Interest and attention to entrepreneurship has exploded in recent years. Yet, much of the research and scholarship has remained elusive to academics, policymakers and other researchers. This reflects two crucial aspects of the entrepreneurship literature. First has been the explosion of new findings and insights, both theoretically and empirically. Second, most of this scholarship has been rooted in traditional academic disciplines, spanning a broad spectrum of fields such as management, finance, economics, sociology and psychology.

The International Handbook of Entrepreneurship brings together leading scholars from each of these disciplines to provide an overview of what the issues are for entrepreneurship when viewed through the lens provided by the academic disciplines as well as a synthesis about what has been learned and what questions should be high on the agenda for future research. The Handbook will provide a roadmap to an emerging complex but intriguing field of entrepreneurship.

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to Entrepreneurship.- to the Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research.- Entrepreneurship: The Past, the Present, the Future.- The Entrepreneurial Process.- Risk and Uncertainty.- Innovation and Technological Change.- Market Processes and Entrepreneurial Studies.- Opportunity and the Nature of Exploitation.- The Cognitive Psychology of Entrepreneurship.- Three Views of Entrepreneurial Opportunity.- The Individual-Opportunity Nexus.- The Emergence of New Ventures.- Entrepreneurial Behavior and Firm Organizing Processes.- Entrepreneurship, Business Culture and the Theory of the Firm.- Resources and Hierarchies: Intersections between Entrepreneurship and Strategy.- Financing the New Venture.- Equity Financing.- Small Business and Debt Finance.- The Social Context.- The Social Psychology of Entrepreneurial Behaviour.- Entrepreneurship as Social Construction: A Multi-level Evolutionary Approach.- Entrepreneurship, Networks, and Geographies.- Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth and Policy.- The Impact of Entrepreneurship on Economic Growth.- Entrepreneurship, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and Public Policies.- Epilogue.- Connecting the Study of Entrepreneurship and Theories of Capitalist Progress An Epilogue.