This special issue contains articles that exemplify the role of operations management across the entrepreneurial value chain. This value chain encompasses all stages of the entrepreneurial phenomenon, including technology commercialization, where discovery, commitment, organization and growth...

Introduction / Colette Henry -- The nature of creative entrepreneurship -- The creative industries in East and Southeast Asia / Desmond Hui -- Art-entrepreneurship in the Scandinavian music industry / Maria Aggestam -- Creative industries in the UK : cultural diffusion or discontinuity? / David...