Entrepreneurship, People and Organisations: Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research

'This collection offers the reader multiple reasons for why scholars in Europe are engaged in some of the most interesting and insightful research on entrepreneurship. These chapters address many of the critical issues in the entrepreneurship field and offer new theoretical approaches, methods and evidence. I found the entire book to be a very engaging exploration of the nature of wealth creation that was not limited to typical celebrations of the virtues of economic rationality.'
- William B. Gartner, Copenhagen Business School, California Lutheran University, US

'Rather belatedly, researchers and policy makers are coming to recognise the important interplay between different contexts and the variety of manifestations of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial behaviour. The editors have brought together an excellent collection. The chapters make a significant contribution to our understanding of the heterogeneity of context in terms of countries, markets and life-cycle stages as well as entrepreneurial forms, such as social entrepreneurship, university spin-offs and intrapreneurship, that also provides a platform for extensive future research.'
- Mike Wright, Enterprise Research Centre, Imperial College Business School, London, UK

This book, written by leading scholars, provides stimulating coverage of topical issues in the field of small business and entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship has already been shown to be a significant source of innovation and economic development but the variations in the contribution at the individual, organizational, regional and national levels remain relatively unexplored. The types of contributions - behavioral, economic and social - are also relatively new areas for empirical scrutiny and theoretical development. This anthology provides in-depth analyses of entrepreneurship across Europe and demonstrates the importance of context - the geographical, political and socio-economic milieu within which entrepreneurship takes place.

Entrepreneurship, People and Organisations will be of interest to researchers, academics, practitioners and policy analysts in the fields of entrepreneurship, business, management and social policy.

Contributors: M. Aggestam, C. Bettinelli, A. Billström, R. Blackburn, N. Bosma, J. Courault, F. Delmar, A. Fayolle, J. Gabrielsson, M. Guerrero, Å. Lindholm Dahlstrand, I. Peña-Legazkue, M.Perez, D. Politis, K. Randerson, F. Schlosser, E. Stam, C. Teyssier, F. Welter, S. Wennekers