Concepts of Entrepreneurship

Edited by Héctor O. Rocha, Associate Professor of Business Policy and Entrepreneurship, IAE Business School, Argentina, David B. Audretsch, Indiana University, US and the Department of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Klagenfurt, Austria and Julian Birkinshaw, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, London Business School, UK

• Contents:AcknowledgementsIntroductionMotivation and Content – Héctor Rocha, David B. Audretsch and Julian BirkinshawPART IENTREPRENEURSHIP SAFARI: A PHENOMENON DRIVEN SEARCH FOR MEANING 1. Hector Rocha and Julian Birkinshaw (2007), ‘Entrepreneurship Safari: A Phenomenon-Driven Search for Meaning’PART IIENTREPRENEURSHIP AS THE ENTREPRENEUR A Economics2. Mark Casson (1982), ‘The Significance of the Entrepreneur’3. Frank H. Knight (1921), ‘Author’s Preface’4. Israel M. Kirzner (1997), ‘Entrepreneurial Discovery and the Competitive Market Process: An Austrian Approach’B Psychology5. Norris F. Krueger, Jr. (2003), ‘The Cognitive Psychology of Entrepreneurship’PART IIIENTREPRENEURSHIP AS INNOVATION A Economics6. Joseph A. Schumpeter (1934), ‘The Fundamental Phenomenon of Economic Development’B Evolutionary Economics7. Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter (1982), ‘Overview and Motivation’8. Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter (2002), ‘Evolutionary Theorizing in Economics’9. Bengt-Äke Lundvall and Björn Johnson (1994), ‘The Learning Economy’PART IVENTREPRENEURSHIP AS ORGANISATION OR BUSINESS CREATION A Sociology10. William B. Gartner (1989), ‘“Who Is An Entrepreneur?” Is the Wrong Question’11. Patricia H. Thornton (1999), ‘The Sociology of Entrepreneurship’12. Paul Reynolds, Niels Bosma, Erkko Autio, Steve Hunt, Natalie De Bono, Isabel Servais, Paloma Lopez-Garcia and Nancy Chin (2005), ‘Global Entrepreneurship Monitor: Data Collection Design and Implementation 1998–2003’13. William B. Gartner, Nancy M. Carter and Paul D. Reynolds (2010), ‘Entrepreneurial Behavior: Firm Organizing Processes’B Population Ecology14. Michael T. Hannan and John Freeman (1977), ‘The Population Ecology of Organizations’PART VENTREPRENEURSHIP AS CORPORATE VENTURING 15. Julian Birkinshaw (1997), ‘Entrepreneurship in Multinational Corporations: The Characteristics of Subsidiary Initiatives’16. Robert A. Burgelman (1983), ‘A Process Model of Internal Corporate Venturing in the Diversified Major Firm’17. Gary Hamel (1999), ‘Bringing Silicon Valley Inside’18. Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1982), ‘The Middle Manager as Innovator’PART VIENTREPRENEURSHIP AS THE SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISE (SME) A Economics and Small Business Economics19. William A. Brock and David S. Evans (1989), ‘Small Business Economics’20. David B. Audretsch (2004), ‘Sustaining Innovation and Growth: Public Policy Support for Entrepreneurship’PART VIIENTREPRENEURSHIP AS ENTRY A Industrial Economics21. P.A. Geroski (1995), ‘What Do We Know About Entry?’B Evolutionary Economics22. Sidney G. Winter (1984), ‘Schumpeterian Competition in Alternative Technological Regimes’PART VIIIENTREPRENEURSHIP AS CHURNING RATE (ENTRY MINUS CLOSURES) A Economics23. Joseph A. Schumpeter (2005), ‘Development’B Sociology24. Paul D. Reynolds (1999), ‘Creative Destruction: Source or Symptom of Economic Growth?’C Population Ecology25. Paul D. Reynolds, Brenda Miller and Wilbur R. Maki (1995), ‘Explaining Regional Variation in Business Births and Deaths: U.S. 1976–88’PART IXENTREPRENEURSHIP POLICY 26. Magnus Henrekson and Dan Johansson (1999), ‘Institutional Effects on the Evolution of the Size Distribution of Firms’27. Brett Anitra Gilbert, David B. Audretsch and Patricia P. McDougall (2004), ‘The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Policy’28. Zoltan J. Acs and Laszlo Szerb (2007), ‘Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth and Public Policy’29. André van Stel, David J. Storey and A. Roy Thurik (2007), ‘The Effect of Business Regulations on Nascent and Young Business Entrepreneurship’