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Interest and attention to entrepreneurship has exploded in recent years. Yet, much of the research and scholarship has remained elusive to academics, policymakers and other researchers. This reflects two crucial aspects of the entrepreneurship literature. First has been the explosion of new findings and insights, both theoretically and empirically. Second, most of this scholarship has been rooted in traditional academic disciplines, spanning a broad spectrum of fields such as management, finance, economics, sociology and psychology. The purpose of the Handbook of Entrepreneurship is to bring together leading scholars from each of these disciplines to provide an overview of what the issues are for entrepreneurship when viewed through the lens provided by the academic disciplines as well as a synthesis about what has been learned and what questions should be high on the agenda for future research. Taken together, this Handbook will provide a roadmap to an emerging complex but intriguing field of entrepreneurship.
List of contents
Editors' Introduction.- Entrepreneurship: The Past, the Present, the Future.- Risk and Uncertainty.- Innovation and Technological Change.- Market Processes and Entrepreneurial Studies.- The Cognitive Psychology of Entrepreneurship.- Three Views of Entrepreneurial Opportunity.- The Individual-Opportunity Nexus.- Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Firm Organizing Processes.- Entrepreneurship, Business Culture and the Theory of the Firm.- Resources and Hierarchies: Intersections between Entrepreneurship and Business Strategy.- Equity Financing.- Small Business and Debt Finance.- The Social Psychology of Entrepreneurial Behaviour.- Entrepreneurship as Social Construction: A Multi-level Evolutionary Approach.- Entrepreneurship, Networks and Geographies.- The Impact of Entrepreneurship on Economic Growth.- Connecting the Study of Entrepreneurship and Theories of Capitalist Progress. An Epilogue.
