Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research

Part 1. Introduction to Entrepreneurship

1. Introduction to the Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research
Zoltan J. Acs, David B. Audretsch

2. Entrepreneurship: The Past, the Present, the Future
Arnold Cooper

Part 2. The Entrepreneurial Process

3. Risk and Uncertainty
Sharon Gifford

4. Innovation and Technological Change
Zoltan J. Acs, David B. Audretsch

5. Market Processes and Entrepreneurial Studies
Roger Koppl, Maria Minniti

Part 3. Opportunity and the Nature of Exploitation

6. The Cognitive Psychology of Entrepreneurship
Norris F. Krueger

7. Three Views of Entrepreneurial Opportunity
Saras D. Sarasvathy, Nicholas Dew, S. Ramakrishna Velamuri, Sankaran Venkataraman

8. The Individual-Opportunity Nexus
Scott Shane, Jonathan Eckhardt

Part 4. The Emergence of New Ventures

9. Entrepreneurial Behavior and Firm Organizing Processes
William B. Gartner, Nancy M. Carter

10. Entrepreneurship, Business Culture and the Theory of the Firm
Mark Casson

11. Resources and Hierarchies: Intersections between Entrepreneurship and Strategy
Sharon A. Alvarez

Part 5. Financing the New Venture

12. Equity Financing
Paul Gompers, Joshua Lerner

13. Small Business and Debt Finance
Allen N. Berger, Gregory F. Udell

Part 6. The Social Context

14. The Social Psychology of Entrepreneurial Behaviour
Kelly G. Shaver

15. Entrepreneurship as Social Construction: A Multi-level Evolutionary Approach
Howard E. Aldrich, Martha Martinez

16. Entrepreneurship, Networks, and Geographies
Patricia H. Thornton, Katherine H. Flynn

Part 7. Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth and Policy

17. The Impact of Entrepreneurship on Economic Growth
Martin A. Carree, A. Roy Thurik

18. Entrepreneurship, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and Public Policies
David J. Storey

Part 8. Epilogue

19. Connecting the Study of Entrepreneurship and Theories of Capitalist Progress An Epilogue
Rita Gunther McGrath

Nyckelord: Economics/Management Science, Economic Growth, Entrepreneurship, Microeconomics, Management