Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research: An Interdisciplinary Survey and IntroductionZoltán J. Ács, David B. Audretsch Springer Science & Business Media, 2003 - 555 pages Interest and attention to entrepreneurship has exploded, 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. Firstly, the explosion of new findings and insights, both theoretically and empirically. Secondly, 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. 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. |
Contents
Editors Introduction | 3 |
Entrepreneurship The Past the Present the Future | 21 |
Risk and Uncertainty | 37 |
Innovation and Technological Change | 55 |
Market Processes and Entrepreneurial Studies | 81 |
The Cognitive Psychology of Entrepreneurship | 105 |
Three Views of Entrepreneurial Opportunity | 141 |
The IndividualOpportunity Nexus | 161 |
Equity Financing | 267 |
Small Business and Debt Finance | 299 |
The Social Psychology of Entrepreneurial Behaviour | 331 |
Entrepreneurship as Social Construction A Multilevel Evolutionary Approach | 359 |
Entrepreneurship Networks and Geographies | 401 |
The Impact of Entrepreneurship on Economic Growth | 437 |
Entrepreneurship Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and Public Policies | 473 |
Connecting the Study of Entrepreneurship and Theories of Capitalist Progress An Epilogue | 515 |
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References to this book
Cognitive Approaches to Entrepreneurship Research Jerome A. Katz,Dean A. Shepherd No preview available - 2003 |