In this book, one of the most highly recognized entrepreneurship scholars shares in a personal and readable way his rich experience and ideas on how entrepreneurship can be researched. Entrepreneurship is a phenomenon of tremendous societal importance. It is also an elusive phenomenon, which...

What is Entrepreneurship? -- Entrepreneurship as Research Domain -- This Thing Called “Theory” -- General Design Issues -- Sampling Issues -- Operationalization Issues -- Special Topic: Preparing a “Secondary” Data Set -- Special Topic: Job Creation as the Dependent Variable -- Special...

The past two decades have witnessed a surge in interest in the field of nascent entrepreneurship. In this title, the editors successfully draw together the most important works that utilize the new real-time approaches for studying early stage entrepreneurial activity that were developed and...