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Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Five Volume Set
Edited by:
- Robert Blackburn - University of Liverpool, UK
- Candida G Brush - Babson College, USA
July 2008 | 2 248 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
This exciting new major work will provide a compendium of alternative perspectives on research into small business and entrepreneurship.
Edited by two world-class experts, the selection reflects the principles of theoretical grounding and empirical rigor. The collection captures the richness and variety of this burgeoning and dynamic field.
Small Business and Entrepreneurship is structured within six main areas: theory and theoretical developments, research approaches, populations of entrepreneurs, forms of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial processes and activities, and the outcomes of entrepreneurship.
Edited by two world-class experts, the selection reflects the principles of theoretical grounding and empirical rigor. The collection captures the richness and variety of this burgeoning and dynamic field.
Small Business and Entrepreneurship is structured within six main areas: theory and theoretical developments, research approaches, populations of entrepreneurs, forms of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial processes and activities, and the outcomes of entrepreneurship.
VOLUME I
PART ONE: SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND THEORY DEVELOPMENT
The Developing Domain of Entrepreneurship and Small Business
L Busenitz, G P West, D Shepherd, T Nelson, G N Chandler & A Zacharakis
Entrepreneurship Research in Emergence
W B Gartner
Is There an Elephant in Entrepreneurship? Blind Assumptions in Theory Development
M B Low
The Adolescence of Entrepreneurship Research
S Shane & S Venkataraman
The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research
D Ucbasaran, P Westhead & M Wright
The Focus of Entrepreneurial Research
PART TWO: RESEARCH APPROACHES
Methodological Issues and Debates
P Davidsson & J Wiklund
Levels of Analysis in Entrepreneurship Research
R Holliday
Working in the Field
J Cope
Researching Entrepreneurship through Phenomenological Inquiry
L Perren & M Ram
Case Study Method in Small Business and Entrepreneurial Research
Discourses and Critiques of the Field
U Hytti
New Meanings for Entrepreneurs
J O Ogbor
Mythicizing and Reification in Entrepreneurial Discourse
L Perren & P Jennings
Government Discourses on Entrepreneurship
PART THREE: POPULATIONS OF ENTREPRENEURS
Owner-Managers and Entrepreneurs
L Busenitz & J Barner
Differences Between Entrepreneurs and Managers in Large Organizations
J W Carland, F Hoy, W R Boulton & J A C Carland
Differentiating Entrepreneurs from Small Business Owners
E Chell
The Entrepreneurial Personality
J Katz
A Psychosocial Cognitive Model of Employment Status Choice
Female Entrepreneurship and Feminist Perspectives
H Ahl
Why Research on Women Entrepreneurs Needs New Directions
M Mallon & L Cohen
Time for a Change? Women's Accounts of the Move from Organizational Careers to Self-Employment
B J Bird & C G Brush
A Gendered Perspective on Organizational Creation
C Brush
Research on Women Business Owners
E M Fischer, A R Reuber & L S Dyke
A Theoretical Overview and Extension of Research on Sex, Gender, and Entrepreneurship
K. Mirchandani
Feminist Insights on Gendered Work
Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Businesses
H E Aldrich & R Waldinger
Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship
G Barrett, T Jones & D McEvoy
Ethnic Minority Business Support
VOLUME II
PART THREE: POPULATIONS OF ENTREPRENEURS (CONTINUED)
Continues from Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Businesses
T Bates
Minority Business Access to Mainstream Markets
R Fairlie
The Absence of African-American Owned Business
M Ram, T Abbas, B Sanghera, G Barlow & T Jones
Apprentice Entrepreneurs? Ethnic Minority Workers in the Independent Restaurant Sector
J Rath & R Kloosterman
Outsiders' Business
Family Business
H E Aldrich & J E Cliff
The Pervasive Effects of Family on Entrepreneurship
J J Chrisman, J H Chua & P Sharma
Trends and Directions in the Development of a Strategic Management Theory of the Family Firm
A Stewart
Help One Another, Use One Another
International Comparisons
C Baughn, B L Chua & K E Neupert
The Normative Context for Women's Participation in Entrepreneurship
T M Begley & W Tan
The Sociocultural Environment for Entrepreneurship
A Freytag & R Thurik
Entrepreneurship and its Determinants in a Cross-Country Setting
P D Reynolds, D J Storey & P Westhead
Cross-National Comparisons of the Variation in New Firm Formation Rates
PART FOUR: FORMS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Social Enterprise
J Austin, H Stevenson & J Wei-Skillern
Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship
E Chell
Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
J Mair & I Marti
Social Entrepreneurship Research
Franchising
J Coombs & D Ketchen
Why Do Firms Use Franchising as an Entrepreneurial Strategy? A Meta-Analysis
P J Kauffman & R P Dant
Multi-Unit Franchising
J Stanworth & J Curran
Colas, Shakers and Burgers
Self-Employment
T Bates
Self-Employment Entry Across Industry Groups
B Hamilton
Does Entrepreneurship Pay? An Empirical Analysis of the Returns to Self-Employment
B Granger, J Stanworth & C Stanworth
Self-Employment Career Dynamics
D G Blanchflower
Self-Employment
VOLUME III
PART FOUR: FORMS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP (CONTINUED)
Entrepreneurship and Small Firms in Transition and Developing Economies
M W Peng & P Heath
The Growth of the Firm in Planned Economies in Transition
M J Pisani & J A Paán
Self-Employment in the Era of the New Economic Model in Latin America
K Robert & C Zhou
New Private Enterprises in Three Transitional Contexts
D Smallbone & F Welter
The Distinctiveness of Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies
Globalization and Internationalization
E Autio, H Sapienza & J Almeida
Effects of Age at Entry, Knowledge Intensity and Imitabilty on International Growth
F Iqbal & S Urata
Small Firm Dynamism in East Asia
M V Jones & N E Coviello
Internationalisation: Conceptualizing an Entrepreneurial Process of Behaviour in Time
B M Oviatt & P P McDougall
Defining International Entrepreneurship and Modelling the Speed of Internationalization
PART FIVE: ENTREPRENEURIAL PROCESSES AND ACTIVITIES
New Venture Creation
T Baker, A S Miner & D T Eesley
Improvising Firms
C G Brush, L Edelman & T Manolova
Properties of Emerging Organizations
N Carter, W B Gartner & Reynolds
Exploring Start-Up Event Sequences
N F Krueger, M D Reilly & A L Carsrud
Competing Models of Entrepreneurial Intentions
Challenges of Development, Growth and Performance
J R Baum, E A Locke & K G Smith
A Multi-Dimensional Model Venture Growth
J G Covin & D P Slevin
Strategic Management of Small Firms in Hostile and Benign Environments
K Eisenhardt & C Schoonhoven
Organizational Growth
K C Robinson
An Examination of the Influence of Industry Structure on Eight Alternative Measures of New Venture Performance for High Potential Independent New Ventures
Business Planning
F Delmar & S Shane
Does Business Planning Facilitate the Development of New Ventures?
C Mason & M Stark
What do Investors Look for in a Business Plan? A Comparison of the Investment Criteria of Bankers, Venture Capitalists and Business Angels
B Honig & T Karlsson
Institutional Forces and the Written Business Plan
VOLUME IV
PART FIVE: ENTREPRENEURIAL PROCESSES AND ACTIVITIES (CONTINUED)
Finance and Financial Management
A N Berger & G F Udell
The Economics of Small Business Finance
K S Cavalluzzo, L C Cavalluzzo & J D Wolken
Competition, Small Business Financing and Discrimination
P G Greene, C G Brush, M M Hart & P Saparito
Patterns of Venture Capital Funding
R P Oakey
Innovation and Regional Growth in Small High Technology Firms
D Smallbone, M Ram, D Deakins & R Baldock
Access to Finance by Ethnic Minority Businesses in the UK
Human Resource Management and Employment Relations
M S Cardon & C E Stevens
Managing Human Resources in Small Organizations
S Marlow
Human Resource Management in Smaller Firms
J Curran & J Stanworth
A New Look at Job Satisfaction in the Small Firm
C Moule
Regulation of Work in Small Firms
R Barrett & A Rainnie
What's So Special about Small Firms? Developing and Integrated Approach to Analysing Small Firm Industrial Relations
M Ram & P Edwards
Praising Caesar Not Burying Him
Marketing and Marketing Strategies
D J Carson
The Evolution of Marketing in Small Firms
N E Coviello, R J Brodie & H J Munro
An Investigation of Marketing Practice by Firm Size
R Scase & R Goffee
Coping with the Market
R C Shrader
Collaboration and Performance in Foreign Markets
Networking and External Relations
R J Bennett & M Ramsden
The Contribution of Business Associations to SMEs
B Johannisson, M Ramírez-Pasillas & G Karlsson
The Institutional Embeddedness of Local Inter-Firm Networks
S L Jack
The Role, Use and Activation of Strong and Weak Network Ties
B Uzzi
Social Structure and Competition in Inter-Firm Networks
VOLUME V
PART SIX: OUTCOMES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Contributions to the Economy
D Anderson & R Thurik
Capitalism and Democracy in the 21st Century
D Audretsch & M Keilbach
Entrepreneurship Capital and Economic Performance
W J Baumol
Entrepreneurship
A E Burke
Self-Employment Wealth and Job Creation
S Wennekers & R Thurik
Linking Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
Public Policy and State Intervention
J Curran
What is Small Business Policy in the UK For? Evaluation and Assessing Small Business Policies
F J Greene, K Mole & D J Storey
Does More Mean Worse? Three Decades of Enterprise Policy in the Tees Valley
A Gibb
SME Policy, Academic Research and the Growth of Ignorance, Mythical Concepts, Myths, Assumptions, Rituals and Confusions
A van Stel, D J Storey & A R Thurik
The Effect of Business Regulations on Nascent and Young Business Entrepreneurship
D J Storey
Entrepreneurship, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and Public Policies
Entrepreneurship Education
D R DeTienne & G N Chandler
Opportunity Identification and Its Role in the Entrepreneurial Classroom: A Pedagogical Approach and Empirical Test
J Fiet
The Theoretical Side of Teaching Entrepreneurship
J Katz
The Chronology and Intellectual Trajectory of American Entrepreneurship Education 1876-1999
C Leitch & R Harrison
A Process Model for Entrepreneurship Education and Development
D Rae & M Carswell
Towards a Conceptual Understanding of Entrepreneurial Learning
Business Exit and Transfer
B Headd
Redefining Business Success
R McGrath
Falling Forward
D Stokes & R A Blackburn
Learning the Hard Way
