Description
The SAGE Handbook of Small Business and Entrepreneurship offers state-of-the-art chapters on all aspects of this rapidly-evolving discipline. Original contributions from the best international scholars map the development of Entrepreneurship as an academic field, explore its key current debates and research methods, and also consider its future directions.
- Part One: The People and the Entrepreneurial Processes
- Part Two: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management and Organization
- Part Three: Entrepreneurial Milieu
- Part Four: Researching Small Business Entrepreneurship
This handbook will be the leading reference book for Entrepreneurship academics and researchers, as well as those from other associated disciplines including business and management, psychology, marketing, sociology and anthropology.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction - Robert Blackburn, Dirk De Clercq and Jarna Heinonen
The People and the Entrepreneurial Processes
2. Entrepreneurial Leadership: A Critical Review and Research Agenda - Claire M. Leitch and Richard T. Harrison
3. Entrepreneurial Action Research: Moving Beyond Fixed Conceptualizations - Hamid Vahidnia, H. Shawna Chen, J. Robert Mitchell and Ronald K. Mitchell
4. Pre- and post-entrepreneurship Labor Mobility of Entrepreneurs and Employees in Entrepreneurial Firms - Kristina Nyström
5. Networks and Entrepreneurship - Maura McAdam and Danny Soetanto
6. Migrant Entrepreneurship - Stephen Drinkwater
7. Entrepreneurship from a Family Business Perspective - Judith van Helvert and Mattias Nordqvist
8. Social Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship and Social Value Creation - Helen Haugh, Fergus Lyon and Bob Doherty
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management and Organization
9. Entrepreneurial Strategy: A contingency review and outlook for future research - Christian Lechner and Abeer Pervaiz
10. Perspectives on New Venture Creation - Fokko J. Eller and Michael M. Gielnik
11. New Venture Growth: Current Findings and Future Challenges - Ivan Zupic and Alessandro Giudici
12. Small Business Growth and Performance: A Review of Literature - Samuel Adomako and Kevin F. Mole
13. The Nature of Entrepreneurial Exit - Michael H. Morris, Susana Santos, Christopher Pryor and Xaver Neumeyer
14. Corporate Entrepreneurship - Bjørn Willy Åmo and Lars Kolvereid
15. Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Small Business - Mark Freel
16. Entrepreneurial Marketing In Small Enterprises: Current And Emerging Research Topics - Rosalind Jones, Sussie C. Morrish, Jonathan Deacon and Morgan P. Miles
17. Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures - Colin Mason
18. Internal Financial Management in Smaller, Entrepreneurial Businesses - Marc Cowling and Catherine Matthews
Entrepreneurial Milieu
19. Can Governments Promote Gazelles? Evidence from Denmark - Anders Hoffmann David J Storey
20. Exploring Firm-Level Effects of Regulation: Going Beyond Survey Approaches - John Kitching
21. Entrepreneurial Ecosystems - Erik Stam and Ben Spigel
22. Corporate Social Responsibility - Zhongming Wang and Yanhai Zhao
23. Bringing ’I’ into ’E’—what could it mean? Reflections on the past, present and future of International Entrepreneurship research - Niina Nummela
24. Challenges to Venture Growth in Emerging Economies - Wafa N. Almobaireek, Ahmed Alshumaimeri and Tatiana S. Manolova
25. Learning and Educational Programs for Entrepreneurs - Luke Pittaway, Louisa Huxtable and Paul Hannon
26. The Use of Case Studies in Entrepreneurship Education - Thomas M. Cooney
27. Enterprise education pedagogy and redesigning learning outcomes: Case of a public reform school - Ulla Hytti and Sirpa Koskinen
Researching Small Business and Entrepreneurship
28. In Search of Causality in Entrepreneurship Research: Quantitative Methods in Corporate Entrepreneurship - Aaron F McKenny, Miles A Zachary, Jeremy C Short and David J Ketchen Jnr
29. Qualitative Research in Entrepreneurship - Anne Kovalainen
30. Gender and entrepreneurship at the crossroads: Where do you want to go? - Cristina Díaz-García
31. Making Entrepreneurship Research Matter: The Challenging Journey to An Academic Identity - Bengt Johannisson
32. Critical Perspectives in Entrepreneurship Research - Seppo Poutanen
