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Title

World encyclopedia of entrepreneurship / edited by Léo-Paul Dana.

Publication

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Dana, Leo Paul.

Description

xvi, 495 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"This comprehensive reference work, written by some of the most eminent academics in the field, contains entries on numerous aspects of entrepreneurship. Topics covered include : business angels, Chinese clan entrepreneurship, criminal entrepreneurship, defining the entrepreneur, employee start-ups, entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship policy, ethics, ethnic minority entrepreneurship, family business, global entrepreneurship and transnationalism, indigenous entrepreneurship, international entrepreneurship, internationalization, involuntary entrepreneurship, Islam and entrepreneurship, mature-age entrepreneurs, pastorialism, religion as an explanatory variable for entrepreneurship, rural entrepreneurship, self-efficacy, small island entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and venture capital. There are also entries on individuals including Conrad Hilton, Howard Hughes and Joseph Schumpeter."--Back cover.

Series Statement

Elgar original reference

Uniform Title

Elgar original reference.

Subject

• Entrepreneurship > Encyclopedias
• Esprit d'entreprise
• Industry
• Entrepreneurship
• Entreprenörskap
• Entrepreneurship > encyclopedia

Genre/Form

• Encyclopedia
• encyclopedias.
• Encyclopedias.
• Encyclopédies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Business angels / Colin M. Mason -- Chinese clan entrepreneurship / David Leong -- Configuration approach in entrepreneurship research / Rainer Harms, Sascha Kraus -- Criminal entrepreneurship / Petter Gottschalk -- Defining the entrepreneur / Louis Jacques Filion -- Economics and entrepreneurship / William J. Baumol -- Employee start-ups / Andreas Koch -- Entrepreneurial decision-making / Jean Bonnet, Pascal Cussy, Thomas Brau -- Entrepreneurial desirability / Yvon Gasse -- Entrepreneurial orientation / Thomas H. Hawver, Jeffrey M. Pollack -- Entrepreneurship education / Alain Fayolle -- Entrepreneurship in the ethnic ownership economy / Ivan H. Light -- Entrepreneurship policy / David B. Audretsch -- Environment for entrepreneurship / Jean J. Obrecht -- Ethics and entrepreneurship / Alan E. Singer -- Ethnic minority entrepreneurship / Léo-Paul Dana, Michael Morris -- Evolution of entrepreneurship: toward stewardship-based economics / Raymond W.Y. Kao, Rowland R. Kao, Kenneth R. Kao -- Exit / Karl Wennberg -- Family business / Sascha Kraus, Reiner Harms -- Feasibility of entrepreneurship / Yvon Gasse -- Geographic proximity in entrepreneurship / Udo Staber -- Global entrepreneurship and transnationalism / Ivan H. Light -- Historical context of entrepreneurship / Mark Casson -- Hotelier entrepreneur / Kirk Frith -- Howard Hughes / Teresa E. Dana -- The Hudson's Bay Company / Lynn Ferguson -- Implicit theories of entrepreneurship / Jeffrey M. Pollack -- Indigenous entrepreneurship as a function of cultural perceptions of opportunity / Léo-Paul Dana, Robert Brent Anderson -- Interdependent innovation / Adam M. Kleinbaum -- Intermediated internationalization theory / Zoltan J. Acs, Siri Terjesen -- International entrepreneurship / Benjamin M. Oviatt, Vladislav R. Maksimov, Patricia P. McDougall -- Internationalization of European entrepreneurs / Léo-Paul Dana [and others] -- Involuntary entrepreneurship / Teemu Kautonen [and others] -- Islam and entrepreneurship / Wafica Ali Ghoul -- Learning business and planning / P. Kyrö, M. Niemi -- Mature-age entrepreneurship / Paull C. Weber, Michael T. Schaper -- Pastoralism as a form of entrepreneurship / A. Allan Degen -- Process / Yvon Gasse -- A quantum-holographic approach to the psychophysiology of intuitive action / Raymond Trevor Bradley, Dana Tomasino -- Regional context of entrepreneurship / Dieter Bögenhold, Uwe Fachinger -- Religion as an explanatory variable for entrepreneurship / Léo-Paul Dana -- Rural entrepreneurship / Gerard McElwee, Andrew Atherton -- Schumpeter, creative destruction and entrepreneurship / Dieter Bögenhold -- Self-efficacy / Jeffrey M. Pollack -- Signalling Uschi Backes-Gellner, Arndt Werner -- Simulation games / Christian Lendner, Jutta Huebscher -- Small island entrepreneurship / Godfrey Baldacchino -- Social entrepreneurship / Ana Maria Peredo -- Strategy and entrepreneurship / Robert T. Hamilton -- Teams / Leon Schjoedt, Sascha Kraus -- Ten percenters: fast-growth middle-market firms in Britain / David Storey -- Territorial entrepreneurship / Pierre-André Julien -- Third-world entrepreneurship / Peter Kilby -- Trust entrepreneurship / Friederike Welter -- Venture capital / Jeffrey M. Pollack, Thomas H. Hawver.

ISBN

• 9781845424794
• 1845424794
• 9780857935939
• 0857935933

LCCN

2010929024

OCLC

• ocn651916613
• 651916613
• SCSB-14310174

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library