The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship
Edited by Anuradha Basu, Mark Casson, Nigel Wadeson, Bernard Yeung
Abstract
The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship aims to provide a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art research in entrepreneurship. The authors are all leading scholars in their field. Entrepreneurship has always been a key factor in economic growth, innovation, and the development of firms and businesses. More recently, new technologies, the waning of the old economy, globalization, changing cultures and popular attitudes, and new policy stances have further highlighted the importance of entrepreneurship and enterprise. Entrepreneurship is now a dynamic and expanding area of research, teaching, and debate. All the major aspects of entrepreneurship are covered in this book: the start-up and growth of firms; financing and venture capital; innovation, technology, and marketing; women entrepreneurs; ethnic entrepreneurs; migration; small firm policy; the economic and social history of entrepreneurship.
Keywords:
economic growth,
innovation,
technology,
old economy,
globalization,
cultures,
popular attitudes,
policy,
enterprise,
venture capital,
marketing,
migration,
women entrepreneurs,
ethnic entrepreneurs,
small firm policy
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199546992
- Published to Oxford Handbooks Online:
- Sep 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199546992.001.0001
Editors
Anuradha Basu,
editor
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.
Mark Casson,
editor
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 Wadeson,
editor
Nigel 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,
editor
Bernard Yeung is Stephen Riady Distinguished Professor and Dean at NUS Business School, National University of Singapore.
