Entrepreneurship

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VI

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2. Entrepreneurship: Concepts, Theory and Perspective. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Entrepreneurship: Concepts, Theory and Perspective. Introduction

      • Álvaro Cuervo, Domingo Ribeiro, Salvador Roig

      Pages 1-20

3. Concepts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Entrepreneurship as a Scientific Research Programme*

      • José Maria Veciana

      Pages 23-71

   3. Differentiating Entrepreneurs from Small Business Owners: A Conceptualization*

      • James W. Carland, Frank Hoy, William R. Boulton, Jo Ann C. Carland

      Pages 73-81

   4. Toward a Reconciliation of the Definitional Issues in the Field of Corporate Entrepreneurship*

      • Pramodita Sharma, Sankaran James J. Chrisman

      Pages 83-103

   5. Fools Rush in? The Institutional Context of Industry Creation*

      • Howard E. Aldrich, C. Marlene Fiol

      Pages 105-127

4. Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. Entrepreneurship: Past Research and Future Challenges*

      • Murray B. Low, Ian C. MacMillan

      Pages 131-154

   3. A Paradigm of Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Management*

      • Howard H. Stevenson, J. Carlos Jarillo

      Pages 155-170

   4. The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research*

      • Scott Shane, Sankaran Venkataraman

      Pages 171-184

   5. The Cognitive Infrastructure of Opportunity Emergence*

      • Norris F. Krueger Jr

      Pages 185-206

   6. The Entrepreneurship of Resource-based Theory*

      • Sharon A. Alvarez, Lowell W. Busenitz

      Pages 207-227

   7. Is There an Elephant in Entrepreneurship? Blind Assumptions in Theory Development*

      • William B. Gartner

      Pages 229-242

5. Perspective

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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   2. Levels of Analysis in Entrepreneurship Research: Current Research Practice and Suggestions for the Future*

      • Per Davidsson, Johan Wiklund

      Pages 245-265

   3. Entrepreneurship Research in Emergence: Past Trends and Future Directions*

      • Lowell W. Busenitz, G. Page West III, Dean Shepherd, Teresa Nelson, Gaylen Gayled N. Chandler, Andrew Zacharakis

      Pages 267-291

   4. Many are Called, but Few are Chosen: An Evolutionary Perspective for the Study of Entrepreneurship

      • Howard E. Aldrich, Martha Argelia Martinez

      Pages 293-311

   5. The New Venture Decision: An Analysis Based on the GEM Project Database*

      • Silvia T. Morales-Gualdrón, Salvador Roig

      Pages 313-333

With so many theories and so many scientific bodies implicated in its study, Entrepreneurship can, at times, seem like a veritable jungle where finding one's way can prove to be difficult. This book functions as a map locating  the most important issues:  those where an acceptable consensus already exists, and those that remain open to discussion. In so doing, we have presented the accounts of distinguished explorers in their own words. The book contains three parts reflecting the synergistic approach opted for by the editors: Concepts, Theory, and Perspective, that correspond to previously published academic articles that were either important in the scientific consolidation of Entrepreneurship, or that present challenges for the future.

• Entrepreneur
• Entrepreneurs
• Entrepreneurship
• Start-up
• Venture Capital
• business
• management

• Department of Business Economics, University Complutense of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  Álvaro Cuervo

• Department of Economics, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

  Domingo Ribeiro, Salvador Roig

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