
The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship
by Casson, Mark; Yeung, Bernard; Basu, Anuradha; Wadeson, NigelBuy New
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Summary
Author Biography
Mark Casson is Professor of Economics at the University of Reading. His publications include The Entrepreneur (1982; new edition, 2002), Entrepreneurship and Business Culture (1995) and Enterprise and Leadership (2000). He has contributed articles on entrepreneurship to the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, the International Encyclopaedia of Social Science, the Fortune Dictionary of Economics and the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Economic History. His most recent work focuses on links between entrepreneurship and theories of the firm.
Bernard Yeung is Abraham Krasnoff Professor of Global Business, Economics and Strategy, Stern School of Business, New York University. He was Vice-President of the Academy of International Business, 2000-2002. He has published widely at the interface of economics, finance and strategy, with special reference to SME performance, family business, corporate finance, capital market functionality, and foreign direct investment. He edited Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in the Global Economy (1999) with Zoltan Acs.
Anuradha Basu is Associate Professor, College of Business, San Jose State University, and formerly Visiting Scholar, Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform, Stanford University (2002-3). She has published widely on Asian business, and on ethnic minority businesses in the UK. She was a member of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office UK India Consultative Group (2001-2).
Nigel Wadeson is Lecturer in Economics at the University of Reading. He has published on information costs and the theory of the firm in a number of journals. His teaching currently includes MSc courses in both Entrepreneurship and Small Business Economics. He is also an expert in Computer Science, and has several years' experience of working in entrepreneurial ventures in the IT industry.
Table of Contents
Mark Casson, Bernard Yeung, Anuradha Basu and Nigel Wadeson: Introduction | |
Theory and History | |
Theories of Entrepreneurship: Historical Development and Critical Assessment | |
Entrepreneurship and Evolution | |
Cognitive Aspects of Entrepreneurship | |
Entrepreneurship and Marketing | |
Historical Biographies of Entrepreneurs | |
Small Firms | |
Determinants of Small Firm Survival and Growth | |
Start-ups and Entry Barriers: SME Population Dynamics | |
Definitions, Diversity and Development: Key Debates in Family Business Research | |
Evaluating SME Policies and Programmes: Technical and Political Dimensions | |
Innovation | |
Entrepreneurship, Growth and Restructuring | |
Innovation in Large Firms | |
Entrepreneurship, Technology and Schumpeterian Innovation: Entrants and Incumbents | |
Finance | |
Venture Capital | |
Corporate Venture Capital: Past Evidence and Future Directions | |
Employment, Self-Employment and Buy-Outs | |
Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and the Labour Market | |
Habitual Entrepreneurs | |
Entrepreneurship and Management Buy-Outs | |
Social and Cultural Aspects | |
Social Dimensions of Entrepreneurship | |
Institutional Obstacles to Entrepreneurship | |
Ethnic and Minority Enterprise | |
Migration of Entrepreneurs | |
Women Entrepreneurs | |
Enterprise Culture | |
Spatial and International Dimensions | |
Regional Development: Clusters and Districts | |
International Expansion: Foreign Direct Investment by SMEs | |
Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies | |
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