Ebook: The Life Cycle of Entrepreneurial Ventures
- Tags: Entrepreneurship, Business/Management Science general, Industrial Organization
- Series: International Handbook Series on Entrepreneurship 3
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Springer US
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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The Life Cycle of Entrepreneurial Ventures discusses topical issues in entrepreneurship organized around the various stages of venture creation, development and performance. The book is arranged in several parts, dealing with the pre-start stage, followed by venture creation, financing ventures, venture development, and venture performance. Each part contains several chapters written by experts in the relevant field. Like its predecessors, there are contributions from several disciplines, including economics, strategy, business, industrial organization, economic geography, finance and sociology. The multi-disciplinary flavor of the book is complemented by its international evidence base, featuring results from a range of different countries. The volume will be essential reading for everyone interested in entrepreneurship because:
- It contains digestible overviews of several topical issues in entrepreneurship, including nascent entrepreneurship; social (not-for-profit) entrepreneurship; formal, informal and developmental start-up capital; job creation; venture performance; and harvesting. This will help researchers and practitioners who want to cut through the information overload and distil the key points emerging from the latest academic thinking
- It provides new results at the cutting edge of entrepreneurship research
- It portrays entrepreneurship as a coherent entity by spanning the various stages of enterprise evolution
The Life Cycle of Entrepreneurial Ventures discusses topical issues in entrepreneurship organized around the various stages of venture creation, development and performance. The book is arranged in several parts, dealing with the pre-start stage, followed by venture creation, financing ventures, venture development, and venture performance. Each part contains several chapters written by experts in the relevant field. Like its predecessors, there are contributions from several disciplines, including economics, strategy, business, industrial organization, economic geography, finance and sociology. The multi-disciplinary flavor of the book is complemented by its international evidence base, featuring results from a range of different countries. The volume will be essential reading for everyone interested in entrepreneurship because:
- It contains digestible overviews of several topical issues in entrepreneurship, including nascent entrepreneurship; social (not-for-profit) entrepreneurship; formal, informal and developmental start-up capital; job creation; venture performance; and harvesting. This will help researchers and practitioners who want to cut through the information overload and distil the key points emerging from the latest academic thinking
- It provides new results at the cutting edge of entrepreneurship research
- It portrays entrepreneurship as a coherent entity by spanning the various stages of enterprise evolution
The Life Cycle of Entrepreneurial Ventures discusses topical issues in entrepreneurship organized around the various stages of venture creation, development and performance. The book is arranged in several parts, dealing with the pre-start stage, followed by venture creation, financing ventures, venture development, and venture performance. Each part contains several chapters written by experts in the relevant field. Like its predecessors, there are contributions from several disciplines, including economics, strategy, business, industrial organization, economic geography, finance and sociology. The multi-disciplinary flavor of the book is complemented by its international evidence base, featuring results from a range of different countries. The volume will be essential reading for everyone interested in entrepreneurship because:
- It contains digestible overviews of several topical issues in entrepreneurship, including nascent entrepreneurship; social (not-for-profit) entrepreneurship; formal, informal and developmental start-up capital; job creation; venture performance; and harvesting. This will help researchers and practitioners who want to cut through the information overload and distil the key points emerging from the latest academic thinking
- It provides new results at the cutting edge of entrepreneurship research
- It portrays entrepreneurship as a coherent entity by spanning the various stages of enterprise evolution
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Nascent Entrepreneurs....Pages 15-37
New Venture Strategies: Transforming Caterpillars into Butterflies....Pages 39-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Entrepreneurship Education—A Compendium of Related Issues....Pages 79-105
Immigration, Entrepreneurship and the Venture Start-up Process....Pages 107-135
Location and New Venture Creation....Pages 137-160
On Factors Promoting and Hindering Entry and Exit....Pages 161-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Debt Finance and Credit Constraints on SMEs....Pages 187-225
Public Policy, Start-up Entrepreneurship and the Market for Venture Capital....Pages 227-257
Informal Sources of Venture Finance....Pages 259-299
Microfinance and Poor Entrepreneurs....Pages 301-334
Front Matter....Pages 335-335
Entrepreneurs as Producers....Pages 337-360
What Do We Know About Small Firm Growth?....Pages 361-398
Front Matter....Pages 399-399
Nonprofit Social Entrepreneurship....Pages 401-436
Entrepreneurship among Disadvantaged Groups: Women, Minorities and the Less Educated....Pages 437-475
Front Matter....Pages 477-477
Early Stage Survival and Growth....Pages 479-506
Venture Performance and Venture Inputs: The Role of Human and Financial Capital....Pages 507-533
Harvesting in High Growth Firms....Pages 535-582
Back Matter....Pages 583-586
The Life Cycle of Entrepreneurial Ventures discusses topical issues in entrepreneurship organized around the various stages of venture creation, development and performance. The book is arranged in several parts, dealing with the pre-start stage, followed by venture creation, financing ventures, venture development, and venture performance. Each part contains several chapters written by experts in the relevant field. Like its predecessors, there are contributions from several disciplines, including economics, strategy, business, industrial organization, economic geography, finance and sociology. The multi-disciplinary flavor of the book is complemented by its international evidence base, featuring results from a range of different countries. The volume will be essential reading for everyone interested in entrepreneurship because:
- It contains digestible overviews of several topical issues in entrepreneurship, including nascent entrepreneurship; social (not-for-profit) entrepreneurship; formal, informal and developmental start-up capital; job creation; venture performance; and harvesting. This will help researchers and practitioners who want to cut through the information overload and distil the key points emerging from the latest academic thinking
- It provides new results at the cutting edge of entrepreneurship research
- It portrays entrepreneurship as a coherent entity by spanning the various stages of enterprise evolution
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Nascent Entrepreneurs....Pages 15-37
New Venture Strategies: Transforming Caterpillars into Butterflies....Pages 39-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Entrepreneurship Education—A Compendium of Related Issues....Pages 79-105
Immigration, Entrepreneurship and the Venture Start-up Process....Pages 107-135
Location and New Venture Creation....Pages 137-160
On Factors Promoting and Hindering Entry and Exit....Pages 161-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Debt Finance and Credit Constraints on SMEs....Pages 187-225
Public Policy, Start-up Entrepreneurship and the Market for Venture Capital....Pages 227-257
Informal Sources of Venture Finance....Pages 259-299
Microfinance and Poor Entrepreneurs....Pages 301-334
Front Matter....Pages 335-335
Entrepreneurs as Producers....Pages 337-360
What Do We Know About Small Firm Growth?....Pages 361-398
Front Matter....Pages 399-399
Nonprofit Social Entrepreneurship....Pages 401-436
Entrepreneurship among Disadvantaged Groups: Women, Minorities and the Less Educated....Pages 437-475
Front Matter....Pages 477-477
Early Stage Survival and Growth....Pages 479-506
Venture Performance and Venture Inputs: The Role of Human and Financial Capital....Pages 507-533
Harvesting in High Growth Firms....Pages 535-582
Back Matter....Pages 583-586
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