This second edition of a classic reference work, written by some of the most eminent academics in the field, contains over 30 per cent more entries on entrepreneurship. Comprehensive in scope, it includes topics from business angels, to export services to family business and uncertainty and venture capital. There are also entries on individuals including George Eastman, Howard Hughes, Joseph Schumpeter and Walt Disney. Providing its readers with a unique point of reference, as well as stimulus for further research, this Encyclopedia is an indispensable tool for anyone interested in entrepreneurship, particularly students, scholars and researchers. Bringing together preeminent international scholars in the field, the updated second edition of this comprehensive Encyclopedia offers detailed analyses of critical concepts in entrepreneurship by the leading thinkers in the field.
This illuminating resource contains 76 entries addressing the intricacies of global entrepreneurship in the 21st century. Covering topics including blockchain technology, digital entrepreneurship, ethical concerns for entrepreneurs, mental health in entrepreneurship, rural entrepreneurship and sustainable entrepreneurship, this authoritative reference work sheds light on the multilayered entrepreneurial world, providing crucial insights into navigating the nuances of the New Economy. Providing readers with a unique guide for the contemporary business age, this Encyclopedia is an indispensable point of reference for scholars and researchers exploring new research opportunities as well as students in need of a thorough overview of the key concepts in the field. It will also benefit practitioners searching for advanced understanding of complex entrepreneurship topics.
Author(s): Léo-Paul Dana
Edition: 2
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Year: 2021
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 697
Tags: Entrepreneurship: Encyclopedias; Entrepreneurship
Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
List of contributors
Foreword
Foreword
Preface
1 Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs
2 Compensatory entrepreneurship
3 Coopetition as an entrepreneurial strategy: focus on the wine sector
4 Corporate entrepreneurship
5 Corporate entrepreneurship: new insights
6 Corporate venturing
7 Cross-disciplinary entrepreneurship education
8 Defining the entrepreneur
9 Digital entrepreneurship
10 Digital platforms
11 Disabled entrepreneurs
12 Early foreign market entries of new technology-based firms
13 Economics and entrepreneurship
14 Employee start-ups
15 Entrepreneurial exporters
16 Entrepreneurial hubris
17 Entrepreneurial learning
18 Entrepreneurial networks
19 Entrepreneurial sense-making, sense-breaking and sense-demanding
20 Entrepreneurs in the fashion industry
21 Entrepreneurs versus entrepreneurial
22 Entrepreneurship and blockchains
23 Entrepreneurship as a competence
24 Entrepreneurship in biotechnology
25 Entrepreneurship in the ethnic ownership economy
26 Entrepreneurship in the printing sector
27 Entrepreneurship policy
28 Environment for entrepreneurship
29 Ethics and entrepreneurship
30 Ethnic minority entrepreneurship
31 Evolution of entrepreneurship and its role in stewardship-based economics
32 Exit
33 Export support services for SME internationalization
34 Family business
35 Financial issues of entrepreneurship
36 George Eastman: pioneer of industrial R&D
37 Global entrepreneurship and transnationalism
38 Growth
39 Historical context of entrepreneurship
40 Howard Hughes
41 The Hudson’s Bay Company
42 Humane entrepreneurship
43 Incubators and support systems for business creation: the French model
44 Incubators: how they adapt to a changing world
45 Indigenous entrepreneurship as a function of cultural perceptions of opportunity
46 Innovation systems and entrepreneurship research
47 Innovative behavior
48 Intermediated internationalization theory
49 International entrepreneurship
50 Internationalization support ecosystems
51 Involuntary entrepreneurship
52 Islamic entrepreneurship
53 Learning business planning
54 Mature-age entrepreneurship
55 Mental health in entrepreneurship
56 Open innovation and entrepreneurship
57 Opportunities approach to international entrepreneurship
58 Organizational processes as foundations of dynamic capabilities
59 Pastoralism as a form of entrepreneurship among Negev Bedouin
60 Poverty and entrepreneurship in developed economies
61 Religion as an explanatory variable for entrepreneurship
62 Research methodology in entrepreneurship
63 Rural entrepreneurship
64 Schumpeter, creative destruction and entrepreneurship
65 Science parks
66 Small island entrepreneurship
67 Social entrepreneurship
68 Sports and entrepreneurship
69 Sustainable entrepreneurship
70 Teams
71 Transnational entrepreneurship
72 Trust and entrepreneurship
73 Uncertainty in innovation
74 University spin-offs
75 Venture capital
76 Walt Disney
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