Entrepreneurship Research In Europe - Evolving Concepts and Processex

This engaging and topical book demonstrates the importance of entrepreneurship research at a time of turbulent environments, as well as highlighting the most recent developments in the field. It explores important avenues of new research and compares the differences in entrepreneurship between countries and regions. Viewing entrepreneurship as a dynamic learning and developmental process, the contributors discuss how the new ideological dialogue of entrepreneurship has started to expand its scope from business to society.

Foreword Norris Krueger Preface Introduction – Becoming an Entrepreneur and Developing Entrepreneurial Behaviour Paula Kyrö, Odd Jarl Borch, Alain Fayolle and Elisabeth Ljunggren PART I: THE PROCESS OF BECOMING AND LEARNING TO BECOME AN ENTREPRENEUR 1. Does Education Matter? The Characteristics and Performance of Businesses Started by Recent University Graduates Colin Mason, Stephen Tagg and Sara Carter 2. Temporal Stability of Entrepreneurial Intentions: A Longitudinal Study Francisco Liñán, Juan C. Rodríguez-Cohard and Joaquín Guzmán 3. Meta Processes of Entrepreneurial and Enterprising Learning – the Dialogue between Cognitive, Conative and Affective Constructs Paula Kyrö, Jaana Seikkula-Leino and Jarkko Mylläri 4. Entrepreneurial Opportunity Identification: The Case of Skype Technologies Rok Stritar and Mateja Drnovšek PART II: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A SOCIAL PROCESS OF BECOMING ENTREPRENEURIAL 5. Heuristic Method: Insights into a Conceptual Understanding of Women Entrepreneurship and Social Capital Iiris Aaltio, Paula Kyrö and Elisabeth Sundin 6. Entrepreneur’s Social Capital Enhancing Performance and Venture Advancement Hannes Ottósson and Thomas Schøtt 7. Structuring the Field of Social Entrepreneurship: A Transatlantic Comparative Approach Sophie Bacq and Frank Janssen PART III: THE PROCESS OF CREATING AND DEVELOPING ENTREPRENEURIAL ORGANISATIONS 8. Mapping Internationalisation Paths of Technology-based SMEs: Cases of Estonian ICT and Biotechnology Companies Kalev Kaarna and Tõnis Mets 9. Exploring Firm Growth as a Process of Creation Tuija Mainela, Vesa Puhakka and Sakari Sipola 10. The Influence of Organizational Characteristics on Intentions of Employees Towards Corporate Entrepreneurship Olga Belousova Index