Bücher der Reihe Foundations and Trends (R) in Entrepreneurship

Examines high-growth firms, also known as "Gazelles", which have become critical to net job creation and economic growth. The book analyses how the institutional framework - the "rules of the game" - affects such firms, taking the theory of competence blocs as a point of departure.

Lists the seminal and pioneering research efforts conducted by a limited group of scholars from different disciplines that challenged traditional thought on small business and entrepreneurship - these pioneers and their specific contributions transformed our thinking about entrepreneurs.

Offers an introductory, non-technical overview of what economics adds to our understanding of entrepreneurship. The author identifies issues that can be resolved using economic analysis, and presents the theoretical and empirical models that form the intellectual foundations of the economics of entrepreneurship.

Provides a systematic and thematic review of research on returnee entrepreneurs. The book offers a repository of research on the phenomenon and traces its emergence and development, identifies main themes to provide a conceptual mapping of the research stream, and identifies avenues for future research and new research approaches.

Examines the development of entrepreneurship as a research field by describing the modern history of entrepreneurship as a scholarly field since World War II and synthesizing the development of the field in terms of the institutionalization of entrepreneurship in the academic system.

Examines knowledge-intensive innovative entrepreneurship (KIE). This book puts forward the argument that KIE enables a modern view of entrepreneurship that links the intense use of knowledge by new ventures with an intense innovative activity related to the economy and markets.

Offers new insights about why and how we might go about contextualizing entrepreneurship research. The authors frame the issues, the progress that has been made, and the substantial challenges that remain with a view toward calling for future work that takes more of a "critical process approach".

Collects and organises the latest findings on the prevalence of various personality traits among the entrepreneurial population and their impact on venture performance covering academic work ranging from economics to psychology to management studies.

Focuses on data gathered from a large-scale, systematic survey of Stanford alumni, faculty, and selected staff in 2011 to assess the university's economic impact based on its involvement in entrepreneurship.

Focuses on the foundations laid by the early research on agglomerations, industrial districts, and industry clusters that was published in the 20th century. Chapters review the literature on agglomerations, industrial districts and industry clusters beginning with an introductory overview of Marshall's (1920) and other significant works.

Addresses the organisational design of entrepreneurial ventures. While many definitions of organisational design exist, the authors consider it as consisting of two main dimensions - the organisational structure of the firm and the human resource management practices.

Covers the rise of university technology transfer since the 1980s, as well as the economic and academic benefits that stem from the commercialization of university-discovered technologies. The book reviews existing literature regarding university technology transfer in terms of the process within the traditional linear model.

Reviews the economic and sociological literature on the topic of minority entrepreneurship. Differing approaches and their outcomes are summarized and critically probed in this monograph with the intent is to illuminate strengths and weaknesses - along with patterns of common findings - in the literature.

Provides an understanding of the economic impact of the entrepreneurial ventures of university graduates. In order to support economic growth through entrepreneurship, universities must create a culture and programs that make entrepreneurship widely accessible to students.

Surveys the literature on entrepreneurship in developing countries, which covers a wide range of issues from culture and values, institutional barriers such as financial sector development, governance and property rights, to the adequacy of education and technical skills.

High impact entrepreneurship studies the actions of individuals who respond to market opportunities by bringing inventions to market that create wealth and growth. Foundations of High Impact Entrepreneurship is the first survey of the theoretical literature on high impact entrepreneurship.

Explores the issues and provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of business failure research that has surrounded the subject over the years within the entrepreneurship literature.

Defines the structure of a decision-making process including examples, suggests a classification of experiments, explains different experimental designs, describes quality criteria of experiments, and addresses the differences between economic and psychological experiments.

Provides a thorough review of the literature on this topic and presents a model based on this literature. The book presents a model of corporate entrepreneurship based on the extant literature and research. It reviews the empirical and conceptual research that substantiates the many components of the model.

Examines the causes and consequences of changes in the incidence of entrepreneurship in the UK by focusing on the characteristics of the self-employed and how self-employment has changed over time.

This volume has two purposes - to review the extant empirical literature on small firm growth by focusing on small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) and to suggest a framework for integrating our knowledge on small firm growth to guide future research.

Takes the position that entrepreneurship has an organisational component and involves the creation of new enterprises. Thus, what distinguishes entrepreneurship from innovation is the organisational context.

Provides a critical review of the concepts and principles of social capital and social networks as applied to entrepreneurship. The authors examine interesting research questions and offer a toolbox of methods to answer them.

Provides a disciplinary perspective on the role of innovation. In particular, this volume offers several distinct disciplinary perspectives including from the academic discipline of finance, from the entrepreneurship discipline, from the management perspective, and from the marketing discipline.

Reviews the social cognition and its development to explore how progression in this broader field serves as a conceptual footing for the more specialized, microfoundation-based examination of entrepreneurial social cognition, and reviews some of the relevant work in fields that are closely related to entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking.

Takes an in-depth look at corporate governance mechanisms in entrepreneurial firms, and offers an explanation on how and why they differ from those mechanisms in large and publicly traded corporations.

Three major international research projects that track data on global institutions in most countries do not track the firm formation process and do not correlate with measures of the firm formation process. This book addresses this paradox in the economic development literature.

Reviews past research on biotechnology at different levels of analysis. The goal is to highlight important research streams that scholars have pursued over the last two decades and illustrate some key findings.

Reviews the existing empirical literature on the impacts of tax policies on entrepreneurial activity and presents an agenda for future research. The authors discuss the many ways in which researchers have measured entrepreneurship and small business activity.

Provides an overview of the current state-of-affairs in the financing of private innovations in China. While country-level innovation can take many forms, the focus is on the funding of business start-ups and entrepreneurial ventures.