The Economics of Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship

by Simon C. Parker

• ISBN13: 9780521828130
• ISBN10: 0521828139
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

As self-employment and entrepreneurship become increasingly important in our modern economies, Simon Parker provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the field. Bringing together considerable disparate literature, Parker offers an up-to-date assessment of new research findings. Key issues addressed include raising finance; job creation by the self-employed; growth and exit behavior of new ventures; and the role of government policy in promoting self-employment and entrepreneurship. This book will serve as an essential reference guide to researchers, students and teachers of entrepreneurship.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Part I. Entrepreneurship: Theories, Characteristics and Evidence: 2. Theories of entrepreneurship

3. Characteristics of entrepreneurs and the environment for entrepreneurship

4. Ethnic minority and female entrepreneurship

Part II. Financing Entrepreneurship: Debt Finance for Entrepreneurial Ventures

5. Debt finance for new start-ups

6. Other sources of finance

7. Evidence of credit rationing

Part III. Running and Terminating an Enterprise: 8. Labour demand and supply

9. Growth, innovation and exit

Part IV. Government Policy: 10. Government policy: issues and evidence

Part V. Conclusion: 11. Conclusions.