The Routledge Companion to Entrepreneurship

Ted Baker is Professor of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at North Carolina State University, US and Senior Fellow at Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, South Africa. Friederike Welter is President of the Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Bonn, Professor at the University of Siegen, Germany and visiting scholar at JIBS, Sweden.

Part I: Setting the Scene for the Companion of Entrepreneurship 1. Bridges to the Future: Challenging the Nature of Entrepreneurship Scholarship Part II: the Discipline of Entrepreneurship Research 2. Entrepreneurship research and its Historical Background 3. Sketching a Philosophy of Entrepreneurship 4. Action and Process, Vision and Values: Entrepreneurship Means Something Different to Everyone Part III: Reasons and Motivations for Entering Entrepreneurship 5. Passions and Entrepreneurs 6. The Eclipse and New Dawn of Individual Differences Research: Charting a Path Forward 7. Identity and Entrepreneurship 8. Thinking Different: Effectual Logic and Behaviour 9. Do it Again!: Recent Developments in the Study of Habitual Entrepreneurship and a Look to the Future Part IV: Resources and Resourcefulness 10. Bricolage: Making do with what is at Hand 11. Entrepreneurial Families and Households 12. Microfinance Re-Imagined: Personal Banking for the Poor 13. Financing the Business 14. A Framework for Investigating University-Based Technology Transfer and Commercialization Part V: Entrepreneurship, Wealth and Well-Being 15. The Ordinary Entrepreneur 16. Informal, Illegal and Criminal Entrepreneurship 17. Poverty, Reciprocity and Community-Based Entrepreneurship: Enlarging the Discussion 18. Capitalizing on Creativity: Insights on Creative Entrepreneurship 19. Entrepreneuring the Aesthetic: Arts Entrepreneurship and Reconciliation 20. Entrepreneurship Across Borders 21. Growing Entrepreneurial Economies: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development Part VI: Entrepreneurial Opportunity: Equal and Unequal 22. Empowerment, Place and Entrepreneurship: Women in the Global South 23. Entrepreneurial Agency and Institutions 24. The Rhetoric of Power: Entrepreneurship and Politics 25. Entrepreneurship as Ethnic Minority Liberation 26. Entrepreneurial Opportunities in the Individual-Opportunity Nexus Part VII:Toward Broader Understanding: The Methodological Future 27. Who Needs a Shrink when you have Businessweek?: Using Content Analysis to get inside the heads of Entrepreneurs, VCS and Other Market Participants 28. challenges and Questions: Research on Entrepreneurship in developing Countries 29. Getting Inside Entrepreneurs' Heart and Mind: Methods for Advancing Entrepreneurship Research on Affect and Cognition 30. Salesman or Scholars?: A Critical Examination of Research Scholarship in the Field of Entrepreneurship