Contents: Preface -- 1. The entrepreneurial journey: intention versus emergence -- 2. Venture types: what entrepreneurs actually create -- 3. Survival ventures: just getting by -- 4. Lifestyle ventures: seeking stability -- 5. Managed growth ventures: learning to fly -- 6. Aggressive growth...

In essence, entrepreneurship is an experience consisting of large numbers of key events such as a first sale, hiring a first employee, losing a big account – events that are processed and made sense of by the entrepreneur. They produce cognitive, emotional and physiological responses, which...

This is the 25th volume in the Advances in the study of entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth, which has led the field with insightful and forward looking perspectives on topics for 25 years. Papers in this volume focus on topics, perspectives, challenges, and visions of scholars in...