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Lists the seminal and pioneering research efforts conducted by a limited group of scholars from different disciplines that challenged traditional thought on small business and entrepreneurship - these pioneers and their specific contributions transformed our thinking about entrepreneurs.

Analyses the most recent literature on IPOs of entrepreneurial firms - young firms based on intangible rather than physical assets where the founder of the firm often serves as the key inventor and the CEO.

Reflects the respect, affection and high esteem that his colleagues held for Mike Wright. This volume presents a collection of reflections paying tribute to him, as a scholar, as an academic leader and scholarly innovator, and as a special person.

This monograph reviews organizational ambidexterity in entrepreneurship studies. The author examines the past 15 years of published research by focusing on the contribution of organizational ambidexterity to the fields of management studies and entrepreneurship studies and provide research directions in organizational ambidexterity.

Synthesizes the authors' previous work to draw conclusions and identify new directions. The book puts the spotlight on collaborative innovation blocs and improves our understanding of how and why entrepreneurial plans are formulated and revised over time.

Presents a comprehensive overview of the applications of machine learning algorithms to the Crunchbase database. The authors highlight the main research goals that can be addressed and review all the variables and algorithms used for each goal.

Focuses on the CEO advice taking process and examines the case where advisers provide strategic advice to the top management of a firm. This review suggests that the process of business advice could be divided into attraction, engagement, exit and extension.

Reviews the existing literature on immigrant entrepreneurship by focusing on immigrant entrepreneurs' personal characteristics, their immigrant ethnic community networks, and the external ecosystem.

Provides a systematic review of developments in strategic entrepreneurship research, mapping its evolution as a field of research. Beyond mapping and assessing the evolution of strategic entrepreneurship research, the authors identify areas where further theoretical, conceptual and empirical studies would be particularly useful.

Reviews the existing empirical literature on the impacts of tax policies on entrepreneurial activity and presents an agenda for future research. The authors discuss the many ways in which researchers have measured entrepreneurship and small business activity.

Provides a systematic and thematic review of research on returnee entrepreneurs. The book offers a repository of research on the phenomenon and traces its emergence and development, identifies main themes to provide a conceptual mapping of the research stream, and identifies avenues for future research and new research approaches.

Examines the role of trust in entrepreneurship. After reviewing the conceptualization of trust, the authors argue that trust should be seen in the context of a wider-set of entrepreneurship-supporting values.

Provides an overview of the current state-of-affairs in the financing of private innovations in China. While country-level innovation can take many forms, the focus is on the funding of business start-ups and entrepreneurial ventures.

Examines the development of entrepreneurship as a research field by describing the modern history of entrepreneurship as a scholarly field since World War II and synthesizing the development of the field in terms of the institutionalization of entrepreneurship in the academic system.

Reviews the extant literature on entrepreneurial borrowing and provides insights into some of the key concepts and findings in the literature. The emphasis on the term 'borrowing' as opposed to 'lending' indicates there is a particular interest in exploring issues related to the demand for credit.

Provides a disciplinary perspective on the role of innovation. In particular, this volume offers several distinct disciplinary perspectives including from the academic discipline of finance, from the entrepreneurship discipline, from the management perspective, and from the marketing discipline.

Explores the continuing contribution of MIT alumni to innovation and entrepreneurship in the United States and worldwide. This update is particularly salient given the burgeoning interest in the role of universities in economic growth and the fact that students who graduated between 2004 and 2014 faced a more difficult economic climate.

Offers a comprehensive understanding of the construct'entrepreneurial team' by focusing on its definition and characteristics. The book depicts team evolution phases, from inception to maturity, linking these to firm performance by using a process approach (i.e., Input-Process-Outcome).

While there have been a number of excellent literature reviews in recent years published in various academic outlets, Gender and Entrepreneurship: An Annotated Bibliography is more complete than other efforts and places each contribution to the literature into one of 16 descriptive categories.

Examines knowledge-intensive innovative entrepreneurship (KIE). This book puts forward the argument that KIE enables a modern view of entrepreneurship that links the intense use of knowledge by new ventures with an intense innovative activity related to the economy and markets.

Reviews the most relevant research output on self-employment and entrepreneurship of older individuals and contributes to the future development of novel theoretical and empirical approaches explaining self-employment and entrepreneurship of older individuals, bridging concepts from different fields.

Offers new insights about why and how we might go about contextualizing entrepreneurship research. The authors frame the issues, the progress that has been made, and the substantial challenges that remain with a view toward calling for future work that takes more of a "critical process approach".

Collects and organises the latest findings on the prevalence of various personality traits among the entrepreneurial population and their impact on venture performance covering academic work ranging from economics to psychology to management studies.

Focuses on data gathered from a large-scale, systematic survey of Stanford alumni, faculty, and selected staff in 2011 to assess the university's economic impact based on its involvement in entrepreneurship.

Explores the issues and provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of business failure research that has surrounded the subject over the years within the entrepreneurship literature.

Addresses the organisational design of entrepreneurial ventures. While many definitions of organisational design exist, the authors consider it as consisting of two main dimensions - the organisational structure of the firm and the human resource management practices.

Focuses on the foundations laid by the early research on agglomerations, industrial districts, and industry clusters that was published in the 20th century. Chapters review the literature on agglomerations, industrial districts and industry clusters beginning with an introductory overview of Marshall's (1920) and other significant works.

Explores the extent to which knowledge transferred from a university to a firm or group of firms through a research partnership results in short-term private gains to a firm as well as to long-term public gains to society.

Reviews the social cognition and its development to explore how progression in this broader field serves as a conceptual footing for the more specialized, microfoundation-based examination of entrepreneurial social cognition, and reviews some of the relevant work in fields that are closely related to entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking.

Reviews the most common concepts of entrepreneurship from the theoretical economics literature, identifying common elements and pointing to important differences. The purpose is to compare these theoretical ideas of entrepreneurship with the measures used in empirical country-level studies.