The SAGE Handbook of Small Business and Entrepreneurship offers state-of-the-art chapters on all aspects of this rapidly-evolving discipline. Original contributions from the best international scholars map the development of Entrepreneurship as an academic field, explore its key current debates and research methods, and also consider its future directions.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction - Robert Blackburn, Dirk De Clercq and Jarna Heinonen
• PART I PEOPLE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL PROCESSES
• 2 Entrepreneurial Leadership: A Critical Review and Research Agenda - Claire M. Leitch and Richard T. Harrison
• 3 Entrepreneurial Action Research: Moving Beyond Fixed Conceptualizations - Hamid Vahidnia, H. Shawna Chen, J. Robert Mitchell and Ronald K. Mitchell
• 4 Pre- and Post-entrepreneurship Labor Mobility of Entrepreneurs and Employees in Entrepreneurial Firms - Kristina Nyström
• 5 Networks and Entrepreneurship - Maura McAdam and Danny Soetanto
• 6 Migrant Entrepreneurship - Stephen Drinkwater
• 7 Entrepreneurship from a Family Business Perspective - Judith van Helvert and Mattias Nordqvist
• 8 Social Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship and Social Value Creation - Helen Haugh, Fergus Lyon and Bob Doherty
• PART II ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION
• 9 Entrepreneurial Strategy: A Contingency Review and Outlook for Future Research - Christian Lechner and Abeer Pervaiz
• 10 Perspectives on New Venture Creation - Fokko J. Eller and Michael M. Gielnik
• 11 New Venture Growth: Current Findings and Future Challenges - Ivan Zupic and Alessandro Giudici
• 12 Small Business Growth and Performance - Samuel Adomako and Kevin F. Mole
• 13 The Nature of Entrepreneurial Exit - Michael H. Morris, Susana C. Santos, Christopher Pryor and Xaver Neumeyer
• 14 Corporate Entrepreneurship - Bjørn Willy Åmo and Lars Kolvereid
• 15 Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Small Business - Mark Freel
• 16 Entrepreneurial Marketing in Small Enterprises - Rosalind Jones, Sussie C. Morrish, Jonathan Deacon and Morgan P. Miles
• 17 Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures - Colin Mason
• 18 Internal Financial Management in Smaller, Entrepreneurial Businesses - Marc Cowling and Catherine Matthews
• PART III ENTREPRENEURIAL MILIEU
• 19 Can Governments Promote Gazelles? Evidence from Denmark - Anders Hoffmann and David J. Storey
• 20 Exploring Firm-Level Effects of Regulation: Going Beyond Survey Approaches - John Kitching
• 21 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems - Erik Stam and Ben Spigel
• 22 Entrepreneurial Social Responsibility - Zhongming Wang and Yanhai Zhao
• 23 Bringing ‘I’ into ‘E’ – What Could It Mean? Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of International Entrepreneurship Research - Niina Nummela
• 24 Challenges to Venture Growth in Emerging Economies - Wafa N. Almobaireek, Ahmed Alshumaimeri and Tatiana S. Manolova
• 25 Learning and Educational Programs for Entrepreneurs - Luke Pittaway, Louisa Huxtable-Thomas and Paul Hannon
• 26 The Use of Case Studies in Entrepreneurship Education - Thomas M. Cooney
• 27 Enterprise Education Pedagogy and Redesigning Learning Outcomes: Case of a Public Reform School - Ulla Hytti and Sirpa Koskinen
• PART IV RESEARCHING SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
• 28 In Search of Causality in Entrepreneurship Research: Quantitative Methods in Corporate Entrepreneurship - Aaron F. McKenny, Miles A. Zachary, Jeremy C. Short and David J. Ketchen Jnr.
• 29 Qualitative Research in Entrepreneurship - Anne Kovalainen
• 30 Gender and Entrepreneurship at the Crossroads: Where Do You Want to Go? - Cristina Díaz-García
• 31 Making Entrepreneurship Research Matter: The Challenging Journey to an Academic Identity - Bengt Johannisson
• 32 Critical Perspectives in Entrepreneurship Research - Seppo Poutanen