Entrepreneurship Research Challenge

Per Davidsson, Director, Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research and Professor of Entrepreneurship, Queensland University of Technology, Australia and Jönköping International Business School, Sweden

• Contents: 1. Introduction Part I: Defining and Describing the Entrepreneurship Phenomenon 2. The Domain of Entrepreneurship Research: Some Suggestions 3. The Types and Contextual Fit of Entrepreneurial Processes Part II: Research Design Issues 4. Strategies for Dealing with Heterogeneity in Entrepreneurship Research 5. Method Issues in the Study of Venture Start-up Processes 6. Method Challenges and Opportunities in the Psychological Study of Entrepreneurship Part III: Interpreting and Spreading the Results 7. Interpreting Performance in Research on Independent Entrepreneurship 8. What Entrepreneurship Research can do for Business and Policy Practice Index

'. . . this is a single-authored book; a series of academic papers (some original, some fairly recently published), neatly set around a unifying theme and tied into a comprehensive argument. . . once you have shared Davidsson's insights, stumblings, joys, and humor over some 240 pages, it feels as if he were part of your family. The book sets off with a very clear and helpful introduction that lays out the "entrepreneurship phenomenon". . . This book is value adding for a fairly wide academic audience: essentially all those interested in diverse areas of entrepreneurship and innovation, or in questions of methodology, research design and interpretation of, ultimately, any complex, fast paced behavioural and social realities. It does not give us all the answers, thank heavens, but it certainly asks some excellent questions. . . the novice scholar, will find some welcome foothold and guidance. . . this book is simply fun to read; when could you last say that of a research methodology book?'