The contributors to this collection provide a wealth of new analyses of both traditional and emerging aspects of entrepreneurship, from a variety of national perspectives and from a variety of disciplines. Globalization has begun to dismantle the barriers that traditionally segregated local...

The characteristics of women entrepreneurs outside the United States are studied. Interviews were conducted with six Czech, eight Polish, and six Japanese women entrepreneurs.The five-part interviews required respondents to provide, among other things, brief histories of their businesses, as...