Bücher der Reihe Foundations and Trends (R) in Entrepreneurship

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.