The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship

by Casson, Mark; Yeung, Bernard; Basu, Anuradha; Wadeson, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9780199546992
• ISBN10: 0199546991
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Entrepreneurship has always been a key factor in economic growth, innovation, and the development of firms and businesses. More recently, new technologies, the waning of the "old economy", globalization, changing cultures and popular attitudes, and new policy stances have further highlighted the importance of entrepreneurship and enterprise. Entrepreneurship is now a dynamic and expanding area of research, teaching, and debate, but there has been no standard reference work which is suitable for both established scholars and new researchers. This book fills that gap. All the major aspects of entrepreneurship are covered, including: * the start-up and growth of firms, * financing and venture capital, * innovation, technology and marketing, * women entrepreneurs, * ethnic entrepreneurs, * migration, * small firm policy, * the economic and social history of entrepreneurship. This is a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art research in entrepreneurship, written by an international team of leading scholars, and will be an essential reference for academics and policy makers, as well as being suitable for use on masters courses and doctoral programs.

Author Biography

Mark Casson is Professor of Economics at the University of Reading. His publications include The Entrepreneur (1982; new edition, 2002), Entrepreneurship and Business Culture (1995) and Enterprise and Leadership (2000). He has contributed articles on entrepreneurship to the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, the International Encyclopaedia of Social Science, the Fortune Dictionary of Economics and the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Economic History. His most recent work focuses on links between entrepreneurship and theories of the firm. Bernard Yeung is Abraham Krasnoff Professor of Global Business, Economics and Strategy, Stern School of Business, New York University. He was Vice-President of the Academy of International Business, 2000-2002. He has published widely at the interface of economics, finance and strategy, with special reference to SME performance, family business, corporate finance, capital market functionality, and foreign direct investment. He edited Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in the Global Economy (1999) with Zoltan Acs. Anuradha Basu is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director, Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship, Lucas Graduate School of Business, San Jose State University, California, and formerly Visiting Scholar, Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform, Stanford University (2002-3). She has published widely on Asian business, and on ethnic minority businesses in the UK. She was a member of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office UK India Consultative Group (2001-2). Nigel Wadeson is lecturer in Economics at the University of Reading. He has published on decision making, the firm, and entrepreneurship in a range of books and journals. He teaches entrepreneurship and small business economics at masters level. He spent several years working in entrepreneurial ventures in the IT industry and has also acted as a consultant involved in high-level government policy work.

Table of Contents

Mark Casson, Bernard Yeung, Anuradha Basu and Nigel Wadeson: Introduction

Theory and History

Theories of Entrepreneurship: Historical Development and Critical Assessment

Entrepreneurship and Evolution

Cognitive Aspects of Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship and Marketing

Historical Biographies of Entrepreneurs

Small Firms

Determinants of Small Firm Survival and Growth

Start-ups and Entry Barriers: SME Population Dynamics

Definitions, Diversity and Development: Key Debates in Family Business Research

Evaluating SME Policies and Programmes: Technical and Political Dimensions

Innovation

Entrepreneurship, Growth and Restructuring

Innovation in Large Firms

Entrepreneurship, Technology and Schumpeterian Innovation: Entrants and Incumbents

Finance

Venture Capital

Corporate Venture Capital: Past Evidence and Future Directions

Employment, Self-Employment and Buy-Outs

Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and the Labour Market

Habitual Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship and Management Buy-Outs

Social and Cultural Aspects

Social Dimensions of Entrepreneurship

Institutional Obstacles to Entrepreneurship

Ethnic and Minority Enterprise

Migration of Entrepreneurs

Women Entrepreneurs

Enterprise Culture

Spatial and International Dimensions

Regional Development: Clusters and Districts

International Expansion: Foreign Direct Investment by SMEs

Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies

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