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Offers a comprehensive understanding of the construct'entrepreneurial team' by focusing on its definition and characteristics. The book depicts team evolution phases, from inception to maturity, linking these to firm performance by using a process approach (i.e., Input-Process-Outcome).

Analyses the most recent literature on IPOs of entrepreneurial firms - young firms based on intangible rather than physical assets where the founder of the firm often serves as the key inventor and the CEO.

Reflects the respect, affection and high esteem that his colleagues held for Mike Wright. This volume presents a collection of reflections paying tribute to him, as a scholar, as an academic leader and scholarly innovator, and as a special person.

This monograph reviews organizational ambidexterity in entrepreneurship studies. The author examines the past 15 years of published research by focusing on the contribution of organizational ambidexterity to the fields of management studies and entrepreneurship studies and provide research directions in organizational ambidexterity.

Synthesizes the authors' previous work to draw conclusions and identify new directions. The book puts the spotlight on collaborative innovation blocs and improves our understanding of how and why entrepreneurial plans are formulated and revised over time.

Presents a comprehensive overview of the applications of machine learning algorithms to the Crunchbase database. The authors highlight the main research goals that can be addressed and review all the variables and algorithms used for each goal.

Focuses on the CEO advice taking process and examines the case where advisers provide strategic advice to the top management of a firm. This review suggests that the process of business advice could be divided into attraction, engagement, exit and extension.

Reviews the existing literature on immigrant entrepreneurship by focusing on immigrant entrepreneurs' personal characteristics, their immigrant ethnic community networks, and the external ecosystem.

Provides a systematic review of developments in strategic entrepreneurship research, mapping its evolution as a field of research. Beyond mapping and assessing the evolution of strategic entrepreneurship research, the authors identify areas where further theoretical, conceptual and empirical studies would be particularly useful.

While there have been a number of excellent literature reviews in recent years published in various academic outlets, Gender and Entrepreneurship: An Annotated Bibliography is more complete than other efforts and places each contribution to the literature into one of 16 descriptive categories.

Reviews the extant literature on entrepreneurial borrowing and provides insights into some of the key concepts and findings in the literature. The emphasis on the term 'borrowing' as opposed to 'lending' indicates there is a particular interest in exploring issues related to the demand for credit.

Examines the role of trust in entrepreneurship. After reviewing the conceptualization of trust, the authors argue that trust should be seen in the context of a wider-set of entrepreneurship-supporting values.

Explores the continuing contribution of MIT alumni to innovation and entrepreneurship in the United States and worldwide. This update is particularly salient given the burgeoning interest in the role of universities in economic growth and the fact that students who graduated between 2004 and 2014 faced a more difficult economic climate.

Reviews the most common concepts of entrepreneurship from the theoretical economics literature, identifying common elements and pointing to important differences. The purpose is to compare these theoretical ideas of entrepreneurship with the measures used in empirical country-level studies.

Provides an analysis of the progress made in the field of entrepreneurship education by looking in particular at the contributions made to theory and at the challenges that keep emerging in practice. The authors build two different frameworks of analysis in order to examine recent literature on entrepreneurial education.

Explores the extent to which knowledge transferred from a university to a firm or group of firms through a research partnership results in short-term private gains to a firm as well as to long-term public gains to society.

Provides a comprehensive comparison of the GEM and GEDI approaches by using both methods side by side to analyse entrepreneurship development; and offers the GEM community a useful example on how the GEM and the GEDI methodologies can be successfully combined to allow for a more in-depth country analysis of entrepreneurial performance.

Offers an introductory, non-technical overview of what economics adds to our understanding of entrepreneurship. The author identifies issues that can be resolved using economic analysis, and presents the theoretical and empirical models that form the intellectual foundations of the economics of entrepreneurship.

Examines the development of entrepreneurship as a research field by describing the modern history of entrepreneurship as a scholarly field since World War II and synthesizing the development of the field in terms of the institutionalization of entrepreneurship in the academic system.

Focuses on data gathered from a large-scale, systematic survey of Stanford alumni, faculty, and selected staff in 2011 to assess the university's economic impact based on its involvement in entrepreneurship.

Provides a disciplinary perspective on the role of innovation. In particular, this volume offers several distinct disciplinary perspectives including from the academic discipline of finance, from the entrepreneurship discipline, from the management perspective, and from the marketing discipline.

Reviews the social cognition and its development to explore how progression in this broader field serves as a conceptual footing for the more specialized, microfoundation-based examination of entrepreneurial social cognition, and reviews some of the relevant work in fields that are closely related to entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking.

Takes an in-depth look at corporate governance mechanisms in entrepreneurial firms, and offers an explanation on how and why they differ from those mechanisms in large and publicly traded corporations.

Reviews the existing empirical literature on the impacts of tax policies on entrepreneurial activity and presents an agenda for future research. The authors discuss the many ways in which researchers have measured entrepreneurship and small business activity.

Provides an overview of the current state-of-affairs in the financing of private innovations in China. While country-level innovation can take many forms, the focus is on the funding of business start-ups and entrepreneurial ventures.

Explores the issues and provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of business failure research that has surrounded the subject over the years within the entrepreneurship literature.