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This second edition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the field of entrepreneurship, principally from an economics perspective.
List of contents
1. Introduction; Part I. Selection: 2. Individual-level theories of entrepreneurship; 3. Regional- and macroeconomic-level theories of entrepreneurship; 4. Empirical methods in entrepreneurship research; 5. Individual-level determinants of entrepreneurship; 6. Evidence of regional and macro-level determinants of entrepreneurship; 7. Ethnic entrepreneurship and immigration; 8. Female entrepreneurship; Part II. Financing: 9. Debt finance for entrepreneurial ventures; 10. Venture capital and business angel finance; 11. Other sources of entrepreneurial finance; 12. Wealth and entrepreneurship; Part III. Performance: 13. Entrepreneurial venture growth; 14. Rent seeking, entrepreneurial effort and employment creation; 15. Entrepreneurs' incomes and returns to human capital; 16. Innovation; 17. Venture survival and entrepreneurial exit; Part IV. Public Policy: 18. Principles of entrepreneurship policy; 19. Finance and innovation policies; 20. Regulation; 21. Taxation, entrepreneurship support programs and indirect government policies.
About the author
Simon C. Parker is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario, and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA), in Bonn, Germany. He is Field Editor for the Journal of Business Venturing, Co-Editor at the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, and on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Review. He has published over eighty peer-reviewed articles in economics, entrepreneurship and management journals.
Summary
The second edition is designed to be used both as a textbook for specialist degree courses on the economics of entrepreneurship, and as a reference text for academic research in the field. Gives an in-depth treatment of the determinants of entrepreneurship and its outcomes, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of pertinent literature.
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Advance praise: 'Simon C. Parker's The Economics of Entrepreneurship has long been a fundamental reading for entrepreneurship researchers and students. In this new edition, we are brought bang up to date, with important new material on financing, notably venture/angel capital and crowdfunding as well as innovation. Longstanding strengths of the book, for example concerning individual determinants of entrepreneurship and empirical methods, have also been significantly upgraded. This new edition will become the standard reference in the field.' Saul Estrin, London School of Economics and Political Science
