Martin Ricketts, a leading scholar in this field, has selected the seminal papers from a variety of traditions that illustrate the evolution of thinking on 'the firm' over a considerable period of time. The firm as a vehicle for entrepreneurial initiative and the exercise of business judgement...

11 Towards more synergy in entrepreneurial competence research in entrepreneurship education12 Learning fictions or facts? Moving from case studies to the impact-based method; 13 The personal dimension of an entrepreneurial competence: an approach from the Spanish basic education context; 14...

Introduction / Alain Fayolle -- Part I. Rethinking entrepreneurship education research -- Toward rigour and relevance in entrepreneurship education research / Bruce Martin, Dirk De Clercq and Benson Honig -- Dealing with the inconsistency of studies in entrepreneurship education effectiveness: a...