Entrepreneurship / Start-ups Books

Book SynopsisBusiness Law for Entrepreneurs covers the unique business and legal issues of startups and small businesses. Outlining critical knowledge on the complete range of topics for entrepreneurs, the textbook covers invention ownership, the use and protection of trademarks, copyrights, patents and trade secrets, as well as entity formation, funding and management, employment, regulatory compliance and liquidity events. This cutting-edge textbook provides students with the competence and practical insights required to identify and respond to emerging challenges in our rapidly evolving business and legal environment.The textbook includes: Key terms and managers' checklists, as well as chapter summaries and key questions to reinforce student learning An instructors' manual, featuring detailed responses to case studies, case questions and ethical considerations >Carefully selected cases that highlight the practical implications of legal issues for entrepreneurs. Expertly combining business and legal strategies for entrepreneurs, this textbook perfectly complements undergraduate and graduate programs that feature entrepreneurship, as well as practitioners preparing to solve real-world business and legal challenges.Trade Review'Business Law for Entrepreneurs highlights the most important legal issues facing a new start-up. Up-to-date examples and ideas make this text interesting and relevant. This book is an important contribution for anyone wanting to start a new business, protect their rights, and stay on the right side of the law.' -- - Robert Bird, UConn School of Business, US

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Book SynopsisBusiness Law for Entrepreneurs covers the unique business and legal issues of startups and small businesses. Outlining critical knowledge on the complete range of topics for entrepreneurs, the textbook covers invention ownership, the use and protection of trademarks, copyrights, patents and trade secrets, as well as entity formation, funding and management, employment, regulatory compliance and liquidity events. This cutting-edge textbook provides students with the competence and practical insights required to identify and respond to emerging challenges in our rapidly evolving business and legal environment.The textbook includes: Key terms and managers' checklists, as well as chapter summaries and key questions to reinforce student learning An instructors' manual, featuring detailed responses to case studies, case questions and ethical considerations >Carefully selected cases that highlight the practical implications of legal issues for entrepreneurs. Expertly combining business and legal strategies for entrepreneurs, this textbook perfectly complements undergraduate and graduate programs that feature entrepreneurship, as well as practitioners preparing to solve real-world business and legal challenges.Trade Review'Business Law for Entrepreneurs highlights the most important legal issues facing a new start-up. Up-to-date examples and ideas make this text interesting and relevant. This book is an important contribution for anyone wanting to start a new business, protect their rights, and stay on the right side of the law.' -- - Robert Bird, UConn School of Business, US

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses technology policy and innovation policy from an international perspective, with a particular emphasis on the policies of the United States and the United Kingdom. The importance of these policy areas, as well as their relationship to one another, is a unifying theme throughout, and this relationship is illustrated through an integrating policy framework.Private sector and public sector investments in R&D are posited to be the relevant target variables for technology policy, and vehicles to provide incentives for making each more effective are discussed along with suggestive information about how effective incentives have actually been. Consideration is given to the unintended consequences of technology policy. Also emphasized is the environment in which technology policy is promulgated and its relationship to a global innovation ecosystem. Innovation policy is a consequence of technology policy, and the innovation policies of various countries are also discussed.Technology and Innovation Policy will benefit academic researchers, senior scientists, innovation and technology policy makers, and graduate students who seek a deeper understanding of the relationship between technology and innovation policies from an international perspective.Trade Review‘This publication is definitely a wonderful introduction for starters who have hardly any experience or have just launched their studies on technology and innovation policies. For readers with related background foundation or expertise and who want to extend their professional knowledge in this field, this publication must be an ideally enlightening resources and will serve as an inspiring guide for future explorations. Overall, this book will significantly help the readers gain a profound comprehension of the relationship between technology and innovation policies from an international perspective.’ -- Yuan Ren, International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations‘A must-read, this book opens the discussion on the important differences between the purposes of technology policy and innovation policy. It walks the reader from the definitions of innovation and technology, to concrete exploration and reflections on how technology policy influences innovation policy.’ -- Sara Amoroso, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Spain'This book raises a key problem. Why is technology policy more effective in some countries than in others? And it provides an articulated reply: the effectiveness of technology policies depends upon their ability to implement a ''Technology policy ecosystem'' that empowers the interdependence of the different elements of each system and their sequential interaction in the innovation process. Scholars, students, managers and policy makers should read it carefully.' -- Cristiano Antonelli, University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: 1 Technology and innovation policy: setting the stage 2. Technology policies to enhance private-sector R&D 3. The effectiveness of technology policy 4. Unanticipated consequences of technology policy 5. The technology policy environment 6. Technology policies to leverage public-sector R&D 7. Global innovation systems 8. Toward a technology/innovation policy ecosystem Index

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Book Synopsis'The long-standing debate about entrepreneurship education has been given renewed impetus by the advent of experiential learning and student entrepreneurship. It is imperative therefore that entrepreneurship education research can make a contribution to our understanding about the direction and effectiveness of entrepreneurship education. In this volume, Alain Fayolle and an eminent set of contributors lay out frameworks and directions to guide much needed rigorous future research in this important area.'- Mike Wright, Imperial College London, UK'This book offers insightful and actionable ideas for improving entrepreneurship education, its evaluation and its underlying research process. Alain's compendium offers readers a deep dive into the underlying issues in teaching entrepreneurship, and goes beyond North American efforts to showcase European approaches. A worthwhile read for every entrepreneurship educator.'- Jerome A. Katz, Saint Louis University, US Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Edited by Alain Fayolle, this Research Agenda tackles the need for additional and robust intellectual foundations in entrepreneurship education, both at theoretical and methodological levels. The authors show that it is essential to connect entrepreneurship education more firmly with societal demands. Identifying two key issues, the eminent authors first question what the current pedagogies and practices in entrepreneurship education are. Secondly, the authors question what knowledge is known about the relevancy, usefulness and efficiency of the current practices in entrepreneurship education. This book calls for a pragmatic and critical approach in the development of perspectives in entrepreneurship education. This book presents innovative ideas and provocative contributions to the debate with the intention of generating significant new concepts for future researchers, policy makers and practitioners in entrepreneurship. Contributors include: N. Alabduljader, Y. Baggen, A. Bernal, R. Bliss, S. Bureau, D. De Clercq, A. Donnellon, A. Fayolle, M. Fetters, J. Gabrielsson, P. Greene, G. Hagg, B. Honig, B. Johannisson, P. Kyrö, H. Landstrom, T. Lans, F. Linan, M. Loi, B. Martin, J. McNally, L. Ploum, D. Politis, R. Ramani, G. SolomonTrade Review'An excellent contribution to our understanding of entrepreneurship education that truly pushes forward thinking about how to undertake research on this subject. It provides insights from some of the leading thinkers and will undoubtedly be a key work of reference for both educators and researchers.' --Luke Pittaway, Ohio University, US'The really interesting questions and insights in the field of entrepreneurship are coming from scholars focusing on entrepreneurship education. When we explore issues in entrepreneurship education we are delving into fundamental concerns about the knowledge, skills and activities that are essential for spurring entrepreneurial activity. A Research Agenda for Entrepreneurship Education offers a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the theoretical and methodological foundations of entrepreneurial learning. The book is populated with a wide-ranging set of chapters by leading authorities in the entrepreneurship area that offer new insights and knowledge about entrepreneurship education that have important implications for entrepreneurship scholarship, policy and practice. The book is a ''must-read''. Yes. The book is that informative and perceptive.' --William B. Gartner, Babson College, US `'This edited book is a must-read for faculty who wish to use rigorous research to inform their practice of teaching entrepreneurship. The global panel of authors tackle a variety of perspectives - philosophical, didactical, epistemological, methodological, and individual - to explore the past, present and future of entrepreneurship education.' --Siri Terjesen, American University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Alain Fayolle PART I RETHINKING ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION RESEARCH 2. Toward Rigour and Relevance in Entrepreneurship Education Research Bruce Martin, Dirk De Clercq and Benson Honig 3. Dealing with the inconsistency of studies in entrepreneurship education effectiveness: A systemic approach to drive future research Michela Loi 4. The future of entrepreneurship education: educating for economic and social impact Patricia G. Greene, Michael L. Fetters, Richard Bliss and Anne Donnellon 5. Does entrepreneurship education develop wisdom? An exploration Jeffrey J. McNally, Benson Honig and Bruce Martin PART II LEARNING FROM EUROPEAN EXEMPLARY CONTRIBUTIONS 6. Exemplary contributions from Europe to entrepreneurship education research and practice Jonas Gabrielsson, Hans Landström, Diamanto Politis and Gustav Hägg 7. Personal views on the future of entrepreneurship education Alain Fayolle 8. Limits to and prospects of entrepreneurship education in the academic context Bengt Johannisson 9. The conceptual contribution of education to research on entrepreneurship education Paula Kyrö PART III FOCUSING ON KEY OUTCOMES AND INNOVATIVE PEDAGOGIES 10. The reflective novice entrepreneur: From habitual action to intelligent action using experience-based pedagogy as a vehicle for change Gustav Hägg 11. Towards more synergy in entrepreneurial competence research in entrepreneurship education Thomas Lans, Yvette Baggen and Lisa Ploum 12. Learning fictions or facts? Moving from case studies to the impact-based method Sylvain Bureau 13. The personal dimension of an entrepreneurial competence: An approach from the Spanish basic education context Antonio Bernal and Francisco Liñán 14. Approaches to entrepreneurship education: A qualitative review and comparison of the US and Canada Ravi S. Ramani, George T. Solomon and Nawaf Alabduljader Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the process of university collaboration from the perspective of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), this book offers an in-depth examination of the collaboration process, dispelling the myth of the disengagement of these firms. Andrew Johnston and Robert Huggins present a thorough account of how SMEs can “unlock the ivory tower” and gain access to university knowledge to support their own innovation.Outlining and discussing the intellectual roots of research in this field in an accessible way, the book focuses on SMEs to provide insight to an often overlooked group of firms. Chapters show how the closeness of the partners in terms of network membership, working culture and practice, and technical language drive the formation and function of these collaborative links, offering a holistic account of this from idea generation to the completion of projects.This will be an essential read for academics researching innovation and the role of universities, as well as knowledge exchange practitioners wishing to further their understanding of collaboration processes. Policymakers seeking to explore how and why SMEs engage in open innovation practices will also find this an invigorating book.Trade Review‘Fostering university–industry collaboration has become an important concern for regional policymakers over recent decades in the context of the rise of systemic approaches to innovation and the evolution of university roles to integrate a “third mission” alongside their teaching and research functions. In focusing specifically on the relationship between universities and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), this book by Andrew Johnston and Rob Huggins addresses a subset of university–industry collaboration that is underrepresented in the existing literature, but of key policy importance given the predominance of SMEs in regional economies. Indeed, in the context of societal challenges related to green, digital and demographic transitions that require more sophisticated cooperation within territorial innovation systems, there is a pressing need to understand the specific characteristics of effective collaborative relationships between academia and SMEs. The book is informed by empirical analysis that is in many ways specific to the UK context, and will therefore be of special interest to UK academics and policymakers.’ -- James R. Wilson, Regional Studies Journal’This is a much needed book on university-industry collaboration. Compellingly, it is rooted in research on this topic, but it also develops the practical implications of how university-industry collaboration should be approached. A must-read for both researchers and practitioners in university-industry collaboration and technology transfer.’ -- - Markus Perkmann, Imperial College London, UK‘This detailed study of university industry links focuses on the ways in which a diverse set of SMEs collaborate with universities. Often such studies emphasise particular technology sectors or high tech regions, but this book is refreshing in its study of varied SMEs across the UK, and draws out implications for all kinds of universities and places. Johnston and Huggins bring a detailed insight into university-industry links and the evolution of UK policy to develop important findings on the importance of proximity in future policy.’ -- - David Charles, Northumbria University, UK‘This important new book highlights how SMEs working in tandem with universities can deliver an innovative impact way beyond their size. Through their penetrating analysis, Johnston and Huggins highlight a new strategy for cities and regions to ignite the innovative potential of SMEs through fostering key relationships with universities.’ -- - David B. Audretsch, Indiana University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Tamsin Mann 1. University–industry collaboration: why it matters 2. Framing collaboration: alliances, networks, and open innovation 3. Collaboration and the ‘engaged’ university 4. University–industry collaboration: formation and function 5. Universities and the UK economy 6. Ideation and motivation 7. Partner selection and assessing credibility 8. Absorbing and utilising knowledge 9. Understanding the results of collaboration 10. Conclusions and implications References Index

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Book SynopsisThe applied nature of the field of entrepreneurship means it is crucial for scholars and researchers to connect with practitioners to ensure that their work has an impact on real-world activity. This insightful book examines the need to bridge the gap between scientific rigour in entrepreneurship research and its practical relevance to external stakeholders, and demonstrates clearly how this can be achieved in practice. Featuring cutting-edge research, Rigour and Relevance in Entrepreneurship Research, Resources and Outcomes presents and evaluates current critical approaches in the field, analysing their theoretical value and their relevance to policy and practice. Chapters examine these approaches through the lens of specific issues and circumstances such as intrapreneurship, freelancing, crowdfunding, family firms and technology-based start-ups, providing a variety of perspectives and exemplifying how pragmatic questions can productively influence research agendas. This book's up-to-date analysis and practical insight will prove invaluable to scholars and researchers in entrepreneurship as well as other business and management academics. Students at all levels in these fields will also find it useful for considering future research.Trade Review'The Frontiers series offers a selection of the latest, cutting-edge research in entrepreneurship and small business in Europe. It has become a key resource for researchers, educators, entrepreneurs and policy makers interested in understanding entrepreneurship and the prosperity of SME's.' --Silke Tegtmeier, President of the ECSB, 2019Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: rigour and relevance in European Entrepreneurship Research Eddy Laveren, Robert Blackburn, Ulla Hytti and Hans Landström Part I: Rigour and relevance of entrepreneurship research 2. Relevance of entrepreneurship research Johan Wiklund 3. The rigour – relevance debate: strategies to avoid creating an ivory tower in entrepreneurship research Hans Landström 4. Introducing three academic conversations: Critical Entrepreneurship Studies, Entrepreneurship as Practice and a Radical Processual Approach to entrepreneurship Piritta Parkkari and Karen Verduijn 5. Women and family firms: A state of the art literature review Annalisa Sentuti, Francesca Maria Cesaroni and Serena Cubico Part II: Entrepreneurial mindset and intrapreneurial orientation 6. Toward a Comprehensive Measure of Entrepreneurial Mindset Kelly G. Shaver and Immanuel Commarmond 7. Technology intrapreneurs – intrapreneurial orientation and potential of IT students Christine Blanka, David Rückel, Stefan Koch and Norbert Kailer Part III: Entrepreneurial behavior, resources and outcomes 8. Human capital, external relations, and early firm performance of technology-based start-ups Hanna Rydehell, Anders Isaksson and Hans Löfsten 9. Disembeddedness, Prior Industry Knowledge and Opportunity Creation Processes Caroline Wigren, Karin Hellerstedt, Maria Aggestam, Anna Stevenson and Ethel Brundin 10. “Dear Crowd, let me tell you a story.” The influence of emotions, authenticity and sense of community on entrepreneur’s ability to acquire funds via crowdfunding Amélie Wuillaume, Amélie Jacquemin and Frank Janssen 11. Freelancing and the Struggle for Work-Time Control John Kitching and Marfuga Iskandarova Index

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Book SynopsisThis book describes the sustainable development journey of 15 business families committed to using their enterprises as a force of societal good. In turn, each family reaps benefits of high economic returns, while contributing to society and environment. The youngest family firm is in its 20s, while there are others over 100 years of age. Size, industry, locations vary. But all these business families share a deep shared commitment towards sustainable development, control over strategic decision-making in their firms and trans-generational continuity intentions. Family values embed their enterprises with a strong sense of purpose to achieve their chosen sustainable development goals. Professionalized systems and processes foster the development of capabilities, and partnerships with a variety of stakeholders ensure the simultaneous achievement of social, environmental and profitability goals.Educators, students, policy makers and business families interested in sustainable development will find new understanding of family business through Pioneering Family Firms' Sustainable Development Strategies.Trade Review'Based on 15 case studies of innovative business families from North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania, Dita and Sanjay Sharma have distilled practical lessons on how to establish and transform family businesses for long-term success in an ever changing business environment where sustainability issues are increasingly important. An excellent contribution to the world of family businesses.'/i> -- Thomas Schmidheiny and Dieter Spälti, Indian School of Business, India'We tend to celebrate family businesses for their dedication to their values and purpose. However, we cannot just assume that sustainable development strategies are in-built for family enterprises. They require vision and champions to have a real impact. Nothing is more inspiring than to see such strategies in action which is why you will thoroughly enjoy this book and its global case studies. It provides us with a much-needed foundation for this conversation both academically and practically.' -- Ramia El Agamy, Editor-in-Chief of Tharawat Magazine, Host of The Family Business Voice'This book is a treasure trove of inspiration and wisdom for any family interested in responsible ownership. Its breadth and depth of knowledge is quite extraordinary. Best practice from decades of experience is distilled between its covers.' -- Andrew Wates, Past Chairman, Wates Family Holdings, UK; Inaugural Chair, Polaris Committee, Family Business NetworkTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Pioneering business families committed to sustainable development 2 Pramodita Sharma and Sanjay Sharma PART II DESIGNED FOR SUSTAINABILITY 2 Sustainability comes naturally: Rocky Mountain Soap Company, a purpose-driven family business 52 Pramodita Sharma, Sanjay Sharma and Alexa Steiner 3 Supreme Creations and Wings of Hope: A symbiotic care of environment and society 76 Pramodita Sharma, Sanjay Sharma and Alyssa Schuetz 4 Biofilter: A Hungarian champion for the circular economy and stakeholder capitalism 99 Caroline Seow and Maria José Parada PART III TRANSFORMED FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 5 The evolution of a sustainable energy family business: The case of Thermax 125 Kavil Ramachandran and Yashodhara Basuthakur 6 Kemin Industries: A sustainable future in focus 151 Justin B. Craig and Gary Bowman 7 Social capital as a pathway to sustainability at State Garden 175 Pramodita Sharma and Rocki-Lee DeWitt 8 Griffith Foods: Nourishing the world 203 Stuart L. Hart 9 Royal Van Wijhe Coatings: Sustainability over four generations 234 Judith van Helvert and Rosemarie Steenbeek 10 GMA Garnet’s circular economy: Jebsen & Jessen’s leadership in environmental sustainability 252 Marta Widz and Vanina Farber 11 Tahbilk: A fifth-generation Australian family wine business’s journey to sustainability 277 Michael Browne, Chris Graves and Francesco Barbera PART IV INSTITUTIONAL LEADERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABILITY 12 The role of family values in institutional change toward sustainability in the Bordeaux wine industry 304 Sanjay Sharma, Tatiana Bouzdine-Chameeva and Joerg S. Hofstetter 13 The Wallenberg family of Sweden: Sustainable business development since 1856 336 Sarah Jack and Mattias Nordqvist Index

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Book SynopsisThis Research Handbook provides a solid foundation for exploring the vibrant field of strategic entrepreneurship, with an examination of important topics from theoretical, psychological and economic perspectives.Analysing new directions for future research, this Research Handbook spans the comprehensiveness of the field and offers insights into specific topic areas within strategic entrepreneurship including historical cognition, ethnomethodology and the strategic entrepreneurial mind. With contributions from scholars across diverse backgrounds, the Research Handbook not only critically analyses existing research at the intersection of strategy and entrepreneurship, but also identifies new avenues for future inquiry. The editors provide useful guidance for travelling new paths within the domain of strategic entrepreneurship research, and across other disciplines, based upon distinct theoretical foundations.PhD students, scholars, and researchers alike who want to investigate further into strategic entrepreneurship in depth as well as uncharted territories, will find this Research Handbook a valuable resource.Trade Review‘The Research Handbook on Strategic Entrepreneurship by Gupta, Goktan, Shirokova and Karna is a timely and much-needed contribution to knowledge at the interface of strategy and entrepreneurship research. Gupta and his colleagues have compiled ten thought-provoking essays from some of the most knowledgeable and insightful scholars of our time. The contributors to the Research Handbook take stock of current knowledge, offer new insights, and provide paths forward on topics central to strategic entrepreneurship’s advancement as an area of scholarly inquiry. The Research Handbook is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand and contribute to the strategic entrepreneurship conversation.’ -- Jeffrey G. Covin, Indiana University, US‘Research on strategic entrepreneurship has emerged as a central, vibrant, and rich field of inquiry. This path-breaking Research Handbook will be informative and stimulating for academics and scholars interested in research on the evident intersection between entrepreneurship and strategy.’ -- Sascha Kraus, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy‘The intersection of strategy and entrepreneurship in the form of strategic entrepreneurship is one of today’s most important and interesting research areas. Gupta, Goktan, Shirokova, and Karna have assembled a far-reaching and eclectic mix of contributions to thinking about strategic entrepreneurship that is certain to offer something helpful for every reader.’ -- Dave Ketchen, Auburn University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Strategic entrepreneurship research: an introduction 1 Vishal K. Gupta, A. Banu Goktan, Galina V. Shirokova, and Amit Karna 2 Decomposing the knowledge structures of absorptive capacity 8 Nachiket Bhawe and Shaker Zahra 3 The economic firm as a manifestation of strategic entrepreneurship 24 Susanne C. Bylund and Per L. Bylund 4 Opportunity-seeking behaviors in strategic entrepreneurship: What do we know from the effectuation literature? 50 Florian Bayer and Christian Landau 5 Exploring new venture creation through incubators and accelerators: What value is created and who captures it? Implications for research, teaching, and practice 82 Riley Doyle, Kris Irwin, Josie A. Burks, Paul L. Drnevich, and Craig E. Armstrong 6 Holistic view of strategic entrepreneurship’s results: Estimating the implications for performance mean and variability 106 Oleksiy Osiyevskyy, Kanhaiya Kumar Sinha, Galina V. Shirokova, and Mehrsa Ehsani 7 Historical cognition and strategic entrepreneurship 125 Diego M. Coraiola, Fernanda Yumi Tsujiguchi, and Roy Suddaby 8 Making strategic entrepreneurship visible: An ethnomethodology primer 144 Betsy Campbell 9 The eye as a window to the soul: Entering the strategic entrepreneurial mind 164 Jef Naidoo, Ron Dulek, Elliott Miller Graves, and Yeong Hyun Hong 10 New frontiers? Approaches to computerized text analysis in strategic entrepreneurship research 197 Anna M. Pastwa and William J. Wales 11 Endogeneity in strategic entrepreneurship research 233 Brian S. Anderson Index

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Book SynopsisWomen's entrepreneurship is an effective way to combat poverty, hunger and disease, to stimulate sustainable business practices, and to promote gender equality. Yet, deeply engrained cultural norms often prescribe gender-specific roles and behaviors that severely constrain the opportunities for women's entrepreneurial activities. This excellent new volume of work from the Diana Group explores this paradox.As women-entrepreneurs circumvent challenges and obstacles, they also ameliorate the cultural context for future women entrepreneurs. In this book, studies covering 40 countries document how culture affects women’s entrepreneurship, and how women's entrepreneurship, in turn, shapes the cultural milieu. The work is organized into three main themes: (1) the socio-cultural context for women's entrepreneurship; (2) women’s entrepreneurship as emancipation from traditional family roles; and (3) government policies and programs and self-determination in women's entrepreneurship. This illuminating and inspiring book offers valuable insights for students of women's entrepreneurship, practicing entrepreneurs, and public policy makers interested in promoting women’s entrepreneurship in different cultural contexts around the world.Trade Review'For the first time, the idea of dynamic interaction between women's entrepreneurship and socio-cultural context is considered from the perspectives of family roles and self-determination across a variety of countries. Not only does this volume highlight how culture affects women’s entrepreneurship, but also it explores how women’s entrepreneurship influences cultural context. A well edited and interesting collection of chapters!' -- Candida G. Brush, Babson College, US'My colleagues Ulrike Guelich, Amanda Bullough, Tatiana Manolova and Leon Schjoedt, leading scholars on women entrepreneurship topics, edit this volume that provides rich content about the relevance of the socio-cultural dynamics that shape any kind of entrepreneurial endeavor led by women. With a collection of conceptual and empirical perspectives from cases around the world, this book enhances and brings to life the research agenda for women in entrepreneurship.' -- José Ernesto Amorós, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico'This volume takes an incisive step forward in building a generalizable theory on women's entrepreneurship and culture. It extends growing scholarship on women's entrepreneurship in developed economies, with understanding of the impact of socio-cultural norms on women entrepreneurs in emerging and developing countries and regions including Bangladesh, China, India, Ethiopia, South Africa and the MENA region, as well as provides 20-country comparative analysis. A must-read for anyone including policymakers interested in female entrepreneurship and others with wider interest in entrepreneurship, self-determination and economic development.' -- Anne de Bruin, Massey University, New ZealandTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to women’s entrepreneurship and culture: socio-cultural dynamics, role-influenced behaviors and constraint negotiation 1 Ulrike Guelich, Amanda Bullough, Tatiana S. Manolova and Leon Schjoedt PART I THE EFFECTS OF A SOCIETY’S CULTURE ON THE EMBEDDEDNESS OF WOMEN’S ENTREPRENEURSHIP 2 Gender, culture and entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 20 Bettina Lynda Bastian, Stephen Hill and Beverly Dawn Metcalfe 3 The unfolding process of women’s entrepreneurship in a patriarchal society: an exploration of Bangladeshi women entrepreneurs’ experiences 47 Wee Chan Au, Sabrina Nourin and Pervaiz K. Ahmed 4 The influence of institutional and in-group collectivism on women’s entrepreneurship 68 Pedro Torres and Mário Augusto PART II WOMEN’S EMANCIPATION FROM TRADITIONAL FAMILY ROLES 5 You are well-educated, so why do you want to start a venture? Cultural norms of women’s entrepreneurship in Ethiopia 88 Magdalena Markowska and Tigist Tesfaye Abebe 6 From empowerment to emancipation: women’s entrepreneurship cooking up a stir in South Africa 109 Bridget N. Irene, William K. Murithi, Regina Frank and Bernadette Mandawa-Bray 7 Role of socio-cultural factors in shaping entrepreneurial decision and behavior: an Indian perspective 140 Jasmine Banu, Rupashree Baral, Upasna A. Agarwal and Mansi Rastogi PART III CULTURE AND SELF-DETERMINATION IN WOMEN’S ENTREPRENEURSHIP 8 Mobilising “she power”: Chinese women entrepreneurs negotiating cultural and neoliberal contexts 174 Dongling Zhang and Nancy C. Jurik 9 Women in copreneurial businesses in the socio-cultural context of Iran 196 Zahra Arasti, Laleh Sadeghi and Maryam Saeedian Index

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Book SynopsisBy exploring the economic and social value of disabled people with positive entrepreneurial traits and adaptive skills, this innovative book breaks away from normative entrepreneurial studies to recognise the overlooked value in disabled entrepreneurs.In the study of entrepreneurship, the social tendency to disregard people with disabilities has caused a paucity of knowledge about the successful ventures of disabled people worldwide. Seeking to improve public understanding of disabled entrepreneurs, this pioneering book re-evaluates their identity, value and contribution beyond economic, cultural and geographical contexts. Chapters explore disabled entrepreneurs from non-Western economies and marginalised social segments, with a focus on emphasising the importance of disabled women entrepreneurs from developing economies as agents of change for society and the economy. Exploring the push and pull factors that exist for disabled people in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, chapters disassemble the socially institutionalised barriers to important sources of value creation by disabled entrepreneurs.With a global scope, this book will prove invaluable for students and scholars of entrepreneurship and business management. With expert insights into innovative practices and evidence-based policymaking from a range of disabled entrepreneurs, it will be a vital resource for entrepreneurs looking to build and grow inclusive and successful ventures.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Research Handbook on Disability and Entrepreneurship xix Shumaila Yousafzai, Wilson Ng, Shandana Sheikh and Thomas Coogan PART I THE PUSH AND THE PULL FACTORS FOR DISABLED ENTREPRENEURS 1 Follow your dreams? Push and pull motivations of entrepreneurs with disabilities in Hungary 2 Sara Csillag, Zsuzsanna Gyori, Anna Laura Hidegh and Carmen Svastics 2 “Underdog” entrepreneurs? Identifying processes of opportunity creation among visually impaired founders of new ventures 20 Wilson Ng 3 Creating my own job: Australian experiences of people with disability with microenterprises, self-employment and entrepreneurship 35 Simon Darcy, Jock Collins and Megan Stronach 4 The push and pull of entrepreneurship for individuals with autism spectrum disorder 59 Eric Patton 5 Entrepreneurial activity among disabled entrepreneurs with visible and invisible impairments: a literature review 77 Wilson Ng 6 Entrepreneurship and disability: research in a Spanish university 85 Rosa M. Muñoz, Yolanda Salinero and M. Valle Fernández 7 Awareness and attitudes towards social entrepreneurship among university students and disabled people: the case of the Czech Republic 99 Ondřej Kročil, Richard Pospíšil and David Kosina PART II ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM: BARRIERS AND FACILITATORS 8 Enterprising? Disabled? The status and potential for disabled people’s microenterprise in South Korea 114 Se Kwang Hwang and Alan Roulstone 9 Designing public policy to support entrepreneurial activity within the disabled community in Ireland 131 Thomas M. Cooney 10 How entrepreneurs with physical and mental health challenges can benefit from an entrepreneurial ecosystems approach 143 Mirza Tihic, Gary Shaheen and Felix Arndt 11 The role of government policies in establishing a conducive entrepreneurial environment for disabled entrepreneurs in China 160 Tiansheng Yang, Shandana Sheikh, Shumaila Yousafzai and Xiangxin Yang 12 The need for an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem for women with disability in Pakistan 182 Shandana Sheikh 13 Disabled women entrepreneurs and microfinance: a road less travelled (for a reason)? 196 Nadeera Ranabahu and Farzana Aman Tanima 14 A preliminary analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on the mental wellbeing of entrepreneurship students 208 Sylvie Studente, Filia Garivaldis and Wilson Ng 15 The hidden entrepreneurs: disability and entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan 221 Shumaila Yousafzai and Yerken Turganbayev 16 Inclusive entrepreneurship in Palestine: context and prospects of people with disabilities 238 Wojdan Omran and Leila Farraj PART III THE IDENTITY AND CONTRIBUTION OF DISABLED ENTREPRENEURS 17 The making of a (dis)abled entrepreneur: an entrepreneurial identity perspective 247 Mukta Kulkarni and Yangerjungla Pongener 18 The opportunity to contribute: disability and the digital entrepreneur 262 Tom Boellstorff 19 Disabled entrepreneurs creating value in Iran’s entrepreneurial ecosystem 279 Vahid Makizadeh, Shumaila Yousafzai, Siavash Aein Jamshid and Adel Mohebbi 20 The contribution of disabled entrepreneurs in the Sultanate of Oman 297 Eric V. Bindah Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book comprises detailed personal narratives of entrepreneurs who have worked towards peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It begins by offering an innovative framework of analysis based on scientific knowledge about social entrepreneurs, defining 'peace entrepreneurship' and mapping its unique characteristics. It also explains the narrative methodology used, and provides a short history of the conflict in the region.The book focuses on 11 life stories of Israeli and Palestinian entrepreneurs who have strived for peace through social ventures. Chapters discuss the various forms of social activism that peace entrepreneurs have pursued, the challenges that they have faced and the motivations behind their ventures. The editors conclude by considering the similarities and differences across the stories, offering insights into what drives people to act as peace entrepreneurs and what sustains their activities in the face of ongoing conflict.Documenting rousing and inspirational life narratives, this book is crucial for scholars and researchers of social entrepreneurship who are searching for new avenues of inquiry into ventures in a conflict context. It will also provide motivational reading for other practitioners of peace entrepreneurship, as well as policymakers working with social entrepreneurs in conflict zones.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: peace entrepreneurship, life narratives, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 1 Amalya Oliver-Lumerman, Yosepha Tabib-Calif, Tammar B. Zilber, Tammy Rubel-Lifschitz, and Haneen Sameer Magadlah 1 Jewish–Arabic collaboration through education 17 Amin Khalaf 2 No one can conquer you because when you are free inside, you live in peace 29 Bassam Aramin 3 Peace, a mission for generations 50 Eliaz Cohen 4 A Jewish radical 68 Gershon Baskin 5 Small initiatives with great impact 88 Ghadeer Hani 6 The freedom to choose 102 Hadassah Froman 7 No one can occupy my heart, my mind, and my identity 113 Huda Abu Arqoub 8 To solve the puzzle 126 Khaled Abu Awwad 9 To make a change, we must be willing to change 143 Shiri Levinas 10 A life of peace is not whole: peace is not whole – it is broken 163 Yakir Englander 11 I am me because Arik was Arik 181 Yitzhak Frankenthal 12 Discussion: peace entrepreneurship – insights and reflections 202 Haneen Sameer Magadlah, Tammy Rubel-Lifschitz, Yosepha Tabib-Calif, Amalya Oliver-Lumerman, and Tammar B. Zilber Glossary 223 References 243

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Book SynopsisMost leadership research has been undertaken in corporate contexts and little attention has been given to leadership development in entrepreneurial and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This book argues that the study of entrepreneurs as leaders is a gap in both the leadership and the entrepreneurship literatures. The impact of leaders is a crucial factor in the success or failure of smaller entrepreneurial firms and has implications for our understanding of new venture viability and growth.Featuring conceptual and empirical chapters from a wide range of cultures and entrepreneurship and leadership ecosystems, this Research Handbook is the first of its kind to present a systematic overview of the entrepreneurial leadership field, providing a state-of-the-art perspective and highlighting unanswered questions and opportunities for further research. It consolidates existing theory development, stimulates new conceptual thinking and includes path-breaking empirical explorations.With its international perspective illustrating the practice of entrepreneurial leadership in a wide range of organizational contexts, the Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Leadership offers an essential reference to students and researchers in entrepreneurship and leadership alike.Contributors: A. Bagheri, S. Barnes, R.G. Bell, M. Brännback, A. Carsrud, M.-H. Chen, M.H. Cone, J. Croad, A. Gibb, E. Hamilton, P. Harrison, R. Harrison, G. Haskins, O.M. Hatem, S. Kempster, D.F. Kuratko, C. Leitch, A. Lincoln, M. McAdam, S. Mueller, Z.A.L. Pihie, D. Rae, M. Renko, M.A. Roomi, A. Röschke, L. Schjoedt, C. Skaveniti, R. Smith, S. Smith, V. Stead, V. Tzoumpa, V.S. Valencia, T. Volery, J.L. Whittington, H. ZhangTable of ContentsContents: Part I: Introduction 1. The evolving field of entrepreneurial leadership: An overview Claire M. Leitch and Richard T. Harrison Part II: Theoretical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship and Leadership 2. The concept and evolution of entrepreneurial leadership: A bibliometric analysis Arik Röschke 3. Engaging ‘the emerging now’: An alternative ontology of entrepreneurial leadership practice Haina Zhang and Malcolm H. Cone 4. Using critical methodologies to examine entrepreneurial leadership Valerie Stead and Eleanor Hamilton 5. Islamic insights on entrepreneurial leadership Pegram Harrison and Muhammad Azam Roomi Part III: Leadership in Entrepreneurial Contexts 6. Managing paradoxes and tensions: A key element of entrepreneurs’ leadership behaviour Thierry Volery and Susan Mueller 7. Entrepreneurial leaders and entrepreneurial managers: Differences and similarities in their learning approach Leon Schjoedt and Vicar S. Valencia 8. Exploring the full range of leadership across the organizational life cycle and growth states of entrepreneurial firms R. Greg Bell and J. Lee Whittington 9. Understanding entrepreneurial leadership: Who leads a venture does matter Alan L. Carsrud, Maija Renko-Dolan and Malin Brännback Part IV: Applications of Entrepreneurial Leadership 10. The challenge of corporate entrepreneurial leadership Donald F. Kuratko 11. Weaving together entrepreneurial leadership in social enterprises: A collective achievement towards social purpose Chrysavgi Sklaveniti and Vicky Tzoumpa 12. Entrepreneurial distributed leadership in the emergence and development of high-growth internationalizing firms Omaima M. Hatem 13. Gender Differences in Leadership and Collective Entrepreneurship Behaviour of Nigerian Entrepreneurs Adebimpe Adesua-Lincoln and Jane Croad Part V: Entrepreneurial Leadership and Learning 14. A review of entrepreneurial leadership learning: An exploration that draws on human, social and institutional capitals Steve Kempster, Sue Smith and Stewart Barnes 15. Entrepreneurial leadership competencies and motivation to learn: A focus on student entrepreneurial leaders Afsaneh Bagheri and Zaidatol Akmaliah Lope Pihie 16. Developing entrepreneurial leadership for sustainable organisations David Rae 17. The rise of the underdogs: Situating and storying ‘entrepreneurial leadership’ in the BrewDog business story Robert Smith 18. Key issues in the development of the entrepreneurial university of the future: challenges, opportunities and responses Allan A. Gibb and Gay Haskins Part VI: Future Directions 19. Breaking glass: Toward a gendered analysis of entrepreneurial leadership Richard T. Harrison, Claire M. Leitch and Maura McAdam Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be an entrepreneurial scholar? Dimo Dimov draws on an eclectic range of philosophical ideas to investigate the study of entrepreneurs and makes the case for entrepreneurial scholarship to become more holistic, dynamic, and future oriented. This thought-provoking book argues that entrepreneurs seek to put knowledge in the service of the future, whereas scholars seek to put the future in the service of knowledge. Engaging with this tension, Dimov explores the relationship between the study of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurs who are studied. Creating a framework for entrepreneurial scholarship, this concise book highlights four distinct styles and approaches to the field: theoretical, integrative, craft and clinical. He invites reflection on the role and place of entrepreneurs in modern society, and puts the case that the entrepreneurial scholar should embrace interdisciplinarity as a way of engaging with entrepreneurship as a holistic experience, and draw on design science as a way of improving the art and skills of entrepreneurship. This innovative book will be a stimulating read for academics and students of entrepreneurship, and its accessible format will also appeal to reflective practitioners. Trade Review'This book is about us, who we are and can aspire to be. Dimo Dimov sets a multi-sided ground for us to explore our careers and multiple identities as entrepreneurship scholars. The book invites us to rethink what an entrepreneurship scholar is, offering a compass for us to reconcile our many questions, orientations, actions and intended contributions, against what it looked like a division of classes between those teaching, doing and explaining entrepreneurship. This is a fascinating book, a must read for those entering into, muddling through and making sense of their academic careers as entrepreneurship scholars.' --Pablo Muñoz, University of Liverpool, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Scholarship, knowledge, concepts 2. Entrepreneurship as an academic subject 3. Knowledge and reality 4. Scholar and entrepreneur 5. A framework for scholarly inquiry 6. Awakening the entrepreneurial scholar Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisOur Elgar Concise Introductions are inspiring and considered introductions to the key principles in business, expertly written by some of the world’s leading scholars. The aims of the series are two-fold: to pinpoint the essential concepts of business and management, and to offer insights that stimulate critical thinking. Building on the current structural focus of the family firm discipline, this Concise Introduction provides a function-based, processual approach to the area. It rethinks the nature of the family firm, advancing a deeper understanding of its internal dynamics. Ramona Kay Zachary, Sharon M. Danes and Elisa Balabram offer comprehensive theories of the family firm, the best methods of investigation, and the relationships among the owning family, its business as well as how these are interconnected. Key Features: Accommodates cultural nuances In-depth exploration of conceptualizations of the family firm Addresses planned and unplanned change in family businesses Focus on the interface between the owning family and its business Analysis of the operational and relational processes in both the family and the business Concluding that both the owning family and its business have complexities such as operational, managerial, and relational processes that warrant further attention, this Concise Introduction will be essential reading for researchers and advanced students interested in entrepreneurship, family business and organisational behaviour. It will also be a key resource for family firm owners, practitioners and family business consultants.Trade Review‘Concise Introduction to the Family Firm is a must read for anyone interested in family business. It challenges the conventional wisdom of business analysis and explains why any rigorous business assessment is incomplete without an in-depth understanding of the family and business, and the complex interactions between them.’ -- George Haynes, Montana State University, US‘According to Karl Lewin, “there is nothing so practical as a good theory.” Zachary, Danes and Balabram have shown that to be true. Through meticulous research both in the literature and in the field, the authors bring together theories of business and family to provide guidance to educators, students, business owners, and consultants on how to handle the problems family businesses encounter and lead them to greater success.’ -- Frank Hoy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US‘In the Concise Introduction to the Family Firm, Zachary, Danes, and Balabram provide a most comprehensive and extensive examination of the complexities and nuances of the processes and dynamics associated with family firms and family entrepreneurship. Zachary and her colleagues delve into the unique interfaces between families and business systems that are unique to family firms. The authors not only provide a comprehensive review of extant literature of family firms but point out areas for future research in family entrepreneurship and family firms and identify potential avenues for business consultants to effectively address difficult issues often found in family businesses. The book is a must read for family business research scholars and consultants.’ -- Chandra S. Mishra, Florida Atlantic University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Rethinking the family firm 2. Family firm conceptualizations 3. Family firm research methodologies 4. Family/business interface dynamics’ contribution to firm sustainability 5. The business system 6. Future frontier of the family firm References. Index

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Book SynopsisOur Elgar Concise Introductions are inspiring and considered introductions to the key principles in business, expertly written by some of the world’s leading scholars. The aims of the series are two-fold: to pinpoint the essential concepts of business and management, and to offer insights that stimulate critical thinking. Building on the current structural focus of the family firm discipline, this Concise Introduction provides a function-based, processual approach to the area. It rethinks the nature of the family firm, advancing a deeper understanding of its internal dynamics. Ramona Kay Zachary, Sharon M. Danes and Elisa Balabram offer comprehensive theories of the family firm, the best methods of investigation, and the relationships among the owning family, its business as well as how these are interconnected. Key Features: Accommodates cultural nuances In-depth exploration of conceptualizations of the family firm Addresses planned and unplanned change in family businesses Focus on the interface between the owning family and its business Analysis of the operational and relational processes in both the family and the business Concluding that both the owning family and its business have complexities such as operational, managerial, and relational processes that warrant further attention, this Concise Introduction will be essential reading for researchers and advanced students interested in entrepreneurship, family business and organisational behaviour. It will also be a key resource for family firm owners, practitioners and family business consultants.Trade Review‘Concise Introduction to the Family Firm is a must read for anyone interested in family business. It challenges the conventional wisdom of business analysis and explains why any rigorous business assessment is incomplete without an in-depth understanding of the family and business, and the complex interactions between them.’ -- George Haynes, Montana State University, US‘According to Karl Lewin, “there is nothing so practical as a good theory.” Zachary, Danes and Balabram have shown that to be true. Through meticulous research both in the literature and in the field, the authors bring together theories of business and family to provide guidance to educators, students, business owners, and consultants on how to handle the problems family businesses encounter and lead them to greater success.’ -- Frank Hoy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US‘In the Concise Introduction to the Family Firm, Zachary, Danes, and Balabram provide a most comprehensive and extensive examination of the complexities and nuances of the processes and dynamics associated with family firms and family entrepreneurship. Zachary and her colleagues delve into the unique interfaces between families and business systems that are unique to family firms. The authors not only provide a comprehensive review of extant literature of family firms but point out areas for future research in family entrepreneurship and family firms and identify potential avenues for business consultants to effectively address difficult issues often found in family businesses. The book is a must read for family business research scholars and consultants.’ -- Chandra S. Mishra, Florida Atlantic University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Rethinking the family firm 2. Family firm conceptualizations 3. Family firm research methodologies 4. Family/business interface dynamics’ contribution to firm sustainability 5. The business system 6. Future frontier of the family firm References. Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This insightful Research Agenda explores social finance and impact investing, surveying the latest research in this area. It considers a range of actors from across the social finance ecosystem, from investors and social banks, to the entrepreneurs who propose sustainable solutions and seek finance.Chapters discuss a variety of key topics, including impact investing practices by philanthropic and renewable energy sectors, the financing of social enterprises, social ventures and the effect of banking on the Sustainable Development Goals. The Research Agenda also examines market-figures to provide a holistic overview of the social finance and impact investing markets.Considering the perspectives of both investors and investees, this Research Agenda will be a useful guide for scholars and researchers in the areas of social finance, social entrepreneurship,impact investing and sustainability. Its evaluation of the challenges and successes of multiple social finance sectors will also be beneficial for practitioners in these fields.Trade Review'A Research Agenda for Social Finance offers a comprehensive look at the goals and challenges of social finance. The volume covers every field of social finance, from philanthropy, government, and other not-for-profit sectors to profit-conscious impact investing. Chapters on renewable energy, the banking sector, and social impact bonds highlight some of the most ambitious implementations of social finance. Methodologically diverse and breathtaking in its scope, this volume defines the state of knowledge on social finance. This book identifies fruitful directions that social finance might pursue in hopes of enlightening and securing a more humane, environmentally sustainable future.' -- Professor James Ming Chen, Michigan State University, US'A Research Agenda for Social Finance represents a significant new contribution to the development of scholarly research on social and impact finance. This book offers a wide-ranging and interesting review of potential areas of future research within this emerging market. The chapters explore the different types of social and impact finance, the market infrastructure, key investment themes, as well as important innovations. Overall this book provides a roadmap for future researchers that is both engaging and compelling.' -- Professor Alex Nicholls, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to A Research Agenda for Social Finance 1 Othmar M. Lehner 1 Exploring impact investing’s emergence in the philanthropic sector 1 Jessica Jones and Elizabeth Embry 2 A ladder to nowhere? A research agenda for funding social enterprise 27 J. Howard Kucher 3 Financing a sustainable planet: research agenda for impact investing in the renewable energy sector from an identity-based view 45 Tongyu Meng and Jamie Newth 4 Market infrastructure for social ventures 69 Vanina A. Farber and Patrick Reichert 5 The best of both worlds? Impact investors and their role in the financial versus social performance debate 91 Sergio G. Lazzarini, Sandro Cabral, Leandro S. Pongeluppe, Luciana C. de M. Ferreira and Angelica Rotondaro 6 Challenges for social impact measurement in the non-profit sector 119 Ericka Costa 7 At the intersection of financial and non-financial accounting impact measurements 145 Caterina Pesci and Andrea Girardi 8 The banking sector and the SDGs: interconnections and future directions 167 Olaf Weber 9 Financial sustainability conscientiousness 191 Julia M. Puaschunder 10 Social impact bonds: challenges and success 215 Eleonora Broccardo and Maria Mazzuca Index

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Book SynopsisCharged with developing learning, teaching and assessment practices that go beyond delivering discipline-specific subject knowledge, the demands on entrepreneurial educators have increased in recent decades. This guide will help educators develop more entrepreneurial graduates by demonstrating how they can equip learners with key competencies such as team working, creativity, problem solving, and opportunity recognition. This engaging How to Guide shares the journeys of educators working within different contexts to help the reader design an imaginative entrepreneurship program. Providing critical perspectives and observations that are both forward- looking and practice-led, each chapter offers a wide range of insights into the unique practices of some of the world’s leading educators in entrepreneurship, education and creativity. With a focus on the development of students and their ventures, educators at any level or discipline within higher education are invited to reflect upon and advance their own practices. Illustrating a vast range of contemporary practices in the field of entrepreneurial education, this compelling book will be an essential tool for any educator whose teaching incorporates entrepreneurship, enterprise, and creativity.Trade Review‘Is the tide finally turning for entrepreneurship education? Toward embracing the best of what we know about human learning? If so, Kat, Col and Andy are our Archimedes lever! I, for one, am deeply grateful. Creativity and design should go hand in glove with entrepreneurship but the dots didn’t really get connected… until they showed up and showed out. I read anything they do... and can you tell just how envious I am of this volume?’ -- Norris Krueger, QREC, Kyushu University, Japan‘If you bring together some of the leading thinkers in entrepreneurship education this is the book you get. An outstanding set of chapters examining graduate entrepreneurs, underlying ideation processes, and the venturing journey. This is more than just a book; it is a statement about the future of entrepreneurship education.’ -- Luke Pittaway, Ohio University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface ix PART I THE GRADUATES 1 Influential teaching philosophies 2 Colin Jones 2 Entrepreneurship education: the journey to a beginner’s mind 5 Rebecca White 3 Prudent “entrepreneurial” graduates that take intelligent action 15 Gustav Hägg 4 Developing slow graduates 25 Colin Jones 5 Enough is enough: put your students first 35 Doan Winkel PART II THE PRE IDEAS 6 Creativity at the heart 44 Andy Penaluna 7 Creativity on a skateboard 47 Alistair Fee 8 Creative fitness 57 Dave Jarman 9 Creativity as expansive learning 66 Daniele Morselli 10 Creating a climate for creativity in the entrepreneurial classroom 74 Stefania Romano and Charlotte Carey 11 Learning with a pencil, not a pen 83 Andy Penaluna 12 Entrepreneurial opportunities by design: unlocking creative potential 92 Margaret Tynan PART III THE VENTURES 13 Where the brave venture 102 Kath Penaluna 14 Guiding your entrepreneurial journey 107 Alex Maritz 15 Learning from learners and leading from the back 114 Kath Penaluna 16 Developing the harmonious venture 123 David Kirby 17 Defending open culture in facilitation, research and entrepreneurship 131 Fátima São Simão 18 What can we learn from the arts for creative entrepreneurship? 138 Silja Suntola References 147 Index 155

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Book SynopsisConsumers have, to a large extent, become their own producers; they are more aware of marketing and are active in adding value to the products and experiences they want. By assessing customers as active agents rather than passive consumers, Bjoern Bjerke explores alternative ways of marketing for new businesses and social entrepreneurial ventures. This book first presents the dominant approach to marketing theory used for the last half a century. After that, it presents an alternative approach to marketing theory by emphasizing how new infrastructures and organizations, including online platforms, influence new ways of linking the formal and informal economies together. Building on fundamental theories of science and methodological issues, Bjerke creates useful theoretical conceptions that can develop a greater connection between practice and research. He argues that as entrepreneurial activity is more accessible than ever it needs a fresh approach to include customers as co-creators and co-extractors of market value. An excellent book for exploring alternative marketing, students and researchers in marketing, social entrepreneurship and wider business and management studies will gain a greater understanding of what it means to be a marketer, customer and user.Trade Review'This book offers a new way of thinking about the ontology and function of marketing in various entrepreneurial contexts. Bjoern Bjerke's notable prior scholarship in social entrepreneurship underpins a foundation of knowledge and experience that gives us a more expansive and different way of seeing entrepreneurial situations, so that, for example, we can grasp public places as a form of a market, and, view entrepreneurs as more engaged in ''realizing'' value rather than what we traditionally think of as ''marketing'' goods or services to others. As the field of entrepreneurship focuses more on the process of value creation, this book offers various theoretical perspectives, methods, and insights into ways that value is co-created. This book is a very timely and important contribution that integrates cutting edge ideas in marketing and entrepreneurship so as to see both disciplines in new ways.' --William B. Gartner, Babson College, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Different Times and Realities - Different Thinking 2. Knowledge Development of Business Entrepreneurship 3. Knowledge Development of Social Entrepreneurship 4. Knowledge Development of Marketing 5. Knowledge Development of Leadership 6. Some Methodological Cornerstones 7. Entrepreneurial Startups 8. Marketing Approaches for Independent Business Entrepreneurs 9. Marketing Approaches for Business Intrapreneurs 10. Marketing approaches for Social Entrepreneurs 11. Summary and Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book expertly analyses European political entrepreneurship in relation to the EU's approach towards the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development strategy. It explores the role of European political entrepreneurs in shaping, influencing and realising sustainable development goals (SDGs). Leading contributors consider political entrepreneurship at an international level, explaining how European political entrepreneurs act and interact in order to promote their policies at various levels of governance. Focusing on how EU politicians, public servants and bureaucrats create new and innovative institutional conditions, the contributors reveal how the UN SDGs are implemented in Europe. Chapters examine several EU actors in the context of numerous development goals to assess how political entrepreneurship challenges traditional EU institutions and promotes visionary activity to achieve the goals of Agenda 2030. Providing a unique contribution to the growing pool of research on entrepreneurial activity in the public sector, this book will prove to be a valuable resource for scholars working at the intersection between entrepreneurship, policy-making and European politics. It will also be beneficial for students and practitioners who are interested in global issues and sustainable development.Trade Review'This volume provides a broad and up to date account of European Union governance of sustainable development. In doing so it brings in political entrepreneurship as an important perspective on understanding how actors in the European Union interpret and implement the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It is a timely and important contribution that will be of interest to all students of sustainable development.' --Staffan Andersson, Linnaeus University, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: 1 The EU and Agenda 2030 1 Daniel Silander 2 The UN regime and sustainable development: Agenda 2030 14 Don Wallace 3 The European Commission on Agenda 2030 36 Daniel Silander 4 Agenda 2030 and the EU on gender equality 54 Charlotte Silander 5 Agenda 2030 and the EU on migration and integration 79 Anna Parkhouse 6 Agenda 2030 and the EU on industry, innovation and infrastructure 99 Akis Kalaitzidis 7 Agenda 2030 and the EU on climate change 111 Darlene Budd 8 Agenda 2030 and the EU on affordable and clean energy 133 Henry Kiragu Wambuii 9 Agenda 2030 and the EU on sustainable cities and communities 150 Nino Berishvili 10 Agenda 2030 and the EU on climate action 162 Daniel Silander 11 The EU and Agenda 2050: New political entrepreneurship in its making 185 Daniel Silander Index 191

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Book SynopsisThis book is about inventions and innovation in U.S. Federal Laboratories. The inventions discussed are defined by the technology transfer mechanism known by the term invention disclosures, and the innovations that follow are outputs from the technology transfer process. The demonstrated positive relationships in the book's model are the groundwork for suggesting not only a rethinking of the extant empirical research, within the context of a knowledge production function, but also a refocusing of U.S. technology policy in support of technology transfer from Federal Laboratories. Invention, Innovation and U.S. Federal Laboratories brings a comprehensive and accessible discussion of technology transfer to academic researchers in economics, public policy, and public administration, as well as to policy makers and Federal Laboratory directors.Trade Review'This book puts together many pieces of the technology development life cycle puzzle, providing a great array of perspectives, insights and empirical evidence. A powerful tool for any researcher or practitioner in technology policy as it uncovers, chapter by chapter, the dynamics and the central role played by inventive ideas.' --Sara Amoroso, Economist at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre-Seville, Spain'This pathbreaking book identifies the sleeping giant of American innovative prowess - The U.S. Federal Laboratories. By subjecting the role of the Federal Laboratories to the lens of his systematic and pervasive analytical framework, Al Link uncovers this surprising hidden champion of American innovation. This thoughtful and lucid book provides a masterful new and fresh look at the role of the U.S. Federal Laboratories in driving innovation in the United States. It is a must read for all scholars, researchers and thought leaders in business and policy who need to understand how and why innovation works.' --David Audretsch, Indiana University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Genesis of Inventive Ideas 2. New Invention Disclosures 3. Experiences and Inventive Ideas 4. Leveraging the Experiences to Inventive Ideas Process 5. Inventive Ideas as a Driver of Technology Transfer Activity 6. Inventive Ideas as a Driver of Technology Transfer Activity: A Case Study 7. CRADAs: Market Failure and Government Failure? 8. Concluding Observations References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisFocusing on academic entrepreneurship in the university context, the authors explore how researchers, teachers, students, academic managers and administrators make sense of entrepreneurship and of the paradoxes and contradictions involved. The book investigates how these diverse entrepreneurial actors and their stakeholders interpret and analyse entrepreneurial activities within the university ecosystem.New Movements in Academic Entrepreneurship covers research commercialisation, academic start-up companies and entrepreneurship education, as well as university-society relationships more widely. With contributions from Europe, North America and Asia, this book helps to broaden our understanding of academic entrepreneurship using original theoretical insights and rich empirical data.Essential reading for students and researchers of entrepreneurial universities and ecosystems, this book provides fresh theoretical frameworks and an inclusive understanding of academic entrepreneurship.Trade Review‘This book expands the boundaries of the many different roles academics and academic institutions play in both furthering and hindering entrepreneurship (as construed in a variety of forms and methods) in a variety of contexts for a variety of individuals engaged in the practices of entrepreneurship. A major value of this book is that it challenges the academic ecosystem to consider a more expansive view of what entrepreneurship is, who is engaged in these different forms of entrepreneurship, and, to recognize that these varieties of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship already exist and can flourish, if we are willing to let go of our misguided preconceptions and misunderstandings.’ -- William B. Gartner, Babson College, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xv 1 Introduction: from diversity of interpretations to sustainability of institutions 1 Päivi Eriksson, Ulla Hytti, Katri Komulainen, Tero Montonen and Päivi Siivonen HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION ON THE MOVE 2 The role of European Union in creating Europe of knowledge 19 Luk Van Langenhove and Päivi Eriksson 3 Higher education marketization in England: employable or entrepreneurial graduates (or both)? 31 Michael Tomlinson, Päivi Siivonen and Hanna Laalo 4 Experimenting in the organisational periphery: introducing extra-curricular entrepreneurship education in traditional research universities 48 Juha Tuunainen, Kari Kantasalmi and Sari Laari-Salmela ENTREPRENEURIAL UNIVERSITIES CLAIMING THEIR FUTURE 5 The Third Mission of universities: a boundary object with interpretative flexibility 68 Tero Montonen, Päivi Eriksson and Kirsi Peura 6 Beyond the ecosystem metanarrative: narrative multiplicity and entrepreneurial experiences at the University of Waterloo 83 Ryan T. MacNeil, Santana Ochoa Briggs, Alisha E. Christie and Connor Sheehan 7 Identity work of a researcher in entrepreneurial university backyard research 103 Kirsi Peura, Anna Elkina, Kaisu Paasio and Ulla Hytti DISCOMFORTING AND DELIGHTING: THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE OF ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP 8 The formation of and resistance to enterprising labouring subject in academia: a case study of a translation graduate entering the labour market 124 Katri Komulainen and Maija Korhonen 9 Doing gender in the student entrepreneurship society programme 143 Anna Elkina 10 Ability self makes a difference – university students’ perceptions of employability and entrepreneurship 163 Kati Kasanen and Hannu Räty ACADEMICS BECOMING ENTREPRENEURS 11 You never travel alone – challenging the masculine ethos of individualism in academic entrepreneurship 181 Tiina Suopajärvi, Minna Salminen-Karlsson and Oili-Helena Ylijoki 12 Social academic entrepreneurship: contextual understanding 202 Subhanjan Sengupta 13 Becoming credible? An alternative narrative of start-ups in an accelerator program 219 Jukka Moilanen, Outi-Maaria Palo-oja, Eeva Aromaa and Tero Montonen FUTURE MOVEMENTS 14 Understanding academic entrepreneurship as fields of moral orders: theoretical and methodological perspectives of positioning theory 235 Pasi Hirvonen and Luk Van Langenhove EPILOGUE 15 Stirring and disturb – urging the movement of academic entrepreneurship onwards 253 Daniel Hjorth and Chris Steyaert Index

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Book SynopsisOffering invaluable insights into technologically-driven change in Africa, this incisive book envisions myriad positive economic changes brought about by new technologies and innovations. Rooted in original research from contributors who have worked and taught in Africa, it encapsulates developments and breakthroughs throughout the continent.Technological Leapfrogging and Innovation in Africa details research and data on leading African economies and companies, illustrating the current achievements of these key players. With contributions by authors from a broad variety of fields including law, economics and journalism, it considers unique circumstances such as Africa’s post-pandemic recovery. It provides contextualised examinations of the challenges involved in technological leapfrogging for sub-Saharan Africa.This timely book will be essential for students and academics of entrepreneurship, development economics and innovation. It will additionally be of great benefit to policy makers interested in expanding their awareness of innovation and research in Africa.Trade Review‘This provocative volume provides a whole new lens for understanding the potential of technology to redefine the future of Africa. The contributors provide a perspective that is both realistic and holistic, particularly in reflecting the social, economic, cultural, and political challenges facing the continent. They approach technological leapfrogging not as a silver bullet, but as a catalyst that, if managed appropriately, can have cross-sectoral benefits and produce sustainable economic development.’ -- Michael H. Morris, University of Notre Dame, US‘Technological Leapfrogging and Innovation in Africa: Digital Transformation and Opportunity for the Next Growth Continent is a must-read for knowing where Africa is going and opportunities for its future. Transformational pathway implications for the continent are described in detail.’ -- Dianne H.B. Welsh, University of North Carolina Greensboro, US‘This is a highly interesting and innovative volume for everyone with an interest in industrialization, leapfrogging, and technological development on the African continent. It will also be of help to scholars and practitioners who are working on business strategy in developing countries more generally. Moreover, the volume raises important policy implications and lessons learned from a variety of detailed case studies and contexts across the continent.’ -- Peter Lund-Thomsen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark‘Technology leapfrogging seems to be a promising approach to boost economic development and innovative solutions across Africa, but how can it succeed? What factors need to be considered? What should be avoided? Through an interdisciplinary and institutional lens, this edited research volume addresses such questions by building on timely cases and data, while not neglecting influencing local contexts and traditions of the 54 African countries. A must-read for scholars and practitioners who are eager to find innovative solutions that are beneficial for the continent and its people.’ -- Emamdeen Fohim, Centre for African Smart Public Value Governance, Mauritius‘Technological Leapfrogging and Innovation in Africa: Digital Transformation and Opportunity for the Next Growth Continent is a timely book for scholars and practitioners on digital transformation and technological leapfrogging, concepts that offer challenges as well as opportunities that are necessary for fast tracking Africa’s growth and development.’ -- Jane Khayesi, Leeds University Business School, UK‘The rapid urbanization of a very youthful and educated population coupled with immense leaps in technology puts Africa at the crux of a technological transformation of society. Swartz, Scheepers, Lindgreen, Yousafzai, and Matthee vividly capture the opportunities, challenges, and nuance this presents African economies.’ -- Hermann A. Ndofor, Indiana University, US and Associate Editor of Africa Journal of Management and Journal of ManagementTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xii by Kimberly Killmer Hollister Foreword xiv by Morris Mthombeni Acknowledgements xvii Introduction to Technological Leapfrogging and Innovation in Africa 1 Ethné Swartz, Caren Brenda Scheepers, Adam Lindgreen, Shumaila Yousafzai, and Marianne Matthee 1 Technology leapfrogging in Sub-Saharan Africa: jumping the management capabilities gap 17 David Teece, Kieran Brown, and Phil Alves 2 Following the money: leapfrogging through and with entrepreneurial growth companies in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa 33 Ethné Swartz, Christopher Denecke and Caren Brenda Scheepers 3 Technological leapfrogging in Africa: critical success factors to drive inclusive growth 55 Marianne Matthee and Caren Brenda Scheepers 4 Advancing technological hub collaborations to promote transnational African communities 71 Michelle Montague-Mfuni, Frances Fabian, and Caren Brenda Scheepers 5 Digital technology and innovation in Africa: leapfrogging in finance 89 Njuguna Ndung’u and Alex Oguso 6 Financial leapfrogging and innovative financing in sub-Saharan Africa: gender-lens investments for gender equality 112 Michele Ruiters and Motshedisi Mathibe 7 Two kinds of time: the Chinese–Kenyan infrastructure disconnect 136 Arielle S. Emmett 8 Ongoing technological innovation in the home: a blessing or a curse? 155 Alet C. Erasmus 9 Can digital technologies help Africa to leapfrog its massive education gap? 171 Ali Parry and Wilma Viviers 10 Digital leadership skills that South African leaders require for successful digital transformation 184 Asmitha Tiekam and Hugh Myres 11 Legal leapfrogging? Legal system and rule of law effects on cross-listing to bond by emerging-market firms 207 Joel Malen, Paul M. Vaaler, and Ivy Zhang 12 How intellectual property regimes and innovative infrastructure promote growth of Africa’s technological market 245 Ashley Elizabeth Sperbeck 13 Africa’s post-pandemic economic recovery: catch up, don’t give up 268 Lyal White, Liezl Rees, and Nikitta Hahn Index

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Book SynopsisIlluminating and timely, this book explores several theoretical and empirical issues related to the potential for increasing capacities for innovation, knowledge and entrepreneurship. It highlights the current academic and political consensus that calls for policy interventions targeted towards more balanced, inclusive and regionally cohesive growth.Bringing together a wide range of cutting-edge case studies and research on regional potentials, the book explores the need for a focus on the regional inequality aspects of innovating, knowledge and entrepreneurship. Chapters analyse previously underexplored determinants of regional economic growth and development often overlooked in standard growth studies. They offer a deeper understanding of the drivers and implications of sub-national disparities in entrepreneurship and innovation in both developed and developing countries. Scholars and researchers of innovation, entrepreneurship, regional economics and spatial planning will appreciate the blend of empirical and theoretical viewpoints in the book. It will also be a useful tool for policymakers, planners and consultants involved in economic development and regional policies on different scales.Trade Review‘Innovation and entrepreneurship are key to economic development. But these factors are far more concentrated geographically than wealth or employment. Why is this the case? Unlocking Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship provides the answers. A must-read for scholars and policymakers who want to unleash the economic potential of territories.’Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Unlocking Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The Potential for Increasing Capacities 1 Iréne Bernhard, Urban Gråsjö and Charlie Karlsson 2 Activating and redirecting regional potentials through innovation and entrepreneurship: an explorative study of European regions 14 Andreas P. Cornett and Nils Karl Sørensen 3 Urban innovation districts as hotspots for innovators 38 Claudia Trillo 4 Entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship policy and regional innovation systems 64 Helen Lawton Smith 5 Industrial policy in developed countries: a difficult but important policy area 81 Charlie Karlsson and Sam Tavassoli 6 Cultural policy for unlocking potentials of cultural activities in diverse regions 111 Giedrė Dzemydaitė 7 Assessing the role of entropy on economic complexity in Italian regions 134 Roberto Antonietti and Chiara Burlina 8 Regional institutions and small business in Russia 158 Yulia V. Tsareva, Stepan P. Zemtsov and Vera A. Barinova 9 Hiring the first employee: an international exploration on the considerations leading to job creation by the solo self-employed 186 Albert Kraaij and Saskia Rademaker 10 How patenting and self-employment have affected US metropolitan growth 219 Gordon F. Mulligan 11 Automation of income support in the public social services: a case study of an innovation that is still struggling 248 Elin Wihlborg and Mariana S. Gustafsson 12 Businessization and collaboration of the citizen/non-profit sector in Japan 271 Masashi Imase 13 Complementary smart specialization in a key Polish region 298 Patryk Czerwony, Mirosław Miller and Tomasz Mroczkowski 14 Higher education and inclusion: a comparative study of immigrants’ challenges, opportunities and strategies in Sweden and South Africa 321 Victoria Johansson and Deeqa Odaway Index

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Book SynopsisThe Theoretical World of Entrepreneurship contains the first and most comprehensive examination of more than 250 theories applicable to the study of entrepreneurship. It includes a theoretical examination of current social and economic controversies that impact entrepreneurs. Following in Weber's tradition, it also compares the doctrines of 16 Christian denominations and nine world religions which offer different conceptual windows for understanding entrepreneurs. The author ties the theoretical world of entrepreneurship together by pursuing three primary objectives. The first objective is to focus intently on the need to specify the assumptions of the theories that are used to address research questions. The second is to provide a common vision of diverse perspectives. The third is to help scholars who are seeking alternatives to the conventional wisdom.This comprehensive resource is ideal for doctoral students seeking to grasp the entire theoretical domain of the field of entrepreneurship. It also serves as a reference for professors who want to position the work that they know best within the frame of the entire theoretical world of entrepreneurship. The book is accessible enough to engage those who do not already possess an academic background.Trade Review‘Jim Fiet’s book, The Theoretical World of Entrepreneurship, provides an insightful look into the assumptions and boundary conditions that define the field of entrepreneurship. His treatment of the numerous theories used to study and explain entrepreneurship is valuable and as a family business scholar, I particularly appreciate his attention to that topic.’ -- James J. Chrisman, Mississippi State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Prologue to The Theoretical World of Entrepreneurship 1. Introduction 2. General theories 3. Process and milestone achievement theories 4. Entrepreneurial contexts 5. Family firm theory 6. Economics of entrepreneurship 7. Psychological view of entrepreneurship 8. Social entrepreneurship 9. Entrepreneurial decision-making 10, Structural explanations for enterprising behavior 11. Environmental influences on firm formation 12. Relevant societal debates 13. Religious doctrines of Christian denominations 14. Religious doctrines of world religions Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Fully revised and updated, this Advanced Introduction provides a comprehensive understanding of entrepreneurial finance of new and growing ventures. With a unique research-based focus, Hans Landström synthesizes contemporary knowledge and presents diverse theoretical approaches to explain financial decision-making in entrepreneurial ventures.New features include: An updated synthesis of knowledge on entrepreneurial finance, which highlights accumulated knowledge as well as new contributions in entrepreneurial finance research Emphasis on entrepreneurial finance from the perspective of both entrepreneurs as well as capital providers An elaboration of financial issues not only in high-tech and high growth ventures, but also in the financing of more 'everyday' ventures A consideration of the ways the financial landscape has changed, featuring analysis of the FinTech revolution, crowdfunding and initial coin offerings (ICOs). This second edition will serve as an excellent up-to-date resource for advanced students and scholars in entrepreneurship, innovation, finance and business. Policy-makers interested in financial issues in young and growing ventures will also find this Advanced Introduction a useful tool for exploring financial decision-making from an entrepreneur’s perspective.Trade Review‘This book is a must-read for anyone interested in entrepreneurial finance. From the traditional funding sources to the new financial landscape created by the fintech revolution, Hans Landstrom provides an excellent overview of the field. By adopting the perspective of both entrepreneurs and capital providers and moving beyond the traditional focus on high tech and high growth ventures, this book takes an important step in “democratizing” the literature on entrepreneurial finance to cover the financing needs of “everyday” entrepreneurs and ventures.’ -- Annaleena Parhankangas, Iowa State University, US‘This book makes a significant contribution to the literature on entrepreneurial finance. It provides a comprehensive review of both the demand for, and supply of, debt and equity finance. Theory and empirical evidence are both discussed in detail. This second edition includes important new content on the changing financial landscape. I recommend that anyone who is developing a course on entrepreneurial finance should base the structure and content of their teaching around this book. It is essential reading for courses on entrepreneurial finance.’ -- Colin Mason, University of Glasgow, UKAcclaim for the first edition:‘I think readers can learn a great deal from this book. Indeed, I hope it will inspire more researchers to engage in entrepreneurial finance as a fascinating research topic.’ -- Douglas Cumming, International Small Business Journal‘Over the last decades, Hans Landström has made important contributions to the financial bootstrapping, business angel and venture capital literatures. In this book, he provides a rich overview of the entrepreneurial finance literature, going back to the earliest contributions and breaking down the “silos” of research on entrepreneurial finance that developed in the entrepreneurship and finance literatures. Experienced researchers and PhD students will find much to learn in this book to position their own research vis-à-vis the state of the art.’ -- Tom Vanacker, Ghent University, Belgium‘This book is outstanding and provides an excellent review of the study of entrepreneurial finance. It is research-based and expands our understanding of the application and adaption of traditional financial techniques to the management of new and growing ventures. The book takes the perspectives of both capital providers and entrepreneurs, with significant attention being devoted to the financial decision-making behaviors in entrepreneurial firms. Overall, this book is a must-read and offers a comprehensive and critical discussion of knowledge on the fundamental topic of entrepreneurial finance.’ -- Dirk De Clercq, Brock University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the second edition PART I ENTREPRENEURIAL FINANCE 1. The basics of entrepreneurial finance PART II ENTREPRENEURS’ PERSPECTIVE 2. The characteristics of entrepreneurship 3. The demand for capital – empirical evidence 4. The demand for capital – theoretical explanations PART III CAPITAL PROVIDERS’ PERSPECTIVE 5. The supply of capital – debt financing 6. The supply of capital – equity financing 7. The new financial landscape 8. The context of entrepreneurial finance References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Fully revised and updated, this Advanced Introduction provides a comprehensive understanding of entrepreneurial finance of new and growing ventures. With a unique research-based focus, Hans Landström synthesizes contemporary knowledge and presents diverse theoretical approaches to explain financial decision-making in entrepreneurial ventures.New features include: An updated synthesis of knowledge on entrepreneurial finance, which highlights accumulated knowledge as well as new contributions in entrepreneurial finance research Emphasis on entrepreneurial finance from the perspective of both entrepreneurs as well as capital providers An elaboration of financial issues not only in high-tech and high growth ventures, but also in the financing of more 'everyday' ventures A consideration of the ways the financial landscape has changed, featuring analysis of the FinTech revolution, crowdfunding and initial coin offerings (ICOs). This second edition will serve as an excellent up-to-date resource for advanced students and scholars in entrepreneurship, innovation, finance and business. Policy-makers interested in financial issues in young and growing ventures will also find this Advanced Introduction a useful tool for exploring financial decision-making from an entrepreneur’s perspective.Trade Review‘This book is a must-read for anyone interested in entrepreneurial finance. From the traditional funding sources to the new financial landscape created by the fintech revolution, Hans Landstrom provides an excellent overview of the field. By adopting the perspective of both entrepreneurs and capital providers and moving beyond the traditional focus on high tech and high growth ventures, this book takes an important step in “democratizing” the literature on entrepreneurial finance to cover the financing needs of “everyday” entrepreneurs and ventures.’ -- Annaleena Parhankangas, Iowa State University, US‘This book makes a significant contribution to the literature on entrepreneurial finance. It provides a comprehensive review of both the demand for, and supply of, debt and equity finance. Theory and empirical evidence are both discussed in detail. This second edition includes important new content on the changing financial landscape. I recommend that anyone who is developing a course on entrepreneurial finance should base the structure and content of their teaching around this book. It is essential reading for courses on entrepreneurial finance.’ -- Colin Mason, University of Glasgow, UKAcclaim for the first edition:‘I think readers can learn a great deal from this book. Indeed, I hope it will inspire more researchers to engage in entrepreneurial finance as a fascinating research topic.’ -- Douglas Cumming, International Small Business Journal‘Over the last decades, Hans Landström has made important contributions to the financial bootstrapping, business angel and venture capital literatures. In this book, he provides a rich overview of the entrepreneurial finance literature, going back to the earliest contributions and breaking down the “silos” of research on entrepreneurial finance that developed in the entrepreneurship and finance literatures. Experienced researchers and PhD students will find much to learn in this book to position their own research vis-à-vis the state of the art.’ -- Tom Vanacker, Ghent University, Belgium‘This book is outstanding and provides an excellent review of the study of entrepreneurial finance. It is research-based and expands our understanding of the application and adaption of traditional financial techniques to the management of new and growing ventures. The book takes the perspectives of both capital providers and entrepreneurs, with significant attention being devoted to the financial decision-making behaviors in entrepreneurial firms. Overall, this book is a must-read and offers a comprehensive and critical discussion of knowledge on the fundamental topic of entrepreneurial finance.’ -- Dirk De Clercq, Brock University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the second edition PART I ENTREPRENEURIAL FINANCE 1. The basics of entrepreneurial finance PART II ENTREPRENEURS’ PERSPECTIVE 2. The characteristics of entrepreneurship 3. The demand for capital – empirical evidence 4. The demand for capital – theoretical explanations PART III CAPITAL PROVIDERS’ PERSPECTIVE 5. The supply of capital – debt financing 6. The supply of capital – equity financing 7. The new financial landscape 8. The context of entrepreneurial finance References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This Advanced Introduction provides an illustrative guide to private equity, integrating insights from academic research with examples to derive practical recommendations. Paul Gompers and Steven Kaplan begin by reviewing the history of private equity then exploring the evidence on performance of private equity investments at both the portfolio company level and fund level, documenting the creation of economic value. The book then presents a set of actionable frameworks for driving value creation in private equity investments. It concludes by examining how private equity investors raise funds and how they successfully manage their private equity firms. Key Features: Explains what private equity investors do and how they do it Includes a detailed discussion of career paths in private equity Links real world examples that illustrate insights from academic research Provides an overview of the private equity industry from individual investments to fundraising to firm management This Advanced Introduction is an excellent resource for investment bankers and consultants as well as prospective investors who are looking for a comprehensive yet succinct introduction to the topic. Scholars interested in the fields of finance and private equity will find the research and case studies informative and enlightening.Trade Review‘This book is a must read for those interested in how the US private industry was formed, evolved over the years and currently operates. Paul Gompers and Steve Kaplan provide a comprehensive review of the academic research about the industry and provide thoughtful new rigorous analysis. Through the use of statistical evidence and real world examples, they demystify the working of a private equity firm and illustrate how private equity firms create value through operating improvements, leverage, governance, aligned incentives, and strategic direction. They also dispel many rumors about the industry. This book is the definitive work on the private equity industry and should be of interest to students, academicians and practitioners.’ -- Robert F. "Bob" White, Harvard Business School, US‘Private equity has become a traditional and strongly growing asset class – this book provides a great overview and deep dive of the “what is what” of the industry.’ -- Marcel Erni, Co-Founder, Partners Group‘Gompers and Kaplan take some of the “private” out of “private equity” by demystifying how it all works and deftly weaving together both the academic and practitioner perspectives. Finally, a book I can recommend to students, new recruits, and professionals looking for a Private equity primer.’ -- Joe Osnoss, Managing Partner, Silver Lake‘Private Equity is comprehensive, insightful and revelatory. It will quickly become the industry’s definitive tome authored by private equity’s foremost academic authorities – Paul Gompers and Steven Kaplan.’ > -- Gregory Purcell, Co Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Arbor Investments, LLC

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This Advanced Introduction provides an illustrative guide to private equity, integrating insights from academic research with examples to derive practical recommendations. Paul Gompers and Steven Kaplan begin by reviewing the history of private equity then exploring the evidence on performance of private equity investments at both the portfolio company level and fund level, documenting the creation of economic value. The book then presents a set of actionable frameworks for driving value creation in private equity investments. It concludes by examining how private equity investors raise funds and how they successfully manage their private equity firms. Key Features: Explains what private equity investors do and how they do it Includes a detailed discussion of career paths in private equity Links real world examples that illustrate insights from academic research Provides an overview of the private equity industry from individual investments to fundraising to firm management This Advanced Introduction is an excellent resource for investment bankers and consultants as well as prospective investors who are looking for a comprehensive yet succinct introduction to the topic. Scholars interested in the fields of finance and private equity will find the research and case studies informative and enlightening.Trade Review‘This book is a must read for those interested in how the US private industry was formed, evolved over the years and currently operates. Paul Gompers and Steve Kaplan provide a comprehensive review of the academic research about the industry and provide thoughtful new rigorous analysis. Through the use of statistical evidence and real world examples, they demystify the working of a private equity firm and illustrate how private equity firms create value through operating improvements, leverage, governance, aligned incentives, and strategic direction. They also dispel many rumors about the industry. This book is the definitive work on the private equity industry and should be of interest to students, academicians and practitioners.’ -- Robert F. "Bob" White, Harvard Business School, US‘Private equity has become a traditional and strongly growing asset class – this book provides a great overview and deep dive of the “what is what” of the industry.’ -- Marcel Erni, Co-Founder, Partners Group‘Gompers and Kaplan take some of the “private” out of “private equity” by demystifying how it all works and deftly weaving together both the academic and practitioner perspectives. Finally, a book I can recommend to students, new recruits, and professionals looking for a Private equity primer.’ -- Joe Osnoss, Managing Partner, Silver Lake‘Private Equity is comprehensive, insightful and revelatory. It will quickly become the industry’s definitive tome authored by private equity’s foremost academic authorities – Paul Gompers and Steven Kaplan.’ > -- Gregory Purcell, Co Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Arbor Investments, LLC

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative Handbook compiles a diverse set of contributions on digital entrepreneurship, providing an in-depth study of how digital entrepreneurship research has evolved over the years, and where it stands today.Offering a snapshot of the major themes in digital entrepreneurship research, the Handbook highlights a wide range of both practice-engaged and practice-relevant works and explores the fundamental concepts and common themes in the field. Chapters examine key topics including the digital platform economy, the digitalization of work, the blockchain economy, and the rural–urban digital divide. The Handbook further analyzes the history and theory of digital entrepreneurship, while also sparking ideas for future research through a consideration of emerging phenomena and new ways to approach research in this broad area of study.Discussing a diverse set of questions, contexts, theories, and methods, this Handbook will be a key resource for researchers and advanced students with a particular interest in entrepreneurship, innovation, technology management, and digital business models. Managers and entrepreneurs will also find the discussion of digital entrepreneurship in relation to financing, social issues, and technology beneficial.Table of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 An introduction to digital entrepreneurship: concepts and themes 2 Mohammad Keyhani, Andishe Ashjari, Alina Sorgner, Tobias Kollmann, Clyde Eiríkur Hull and Zahra Jamshidi PART II DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEFINITIONS 2 What is digital entrepreneurship? Fundamentals of company founding in the digital economy 27 Tobias Kollmann and Philipp Benedikt Jung 3 Eras of digital entrepreneurship: connecting the past, present, and future 49 Tobias Kollmann, Lucas Kleine-Stegemann, Katharina de Cruppe and Christina Strauss 4 Exploring the field of digital entrepreneurship: a bibliometric analysis 74 Eusebio Scornavacca, Tobias Kollmann, Stefano Za, Lucas Kleine-Stegemann and Christina Strauss PART III DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECOSYSTEMS 5 Measuring the digital platform economy 91 Zoltan J. Acs, László Szerb, Abraham K. Song, Esteban Lafuente and Éva Komlósi 6 The regional impacts of digitalization of work on entrepreneurship in the United States 121 Frank M. Fossen, Trevor McLemore and Alina Sorgner PART IV DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP TECHNOLOGIES 7 Startup stacks: understanding the new landscape of digital entrepreneurship technology 140 Mohammad Keyhani 8 Digital product-assisted learning: transforming entrepreneurial learning with product usage analytics 161 Varun Nagaraj PART V DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ADOPTION AND OUTCOMES 9 Punching above their weight class: assessing how digital technologies enhance new and small firm survival and competitiveness 181 Franz T. Lohrke, Alexander B. Hamrick and Qiongrui (Missy) Yao 10 Digital adoption in micro and small enterprise clusters: a dependency theory study in Kenya 199 Ben Mkalama, Giacomo Ciambotti and Bitange Ndemo PART VI DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND FINANCING 11 Crowdfunding: a competency framework for creators 222 Andishe Ashjari 12 Backers: consumers or investors? Crowdfunding vs. traditional financing as an optimal security design problem 236 Anton Miglo 13 Blockchain economy: the challenges and opportunities of initial coin offerings 256 Bennet Schierstedt, Vincent Göttel and Lisa Klever PART VII DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SOCIAL ISSUES 14 Agentifying the body algorithmic: digital entrepreneurial agency and accountability gaps 272 Angela Martinez Dy 15 Digital entrepreneurship in a rural context: the implications of the rural–urban digital divide 291 Paolo Gerli and Jason Whalley 16 Data are the fuel for digital entrepreneurship — but what about data privacy? 306 Wolfgang Koehler, Christian Schultz and Christoph Rasche Index

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Book SynopsisWritten by a plethora of expert contributors from a range of institutions, the Handbook of Technology Transfer provides an engaging deep-dive review of technology transfer as a complex and dynamic process, applying different mechanisms characterising activities in a variety of countries.The Handbook takes a fresh look at how technology transfer comprises at least four dimensions: the underlying mechanism of transferring knowledge; the role of individuals that trigger the transfer; the role of institutions where the transfer takes place, and lastly the role of governments and politics. Split into four distinct parts, this insightful Handbook fully examines each of these dimensions and the roles that each of them play in technology transfer, highlighting university institutions in Europe and North America in particular. Forward-thinking, it also delves into future innovation implementation in emerging economies where resources are limited, and the challenges faced as a result.This enlightening Handbook will be an excellent resource for scholars of business management, economics and information technology. It will also be of great interest to policy-makers of innovation and entrepreneurship given its in-depth look at technology transfer and innovation.Trade Review‘This Handbook edited by David Audretsch, Erik Lehmann, and Albert Link is an important contribution to the canon on university technology transfer. Written by well-known academics, each of the chapters examines either vital issues in technology transfer or national technology transfer recipes. It will be essential reading for scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners interested in the current state of thinking about technology transfer.’ -- Martin Kenney, University of California, Davis, US‘This timely and important Handbook should be on the bookshelf of any scholar interested in the managerial or public policy implications of technology transfer. Its global scope and blending of new developments in both theory and practice are especially attractive. The editors have assembled a distinguished, interdisciplinary group of scholars, which is entirely appropriate, given the nature of the topic. Technology transfer spans a number of fields within the social sciences, business administration, and engineering, including management, economics, geography, sociology, and public policy studies. Each of these fields is represented in this cross-cutting volume. A “must-read” for anyone interested in this topic.’ -- Donald Siegel, Arizona State University, US‘This Handbook edited by David Audretsch, Erik Lehmann, and Albert Link is an important contribution to the canon on university technology transfer. Written by well-known academics, each of the chapters examines either vital issues in technology transfer or national technology transfer recipes. It will be essential reading for scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners interested in the current state of thinking about technology transfer.’ -- Martin Kenney, University of California, Davis, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook of Technology Transfer 1 David B. Audretsch, Erik E. Lehmann and Albert N. Link PART I KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER 1 The limited transferability of knowledge 11 Cristiano Antonelli 2 The impact of knowledge transfer on innovation: exploring the cross-fertilization of basic and applied research 25 Dennis P. Leyden and Matthias Menter 3 The role of public finance in knowledge transfer and innovation 39 David B. Audretsch and Maksim Belitski PART II INDIVIDUALS 4 Principal investigators and knowledge management: a micro-foundational conceptual framework 57 James A. Cunningham, Manlio Del Giudice, Melita Nicotra, Conor O’Kane and Marco Romano 5 Factors facilitating the inventing academics’ transition from nascent entrepreneurs to business owners 75 Joao Ricardo Faria, Rajeev K. Goel and Devrim Göktepe-Hultén 6 The role of work-family initiatives in fostering technology transfer: research opportunities on family and non-family SMEs 103 Katerina Vasilevska Mara Brumana and Tommaso Minola PART III INSTITUTIONS 7 University-industry collaboration: drivers and barriers 124 Thomas Lauvås and Einar Rasmussen 8 Contextualizing technology transfer: a review of university-industry transfer in the construction industry 138 Laís Bandeira Barros, Mirjam Knockaert and Laura Lecluyse 9 The role of Universities of Applied Sciences in technology transfer: the case of Germany 159 Alexander Starnecker and Katharine Wirsching 10 The role of university in a time of crisis: learn from the past to shape the future 175 Henry Etzkowitz, Chunyan Zhou and Rosa Caiazza PART IV COUNTRIES 11 Academic entrepreneurship in Italy 197 Alice Civera, Michele Meoli and Silvio Vismara 12 Academic entrepreneurship: the performance and impacts of academic spin-offs in Norway 216 Marius Tuft Mathisen and Einar Rasmussen 13 Universities’ ownership of intellectual property: focus on Canada 237 Shiri M. Breznitz, Samaa Kazerouni and Qiantao Zhang 14 Technology transfer and frugal social innovations: looking inside an emerging economy 250 Claudia Yañez-Valdés and Maribel Guerrero Index

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Book SynopsisBringing together scholars from around the world, this book provides extensive coverage of the academic literature and research on women’s entrepreneurship policy.Featuring contributions from members of the Global Women's Entrepreneurship Policy Research Network, the book explores and critiques contemporary policy instruments while also pointing toward potential policy solutions. Chapters aim to deepen understanding of women’s entrepreneurship policy and raise awareness among policy makers, programme managers and academics of the dangers associated with gender-blind entrepreneurship policies. The book concludes that ‘one size fits all’ policies that ignore the gender dimension do not support women entrepreneurs effectively.Research-based and international in approach, Women's Entrepreneurship Policy will be a useful guide for academics and advanced students in the areas of entrepreneurship, gender and management, diversity and management, and international business. It will also be beneficial for policy makers and those involved in designing and delivering women’s entrepreneurship programmes.Trade Review‘Well thought-out, illustrative and opportune! This outstanding collection of chapters positively influences the future of the women’s entrepreneurship research agenda and outlines new pathways for entrepreneurship policy formation, enrichment and delivery. A must-read for policy makers and scholars around the globe.’ -- Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodríguez, Trevinyo-Rodríguez & Associates, México‘This compelling book is packed with insightful gems for inclusive entrepreneurial policy. The wide geographical coverage of the chapter collection and their varied theoretical lenses – institutional, narrative and feminist – ensures the value of these insights. Essential reading for enlightened evidence-based policy making for the post-COVID-19 pandemic era, that recognizes women’s entrepreneurship within the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem.’ -- Anne de Bruin, University of Auckland, New ZealandTable of ContentsContents: About Global WEP xviii 1 Introduction to Women’s Entrepreneurship Policy: taking stock and moving forward 1 Colette Henry, Susan Coleman and Kate V. Lewis 2 Exploring the gender gap in women’s entrepreneurship: a narrative policy analysis 14 Patricia G. Greene and Candida Brush 3 Strategies to redress entrepreneurship gender gaps in Canada revisited 40 Barbara J. Orser 4 Entrepreneurship as a losing proposition for women: gendered outcomes of neo-liberal entrepreneurship policy in a Nordic welfare state 77 Helene Ahl, Malin Tillmar, Karin Berglund and Katarina Pettersson 5 Mapping ethnic minority women entrepreneurs’ support initiatives: experiences from the UK 105 Helen Lawton Smith and Beldina Owalla 6 Institutional work in Czech and US business assistance programmes and implications for entrepreneurial inclusion 125 Nancy C. Jurik, Alena Křížková, Marie Pospíšilová and Gray Cavender 7 Barriers to women’s entrepreneurship in Poland and institutional support 164 Ewa Lisowska and Dariusz Leszczyński 8 Beyond COVID-19: women entrepreneurs and e-commerce policy in the Asia-Pacific 194 Patrice Braun, Naomi Birdthistle and Antoinette Flynn 9 Analysis of Ghana’s and South Africa’s women entrepreneurship policies 216 Mavis S. B. Mensah and Evelyn Derera Index 243

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Book SynopsisInnovation for Entrepreneurs presents a powerful but easy to apply toolkit for innovation, based on Professors Meyer and Lee's decades of experience as company founders and innovators for corporations around the globe. This textbook includes guidance for developing new product and service ideas with genuine impact, building teams around these ideas, understanding customers’ needs, translating these needs into compelling product and service designs, and creating initial prototypes. It also helps students learn how to scope and size target markets and position an innovation successfully relative to competitors. These methods are fundamental for any new, impactful venture.The textbook is a series of frameworks and methods that build upon one another to the final deliverable – an innovation project developed by student teams, solving problems for specific types of users and use cases. Each chapter introduces readers to entrepreneurs and their stories of innovation and venture development, across different sectors of the economy and regions of the world. Going to a core theme of the book, each of these entrepreneurs has tackled a societal-focused problem and created economic value for themselves and their investors. These are stories of inspiration and achievement – and they illustrate the major frameworks provided in the book. Each entrepreneur faced a problem or challenge solved by the methods presented in that chapter. The authors’ own entrepreneurial and corporate innovation experiences then complement these examples with additional industry applications of the method. Then, each chapter concludes with exercises for students to apply their newfound knowledge to their innovation projects. The book's final chapter then shows students how to best integrate their work from each chapter into a compelling presentation.Innovation for Entrepreneurs is an essential book for all undergraduate students. Entrepreneurship students in business schools will find it addressing a missing link in many business school curriculums – how to design a distinctive new product or service. At the same time, the methods-based approach combined with its inspiring stories makes this book a great learning platform for engineering and science students thinking about starting their own ventures or working for others upon graduation. Mindful, purposeful innovation is the gift that we wish to share in this book, arming readers with practical, powerful methods. Our students have started many interesting, impactful companies, and with this, have gained the deeper satisfaction of using creativity and technology to help others.Trade Review‘In this book, Professors Marc Meyer and Chaewon Lee offer an innovative approach to studying and learning about the dynamics of innovation. Their experiential approach and their timely focus on social impact make this book a great addition to the literature. The book is a joy to read. It shows that innovation makes our lives better and worth living.’ -- Shaker Zahra, University of Minnesota, US‘Marc Meyer and Chaewon Lee have given us an inspiring book based on their studies of new enterprises around the world and informed by their mentoring generations of students and entrepreneurs. If you have an idea for making our world better, the thoughtful questions raised in Innovation for Entrepreneurs, the clear tools for testing ideas, and the engaging experiences presented will speed your journey toward success.’ -- James M. Utterback, David J. McGrath jr (1959) Professor of Management and Innovation, Emeritus, and MITii Senior Innovation Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, US‘This book is not just about providing frameworks and templates in order to become a better innovator. It is also a voyage of personal discovery in terms of how to channel passion and talent to contribute to society through innovation. Marc H. Meyer and Chaewon Lee bring a nuanced view to developing impact-focused innovation; a must-read for anyone wanting to accomplish their innovative potential.’ -- Raj Echambadi, President, Illinois Institute of Technology, US‘Technological advances are transforming all industries, creating opportunities for innovations that can improve our planet and enhance people’s lives. Professors Meyer and Lee have applied their career-long experience in teaching and coaching entrepreneurs, and as innovators themselves, to create a unique experiential approach to teaching the innovation process, sharing stories from real entrepreneurs as they take the reader through this journey.’ -- Donna Kelley, Babson College, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Types of innovation 2. Finding the right problem to solve 3. Forming a team 4. Ideation – for and with the user 5. Users, buyers, and use cases 6. Gaining Insight into user needs 7. Product and service design 8. Competitive analysis, positioning, and branding 9. Defining the prototype 10. Understand the broader market opportunity and industry ecosystem 11. Creating a product line and platform strategy 12. Conducting a reality check 13. The final presentation: guidelines and next steps Index

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Book SynopsisThe expert contributors to this insightful book explore the latest research on women’s emancipation through entrepreneurship, specifically in relation to families and family businesses. The chapters analyse the role the family plays and how women interact with their families in developing their entrepreneurial projects or taking over the lead of the family business. They examine key themes such as the role of religion, women’s agency, business succession, and identity. To illustrate these areas, the book draws on case studies from a wide variety of contexts, including Syrian women refugee entrepreneurs, Tunisian women entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial parents working from home. The book also draws attention to previously underexplored topics in women’s entrepreneurship, such as spousal support. Looking to future research, it calls for a better understanding of what emancipation means for women in different contexts. This book will be a useful resource for scholars and students of entrepreneurship with a particular interest in family business. Its use of global case studies will also be beneficial for practitioners in this field as well as networks of women entrepreneurs.Trade Review‘This beautifully edited manuscript includes a compilation of the most current scholarship on the complex interweaving among family and business for women entrepreneurs. The authors contribute new scholarship that reexamines the yin and yang of women’s autonomy and control within the business and peacekeeping within the family while teasing out the impact of the family on women’s businesses and women’s influence in family business dealings.’ -- Amanda Bullough, University of Delaware, US‘This latest entry in the series grounded in the Diana Project works extremely well in three main ways: providing a more structured and deeper integrative approach to the intersection of women’s entrepreneurship and family business, including a more diverse set of international contexts, and featuring a broader array of research methodologies.’ -- Patricia G. Greene, Babson College, US‘This dynamic volume merges research in family business with women’s entrepreneurship. It combines work on family firms in developed economies such as Italy and the United States with studies from developing and emerging regions such as Tunisia, Bangladesh, and Lebanon. In doing so, it paints a holistic picture of the challenges in women’s and family firms. Clearly, this book is an important read for anyone interested in women in family business.’ -- Linda F. Edelman, Bentley University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Women, Family and Family Businesses Across Entrepreneurial Contexts 1 Séverine Le Loarne – Lemaire, Candida G. Brush, Andrea Calabrò and Adnane Maâlaoui PART I WOMEN AND FAMILY BUSINESS IN A PATERNALIST CONTEXT 1 The influence on succession of women’s involvement in the boards of directors of family firms, through the lens of neuroscience 13 Soumaya El Hayek Sfeir 2 Gender equality in family business succession: do religion and sociocultural factors matter? Evidence from Tunisia 39 Hedi Yezza and Didier Chabaud PART II WOMEN’S AUTONOMY AND DISTANCE FROM THE FAMILY 3 Women’s access to debt finance for small businesses in Bangladesh: the role of family members (excluding husbands) 53 Jasmine Jaim 4 The role of spousal support in the emancipation of refugee women entrepreneurs in practice: the case of Syrian women entrepreneurship in Lebanon 77 Rola El Ali and Séverine Le Loarne – Lemaire 5 The role of the family environment in innovative female entrepreneurship in Latin America: cases from Colombia, Peru, and Argentina 114 Luz Marina Ferro, Nancy Matos and Florence Pinot De Villechenon PART III LEADING A BUSINESS WITHIN A FAMILY OR MAKING UP WITH THE FAMILY WHILE LEADING A BUSINESS: SAME FIGHT? 6 Strategies for overcoming barriers in women’s careers: agency as autonomy and authority-building courage 155 Mona Haug and Gry Osnes 7 Female entrepreneurship in the wine sector: the role of family and identity in Italian small and medium wineries’ strategies 188 Cinzia Colapinto, Vladi Finotto and Christine Mauracher PART IV WOMEN’S PRACTICES TO REALIZE THEMSELVES WHILE ENTREPRENEURING 8 Women’s entrepreneurship practices of context and sustainability 207 Kim Poldner 9 Reconsidering the practices of home-based entrepreneurs: how mum and dad entrepreneurs manage work time 233 Stacy Brecht and Séverine Le Loarne – Lemaire Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Providing a panoramic overview of the evolving world of scenario planning, this Advanced Introduction uses topical case studies to analyze the developing methodologies of scenario planning. Written by Paul J.H. Schoemaker, a leading authority on the topic, this book synthesizes rigorous theory and practical experiences including best practises, normative views, and future challenges or opportunities for scenario planning. Key Features: Explains why future uncertainties require more than traditional risk analysis when ambiguous unknowns or Black Swans are involved Illustrates scenario planning through an in-depth case analysis of the biosciences which, in the wake of global pandemics, are gaining in societal import Examines how historical thinking and historiography can enrich scenarios by revisiting future projections made for South Africa post-apartheid Shows why scenario planning fosters critical and creative thinking by overcoming myopic framing, overconfidence and other biases in organizations Examines methodological and statistical techniques in scenario planning, including model building and simulations, and their connections to strategy formulation Interdisciplinary in its approach, this Advanced Introduction will prove invaluable to students and scholars of public policy, business management, and organizational studies. Its tools and practical advice will also be a vital resource to practitioners and policy leaders involved in leading or implementing scenario planning in their organizations.Trade Review‘Deep uncertainty and associated “black swan” events underscore the continued relevance of scenario planning. This book outlines how this management tool can be used to enhance a firm’s dynamic capabilities. Scenario planning builds a coherent narrative around possible futures or “states of the world.” Their delineation supports rapid decision making when crises erupts, thereby protecting stakeholders and addressing new opportunities while the competition suffers from “deer in the headlights” syndrome. Schoemaker shows the reader how scenario planning can improve decision making and organizational responsiveness in turbulent times and reminds us that there is no one recipe for scenario planning, and that management teams will improve over time as they conduct scenario planning exercises. A “must read” for practitioners and scholars trying to understand the origins of scenario planning as a tool for better strategic management.’ -- David J. Teece, University of California, Berkeley, US‘Masterfully laid out, this engaging book provides leaders a practical toolkit to proactively navigate an increasingly uncertain world. Its scope, depth, examples and wisdom will enable students, academics and professionals from many walks of life to lead change and orchestrate success as I experienced first-hand with Paul.’ -- Govi Rao, CEO of Phase Change Solutions and former head of LED at Philips‘A wonderful introduction to the field of scenario planning, replete with a comprehensive background history, summary of the necessary tools, and biases to be aware of when managing clients. There simply is not a better basic introductory text written in the history of scenario planning up until now. This book will sit alongside other landmark introductions to the field such as van der Heijden's Scenarios and Schwartz's The Art of the Long View. It is as useful for students new to scenario planning as for long-time academic practitioners looking for a refresher or a handy text for their clients.’ -- Nicholas J. Rowland, Penn State University, US‘A remarkably thoughtful overview of the art and science of scenario planning. No author is better equipped than Paul Schoemaker to bridge the world of practitioners and of academics.’ -- Philip E. Tetlock, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, US‘This volume, illustrated with compelling examples, presents in a coherent way the work of the most cited scenario planning scholar. His approach in scenario planning is to inform decision-making by foreseeing possibilities early. The book covers theoretical as well as practical aspects of scenario planning which will be of interest for beginners and seasoned practitioners alike.’ -- Rafael Ramirez, University of Oxford, UK‘Schoemaker's book is, simply, a tour-de-force from one of the founders of both the academic study and consultancy application of the scenario approach to improving decision making in the face of future uncertainty. In it, he covers the development and status of research endeavours that underpin growing academic and practitioner interest, in our post-Covid era.’ -- George Wright, Strathclyde University, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to scenario planning 2. What scenario planning is about PART I SETTING THE STAGE 3. A short history of scenario planning 4. Scenarios for the biosciences 5. Juxtaposing scenario narratives PART II LOOKING UNDER THE HOOD 6. Methodological perspectives and pointers 7. History, uncertainty and subjectivism 8. Links to strategy, plans and choices PART III MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES 9. Biases and practical pitfalls 10. Conclusions and future challenges Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. In the last two decades social entrepreneurship has grown in energy and impact as entrepreneurial spirit has increasingly turned to finding solutions for social, cultural and environmental issues. As social entrepreneurship has grown in popularity, so too has its academic study. A Research Agenda for Social Entrepreneurship brings together contributions from developing paths in the field to signpost the directions ahead for the study of social entrepreneurship. Moving beyond mainstream approaches to entrepreneurship, this innovative and insightful book offers a unique view into the contemporary state of social entrepreneurship research. Impressive and diverse, this book explores not only established research, but also draws out implications for social entrepreneurship from legal scholarship, gender studies and indigenous research, as well as investigating regional contexts. Moreover, the contributors take inspiration from emerging societal trends, such as the circular economy and the turn of entrepreneurship to ecology and the environment. Featuring diverse insights from different disciplinary and geographical perspectives, this book is invaluable to students of social entrepreneurship at all levels who are in need of a broad and cutting-edge overview of the topics. Researchers seeking original research topics and questions will benefit from this book's insight into the future of the subject. The accessible style will also serve social entrepreneurs themselves, offering a fascinating exploration of the many pathways for social entrepreneurship. Contributors: G. Alarifi, A. Brady, D. Burand, E. Castellas, L.-P. Dana, A. de Bruin, P. Dey, B. Doherty, M. Duniam, A.M. Eikenberry, R. Eversole, H. Haugh, R. Hazenberg, M. Henriksson, C. Henry, E. Henry, D. Holt, M. Hultman, N. Johansson, A. Kaijser, P. Kittipanya-ngam, E. Kromidha, K.V. Lewis, L. Marti, C. Mason, B. Meldrum, J. Ormiston, P. Robson, M.J. Roy, R. Spear, S. Teasdale, B. Wallsten, R. ZieglerTrade Review'De Bruin and Teasdale guide us through the range of developments in the field and insightfully signal further areas of research to build a cumulative body of understanding on social entrepreneurship. The editors take us on an enjoyable journey, skilfully bringing together different disciplinary and methodological approaches from a diverse range of contributors. Highly relevant and recommended volume for all those with an interest not only in social entrepreneurship but also social innovation. A must read.' --Alex Nicholls, University of Oxford, UK'In a field that is constantly evolving, this volume is a great guide for students and practitioners of social entrepreneurship. Not only will it guide you through the territory of this relatively new field but it will also stimulate you with its possibilities. This is a must-read for any student and/or practitioner of social enterprise.' --Ana Maria Peredo, University of Victoria, Canada'Many articles in the field of social entrepreneurship are limited by their pursuit of absolute definitions. This Research Agenda expands the research possibilities for the field, drawing on new perspectives - from public health and development studies, to intersectionality and the law - to shed light on this ever-changing phenomenon.' --Candida Brush, Babson College, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Exploring the terrain of social entrepreneurship: new directions, paths less travelled Anne de Bruin and Simon Teasdale 2. An evolutionary perspective on social entrepreneurship ‘ecosystems’ Michael J. Roy and Richard Hazenberg 3. Spectres of marketization? The prospect of the National Disability Insurance Scheme in Australia Chris Mason 4. Social enterprises and democracy in countries with transitional or authoritarian regimes Angela M. Eikenberry 5. Measuring impact in social entrepreneurship: developing a research agenda for the ‘practice turn’ in impact assessment Jarrod Ormiston and Erin Castellas 6. When form follows function: governing for good Deborah Burand 7. Community perspectives on social entrepreneurship Helen Haugh and Andrew Brady 8. Collective social entrepreneurship Roger Spear 9. Inclusive value chain development: the role of social enterprise hybrids in smallholder value chains Bob Doherty and Pichawadee Kittipanya-ngam 10. Social enterprises as rural development actors Robyn Eversole and Mary Duniam 11. Social and ecological entrepreneurship in a circular economy: the need for understanding transitional agency Malin Henriksson, Martin Hultman, Nils Johansson, Anna Kaijser and Björn Wallsten 12. Gender and social entrepreneurship research: contemporary themes Kate V. Lewis and Colette Henry 13. Māori Indigenous research: impacting social enterprise and entrepreneurship Ella Henry and Léo-Paul Dana 14. Social entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa Ghadah Alarifi, Paul Robson and Endrit Kromidha 15. Hybrid social entrepreneurship in emerging economies – a research agenda Diane Holt and Bev Meldrum 16. Social entrepreneurship through the lens of the ‘everyday’: inquiring the rhythms of female micro-credit recipients Pascal Dey and Laurent Marti 17. The times of social innovation - fictional expectation, precautionary expectation and social imaginary Rafael Ziegler Index

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection presents fascinating new insights on gender and innovation with a central focus on the experiences of women innovators, exploring different geographic and institutional contexts through a series of in-depth case studies. It investigates how intersecting characteristics such as age, race and ethnicity as well as broader contextual and institutional factors enable and constrain the innovation activities and ambitions of women.Drawing on different theoretical perspectives, expert contributors interrogate questions of gender and innovation to examine the multiple factors influencing women innovators in the contemporary world. The book also engages with how policies can support diversity and inclusion within innovation, an area that has historically been highly gendered. Further to this, it recommends actions to take to support the development of inclusive practices, and identifies directions for future research.Exploring the diversity of gender and innovation as a concept as well as in practice, this book will be a stimulating resource for scholars, educators and students who wish to gain an overview of the topic. Policy makers and practitioners will find the insights on how policies and initiatives can achieve great equality and diversity informative and illuminating.Trade Review‘Gender, Diversity and Innovation: Concepts, Policies and Practice provides an up-to-date state of the art of what we currently know on diversity, and moreover, on gender diversity. By providing results on on-going research, it brings a fresh and valuable overview on how diversity and inclusion occur across contexts, especially across cultures and countries. Besides, the uniqueness and novelty in this book is the consideration of new working practices and new technological breakthroughs such as AI (Artificial Intelligence), and raises the debate on how these changes can foster or reduce inclusion. For sure, this book, based on scientific results, can inspire not only scholars but also practitioners, educators, as well as policy makers, basically anyone who wants to promote an inclusive economy.’ -- Séverine Le Loarne-Lemaire, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France‘This edited collection provides research insights into the challenges faced by women in entrepreneurship and innovation. These insights are particularly valuable to our WEgate community, an initiative partly funded by the European Commission, that is focused on supporting women across Europe to develop and grow their businesses. The original research presented in this book chapters can help policy makers, investors and other stakeholders within the ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation, to develop and adopt evidence-based interventions to support women engaged in entrepreneurship and innovation.’ -- Gabriela K. Bogoeska, Foundation for Management and Industrial Research and WEgate Coordinator (https://wegate.eu)‘This book is a timely and valuable addition to contemporary narratives on diversity and inclusion. In Gender, Diversity and Innovation: Concepts, Policies and Practice, the editors have assembled a robust collection of scholarly contributions that help deconstruct the concept of diversity, revealing it in all its forms. The international contributions highlight the challenges of diversity in a range of contexts - geographical and sectoral - covering issues relating to funding, technology transfer and acquisition, healthcare and science across continents, and drawing attention to innovation in underrepresented forms. Policies, initiatives and ecosystems needed to support diversity within innovation are also discussed. Accordingly, this book will be a valuable tool for policy makers, educators and those involved in supporting the development of innovation within their regions and beyond. The book will enhance understanding - in both theory and practice - of the concept of innovation, and thus, will also appeal to scholars, whether established or new to the field.’ -- Colette Henry, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland and Griffith University, Australia‘This book peels back multiple layers to expose the complexities of gender and diversity in the context of innovation, public policies, gendering innovation, and measures to support equity in and through innovation. Readers are offered a comprehensive digest of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches that highlight intersectional influences in both developing and developed economies. The book also captures the practicalities of inventors, innovators, entrepreneurs and academics with the theoretical tensions inherent in identity, femininity and recognition politics, including non-identitarian or post-equity gender theory.From a case-based social innovations in healthcare to cross-cultural comparisons of Artificial Intelligence policies, the authors collectively offer multiple recommendations to help address marginalization within innovation spaces, new technology-based firms, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths). Unified by a focus on gender and subordination, the curated collection of articles is a must-read for entrepreneurship scholars, scientists and policymakers who seek to extend the influence of research and policy to enhance empowerment, equality, equity, and non-discrimination.’ -- Barbara Orser, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada‘Understanding how diversity matters for innovation and entrepreneurship has never been more topical in the context of the digital transformation of our societies. In Gender, Diversity and Innovation: Concepts, Policies and Practice, Beldina Owalla, Tim Vorley, and Helen Lawton Smith challenge us into thinking about innovation and entrepreneurship more inclusively. They illuminate how innovation policies and initiatives have largely remained gender blind, and what can be gained from gender diversity in creativity and innovation processes. People reading this book will truly benefit for the wealth of inspirational examples of how to promote gender inclusive innovation, allowing them to put theory into policy and practice.’ -- Anne Laure Humbert, Oxford Brookes University, UK‘This edited volume assembles leading researchers across career stages and geographies to explore current topics in innovation, through a gendered lens. Taken together, the authors investigate a multitude of theoretical lenses, and offer insights for practice and policy.’ -- Siri Terjesen, Florida Atlantic University, US‘An excellent book which I enjoyed reading, with much food for thought and much to learn from. The editors put together a great group of international scholars who contribute novel insights to the complex theme of gender, diversity, and innovation in entrepreneurship research. Contributors discuss the interplay of gender, diversity and innovation in different contexts, examine new technologies and their gendered impact, and highlight implications for policies and practice. Definitely a must-read for all those interested in up-to-date perspectives on gender, diversity and innovation.’ -- Friederike Welter, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Bonn and University of Siegen, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Dr Emily Nott xii Acknowledgements xiv 1 Introduction: promoting inclusive innovation 1 Tim Vorley, Helen Lawton Smith and Beldina Owalla PART I DIVERSITY AND INNOVATION IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS 2 Gender and innovation strategy in crowdfunding 15 James Bort and Azzurra Meoli 3 A gendered multi-level model of STEM entrepreneurship 29 Cecelia Dotzler and M. Gloria González-Morales 4 Increasing women’s representation as founders of university spinout companies: a case for action 46 Heather Griffiths, Simonetta Manfredi, Alexis Still and Charikleia Tzanakou 5 Women entrepreneurs in new technology-based businesses in Sweden: experiences as inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs 63 Besrat Tesfaye and Christina Wainikka 6 Is gender an inhibitor to innovation and entrepreneurial activity in the Democratic Republic of Congo? 80 Victoria Tonks and Helen Lawton Smith 7 From gendered social innovation to gendering social innovation and co-production in healthcare settings 96 Silvia Cervia 8 Underrepresented innovators: an assessment of innovation activities in women-led businesses in the UK 110 Beldina Owalla, Tim Vorley and Elvis Nyanzu PART II INNOVATION POLICIES, INITIATIVES AND ECOSYSTEMS 9 Beyond Siri and Alexa: gender and AI policy 125 Vidhula Venugopal and Vishal Rituraj 10 Targeting in targeted funds: how inclusion policies and programs can exclude intended beneficiaries 148 Katindi Sivi 11 Making gendered science: a feminist perspective on the epistemology of innovation based on science and technology studies 167 Ilenia Picardi 12 The impact of institutional voids on female innovation in emerging countries 185 Allan Villegas-Mateos and Rosa Morales 13 Informal institutional structures and legitimacy perceptions of female innovation in sub-Saharan Africa: a conceptual framework 202 Priscilla Otuo, Cynthia Forson, Afua Owusu-Kwarteng and Anthony N-Yelkabong 14 Women’s entrepreneurship in the inclusive innovation ecosystem in Canada 223 Wendy Cukier, Guang Ying Mo and Jodi-Ann Francis PART III CONCLUSION 15 Afterword 240 Beldina Owalla, Tim Vorley and Helen Lawton Smith Index

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Book SynopsisBringing together cutting-edge insights and critical perspectives, this Research Handbook advances the understanding of the development, dynamics, and different facets of entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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Book SynopsisThis insightful and innovative book proposes a new theory of socio-material weaving for studying and understanding family business. It dissolves the family business into activities, constituted of the sociality of human interactions and relations and interwoven with materials that extend in both a bodily-lived and spatial existential sense.Building on hermeneutic phenomenology, Mona Ericson explores a new approach to the field, which shifts focus away from entitized conceptions of family business contexts. Building on a ‘being-in-the-world’ understanding, the book emphasizes human entwinement with activities in amongst materials. Chapters draw insights from research on the social and the material, exploring the field through five unique stories that illustrate the intertwinement of family business activities and materials associated with buildings and land. Taking a critical stance towards systems-oriented family business research, Ericson weaves together the social and the material in association with narrative truth.An innovative and imaginative exploration of an established field of study, this book is crucial reading for scholars, researchers and graduate students of family business, opening up new ways of approaching the field in scholarly work. It will also benefit practitioners through practical insights into the challenges family business owners face when establishing and managing business activities.Trade Review‘With beautiful prose and thick description of place(s), time, context, space and bodies, Mona Ericson weaves together the socio-materiality and “being in the world” of five multi-generational family businesses from the Swedish region of Tällberg. Challenging dominant perspectives in family business research, the author builds a hermeneutic-phenomenological understanding of the social in relation to the material. In so doing, she invites us to “feel the worlds” of family business owners as they work, labour, live, love and play in the context of the lives of their parents and co-workers, their land, buildings, materials, and artefacts. This book brings to family business scholarship a valuable and richly-theorized analysis that will inspire researchers of all backgrounds and traditions to appreciate the emotional and material realities, affective moods, processes of subjection and practices of care that are central to the every-day lives of people involved in family businesses.’ -- Denise Fletcher, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg‘Mona Ericson continues to explore the most lived form of business – the family business. This time, her attention to stories is extended to a phenomenological and (I would say) anthropological sensitivity before the material, bodily and spatial in the family business world. This is a rich, multivoiced study that offers the reader new, intimately grounded, and precise insights into a world we thought was familiar.’ -- Daniel Hjorth, Copenhagen Business School, DenmarkTable of ContentsContents: 1. Under the name of Tällberg 2. Family business as contexts and within contexts 3. Social and material, space and place 4. Narrative and story and a being-in-the-world methodology 5. The Siljanstrand, the Siljansgården and the Green Hotel story 6. The Klockargården story 7. The Åkerblads-Tällbergsgården story 8. An alternative approach to family business References Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a guide to understanding entrepreneurial ecosystems: what they are, why they matter, and to whom they matter. Ben Spigel explores this popular new theory of economic development, locating the intellectual roots of ecosystems, explaining the practices and processes that allow ecosystems to support the creation and growth of innovative entrepreneurial firms. Investigating why some places are able to support innovative, high-growth entrepreneurship while others cannot, this book looks at the characteristics of entrepreneurial places in both developed and developing countries to identify the role of factors such as culture, social networks and economic history. Going beyond just the different combinations of different people and factors of a place, Spigel explores the social and economic processes such as learning and entrepreneurial recycling that power how ecosystems develop and influence high-growth venture creation. Entrepreneurship and economic geography scholars will appreciate the strong theoretical exploration of this new approach to understanding entrepreneurship. It will also be a helpful read for public officials, policy makers, and ecosystems builders looking to delve further into this prominent new concept in local economic development policy. Trade Review‘Spigel’s insight has paved the way for advancing knowledge on entrepreneurial ecosystems – a dynamic and interdisciplinary field that will continue evolving and expanding its research scopes and depths.’ -- Li-Chun Lin, International Journal of Sustainable Society'With rapid digitalisation of the economy, entrepreneurial ecosystems have emerged as a novel cluster type to support the start-up and scale-up of new entrepreneurial ventures. This development creates important challenges for policy and practice. Ben Spigel's book provides a timely account of this evolving phenomenon.' --Erkko Autio, Imperial College London, UK'Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Theory, Practice and Futures is a much needed introduction to the main ideas of the emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem approach. It provides an excellent stock taking of the academic literature on entrepreneurial ecosystem, by one of its leading intellectuals.' --Erik Stam, Utrecht University School of Economics, the Netherlands'Ben Spigel has moved our collective thinking about entrepreneurship ecosystems a big step forward with his new book, which should be read by all who consider themselves entrepreneurship ecosystems practitioners or entrepreneurship policy makers.' --Daniel Isenberg, Columbia Business School, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. The Intellectual Foundations of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems 3. The Actors and Factors of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems 4. Ecosystem Practices and Processes 5. Global Entrepreneurial Ecosystems 6. Critiques of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems 7. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThere is a growing class of entrepreneurs who, for a range of reasons, are working to create viable alternatives to mainstream production and consumption models. Existing literature that cuts across multiple fields illustrates the unique features, challenges, and value propositions of alternative forms of entrepreneurship. Yet, the complexities associated with how alternative marketscapes form and function remain “fuzzy.” Volume 29 of Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth asks, “How alternative are alternative marketscapes?” In doing so, greater clarity is gained on the underlying economic, organizational, and social conditions and environments within which alternative marketscapes develop. The volume includes theoretical arguments and case studies that view alternative entrepreneurship not as co-existing with, but rather transforming mainstream entrepreneurship, and challenge the understanding of alternative entrepreneurship as being inherently altruistic. The exploration of ingenuity and innovation, in conjunction with cases that illustrate the diversity of alternative market contexts, generates organizational and system-level applications. The volume authors provide entrepreneurs and companies a concise understanding of alternative marketscapes that paves the way for development and success.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Towards a Theory of Misfit Entrepreneurship: Insights from Alternative Enterprises and Misfit Entrepreneurs; Craig A. Talmage, Kaleb Boyl, and T. Alden Gassert Chapter 2. Alternative Entrepreneurship: Tracing the Creative Destruction of Entrepreneurship; Jessica Lindbergh, Karin Berglund, and Birgitta Schwartz Chapter 3. Van Gogh’s Yellow House and Organizational Centrifugalism: The Avant-Garde’s Search for Alternative Organizational Spaces from Impressionism through Modernism; Gordon E. Shockley Chapter 4. Overlooking the Not-So-Routine? An Analysis of Everyday Ingenuity in the Social Entrepreneurship Research; Matthew M. Mars Chapter 5. A Visual Analysis of Local Food Product Framing Across Alternative and Conventional Marketspaces; Tyler E. Thorp Chapter 6.The Pitfalls within Alternative Food Networks: A Comparison between Japan’s Wholesale Market System and Alternative Market Distribution Challenge; Chika Kondo and Atushi Suzuki Chapter 7. Community Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development: A Case Study of Startup Tucson; Liz Pocock

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Book SynopsisWith contributions from nearly 50 researchers across Latin America, The Emerald Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Unleashing a millennial potential contains the most important debates on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in Latin America. Covering the most recent topics that influence Latin America’s entrepreneurial dynamics, chapters are written by specialists from Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, England, Venezuela, Spain & Peru. The Emerald Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Latin America presents a detailed and extensive review of the most relevant literature published in Latin America, critically analysing and exposing historical processes along with emerging debates, suggesting future paths for its entrepreneurship ecosystems, agents, sectors and regions. The Emerald Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Latin America offers new perspectives and will change the way the global arena sees Latin America. A first must-have reference for present and future researchers, corporate executives, and business schools with the aim to understand the challenges and opportunities this region has in the global, national, and regional arenas, a timely text most relevant than ever given the post pandemic context that present and future generations will confront with.Table of ContentsSection I Creativity & Entrepreneurship in Latin America Chapter 1. Creativity & Entrepreneurship in Latin America: The Time Has Come; Hortensia Mínguez García, Oscar Montiel, and Araceli Almaraz Chapter 2. The Historical Institutional Context in Latin America in the Promotion of the Creativity Process of Entrepreneurship; Rebeca de Gortari Rabiela and María Josefa Santos Corral Chapter 3. The Orange Economy, Entrepreneurs, and the Future: The Role of Culture and Creativity in the Economic Recovery;Trinidad Zaldívar Chapter 4. Organizational Creativity Process: Experiences in Latin America; Henrique Muzzio Chapter 5. The Institutional Change of Intellectual Property Commercialization; Ignacio De León and Esteban Santamaria Chapter 6. Media Labs: Catalyzing Experimental, Structural, Learning, and Process Innovation; Ana Cecília B.Nunes, John Mills, and Eduardo Campos Pellanda Testimonial: Association Our Godchildren of Guatemala (ANA de G) (Asociación Nuestros Ahijados de Guatemala); Vanessa Rodas de Montenegro Section II Innovation; Entrepreneurship in Latin America Chapter 7. Innovation in Latin-America: An Eternal Recurrence?; Lorena del Carmen Álvarez-Castañón, Oscar Montiel, and Araceli Almaraz Chapter 8. Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The Latin American Thought Approach; Javier Jasso Villazul, Ismael Núñez Ramírez, and Arturo Torres Vargas Chapter 9. Transforming Innovation Systems for Sustainable Development Challenges: A Latin American Perspective; Claudia De Fuentes and Jahan Ara Peerally Chapter 10. University Knowledge Transfer to Its Environment and STI Policies; Lorena del Carmen Álvarez-Castañón Chapter 11. Capabilities, Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Startups in Latin America; Javier Jasso Villazul and Arturo Torres Vargas Chapter 12. Social Innovation in Latin America: Debate and Experiences; Mario Vargas Saenz Chapter 13. Start-ups, Gender Disparities, and the Fintech Revolution in Latin America; Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo and Ignacio González-Correa Chapter 14. Entrepreneurship Dynamics in Latin America: The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Perspective; José Ernesto Amorós Testimonial: Encouraging interdisciplinary entrepreneurship in higher education: What drives and challenges us? Lessons from IDEAR Lab in Brazil; Naira Maria Lobraico Libermann and Ana Cecília B. Nunes Section III The Past and Future of Entrepreneurship in Latin America Chapter 15. New Momentum for Entrepreneurship: Latin America’s 4th Wave; Oscar Montiel, Lorena del Carmen Álvarez-Castañón, and Araceli Almaraz Chapter 16. An Entrepreneurial Perspective of the Mesoamerican Civilizations: Implications for Latin America; Anel Flores Novelo and Oscar Montiel Chapter 17. Research Priorities In Entrepreneurship In Latin America; Christian A. Cancino and Bruce Lezana Chapter 18. Social Entrepreneurship, a Forceful Social Fact: An Analysis of Studies from Latin America; Mariana Zerón Félix, Claudia Milena Álvarez Giraldo, and Cristian Alejandro Rubalcava de León Chapter 19. The Earlier Impact Of Covid-19 on Entrepreneurship on Latin America: A Review and Research Agenda; Rosalina Torres-Ortega and Carlos Alberto Santamaria-Velasco Chapter 20. A Psychological Profile of the Latin American Entrepreneur; Marisol Morales Rodríguez Chapter 21. The Potential of Biographical Studies of Latin American Entrepreneurs for Business, Economic History and Related Fields: The Cases of Mexico and Colombia; Carlos Dávila Ladrón de Guevara, Araceli Almaraz, and Mario Cerutti Chapter 22. Entrepreneurial Migration Processes from and to Latin America: Opportunities and Obstacles; Elizabeth Salamanca Chapter 23. A Theoretical Analysis of Entrepreneurship Education: Lessons From Mexico, Chile, and Colombia; Dra. María de los Dolores González-Saucedo and Lic. Diana Karen Vélez-Sánchez Chapter 24. Political Corruption & Entrepreneurship in Latin America: An Understanding of Their Interactions and the Suitability of Regional Solution Proposals; Yoel Modesto Gonzalez Bravo Chapter 25. The Tourism Chain and Entrepreneurship in South America: An Overview; Fernando Armas Asín and Martin Monsalve Zanatti Chapter 26. Analysing Successions in Family Business History: Theory and Method; Araceli Almaraz and Manuel Llorca-Jaña Chapter 27. Negotiation and Entrepreneurship From the Perspective of Economic Institutionalism: A Case for Latin America; Oscar Montiel, Rosa Azalea Canales García, and Oscar Alejandro Vásquez Bernal Testimonial: Uruguayan Young Entrepreneurs Association (AJE); Florencia Alvarez-García and Mario Cerutti Pignat

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how entrepreneurship can be taught through case studies, arguing that entrepreneurship education needs specific cases and case methods to teach students entrepreneurial skills and mindsets. Providing unique perspectives and examples on how case teaching can be applied in entrepreneurship education, the book draws together a wide range of real-life case studies. Informing and inspiring entrepreneurship educators, Part I employs theoretical perspectives and practical procedures related to case teaching in entrepreneurship education. Novel and innovative case methods for entrepreneurship education are explored as well as the theoretical foundations of case-based entrepreneurship education. Part II offers 15 Nordic case studies divided into three main groups relating to becoming an entrepreneur, early-phase venture creation, and acting entrepreneurially in established organisations. Supplemented by online teaching notes, this thought-provoking book will be a valuable resource for entrepreneurship educators at higher education institutions. Questions and activities included in the case studies will also be useful for students with an interest in entrepreneurship.Trade Review‘Entrepreneurship education is a rapidly growing research and teaching field. This volume offers a comprehensive and critical discussion of how to design and utilize the case method for increased entrepreneurial learning from a Nordic perspective. Containing both concepts and practices in case teaching as well as actual cases, the volume provides an outstanding collection of works that expands our understanding of case-based entrepreneurship education.’ -- Diamanto Politis, Lund University, Sweden‘While the case method is a long-standing approach to entrepreneurship education, this volume, for the first time, brings together a strong foundation of entrepreneurship education theory and perspectives, a deep analysis of approaches to the case method, and a contextual lens which focuses on the Nordic perspective. This is a perfect reference for those interested in learning practical techniques for teaching cases as well as for those desiring to develop deeper theoretical knowledge of the case methodology in entrepreneurship.’ -- Candida G. Brush, Babson College, US, Nord University, Norway and Dublin City University, Ireland‘This all-star team of entrepreneurship educators from across Scandinavia has assembled a comprehensive, engaging discussion of the many components of case education. The distinctly Nordic focus is apparent in the unique individual entrepreneur, company, and context case studies as well as in overarching conversations about best practices in teaching and learning, and is a must read for any entrepreneurship educator, whether preparing to teach for the first time, or an experienced educator looking for new tools and repertoires.’ -- Siri Terjesen, Florida Atlantic University, US and Norwegian School of Economics, NorwayTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Case-based entrepreneurship education in and for the Nordic region 2 Lise Aaboen, Dag Håkon Haneberg, Siri Jakobsen, Thomas Lauvås, and Karin Wigger PART II REFRAMING THE CASE METHOD FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP FRAMING THE CASE METHOD FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION 2 Understanding cases as narratives in entrepreneurship education: a conceptual framework 20 Michael Breum Ramsgaard and Robert D. Austin 3 How to conduct live cases in entrepreneurship education 31 Meredith Woodwark and Karin Schnarr 4 Bringing environmental sustainability and the circular economy into entrepreneurship education with stakeholders: four case methods from hackathons to role-model cases 40 Leena Aarikka-Stenroos, Anil Engez, Linnea Harala, Kaisa Henttonen, Hanna Lehtimäki, and Sara Malve-Ahlroth APPLYING THE CASE METHOD IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION 5 Experiences from live casework with Nordic micro-enterprises: contextualizing learning designs in entrepreneurship education 54 Mette Lindahl Thomassen and Michael Breum Ramsgaard 6 Using self as case in teach-the-teacher courses in entrepreneurship to reflect on experiences as student and teacher 67 Mats Westerberg 7 Teaching together in entrepreneurship education: live case method 76 Sanna Ilonen and Ulla Hytti 8 The moral perils when positioning student entrepreneurs in real-life contexts: balancing the nature–nurture of educative live case experience 87 Gustav Hägg METHODS FOR CASE TEACHING IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION 9 Student case development based on entrepreneurial experiences: a guide for entrepreneurship educators 98 Even Haug Larsen and Karoline Kaspersen 10 Student challenges in entrepreneurship education: planning for uncertainty 110 Sølvi Solvoll and Dag Håkon Haneberg 11 Teaching as guiding: live business cases 121 Bjørn Willy Åmo 12 From Utopia to sustainable entrepreneurship: a novel case methodology 130 Karin Wigger, Ingebjørg Vestrum, Fufen Jin, and Sølvi Solvoll PART III TEACHING CASES FROM THE NORDICS THE JOURNEY OF BECOMING AND BEING AN ENTREPRENEUR 13 Arts student applying effectual principles and various value perspectives 141 Vegar Lein Ausrød and Helle Meibom Færgemann 14 Fishing for sustainability: a case about recreational fishing, tourism, and sustainable entrepreneurship 150 Ulrika Persson-Fischier, Göran Lindström, Magnus Larsson, and Patrik Rönnbäck 15 From university research to student-driven spin-off: the case of Biodata 163 Katja Lahikainen, Markku Ikävalko, Noora Heino, and Terhi Virkki-Hatakka 16 ‘Cultivating and fighting at the same time’: an immigrant’s innovative entrepreneurial journey in the agricultural scene in Norway 172 Norma Wong and Marte C. W. Solheim 17 ZU4R bicycle-wear: from pain to world leadership 184 Bjørn Willy Åmo EARLY-PHASE CENTURE CREATION 18 DataBoard ApS: start-ups and downs 194 Thomas J. Howard, Carina Lomberg, Rasmus Bushøj, and Jesper Hart-Hansen 19 Fabricomp AB: developing a collaboration strategy for a newly started university spin-off company in Sweden 203 Jens Laage-Hellman and Frida Lind 20 Sustainable entrepreneurship: firm growth and the balance between saving the planet, people, and profits 217 Martin Senderovitz, Simon Jebsen, and Hannah Suder 21 Entrepreneurship on a deadline: the role of time constraints in student ventures 228 Jørgen Veisdal 22 HydroSafe: Emma’s investment issues 237 Torgeir Aadland and Roger Sørheim ACTING ENTREPRENEURIALLY IN ESTABLISHED ORGANIZATIONS 23 ‘I cannot give up now!’: the story of a Norwegian public sector entrepreneur’s endeavours to revolutionize communication between two healthcare organizations 245 Petter Gullmark and Ingebjørg Vestrum 24 Running the firm and the island: social, economic, and environmental sustainability at Kvarøy Fish Farm 258 Thomas Lauvås, Siri Jakobsen, Karin Wigger, and Morten Dahle Selfors 25 Steering the global value chain of an SME under uncertainty: the case of GlobeNet 270 Taina Eriksson and Niina Nummela 26 Mobilizing resources for developing a community enterprise in a rural community: the case of a jazz music festival 275 Ingebjørg Vestrum 27 Going sustainable in a traditional industry?: seizing opportunities in the furniture industry 288 Thomas Lauvås and Siri Jakobsen Index

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Book SynopsisOffering a comprehensive review of contemporary research on inclusive innovation, chapters address the systemic, structural issues that present the 'grand challenges' of our time. With 27 contributions from 57 expert scholars, this Handbook highlights both emerging practices and scalable solutions. Acting as a call to action, the chapters place social impact at the heart of theory and practice, providing fresh insight into global issues and practical solutions. Organized into five distinct sections to reflect current theoretical approaches and frameworks, contributions cover social innovation as practice; community and place; systems, institution and infrastructure; individual, organizations and organizing, and networks and social change. This Handbook emphasises the fundamental shift needed in management scholarship to address global problems and achieve social impact through sustainable development goals. This will be an invaluable resource for those championing social inclusion in both research and practice, including innovation researchers and management scholars more broadly.Trade Review'Bravo! Inclusive innovation is one of the most important topics in management research. Yet, there has been no standard reference available for mapping out the topic and providing a systematic discussion of what we know and what remains to be done. In this essential contribution, George, Baker, Tracey and Joshi have brought together many of the leading scholars on the topic and have provided a much needed overview. This will undoubtedly become the key reference in inclusive innovation.' --Nelson Phillips, Imperial College Business School, London, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Inclusion and Innovation: A Call to Action Gerard George, Ted Baker, Paul Tracey and Havovi Joshi PART II SOCIAL INNOVATION IN PRACTICE 2. A Silent Evolution: Innovative and Inclusive Narratives on Sustainability Ana Cristina Campos Marques 3. Climate Change and Social Innovation Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg 4. Problem, person, and pathway: A framework for social innovators Julie Battilana, Brittany Butler, Marissa Kimsey, Johanna Mair, Christopher Marquis and Christian Seelos 5. Inclusion and Innovation in Healthcare Anita M. McGahan 6. How do we know when social innovation works? A review and contingency model of social impact assessment Greg Molecke and Anne-Claire Pache PART III COMMUNITY AND PLACE 7. Indigenous Social Innovation: What Is Distinctive? And a Research Agenda Ana María Peredo, Murdith McLean, Crystal Tremblay 8. Urban Innovation: At the nexus of urban policy and entrepreneurship Jeffrey A. Robinson, Amol M. Joshi, Lutisha Vickerie-Dearman and Todd Inouye 9. Community social innovation: Taking a long view on community enterprise Neil Stott, Michelle Fava and Natalie Slawinski 10. Collective Social Innovation: Leveraging Custodianship, Tradition and Place on Fogo Island M. Tina Dacin and Peter A. Dacin PART IV SYSTEMS, INSTITUTIONS, AND INFRASTRUCTURE 11. Coordinating Infrastructure Changes to Meet Retiring Baby Boomers’ Needs David Souder 12. Sustainable Technology-Enabled Innovations for Ageing-in-Place: The Singapore Example Hwee-Pink Tan and Hwee-Xian Tan 13. How Firms Bring Social Innovation and Efficiency to the Global Effort to Recover From national uncertainty shocks Luis Ballesteros 14. The Lack of Public Goods in Emergent Economies: A Call for Research and a Case Study of Innovative Organisational Design Nuno Gil 15. An institutional framework to the scaling up of inclusive social innovations: the case of La Salada Silvia Dorado and Pablo D. Fernández 16. Social Innovation as Institutional Work Warren Nilsson 17. Challenges for Global Supply Chains and Opportunities for Social Innovation Yong H. Kim and Gerald F. Davis PART V INDIVIDUALS, ORGANIZATIONS AND ORGANIZING 18. Emotions as the Glue, the Fuel and the Rust of Social Innovation Charlene Zietsma and Madeline Toubiana 19. Income Inequality: Consequences and Implications for Social Innovation Xiang Zhou and Jason D. Shaw 20. Frugal Innovation and Social Innovation: Linked Paths to Achieving Inclusion Sustainably Yasser Bhatti and Jaideep Prabhu 21. Climate Change and Entrepreneurship Elizabeth Embry, Jessica Jones and Jeffrey G. York 22. A Framework for Sustaining Hybridity in Social Enterprises: Combining Differentiating and Integrating Marya Besharov, Wendy Smith and Tiffany Darabi 23. Organizing for global change Yves Plourde PART VI NETWORKS AND SOCIAL CHANGE 24. Collaborative Governance Ann Florini 25. Inclusive Innovation through Alliance Networks Arno Kourula 26. Social Entrepreneurs as Network Orchestrators: A Framework and Research Agenda on Networks and Leadership in the Context of Social Innovation Christian Busch and Harry Barkema 27. Empowerment, Social Innovation and Social Change Helen M Haugh and Maggie O’Carroll Index

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Book SynopsisIn this timely book, Evan Douglas examines the limitations of the current models of entrepreneurial motivation. He proposes an expanded general model of entrepreneurial intention, which integrates both commercial and social entrepreneurs, and explicitly examines the motivation to innovate. In this new, integrated model of entrepreneurial intention, he explores the asymmetric data relationships and interdependencies of these four motivations that operate to result in multiple equally-valid pathways to entrepreneurial action. To discover the alternative configurations that culminate in entrepreneurial intention, Douglas advocates fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, which complements traditional correlational methods and exposes additional information about individual motivation that is suppressed in sample-level correlational analysis. Innovative and insightful, this book is an excellent primer for higher-degree and academic researchers interested in what drives entrepreneurial actions. Public sector researchers developing entrepreneurial infrastructure, incubators and support services will also benefit from Douglas's exciting new model.Trade Review'At present, we lack an overarching conceptual framework for entrepreneurial intention. Evan Douglas's book is offering this much needed framework, notably by conceptualising entrepreneurial intention in different types of entrepreneurship (commercial, social, corporate), building an inclusive and holistic approach to entrepreneurial intention. Evan Douglas highlights the main issues for entrepreneurial intention research and suggests new avenues for the future. A much needed read for those interested in this stream of research.' --Alain Fayolle, EMLYON Business School, France'In this book, Evan Douglas takes a fresh look at entrepreneurial intentions across a range of contexts (e.g., commercial and social), liberating the concept from the stranglehold of theory of planned behaviour. The book also provides important general methodological, conceptual and practical insights valuable to any entrepreneurship scholar - insights derived from the author's lifelong commitment to entrepreneurship scholarship.' --Johan Wiklund, Syracuse University, US'Entrepreneurial intentions are the psychological basis for entrepreneurial behaviours. In this book, Professor Douglas explains the different entrepreneurial intentions and how they lead to different forms of entrepreneurial behaviour, such as the pursuit of opportunities within an existing organisation or the creation of a new one and the pursuit of opportunities for commercial or for social reasons. This book provides new insights into the entrepreneurial mindset.' --Dean Shepherd, University of Notre Dame, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Taxonomies of Entrepreneurial Behaviour 3. Why do Individuals want to be Entrepreneurs? 4. Issues for Entrepreneurial Intention Research 5. Commercial Entrepreneurial Intention 6. Intrapreneurial Intention 7. Social Entrepreneurial Intention 8. An Inclusive Model of Entrepreneurial Intention 9. The Holistic Approach to Entrepreneurial Intention 10. The Future of Entrepreneurial Intention Research Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book brings together a unique collection of research on entrepreneurship centring on gender perspectives in tourism in both Western and non-Western contexts. It serves as a vital reference point for advanced studies on gender issues, allowing the reader to explore current and future challenges and strategies for entrepreneurship in tourism.Presenting international case studies, top scholars in the field explore the interplay of relationships in gendered entrepreneurship in specific tourism settings. Chapters examine socially constructed understandings of men and women, and how these influence peoples’ social identities and entrepreneurial practices. Building on feminist theories, it provides theoretical, qualitative and quantitative analyses of the topic.This will be an invigorating read for tourism scholars, particularly those looking at the interconnections between gender and entrepreneurship in tourism. Its wide range of case studies will also make this a useful read for tourism practitioners and policy makers.Trade Review‘This is a thought provoking book that explores a timely and important topic. It discusses the relationship between gender and entrepreneurship in tourism from various perspectives. It is full of important information for those of us who want to thoroughly understand the relationship between gender and entrepreneurship in tourism.’BR> -- Dogan Gursoy, Washington State University, US‘Ramkissoon and Mavondo utilize a global, inclusive approach, targeting a broad range of experiences at the intersection of entrepreneurship, gender, and tourism. Issues of power, place, passion and pragmatism – crucial components of entrepreneurship – are exposed, analyzed, and celebrated in environments ranging from the chilly north of Arctic Norway to the beaches of Mauritius.’ -- Nancy Gard McGehee, Virginia Tech, US‘This is a welcome contribution to the emerging tourism entrepreneurship literature, from unique gender perspectives. This collection not only enriches the knowledge construction of an important domain, but also embraces diversity in its inclusion of case studies from various settings. The work shall catalyse further enlightening dialogues on these critical issues.’ -- Cathy Hsu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong KongTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Gender and Entrepreneurship in Tourism 1 Haywantee Ramkissoon and Felix Mavondo 2 Entrepreneurship: a man’s world in the early days of tourism? 9 Richard. W. Butler 3 Gender differences in tourism entrepreneurship 23 Irene Cheng Chu Chan and Rob Law 4 Business opportunities off the beaten tourist path: female entrepreneurs in Puerto Rico 36 Maria-Francisca Casado-Claro, Jakson Renner Rodrigues Soares and Priscila Cembranel 5 Female entrepreneurship in tourism: an island perspective 58 Senika Dewnarain and Vikramsing Gungah 6 Micro-entrepreneurs in a remote island setting 73 Richard. W. Butler 7 Female tourism entrepreneurs in China: contributing factors to their entrepreneurial journey 90 Yangyang Jiang and Yizhe Cui 8 Women and entrepreneurship in tourism in Bangladesh 110 Azizul Hassan and Haywantee Ramkissoon 9 Emotional capital and entrepreneurship: female tourism entrepreneurs in Arctic Norway 126 Line Mathisen and Siri Ulfsdatter Søreng 10 Personality traits as a factor for entrepreneurial success: gender differences in tourism in Oman 144 Ahmed Mohamed Elbaz, Islam Elbayoumi Salem, Nasser Alhamar Alkathiri, Hassan Aideed and Marwa Alshanfri 11 Gender and power in hospitality and tourism entrepreneurship: a case of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa 167 Faith Samkange, Juliet Chipumuro, Tsitsi Chipfuva and Haywantee Ramkissoon 12 Gender and entrepreneurship in transaction costs: women entrepreneurs in the foodservice system 188 Amit Sharma, Donna Quadri-Feliti and Yidan Huang Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a unique collection of case studies from across the globe to create a comprehensive understanding of how family firms can respond to future disruptions. Each case contains learning notes with objectives, discussion questions and suggested readings to facilitate learner understanding and engagement with the topic. Cases on topics such as global succession and governance practices will aid strategic decision-making capabilities in family businesses and will also benefit practitioners in these areas.Diverse in terms of generational involvement, demographic groups, cultural aspects, institutional settings and industries, the cases range from founder-led SMEs to multi-generational family conglomerates in 18 countries spanning over four continents. In addition to identifying successful practices, this book offers unconventional wisdom on the impact of family feuds, sudden death, divorce and multiple marriages on family businesses. It concludes by exposing new understandings on succession and the unique role played by rising-generation leaders in this disruptive era.Informed by the common research paradigm of the Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practice (STEP) Project Global Consortium, this book will provide a practical learning experience for advanced students and scholars of family business, family entrepreneurship, and strategic management studies.Trade Review‘Cases are a slice of life that offer a mirror into the life and work of a family enterprise. As the world changes so deeply these cases help us understand the unique ways that families are responding to the current time of crisis and upheaval. Incredible stories!' -- Dennis Jaffe, BanyanGlobal Family Business Advisors‘This very impressive volume contains extraordinarily useful case studies that address key challenges that face family businesses today. The authors generously share their academic expertise and blend it with up to date stories based on real life experience from family businesses across the world. As an editor of the first STEP Project book published in 2010, I can highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in understanding successful family enterprising.’ -- Mattias Nordqvist, Stockholm School of Economics, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Pramodita Sharma xvii Foreword by Daniel Trimarchi xix About the STEP Project Global Consortium xxi Acknowledgments xxiii 1 Family firms across the world: succession and governance in a disruptive era 1 Nupur Pavan Bang, Georges Samara, Rodrigo Basco, Andrea Calabrò, Jeremy Cheng, Luis Díaz-Matajira and Albert E. James 2 Family business case learning: how to maximize learnings from this STEP project global casebook 10 Jeremy Cheng, Andrea Calabrò, Luis Díaz-Matajira, Nupur Pavan Bang, Rodrigo Basco, Albert E. James and Georges Samara PART I CONFLICTS, SUDDEN DEATH AND SUCCESSION 3 Aborted succession: we need both succession and retirement plans 21 Miruna Radu-Lefebvre and Ameline Bordas 4 Mending the fence before the family fell apart: succession in the Shampoo family 28 Kavil Ramachandran and Nupur Pavan Bang 5 The silence before the storm: intragenerational conflict for succession 37 Özlem Yildirim-Öktem and Irmak Erdogan 6 Lessons learned from being NextGen 47 Peter Klein and Stefan Prigge 7 Florax Group: when unintended succession leads to unfulfilled promises 55 Rosemarie Steenbeek, Judith van Helvert and Jolanda D.A. Knobel 8 Succession turnaround at the Avendorp Group: a true family tragedy 63 Daniël Agterhuis, Julian van den Akker and Judith van Helvert PART II GOVERNANCE FOR TRANSITION PLANNING 9 Valuing our values: family values driving business success 73 Eric Clinton and Stephen Browne 10 Time to hang up the boots? 82 María Jesús Hernández-Ortiz, Francisca Panadés-Zamora, Myriam Cano-Rubio and Manuel Carlos Vallejo-Martos 11 A woman at the helm: growth and succession at Inversora Lockey C.A. 90 Nunzia Auletta and Patricia Monteferrante PART III UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM IN UNUSUAL TIMES 12 “Should I stay or should I go?”: Filipe de Botton’s dilemma 102 Alexandre Dias da Cunha and Remedios Hernández-Linares 13 Can I retire? An early successor’s dilemma 113 Dalal Alrubaishi 14 Which family prevails during divorce and succession? The Wagner Avila case 121 Luis Díaz-Matajira and Stefano Wagner 15 “Chemical reaction”: choosing a successor in a mosaic family 129 Elena Rozhdestvenskaya 16 Clease’s Auto: how a global pandemic allowed a family to maintain their family business legacy 138 Elizabeth Tetzlaff, Brittany Kraus and Albert E. James 17 The Ricci Durand family in the COVID-19 pandemic 144 Carmen Pachas Orihuela, Antonio Martínez Valdez and César Cáceres Dagnino PART IV RISING-GENERATION LEADERSHIP IN ONGOING DISRUPTIONS 18 Pineola Nurseries: family business succession under fire 153 Steve Gaklis 19 DC International: riding out of disruption as a third-generation successor 161 Marshall Jen, Jeremy Cheng, Kevin Au and Kelly Xing Chen 20 Am I ready for this? 169 Andrea “Ginny” Santiago 21 Universal Cement Corporation: doing “one thing at a time” in the crisis of multiple needs? 177 Yi-Chun Lu, You-Fong Wu and Hsi-Mei Chung 22 Conclusion: the lessons learned 184 Rodrigo Basco, Albert E. James, Nupur Pavan Bang, Andrea Calabrò, Jeremy Cheng, Luis Díaz-Matajira and Georges Samara Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers cutting-edge insights into the changing landscape of entrepreneurial finance, as digital technologies play an increasingly dynamic role in the world economy. Assessing the rapid development of innovative technologies in entrepreneurial ecosystems, it contributes to a wider discussion on the role that technology plays in facilitating and commercializing ideas in the context of global finance. Chapters offer a systemic, comparative analysis of the interplay between financial activities and digital technologies, reflecting on the acceleration of the development of innovative technologies and alternative financing. The book includes thoughtful discussions of women entrepreneurs, crowdfunding, business angels and big data, connecting these topics to wider discussions of technology-based entrepreneurship. Offering interdisciplinary insights from a variety of entrepreneurial contexts, including startups, universities, corporations, and the public sector, contributors demonstrate the role of digital technologies in facilitating entrepreneurial ecosystems. Bringing together state-of-the-art qualitative and quantitative research on entrepreneurial ecosystems, this book offers crucial insights for academics and researchers of entrepreneurial finance looking for a better understanding of the contemporary role of digital technologies in alternative financing. Policymakers and practitioners will also benefit from the managerial implications of real-world scenarios analyzed by contributors.Trade Review‘The intellectual breadth of Audretsch, Belitski, Rejeb, and Caiazza is exemplified in this collection of papers on entrepreneurial finance and technology. The eminent scholars who contributed exhibited through their writings cutting edge insight on the integration of two important fields of study. A must read.’ -- Albert N. Link, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, US‘This ambitious volume draws upon a wide variety of contributions in developing a comprehensive overview of entrepreneurial finance and technology, ranging from the discovery of entrepreneurial opportunities, to industry and country differences, to the role of science, to the role of financing entrepreneurial activities. Developments in Entrepreneurial Finance and Technology represents a major contribution to the field and can be warmly recommended to those who already are entrepreneurship researchers and practitioners.’ -- Erik E. Lehmann, University of Augsburg, GermanyTable of ContentsContents List of contributors vii Introduction to entrepreneurial finance and technology xvi David B. Audretsch, Maksim Belitski, Nada Rejeb and Rosa Caiazza PART I TECHNOLOGY AND ENTREPRENEURIAL CONTEXT 1 The technological dilemma for entrepreneurial leaders: who drives innovation? 2 Lebene Richmond Soga, Kofi Osei-Frimpong and Rita Nasr 2 Startups and regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: the Russian case 23 Stepan Zemtsov and Alexander Mikhaylov 3 Women serial high-tech entrepreneurs: a literature review and research agenda 39 María José Ibáñez and Maribel Guerrero 4 Big data analytics and internationalisation in Italian firms 67 Martina Aronica, Davide Piacentino and Pasquale Massimo Picone 5 Science, entrepreneurship, and spin-off diversity 82 Deepa Scarrà 6 Entrepreneurial university stakeholders and their contribution to knowledge and technologies transfer 90 Natalya Radko PART II FINANCING FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP 7 The invention and diffusion of venture capital: when knowledge married capital 118 Henry Etzkowitz, Chunyan Zhou and Rosa Caiazza 8 Public sector entrepreneurship, principal investigators, and entrepreneurial effectuation 130 James A. Cunningham, Matthias Menter and Kayleigh Watson 9 A systematic literature review of reward-based crowdfunding 146 Wendy Chen 10 Business angels’ ties with entrepreneurs 182 Mahsa Samsami, Hoda El Kolaly and Thomas Schøtt 11 Exploring the landscape of corporate venture capital and corporate accelerators in Germany 199 Nikolaus Seitz and Patrick Haslanger 12 Non-accounting drivers of start-up valuation by early-stage equity investors: literature review and future research agenda 227 Daniel Agyare, Davide Hahn, Tommaso Minola and Silvio Vismara Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book traces women’s entrepreneurial journeys in Sub-Saharan Africa, examining the linkages between entrepreneurship, gender and development context. With extensive case studies of women’s experiences across the enterprise life-cycle, it gives new insight into how to support and empower Sub-Saharan African female entrepreneurs.Exploring start-up, small and medium-sized enterprises, this book tracks the wide range of choices facing prospective and established female entrepreneurs, business owners and managers. Chapters cover new developments in business, including alternative entrepreneurial finance, collaborative networks, digital entrepreneurship and transitional entrepreneurship in women-owned businesses. Using original research spanning the tourism, hospitality, agriculture, education and financial services sectors, Michael Zisuh Ngoasong considers the role of family and ethnic structures in shaping women’s business journeys. Through diverse case studies of women’s successes and failures in business, Ngoasong provides new insight on the entrepreneurial opportunities, challenges, and risks facing Sub-Saharan African women.This book will be a rich resource for researchers and educators interested in entrepreneurship, gender and management, and development studies. It will also be a vital guide for practitioners seeking to identify and execute context-specific entrepreneurial opportunities for women in Sub-Saharan Africa.Trade Review‘Michael Zisuh Ngoasong has made an impressive contribution to the literature on entrepreneurship and women's empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa with his book, Women's Entrepreneurial Journeys in Sub-Saharan Africa. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the challenges women entrepreneurs face in the region while highlighting the opportunities and potential for growth. The book covers a diverse range of topics, including financing, family influences, networks, and digital technology, providing policymakers, academics, and practitioners with valuable insights and practical advice for supporting and empowering women entrepreneurs. It provides a compelling argument for the transformative potential of women's entrepreneurship, making a powerful case for investing in the growth and success of women-owned businesses. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in promoting gender equality and economic empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa, paving the way for sustainable and inclusive economic growth.’ -- Ogechi Adeola, Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria‘Drawing on both rigorous research and personal experiences, Ngoasong's Women’s Entrepreneurial Journeys offers an insightful portrayal of the challenges and triumphs of Sub Saharan Africa's women entrepreneurs. Bursting with examples and insights on entrepreneurial success, this book provides a fresh new look at Africa’s innovators; essential reading for anyone working on empowering Africa's women.’ -- Louise Twining-Ward, World Bank GroupTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introducing women’s entrepreneurial journeys in sub-Saharan Africa 2 Contextualising women’s entrepreneurship in SSA 3 Financing women’s entrepreneurial journeys: the perspective of financing institutions 4 Financing women’s entrepreneurial journeys: the role of women’s entrepreneurial agency 5 Family influences on women’s entrepreneurial journeys 6 Women’s entrepreneurial responses in organisational and inter-organisational contexts 7 The paradox of gendered positions in women’s digital entrepreneurial journeys 8 Women’s transitional entrepreneurship 9 Networks in women’s entrepreneurial journeys 10 The future of women’s entrepreneurial journeys in sub-Saharan Africa References Index

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