Contents: Preface -- 1. Entrepreneurial identity : professional virtues moderate attraction and persistence / Thomas N. Duening -- 2. The entrepreneur in the age of discursive reproduction : whence comes entrepreneurial identity? / Rebecca Gill -- 3. Visualizing Bill Gates and Richard Branson as...

Current theorizing assumes business models are developed to match firm resources and capabilities to existing market conditions. Consequently, entrepreneurs who successfully introduce new business models that significantly alter existing market preferences and structures are viewed as an...

The creative industries consist of profit-oriented enterprises involved in the creation, production, and distribution of arts, cultural, and creative goods and services. Scholars examining the creative industries have largely focused on the characteristics of individual art-entrepreneurs or the...