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What characterizes the phenomenon of (small) firm growth, and how can it best be studied? Why and how do firms grow – and why don’t they? Is firm growth externally determined or the result of managers’ visions and actions? What are the different paths that firms follow in order to achieve high growth? Is growth evidence of entrepreneurship – and is growth always desirable? In this book, three leading scholars have integrated some of their most important research in … More >>

Entrepreneurship and the Growth of Firms

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In this unique and timely volume, Scott Shane systematically explains the formation of university spinoff companies and their role in the commercialization of university technology and wealth creation in the United States and elsewhere. The importance of university spinoff activity is discussed and the historical development of university spinoff ventures is traced over time…. More >>

Academic Entrepreneurship: University Spinoffs and Wealth Creation

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Corporate reengineering is approaching its limits, and constructive destruction has shifted from the broad industrial level to the level of individual firms. As a result, says Mourdoukoutas, a new business strategy and organization are needed, one he calls “collective entrepreneurship.” He sees the new firm as an enterprise without internal or external borders, one in which all its members share directly in the rewards of success and the punishments of failure. This… More >>

Collective Entrepreneurship in a Globalizing Economy

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Covering all of the cutting-edge topics in Entrepreneurship today, this book represents a progressive treatment of the major issues for the subject over the next decade. Providing a current perspective on a series of open questions, it also provides recommendations for further development. Entrepreneurship provides a contemporary exposition on entrepreneurship for entrepreneurs and their teachers…. More >>

Entrepreneurship: The Way Ahead

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“Finally, a study that offers critical new insights into the complex issue of the evolution of global high-tech industries. This scholarly and painstakingly researched study of the flat panel display industry breaks new ground and represents a clear departure from traditional economic analysis. The authors have developed a fundamentally new and managerially relevant perspective by combining analysis of knowledge creation and industry evolution_people, cross national… More >>

Managing New Industry Creation: Global Knowledge Formation and Entrepreneurship in High Technology

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Despite almost four centuries of black independent self-help enterprises, the agency of African Americans in attempting to forge their own economic liberation through business activities and entrepreneurship has remained noticeably absent from the historical record. Juliet Walker’s award-winning History of Black Business in America is the only source that provides a detailed study of the continuity, diversity, and multiplicity of independent self-help economic activ… More >>

The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship: Volume 1, To 1865

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Instead of deliberately pausing to take a fresh look at entrepreneurship, we continue to repeat the same errors:
•    We seek a formulaic answer, a recipe, for how to make an entrepreneurial undertaking succeed. There isn’t one.
•    We believe the story of the individual entrepreneur tells us the story of entrepreneurship. It doesn’t even come close.
•    And narrower still than looking to one story, we look to one source, one time, … More >>

A Deliberate Pause: Entrepreneurship and its Moment in Human Progress

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Fun, contemporary, and easy to read, this book conveys the excitement and reality of entrepreneurship. Coulter focuses on the actual tasks and activities of the entrepreneur—from researching venture feasibility, to launching the venture, to managing growth. KEY TOPICS Other chapter topics include the context of entrepreneurship, the details of planning and organizing the venture, and managing processes and people. For up-and-coming entrepren… More >>

Entrepreneurship in Action

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From Concept to Wall Street is the definitive guide to the new realities of venture capital. Two leading experts in venture-backed entrepreneurship offer start-to-finish coverage of the entire process: planning, teambuilding, protecting intellectual property, identifying and negotiating funding, and managing to – and through – IPOs or M+As. Drawing on immense personal experience – and the lessons of recent years – Dr. Oren Fuerst and Dr. Uri Geiger offer a complete … More >>

From Concept to Wall Street: A Complete Guide to Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

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Entrepreneurship is a phenomenon of tremendous societal importance. It is also an elusive phenomenon, and researching entrepreneurship is therefore fun, fascinating—and frustrating at times. In Researching Entrepreneurship, one of the most highly recognized entrepreneurship scholars shares in a personal and readable way his rich experience and ideas on how entrepreneurship can or should be researched. After a comprehensive treatment of entrepreneurship as societal… More >>

Researching Entrepreneurship