Of the people who attempt to start a business, how many actually bring their venture to fruition? Until now, the answer to this question has eluded researchers, because of the difficulty in identifying and contacting people in the gestation phase of business start-up. In overcoming this sampling...

Despite the increasing number of women who are starting businesses, distinct hurdles exist for them. For instance, there is a lower occurrence of females as business owners and a paucity of academic research on the topic of female entrepreneurs. Another major hurdle is the presence of...

The aim of this book is to contribute to the understanding of community-based development by dealing specifically with the role of entrepreneurship in the development process. The emergence of local Community Economic Development (CED) as an issue withing traditional regional development is...