Chapter 1: Entrepreneurship as a social and economic process -- Chapter 2: The Entrepreneur -- Chapter 3: The entrepreneurial process -- Chapter 4: Intrapreneurship -- Chapter 5: Innovation in small firms -- Chapter 6: Adoption and diffusion of innovation -- Chapter 7: Planning, business models...

Chapter 1: Entrepreneurship as a social and economic process -- Chapter 2: The Entrepreneur -- Chapter 3: The entrepreneurial process -- Chapter 4: Intrapreneurship -- Chapter 5: Innovation in small firms -- Chapter 6: Adoption and diffusion of innovation -- Chapter 7: Planning, business models...

The study examines strategic decision making among entrepreneurs from small firms engaged in early stage commercialisation. It is based on a questionnaire survey of 57 firms and the results suggest that if entrepreneurs within small innovator firms feel the innovation can be commercialised with...

Throughout the book, the authors offer a conceptual framework supported by original case study data to explain how and why a small firm should approach strategic planning, the forces influencing the planning process, and the nexus between innovation and planning. The majority of all businesses...

This paper focuses on the role of kinship or family ties in entrepreneurial activities. We develop theoretical models of entrepreneurial market opportunity recognition and resource acquisition for family firms based upon social network theory. Building upon Granovetter’s (1973) distinction...