The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship, 1st ed. 2027

Presenting an extensive range of issues drawn from both traditional literature as well as the varied new interpretations of entrepreneurship, the Encyclopedia draws on implications for business, work, the arts, economic development, social change society and critical issues of our time, such as inequality, poverty and climate change to name a few. Furthermore entries cover how these implications are manifested in all parts of the world.

International in scope and comprising over 200 entries, the Encyclopedia meets the scholarly and referential needs of students, academic researchers, reflective policy makers and practitioners.

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Section 1: Definitions, Theories and Concepts

Definitions

1.       Entrepreneurship

3.       Enterprising

5.       Technological Change and Entrepreneurship

7.       Capitalism and Entrepreneurship

Overarching Theories and Concepts

9.       Venture Ownership

10.    Sociology of Entrepreneurship

11.   Economic Conceptualisations

12.   Anthropology of Entrepreneurship

13.   Cognitive Theories

14.   Productive, Unproductive and Destructive

15.   Risk and Uncertainty

16.   Culture of Entrepreneurship

17.   Resource Mobilisation

18.   Entrepreneurial Growth

19.   Development

20.   Internationalisation

Section 2: Entrepreneurial People

Personality, Psychology

21.   Entrepreneurial Traits and Characteristics

22.   Entrepreneurial Orientation

23.   Motivations and Intentions

24.   Attitudes and Aspirations

25.   Orientation

26.   Passion and Belief

27.   Mind-Set

Types

28.   Nascent Entrepreneurs

29.   Start-Up Entrepreneurs

30.   Entrepreneurial Teams

31.   Growth Entrepreneurs

32.   Serial Entrepreneurs

33.   Portfolio Entrepreneurs

34.   Intrapreneurs

35.   Female Entrepreneurs

36.   Minority Entrepreneurs

37.   Migrant, Refugee Entrepreneurs

38.   Transnational Entrepreneurs

39.   Social Entrepreneurs

40.   Community Entrepreneurs

41.   Citizen Entrepreneurs 

Embodiments and Expressions

42.   Skills and Competencies

43.   Knowledge

44.   Heuristics

45.   Capabilities

46.   Effectuation

47.   Planned Behaviour

48.   Self-Efficacy

49.   Deviancy

50.   Wellbeing

Section 3: Entrepreneurial Organisations

       Stages

52.   Start-Up

54.   Growth

Types

56.   Start-Ups

57.   New Firms

58.   Growing Firms

59.   Innovative Ventures

60.   Social Enterprises

61.   Community Interest Companies

62.   B-Corps

63.   Community Enterprises

64.   Public Enterprises

65.   Small Firms

66.   Entrepreneurial Mid-Sized Enterprises

67.   Entrepreneurial Large Organisations

68.   Family-based firms

69.   Accelerator Firms

70.   Incubatees

71.   Corporate Ventures

72.   Intraprenurship

73.   Franchising

74.   Spin-Offs

75.   Cooperatives

Forms (which are a combination of subsumed types and stages)

76.   Agile Firms

77.   Networked Firms

78.   High Growth Firms

79.   Hybrid Firms

80.   Platform Firms

Entrepreneurial Support Organisations

81.   Accelerators

82.   Incubators

83.   Innovation Centres and Hubs

84.   Networks

85.   Growth Hubs

86.   Enterprise Agencies

87.   Federations 

Section 4:  Entrepreneurial Environment

Institutions

89.   Codes of Conduct

91.   Institutional Voids

93.   Social

95.   R&D Labs

Government

97.   Policies and Instruments

98.   Market Failures

99.   Systemic Failures

100.                Spillovers and Externalities

101.                Support Services

102.                Public Enterprise

103.                Funding

104.                Research and Development

105.                Entrepreneurship Education and Skills Training 

Systems

106.                National, Regional and Local Entrepreneurship and Innovation Systems

107.                Ecosystems

108.                Clusters

109.                Industrial Districts

110.                Networks

Conditions

111.                Framework Conditions

113.                Culture

114.                Social Capital

115.                Development Stages

Levels

116.                National

117.                Local

118.                Regional

120.                Rural

121.                International

Spatial Aspects

122.                Geography of Entrepreneurship

123.               Spatial Dimensions

Economic Development

124.               Entrepreneurship and Economic Change 

125.               Stages of Development

126.               Urban Development and Cities

127.               Regional Economic Development

128.               The Innovative Milieux

129.               Job Creation

130.               Economic Growth

Social Development

132.                Entrepreneurship and Wellbeing

133.                Entrepreneurship as a Social Movement

135.                Entrepreneurship and Society

Section 5: Entrepreneurial Process

Opportunity Development and the Start-Up Process

137.                Developing and Realising Opportunities

138.                Sources of Opportunities

140.                Supply Side Opportunities

141.                Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Market Opportunities

143.                Effectuation

144.                Bricolage

146.                Creativity

147.                Entrepreneurial Self-Assessment

148.                Creating a New Venture

Finance

149.                Personal Finance

150.                Grants

151.                Family, Friends, and Fools

152.                Bank loans, overdrafts (+ collateral)

154.                Venture Capital

155.                Alternative Finance

156.                Fintech

157.                Crowd Funding

158.                Credit Union

159.                Bootstrapping

160.                Leveraging

161.                Accounting in New Ventures

Markets and Marketing

162.                New Market Opportunities

163.                Marketing and Prospecting

164.                Marketing new products and services

165.                Start-Ups and Inchoate Marketing

Learning

166.                Individual Learning

168.                Entrepreneurial Learning

169.                Situated Learning

170.                Endogenous and Exogenous Learning

171.                Human Capital

172.                Capabilities

173.                Informal Learning

174.                Formal and Tacit knowledge

Innovation

175.                Meaning and Function

176.                Types and Forms

177.                The Innovation Process

178.                New Product Development

179.                New Service Development

180.                Technology and Innovation

181.                Digital Innovation

182.                Social Innovation

Early Stage Growth

183.                From Entrepreneurs to Managers

184.                Innovative Growth

185.                Stages of Growth

186.                The Valley of Death

187.                Measuring Growth

Firm Closure

189.                IPOs

190.                Winding Up

191.                Bankruptcy

192.                Merger and Acquisition  

193.                International

Internationalisation

194.                Incremental Models

196.                Resource-based view

197.                FDIs and Entrepreneurship

Globalisation

198.                The Internet and Entrepreneurship

199.                Global Connectivity

201.                Global PipelinesGlobal Production Networks

202.                Transnational Entrepreneurship

203.                Diaspora Entrepreneurship

204.                Born-Global Firms

205.                Born-Global Capabilities

206.                Digitisation, Globalisation and Entrepreneurship

To be continued….

People: Dr Horatio Morgan, Ryerson University, Canada, and Professor Sibylle Heibrun, Kinneret Academic College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel 

Organisations: Professor Vanina Farber, IMD School of Business, Switzerland, and Professor Jorge Freiling, University of Bremen, Germany

Process: Professor Marcus Dejardin, Universite de Namur, Belgium, and Professor Ursula Wieisenfeld, Leuphana University, Germany

Environment: Professor Murtala Sagagi, Bayero University, Nigeria, and Professor George Saridakis, University of Kent, UK

Regional and Thematic (Key Issues) Editors

The next level of editors with regional or key issues responsibilities might include the following:

Dr Sarika Pruthi, San Jose State University, USA (International Entrepreneurship)

Dr Aki Harima, University of Bremen, Germany (Migration and Minority Entrepreneurship)

Dr Mohammed Hizam Hanafiah, The National University of Malaysia, Malaysia (South East Asia, excluding China)

Dr Asma Basit, Bahria University, Pakistan (Female Entrepreneurship)

Professor Arnis Sauka, Stockholm School of Business, Riga, Latvia (Entrepreneurial Growth)

Dr Silke Tegtmeier, Sonderborg University, Denmark (Entrepreneurial Intention and Opportunity Development)

Professor Yuchen Zhang, Tongi University, China (China)

Professor Colin Jones, Queensland University, Australia (Entrepreneurship Education) 

Professor Santanu Roy, Institute of Management Technology, India (India) 

Jay Mitra is Professor of Business Enterprise and Innovation and Director of the Venture Academy at Essex Business School, University of Essex. He is also the Editor of the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies published by Sage. He has acted as a Scientific Adviser to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) as the Head of the Scientific Committee on Entrepreneurship for the OECDs Centre for Entrepreneurship and the LEED (Local Economic and Employment) Programme at its Trento Centre and in Paris. He is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Luneburg, Germany, and has held Visiting Professorships at University Externado, Colombia, the Institute of Management Technology, India, the School of Management, Fudan University, and the School of Public Policy at Jilin University, both in China, at Bologna University, Italy and EDHEC Business School, France. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK.

 Jay Mitra also leads the International Entrepreneurship Forum (IEF) a unique network and forum for researchers, policy makers and business practitioners working on entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development issues. At Essex he established the School of Entrepreneurship and Business (SEB) in 2005. This achievement preceded his contribution to the creation of Essex Business School in 2008. He also created the first International Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (ICER) and has been leading it since its inception in 2006, which has now morphed into The Venture Academy, scoping entrepreneurship and innovation beyond research to generate new forms of learning, foster economic development, all involving, students, academic staff, and institutional stakeholders . 

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