This comprehensive Handbook provides an essential analysis of new venture creation research. The eminent contributors critically discuss and explore the current literature as well as suggest improvements to the field. They reveal a strong sense of both the 'state-of-the-art' (what has and has not been done in new venture creation research) and the 'state-of-the-could-be' (future directions the field should take to improve knowledge). The Handbook comprises nineteen chapters divided into four main sections: setting the agenda; theoretical perspectives; data and measurements; and new venture creation through contextual lenses.
path-breaking Handbook has allowed experienced new venture researchers to tell the world not only where the field has been, but also where it should be going. Their responses have provided an insightful and stimulating resource that will be of great practical value to researchers working in this vital and rapidly expanding subject. Students and practitioners interested in understanding leading edge thinking in the field of new venture creation will also find this handbook invaluable.
Contributors: H.E. Aldrich, F. Åstrüm, T. Bager, O. Basso, D. Blackman, M. Brännback, C.G. Brush, A.L. Carsrud, P. Davidsson, G. Don, A. Elam, M.R. Evald, A. Fayolle, W.B. Gartner, S. Gordon, P.G. Greene, G. Hancock, K. Hindle, M. Imas, J.A. Katz, P.H. Kim, K. Klyver, F. Kropp, H. Landström, J. Legge, B. Leleux, J. Levie, N.J. Lindsay, M. Mulej, M. Rebernik, D. Al-Shanfari, D. Smallbone, P. Steffens, J. Sundbo, S. Terjesen, E.T. Tornikoski, F. Welter
Contents:
PART I: SETTING THE AGENDA
1. New Venture Creation Research: From Established Perspectives to New Horizons
Kevin Hindle and Kim Klyver
2. Mapping the Landscape of New Venture Creation Research
Kevin Hindle and Dhafar Al-Shanfari
3. Who's Asking the Right Question? Patterns and Diversity in the Literature of New Venture Creation
Hans Landström and Fredrik Åström
4. Re-imagining The Achieving Society
William B. Gartner
PART II: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
5. Gender and New Venture Creation
Siri Terjesen, Amanda Elam and Candida G. Brush
6. Transgressive Knowledge Creation in Entrepreneurship
Deborah Blackman and Miguel Imas
7. What Does the Economic Literature Contribute to Understanding New Venture Creation?
John Legge
8. Modelling the Innovative New Venturing Process in Terms of Dialectical Systemic Thinking
Matja Mulej and Miroslav Rebernik
9. Social Networks and New Venture Creation: The Dark Side of Networks
Kim Klyver, Majbritt Rostgaard Evald and Kevin Hindle
10. Entrepreneurial Commitment and New Venture Creation: A Conceptual Exploration
Alain Fayolle, Olivier Basso and Erno T. Tornikoski
PART III: DATA AND MEASUREMENT
11. Are We There Yet? Measurement Challenges in Studying New Ventures
Phillip H. Kim and Howard E. Aldrich
12. The New Venture Mortality Myth
Jonathan Levie, Gavin Don and Benoît Leleux
13. Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence (CAUSEE): Design, Data Collection and Descriptive Results
Per Davidsson, Paul Steffens and Scott Gordon
PART IV: NVC THROUGH CONTEXTUAL LENSES
14. Cultural Context as a Moderator of Private Entrepreneurship Investment Behaviour
Fredric Kropp, Noel J. Lindsay and Gary Hancock
15. Perceptual Differences and Perceptual Problems in Providing Government Support for New Venture Creation
Malin Brännback, Alan L. Carsrud and Jerome A. Katz
16. Entrepreneurship Education and New Venture Creation: A Comprehensive Approach
Torben Bager
17. Managing NVC Research in the Institutional Context: An Academic Administrator's Perspective
Patricia G. Greene
18. Creative Artists and Entrepreneurship
Jon Sundbo
19. Post-Soviet Societies and New Venture Creation
Friederike Welter and David Smallbone
Appendix: Distinguishing Entrepreneurship from New Venture Creation
Index
