With so many theories and so many scientific bodies implicated in its study, Entrepreneurship can, at times, seem like a veritable jungle where finding one's way can prove to be difficult. This book functions as a map locating the most important issues: those where an acceptable consensus already exists, and those that remain open to discussion. In so doing, we have presented the accounts of distinguished explorers in their own words. The book contains three parts reflecting the synergistic approach opted for by the editors: Concepts, Theory, and Perspective, that correspond to previously published academic articles that were either important in the scientific consolidation of Entrepreneurship, or that present challenges for the future.

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Entrepreneurship: Concepts, Theory and Perspective. Introduction.- Entrepreneurship: Concepts, Theory and Perspective. Introduction.- Concepts.- Entrepreneurship as a Scientific Research Programme*.- Differentiating Entrepreneurs from Small Business Owners: A Conceptualization*.- Toward a Reconciliation of the Definitional Issues in the Field of Corporate Entrepreneurship*.- Fools Rush in? The Institutional Context of Industry Creation*.- Theory.- Entrepreneurship: Past Research and Future Challenges*.- A Paradigm of Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Management*.- The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research*.- The Cognitive Infrastructure of Opportunity Emergence*.- The Entrepreneurship of Resource-based Theory*.- Is There an Elephant in Entrepreneurship? Blind Assumptions in Theory Development*.- Perspective.- Levels of Analysis in Entrepreneurship Research: Current Research Practice and Suggestions for the Future*.- Entrepreneurship Research in Emergence: Past Trends and Future Directions*.- Many are Called, but Few are Chosen: An Evolutionary Perspective for the Study of Entrepreneurship.- The New Venture Decision: An Analysis Based on the GEM Project Database*.- Entrepreneurship Research in AMJ: What Has Been Published, and What Might the Future Hold?*.