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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Handbook presents an extensive overview of empirical and conceptual developments in the study of high-tech entrepreneurs from an interdisciplinary and multinational perspective. The expert contributors explore various conceptual frameworks and definitions of high-tech entrepreneurs and of the entrepreneurial process based on studies in different settings and contexts. They examine issues of equality, diversity and inclusion in terms of gender and class. The Handbook investigates strategies for empowering high-tech entrepreneurs, ranging from structural conditions and support mechanisms afforded by state and institutional actors, to individual mechanisms used by serial entrepreneurs to avoid burnout. Including unique perspectives on theory and research, this Handbook will make a rigorous and innovative contribution to academics, students and researchers? understanding of high-tech entrepreneurs.
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Ayala Malach-Pines and Mustafa F. Özbilgin PART I: HIGH-TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURS 1. The Right Entrepreneur for the Right Start-up – the Impact of Entrepreneurs’ Personality on their Start-ups’ Performance: A Contingency Approach Dov Dvir, Arik Sadeh and Ayala Malach-Pines 2. The Entrepreneurial Posture of Information Technology Professionals Agnieszka Postuła 3. High-tech Entrepreneurs versus Entrepreneurs in Traditional Industries: Similarities and Differences in Family Portraits and Passion Quests Orenia Yaffe-Yanai, Tamar Milo and Gilat Kaplan PART II: HIGH-TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP: PROCESSES AND STAGES 4. Exploration and Exploitation in High-technology Start-ups: A Process Model for New Firm Development Björn Klocke and Hans Georg Gemünden 5. Radical Strategic Change in High-technology New Ventures: A Multi-cultural View of Investors’ Perspective Eli Gimmon, Eyal Benjamin and Liora Katzenstein 6. Is Your Firm Established? The Role of Recognition in Entrepreneurial Firm Transition Preeta M. Banerjee PART III: CONTEXTUAL PERSPECTIVES TO HIGH-TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURS Section A: National Perspectives 7. Gender Identity and ICT Entrepreneurship in an Irish Context Anne Laure Humbert, Eileen Drew and Elisabeth Kelan 8. Technopreneurship in India: Two Case Studies of Information Technology Entrepreneurs Radha R. Sharma 9. Attitudes Towards High-tech Entrepreneurs and Company Heads in Hungary Ágnes Utasi Section B: Comparative Perspectives 10. University Technology Transfer: Comparative Study of US, European and Australian Universities Tsvi Vinig and Paul van Rijsbergen 11. Regulatory Focus in Start-ups versus Established Firms in the High-tech Industry Sharon Barkan 12. Person–Environment Fit (P–E Fit) in Values and Regulatory Focus and its Relationship to Stress, Burnout and Meaning Among High-tech Workers in Economically Stable versus Unstable Environments Shira Milshtein PART IV: ANTECEDENTS, CORRELATES AND CONSEQUENCES OF ENTREPRENEURIAL CAREERS IN HIGH TECHNOLOGY 13. Determinants of Intrapreneurship Among High-tech Engineers Sigalit Ronen 14. Career Aspirations and Progression in UK Science: Perceptions and Reality Sara Connolly and Susan Long 15. Entrepreneurial and Other Career Motivations Among Engineering Students Nilusha De Alwis and Helen M.G. Watt 16. Nascent Technology Entrepreneurs: A Case Study of Setting up an Academic Research-driven Technology Business in Malaysia Mine Karataş-Özkan and Katerina Nicolopoulou PART V: GENDER, ETHNICITY, CLASS AND HIGH-TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURS 17. High-technology Entrepreneurs: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Olca Sürgevil and Mustafa F. Özbilgin 18. Exploring Women Academics’ Involvement in Science Entrepreneurship: A Structuration View Elizabeth Chell, Mine Karataş-Özkan and Rosie Read 19. Women Serial High-technology Entrepreneurs Gilat Kaplan and Ayala Malach-Pines PART VI: EMPOWERING HIGH-TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURS: MECHANISMS OF STRUCTURAL AND INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT 20. Social Networks and High-tech Entrepreneurs: The Power of Networks and How to Put it to Use Yossi Dashti 21. Assisting the Growth of Small Technology Firms: An Educator’s Perspective William J. Lekse 22. Why Serial High-technology Entrepreneurs Don’t Burn Out Ayala Malach-Pines and Gilat Kaplan Index
