Sustainability is now an essential objective for all organizations, enabling them to resist adverse shocks and thrive in a disruptive world. This Research Handbook provides expert coverage and practical tips on a wide array of pertinent issues related to current finance and sustainability...

Governments, regulatory authorities and corporate governance bodies around the world have recently stressed the importance of practices and standards that help move forward toward sustainable economic models. This noticeable trend, nurtured in the aftermath of the numerous accounting frauds and...

Entrepreneurial finance literature is largely segmented. Different streams of the academic literature between entrepreneurship and finance have become segmented for reasons of theoretical tractability and data availability. In this paper, we discuss the origins and the effects of segmentation by...

The topic of entrepreneurial finance involves many issues including but not limited to the risks and returns to being an entrepreneur, financial contracting, business planning, capital gaps and the availability of capital, and market booms and busts. This handbook provides a comprehensive...

'For academics, practitioners and government policymakers, this book provides a sophisticated, comprehensive analysis of this new and important means of capital aggregation across for-profit and nonprofit sectors worldwide.' - Michael Klausner, Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and...