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Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics
The Process of Business Creation

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July 2012 | 608 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
The Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics provides an important forum for scholars to generate new theory, identify promising research directions, and present important insights to a very wide audience of scholars in entrepreneurship. The book is formed by empirical research from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED), and is the first attempt to develop a comprehensive and thoroughly representative portrait of entrepreneurial activity in the United States that can be applied to other countries. In order to study individuals as their businesses and organizations take shape, this study located and studied nascent entrepreneurs while in the process of building their enterprises.
William B. Gartner
Introduction
Paul D. Reynolds
CHAPTER 1 - OVERVIEW: LIFE CONTEXT, PERSONAL BACKGROUND
Nancy M. Carter and Candida G. Brush
CHAPTER 2 GENDER
Patricia G. Greene and Margaret M. Owen
CHAPTER 3 RACE AND ETHNICITY
Candida G. Brush and Tatiana S. Manolova
CHAPTER 4 HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE
Phillip Kim and Howard E. Aldrich, and Lisa Keister
CHAPTER FIVE: HOUSEHOLD INCOME AND NET WORTH
Paul D. Reynolds
CHAPTER 6 - LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION AND RESIDENTIAL TENURE
Candida G. Brush and Tatiana S. Manolova
CHAPTER 7 PERSONAL BACKGROUND
Charles H. Matthews and Sherrie E. Human
CHAPTER 8 FAMILY BACKGROUND
Margaret M. Owen and Patricia G. Greene
CHAPTER 9 TIME USE
Amy E. Davis and Howard E. Aldrich
CHAPTER 10 WORK PARTICIPATION HISTORY
Kelly G. Shaver
CHAPTER 11 OVERVIEW OF THE COGNITIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ENTREPRENEUR
Nancy M. Carter and William B. Gartner and Kelly G. Shaver
CHAPTER 12 CAREER REASONS
Elizabeth J. Gatewood
CHAPTER 13 ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPECTANCIES
Kevin L. Johnson and Joseph C. Rode, Marne L. Arthaud-Day, and Janet P. Near
CHAPTER 14 JOB AND LIFE SATISFACTION
Kevin L. Johnson, Wade M. Danis, and Marc J. Dollinger
CHAPTER 15 INNOVATOR AND ADAPTOR ENTREPRENEURS
Per Davidsson
CHAPTER 16 ROLE MODELS AND PERCEIVED SOCIAL SUPPORT
Jianwen Liao and Harold Welsch
CHAPTER 17 ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENSITY
Matthew W. Ford and Charles H. Matthews
CHAPTER 18 INDIVIDUAL PROBLEM SOLVING
Kelly G. Shaver
CHAPTER 19 ATTRIBUTION AND LOCUS OF CONTROL
James Morgan
CHAPTER 20 ON ECONOMIC SOPHISTICATION
Robert Baron
CHAPTER 21 SOCIAL SKILLS
William B. Gartner and Nancy M. Carter
CHAPTER 22 OVERVIEW OF THE STARTUP PROCESS
Paul D. Reynolds
CHAPTER 23 NATURE OF BUSINESS START-UPS
Gerald E. Hills and Robert P. Singh
CHAPTER 24 OPPORTUNITY RECOGNITION
25 STARTUP PROBLEMS
Candida G. Brush and Tatiana S. Manolova
25 STARTUP PROBLEMS
Candida G. Brush and Tatiana S. Manolova
Candida G. Brush and Tatiana S. Manolova
CHAPTER 25 STARTUP PROBLEMS
William B. Gartner, Nancy M. Carter, and Paul D. Reynolds
CHAPTER 26 BUSINESS STARTUP ACTIVITIES
Howard E. Aldrich, Nancy M. Carter, and Martin Ruef
CHAPTER 27 TEAMS
Nancy M. Carter, William B. Gartner, and Paul D. Reynolds
CHAPTER 28 FIRM FOUNDING
Howard E. Aldrich and Nancy M. Carter
CHAPTER 29 SOCIAL NETWORKS
William Dennis Jr. and Paul D. Reynolds
CHAPTER 30 KNOWLEDGE AND USE OF ASSISTANCE
Michael Stouder and Bruce A. Kirchhoff
CHAPTER 31 FUNDING THE FIRST YEAR OF BUSINESS
CHAPTER 31 FUNDING THE FIRST YEAR OF BUSINESS
CHAPTER 31 FUNDING THE FIRST YEAR OF BUSINESS
CHAPTER 31 FUNDING THE FIRST YEAR OF BUSINESS

CHAPTER 31 FUNDING THE FIRST YEAR OF BUSINESS
Jerome A. Katz and Ana Cabezuelo
CHAPTER 32 MEASURES OF FINANCIAL SOPHISTICATION
Sherrie E. Human and Charles H. Matthews
CHAPTER 33 FUTURE EXPECTATIONS FOR THE NEW BUSINESS
CHAPTER 33 FUTURE EXPECTATIONS FOR THE NEW BUSINESS

CHAPTER 33 FUTURE EXPECTATIONS FOR THE NEW BUSINESS
CHAPTER 33 FUTURE EXPECTATIONS FOR THE NEW BUSINESS
Paul D. Reynolds
CHAPTER 34 OVERVIEW: ENTREPRENEURIAL CONTEXT AND ENVIRONMENT
Nancy M. Carter, Paul D. Reynolds, and William B. Gartner
CHAPTER 35 PERCEPTIONS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL CLIMATE
Charles H. Matthews and Sherrie E. Human
CHAPTER 36 THE ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY CONTEXT FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: PERCEIVED ENVIRONMENTAL UNCERTAINTY
Timothy M. Stearns and Nancy M. Carter
CHAPTER 37 COMPETITIVE STRATEGY
Kathleen Allen and Timothy Stearns
CHAPTER 38 TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURS
William B. Gartner
CHAPTER 39 CONCLUSION
APPENDIX A - DATA COLLECTION

Paul D. Reynolds and Richard Curtin
APPENDIX B - DATA DOCUMENTATION, DATA PREPARATION AND WEIGHTS

Richard Curtin and Paul D. Reynolds
APPENDIX C - EXAMPLES OF ANALYSIS: WORK FILE PREPARATION, COMPARISONS AND ADJUSTMENT OF WEIGHTS

Paul D. Reynolds and Richard Curtin

"Entrepreneurial activity provides profound positive benefits across an important set of measures of social and economic well-being, much of it concentrated in new economic sectors, such as information technology. Yet even though entrepreneurship has been shown to provide many benefits, it is surprising that there has not be a systematic study of the process. This handbook tries to fill this gap by offering theories, ideas, and measures that can be used to explore and understand the factors involved."

APADE
Indiana University

William C. Gartner

Kelly G. Shaver

Kelly G. Shaver is Professor of Psychology at the College of William & Mary. From 1977–1979, he was Program Director for Social and Developmental Psychology in the Division of Behavioral and Neural Sciences at the National Science Foundation. He currently serves as an advisor to FamilyCareAmerica.com, is a founding director of MBATechConnect.org, and serves as a member of the international advisory board of the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute (ESBRI) in Stockholm where he was a Visiting Professor during 1999–2000. For 5 years Dr. Shaver was Editor of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and has served on the... More About Author

Nancy M. Carter

Nancy M. Carter holds the Richard M. Schulze Chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis). Previously she held the Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies, Director of the Center for the Study of Entrepreneurship, and was founding Director of the Center for Family Business at Marquette University. Her research program focuses on the emergence of organizations with a special emphasis on women owned initiatives. She has published extensively on organizations, strategy and entrepreneurship. She is on the editorial review boards of Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Development... More About Author

Paul D. Reynolds

Paul D. Reynolds is the Paul T. Babson Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies at Babson College (Wellesley, Massachusetts), a Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship at the London Business School, and the director of the annual Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference (1996-1999). He was the Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies at Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) for five years (1990-1995). Reynolds is now coordinator of the Entrepreneurial Research Consortium (ERC), an international collaboration of 31 university units, government agencies and foundations implementing national longitudinal studies of... More About Author

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