Entrepreneurial Business and Society analyses contemporary research in the field of entrepreneurship and small business … that entrepreneurship may also contribute to social change and that welfare and success could be measured in terms of their … entrepreneurship and small business. Entrepreneurship and small business researchers as well as policy makers will also find plenty of …

entrepreneurship. It focuses on four themes, each of which illustrates a key dimension in the overall theme: entrepreneurs and their … role in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship in family businesses, performance of new ventures and entrepreneurial processes …pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Entrepreneurs and their role -- pt. 3. Entrepreneurship in family firms -- pt. 4 …

, Dirk Engel -- A feminist inquiry into entrepreneurship training / Janice Byrne, Alain Fayolle -- Knowledge and experience … -- Knowledge and organizational entrepreneurship: a relational perspective / Ana Maria Bojica, María del Mar Fuentes Fuentes … -- Entrepreneurship in urban and rural Switzerland: similar or worlds apart? / Heiko Bergmann, Daniel Baumgartner. …

Contents: 1. Introduction: Rigour and relevance in European entrepreneurship research / Eddy Laveren, Robert Blackburn …, Ulla Hytti and Hans Landström -- Part I: Rigour and relevance of entrepreneurship research -- 2. Relevance of … entrepreneurship research / Johan Wiklund -- 3. The rigour - relevance debate: strategies to avoid creating an ivory tower in …