Product Description: Entrepreneurship research often pre-supposes similarities between national contexts despite evidence of extensive differences. This timely study focuses on the important issue of new venture creation using a variety of data sources, methods and theories...read more

Product Description: This title includes chapters on Europe and entrepreneurship research, meta-analysis as a tool for developing entrepreneurship research and theory, the early growth of research-based start-ups, and the role of learning in international entrepreneurship, amongst others.

Product Description: The authors of this comprehensive study address why it is that some small firms perform well and others don't, and whether high-performing firms share characteristics that distinguish them from low-performing firms. By exploring bundles of resources and their interaction with other factors, the authors explain important small business outcomes such as growth, performance, entrepreneurial activity, and the chance of receiving debt or equity capital...read more