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

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English
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Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2011.
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xvi, 495 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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    Elgar original reference [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "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.
    Bibliographic references
    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 ((hbk.))
    • 1845424794
    • 9780857935939 ((pbk.))
    • 0857935933 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2010929024
    OCLC
    651916613
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