Mark Casson is Professor of Economics at the University of Reading. His publications include The Entrepreneur (1982; new edition, 2002), Entrepreneurship and Business Culture (1995) and Enterprise and Leadership (2000). He has contributed articles on entrepreneurship to the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, the International Encyclopaedia of Social Science, the Fortune Dictionary of Economics and the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Economic History. His most recent work focuses on links between entrepreneurship and theories of the firm.

Nigel S. Wadeson is Lecturer in Economics at the University of Reading. He has published on decision making, the firm, and entrepreneurship in a range of books and journals. He teaches entrepreneurship and small business economics at masters level. He spent several years working in entrepreneurial ventures in the IT industry and has also acted as a consultant involved in high-level government policy work.

Bernard Yeung is Abraham Krasnoff Professor of Global Business, Economics and Strategy, Stern School of Business, and Director of China House, New York University. He was Vice-President of the Academy of International Business, 2000–02. He has published widely at the interface of economics, finance and strategy, with special reference to SME performance, family business, corporate finance, capital market functionality, and foreign direct investment. He edited Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in the Global Economy (1999) with Zoltan Acs and Structural Change, Industrial Location, and Competitiveness with Joanne Oxley.

Anuradha Basu is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management, Lucas Graduate School of Business, and Director of the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship, San Jose State University. She was formerly Visiting Scholar, Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform, Stanford University (2002–03) and a faculty member at the University of Reading. She has published widely on Asian entrepreneurship and on ethnic minority and family businesses. Her most recent work focuses on entrepreneurship education and the factors influencing entrepreneurial intentions.