Of the people who attempt to start a business, how many actually bring their venture to fruition? Until now, the answer to this question has eluded researchers, because of the difficulty in identifying and contacting people in the gestation phase of business start-up. In overcoming this sampling...

Over the past decade, research efforts to address a lack of knowledge concerning the process of firm formation have intensified. Surprisingly, though, measurement of the primary dependent variable has been ignored. In aiming to establish a basis for measuring firm creation, we identify and...

The aim of this book is to contribute to the understanding of community-based development by dealing specifically with the role of entrepreneurship in the development process. The emergence of local Community Economic Development (CED) as an issue withing traditional regional development is...