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 …

The role of resources is pivotal in entrepreneurship for the success of new and small ventures, though most face … entrepreneurship development. Approaching the subject with both a practice-theory and research-based approach, the contributors analyse … topics such as processes and structures in social entrepreneuring; entrepreneurship and equity in crowdfunding; and forming …

, 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 …