & C E Stevens |
| What Do We Know? | |
| Human Resource Management in Smaller Firms | S Marlow |
| A Contradiction in Terms? | |
| A New Look at Job Satisfaction in the Small Firm | J Curran & J Stanworth |
| Regulation of Work in Small Firms | C Moule |
| What's So Special about Small Firms? Developing and Integrated Approach to Analysing Small Firm Industrial Relations | R Barrett & A Rainnie |
| Praising Caesar Not Burying Him | M Ram & P Edwards |
| What We Know About Employment Relations in Small Firms | |
| Marketing and Marketing Strategies | |
| The Evolution of Marketing in Small Firms | D J Carson |
| An Investigation of Marketing Practice by Firm Size | N E Coviello, R J Brodie & H J Munro |
| Coping with the Market | R Scase & R Goffee |
| Collaboration and Performance in Foreign Markets | R C Shrader |
| The Case of Young High-Technology Manufacturing Firms | |
| Networking and External Relations | |
| The Contribution of Business Associations to SMEs | R J Bennett & M Ramsden |
| Strategy, Bundling or Reassurance? | |
| The Institutional Embeddedness of Local Inter-Firm Networks | B Johannisson, M Ramírez-Pasillas & G Karlsson |
| A Leverage for Business Creation | |
| The Role, Use and Activation of Strong and Weak Network Ties | S L Jack |
| A Qualitative Analysis | |
| Social Structure and Competition in Inter-Firm Networks | B Uzzi |
| The Paradox of Embeddedness | |
| VOLUME V | |
| PART SIX: OUTCOMES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP | |
| Contributions to the Economy | |
| Capitalism and Democracy in the 21st Century | D Anderson & R Thurik |
| From the Managed to the Entrepreneurial Economy | |
| Entrepreneurship Capital and Economic Performance | D Audretsch & M Keilbach |
| Entrepreneurship | W J Baumol |
| Productive, Unproductive and Destructive | |
| Self-Employment Wealth and Job Creation | A E Burke |
| The Roles of Gender, Non-Pecuniary Motivation and Entrepreneurial Ability | |
| Linking Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth | S Wennekers & R Thurik |
| Public Policy and State Intervention | |
| What is Small Business Policy in the UK For? Evaluation and Assessing Small Business Policies | J Curran |
| Does More Mean Worse? Three Decades of Enterprise Policy in the Tees Valley | F J Greene, K Mole & D J Storey |
| SME Policy, Academic Research and the Growth of Ignorance, Mythical Concepts, Myths, Assumptions, Rituals and Confusions | A Gibb |
| The Effect of Business Regulations on Nascent and Young Business Entrepreneurship | A van Stel, D J Storey & A R Thurik |
| Entrepreneurship, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and Public Policies | D J Storey |
| Entrepreneurship Education | |
| Opportunity Identification and Its Role in the Entrepreneurial Classroom: A Pedagogical Approach and Empirical Test | D R DeTienne & G N Chandler |
| The Theoretical Side of Teaching Entrepreneurship | J Fiet |
| The Chronology and Intellectual Trajectory of American Entrepreneurship Education 1876-1999 | J Katz |
| A Process Model for Entrepreneurship Education and Development | C Leitch & R Harrison |
| Towards a Conceptual Understanding of Entrepreneurial Learning | D Rae & M Carswell |
| Business Exit and Transfer | |
| Redefining Business Success | B Headd |
| Distinguishing Between Closure and Failure | |
| Falling Forward | R McGrath |
| Real Options Reasoning and Entrepreneurial Failure | |
| Learning the Hard Way | D Stokes & R A Blackburn |
| The Lessons of Owner-Managers Who Have Closed Their Businesses |
