Possessing a positive self-attitude, being self-confident, and having high self-esteem are worthwhile attributes in both work and personal life; some take these positive attributes to the extreme and become self-absorbed, self-adoring, self-centered, and show little empathy for the problems and...

How Entrepreneurs Do What They Do presents 13 case studies of knowledge intensive entrepreneurship. The book focuses on doing, in essence, what happens when entrepreneurs are engaging practically in venture creation processes. Case studies can be used as a key element in learning and...

Introduction / Arnis Sauka, Friedrich Schneider and Colin C. Williams -- 1. The bottom up power of informal entrepreneurship / José Ernesto Amorós, Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian, Oscar Cristi and Maria Minniti -- 2. Estimating the size of the shadow economies of 162 countries using mimic method /...

pt. I: Drivers of entrepreneurial activity -- pt. II: Organizing for commercialization in the biopharmaceutical industry -- pt. III: Institutional causes and policy consequences of technology entrepreneurship.

This nine-country study draws on government reports, books and journal articles to underpin unique empirical data that helps highlight the economic impact of women entrepreneurs. The book aims to improve womens position as entrepreneurs globally and, in this regard, draws attention to the need...

1. Introduction -- 2. Internal influences on women entrepreneurs -- 3. External influences on women entrepreneurs -- 4. Coaching as a technique for development -- 5. The potential of coaching for women entrepreneurs -- 6. Delivering the tailored e-coaching (TEC) programme -- 7. The impact of the...

1. Introduction / David Smallbone, Markku Virtanen and Arnis Sauka -- Part I innovation -- 2. Innovation processes in adverse institutional settings: connectedness and disconnectedness in three regions of Ukraine / Christos Kalantaridis. Svitlana Slava, Olga Savchenko and Oleksandra Gumenna --...

1. The context of contextualizing contexts / Friederike Welter, William B. Gartner and Mike Wright -- 2. Understanding entrepreneurial cognitions through the lenses of context / Malin Brännback and Alan L. Carsrud -- 3. 'After' context / Chris Steyaert -- 4. Let them eat bricolage? Toward a...

1. Introduction: women's entrepreneurship in global and local contexts / Cristina Díaz-García, Candida G. Brush, Elizabeth J. Gatewood and Friederike Welter -- Part I institutional factors explaining women entrepreneurship -- 2. The role of gendered institutional contexts in the rate and type...