The SAGE Handbook of Small Business and Entrepreneurship

First Edition

Edited by:

Robert Blackburn - University of Liverpool, UK
Dirk De Clercq - Brock University, Canada
Jarna Heinonen - University of Turku, Finland

Other Titles in:
Small Business/Entrepreneurship

December 2017 | 680 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

The SAGE Handbook of Small Business and Entrepreneurship offers state-of-the-art chapters on all aspects of this rapidly-evolving discipline. Original contributions from the best international scholars map the development of Entrepreneurship as an academic field, explore its key current debates and research methods, and also consider its future directions.

Part One: The People and the Entrepreneurial Processes
Part Two: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management and Organization
Part Three: Entrepreneurial Milieu
Part Four: Researching Small Business Entrepreneurship

This handbook will be the leading reference book for Entrepreneurship academics and researchers, as well as those from other associated disciplines including business and management, psychology, marketing, sociology and anthropology.

Robert Blackburn, Dirk De Clercq and Jarna Heinonen

1. Introduction

The People and the Entrepreneurial Processes

Claire M. Leitch and Richard T. Harrison

2. Entrepreneurial Leadership: A Critical Review and Research Agenda

Hamid Vahidnia, H. Shawna Chen, J. Robert Mitchell and Ronald K. Mitchell

3. Entrepreneurial Action Research: Moving Beyond Fixed Conceptualizations

Kristina Nyström

4. Pre- and post-entrepreneurship Labor Mobility of Entrepreneurs and Employees in Entrepreneurial Firms

Maura McAdam and Danny Soetanto

5. Networks and Entrepreneurship

Stephen Drinkwater

6. Migrant Entrepreneurship

Judith van Helvert and Mattias Nordqvist

7. Entrepreneurship from a Family Business Perspective

Helen Haugh, Fergus Lyon and Bob Doherty

8. Social Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship and Social Value Creation

Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management and Organization

Christian Lechner and Abeer Pervaiz

9. Entrepreneurial Strategy: A contingency review and outlook for future research

Fokko J. Eller and Michael M. Gielnik

10. Perspectives on New Venture Creation

Ivan Zupic and Alessandro Giudici

11. New Venture Growth: Current Findings and Future Challenges

Samuel Adomako and Kevin F. Mole

12. Small Business Growth and Performance: A Review of Literature

Michael H. Morris, Susana Santos, Christopher Pryor and Xaver Neumeyer

13. The Nature of Entrepreneurial Exit

Bjørn Willy Åmo and Lars Kolvereid

14. Corporate Entrepreneurship

Mark Freel

15. Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Small Business

Rosalind Jones, Sussie C. Morrish, Jonathan Deacon and Morgan P. Miles

16. Entrepreneurial Marketing In Small Enterprises: Current And Emerging Research Topics

Colin Mason

17. Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures

Marc Cowling and Catherine Matthews

18. Internal Financial Management in Smaller, Entrepreneurial Businesses

Entrepreneurial Milieu

Anders Hoffmann David J Storey

19. Can Governments Promote Gazelles? Evidence from Denmark

John Kitching

20. Exploring Firm-Level Effects of Regulation: Going Beyond Survey Approaches

Erik Stam and Ben Spigel

21. Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Zhongming Wang and Yanhai Zhao

22. Corporate Social Responsibility

Niina Nummela

23. Bringing ’I’ into ’E’—what could it mean? Reflections on the past, present and future of International Entrepreneurship research

Wafa N. Almobaireek, Ahmed Alshumaimeri and Tatiana S. Manolova

24. Challenges to Venture Growth in Emerging Economies

Luke Pittaway, Louisa Huxtable and Paul Hannon

25. Learning and Educational Programs for Entrepreneurs

Thomas M. Cooney

26. The Use of Case Studies in Entrepreneurship Education

Ulla Hytti and Sirpa Koskinen

27. Enterprise education pedagogy and redesigning learning outcomes: Case of a public reform school

Researching Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Aaron F McKenny, Miles A Zachary, Jeremy C Short and David J Ketchen Jnr

28. In Search of Causality in Entrepreneurship Research: Quantitative Methods in Corporate Entrepreneurship

Anne Kovalainen

29. Qualitative Research in Entrepreneurship

Cristina Díaz-García

30. Gender and entrepreneurship at the crossroads: Where do you want to go?

Bengt Johannisson

31. Making Entrepreneurship Research Matter: The Challenging Journey to An Academic Identity

Seppo Poutanen

32. Critical Perspectives in Entrepreneurship Research

The past decade has witnessed a significant growth of entrepreneurship and small business research, but also an increased fragmentation of the field. The editors, Robert Blackburn, Dirk De Clercq and Jarna Heinonen, have provided a timely overview of the field, including the entrepreneurial process and business development, the entrepreneurial milieu, and research methodologies. The book will be a goldmine, for those searching the knowledge within the field but also for those searching provocative research questions for the future. Therefore, this is a perfect text for researchers, PhD candidates, and advanced master students in entrepreneurship, small businesses, and management studies.

Hans Landström

PhD, Professor in Entrepreneurship, Lund University

This is an excellent book. It provides a rich and nuanced overview of past research in small business and entrepreneurship and presents interesting avenues for future research. The editors have done a superb job in assembling such knowledgeable contributors. A must read for postgraduate students, researchers and those interested in fostering small business and entrepreneurs alike.

Friederike Welter

Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Bonn, and University of Siegen, Germany