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Intro -- GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: ANALYSES OF PERFORMANCE AND CHALLENGES -- GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: ANALYSES OF PERFORMANCE AND CHALLENGES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE UNITED STATES -- 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- 2. INTRODUCTION -- 2.1. Assessing Entrepreneurship -- 2.2. Stages of Development -- 2.3. Purpose and Structure -- 3. THE GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT INDEX -- 3.1. The Sub-Indexes -- 3.2. The Weighting System -- 4. THE RELATIVE POSITION OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE GEDI -- 5. RELATIVE POSITION OF THE UNITED STATES AT THE PILLAR LEVEL -- 6. THE U.S. POSITION AT THE VARIABLE LEVEL -- 7. PUBLIC POLICY APPROACHES -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A. DATA CONSTRUCTION -- APPENDIX B. COUNTRY RANKINGS -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION ON SMALL-FIRM EXIT IN U.S. MANUFACTURING -- OVERALL FINDINGS -- Highlights -- Scope and Methodology -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL MOTIVATION -- III. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS -- IV. STATISTICAL RESULTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- End Notes -- Chapter 3 LOOKING AHEAD: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS -- Challenges -- Opportunities -- Research Note -- CHALLENGES -- Strengthening the Overall Economy -- Taxes and Regulation -- Cost and Availability of Health Insurance -- Attracting and Retaining a Quality Workforce -- Global Competition -- OPPORTUNITIES -- Increased Investments in Technology and Innovation -- Economic Gardenin" and Grooming Local Entrepreneurs -- Pursuing New Markets Overseas -- Promoting Business Ownership among Selected Demographic Groups -- Advancing Education and Training -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- End Notes -- INDEX

India's entrepreneurial transformation -- History of entrepreneurship in India -- India's entrepreneurs and private enterprises -- Women's entrepreneurship in India -- Case studies of women entrepreneurs in India -- Financing entrepreneurship in India -- Indian culture and its influence on entrepreneurship -- Dealing with the government -- Doing business with Indian entrepreneurs -- The future of entrepreneurship in India.

Offers an overview of European research in the field of entrepreneurship. This book focuses on four themes, each of which illustrates a key dimension in the overall theme: entrepreneurs and their role in entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship in family businesses; performance of new ventures; and entrepreneurial processes

1. Introduction: Focusing on the Role of Resources and Universities in Entrepreneurship / Ulla Hytti, Robert Blackburn, Denise Fletcher and Friederike Welter -- 2. Exploring Processes and Structures in Social Entrepreneuring: A Practice-Theory Approach / Bengt Johannisson, Jan Alpenberg and Pär Strandberg -- 3. Entrepreneurship and Equity Crowdfunding: A Research Agenda / Thanh Huynh -- 4. How Business Angels Found a Way to Contribute Non-financially: A Processual Approach / Olli-Matti Nevalainen and Päivi Eriksson -- 5. Resource Flexibility, Early Internationalization and Performance / R. Işıl Yavuz, Harry Sapienza and Youngeun Chu -- 6. Overcoming the 'Smallness Challenge' in Asymmetrical Alliances / Krister Salamonsen -- 7. Evolution of the Scientrepreneur? Role Identity Construction of Science-based Entrepreneurs in Finland and in Russia / Päivi Karhunen and Irina Olimpieva -- 8. The Intention-behavior Link of Higher Education Graduates / Elina Varamäki, Sanna Joensuu-Salo and Anmari Viljamaa -- 9. Made in Liverpool : Exploring the Contribution of a University-industry Research Partnership to Innovation and Entrepreneurship / Sam Horner and Benito Giordano.

Female entrepreneurship, and, in particular, the contribution of their ventures to aggregate economic activity has gained increasing attention over recent years in terms of theory, practice and policy. This concise book explores how women fit into the contemporary entrepreneurial discourse by recognizing that gender intersects with, and influences, women's experience of entrepreneurship.The book is novel in that it considers women to be a heterogeneous group and as such acknowledges that ethnicity, culture, class and education will all influence and intersect with female entrepreneur

The entrepreneur has been neglected over the years in formal economic theorizing. Previously there has been only eclectic theories such as human capital theory and network dynamics which discuss certain perspectives of entrepreneurial behaviour. This insightful book closes this gap in entrepreneurship literature. Inspired by modern physics, author Thomas Grebel brings together an evolutionary methodology, along the way implicating quantum, graph, and percolation theory. Here, Grebel has provided a synthesis of all the main theories of entrepreneurship. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, this fascinating book opens up new ideas in modelling and the original thinking contained within will be of interest to all those working in the area of business and management as well as those in economics.

An introduction to the special volume on international entrepreneurship / Jerome A. Katz, Dean A. Shepherd -- New venture growth in international markets : the role of strategic adaptation and networking capabilities / Stephanie A. Fernhaber, Patricia P. McDougall -- Network analysis in an international entrepreneurial environment / Joy Godesiabois -- A cross-national comparison of incubated organizations : an institutional perspective / Tomas Karlsson, Benson Honig, Friederike Welter, Leora Shakked, Arie Sadaovski -- Tuning up the global value creation engine : the road to excellence in international entrepreneurship education / Ronald K. Mitchell -- When do venture capitalists make a difference? The export intensity of venture capital backed companies / Andy Lockett, Mike Wright, Andrew Burrows, Louise Scholes, Dave Paton -- Capability development, learning and growth in international entrepreneurial firms : evidence from china / Congcong Zheng, Susanna Khavul -- Explaining export performance : a comparative study of international new ventures in Finnish and Indian software industry / Sumit K. Kundu, Maija Renko -- Institutional and economic influences on Internet adoption and accelerated firm internationalization / Jifeng Yu, Alice de Koning, Benjamin M. Oviatt -- International social capital, technology sharing, and foreign market learning in internationalizing entrepreneurial firms / Erkko Autio, Harry J. Sapienza, Pia Arenius