Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management Books

New and Published Books

1. The Entrepreneurial Personality

   A Social Construction, 2nd Edition

   By Elizabeth Chell

   Is there such a thing as an 'entrepreneurial personality'? What makes someone an entrepreneur is a question that has intrigued the lay person and the scholar for many years, but can such a personality be identified or is it simply a socially constructed phenomenon? Elizabeth Chell pursues an...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Asia's Entrepreneurs

   Dilemmas, Risks and Opportunities

   By Virginia Cha, Jennifer Lien

   This book is a collection of technology startup cases in Asia, told in a narrative form, to give readers an insider view to how innovators and technopreneurs view entrepreneurial opportunities from use of technology, how the technopreneurs raise funding to support their vision, and the subsequent...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Political Economy of the Small Firm

   By Charles Dannreuther, Lew Perren

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   For many, small firms are everyday realities of the economy and visible in every high-street and industrial estate. Their existence and importance is unquestionable. Such beliefs are understandable, but the authors of this new book would suggest they are misguided. The Political Economy of the...

   Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge
4. Islamic Entrepreneurship

   By Rasem N. Kayed, M. Kabir Hassan

   Series: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

   This book discusses the idea that there is a specific Islamic form of entrepreneurship. Based on extensive original research amongst small and medium sized enterprises in Saudi Arabia, it shows how businesses are started and how they grow in the context of an Islamic economy and society. It argues...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
5. Chinese Family Business and the Equal Inheritance System

   Unravelling the Myth

   By Victor Zheng

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This book disputes the traditional argument that the equal inheritance system hinders the growth of Chinese family business, approaching this not only in terms of economic capital, but also in terms of human capital such as education and leadership, and social networks. Zheng argues that most of...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
6. Tiger Girls

   Women and Enterprise in the People's Republic of China

   By Minglu Chen

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   The existing scholarship on women in China suggests that gender inequality still exists against the background of the country’s reform and opening in recent years. However, the situation of women in enterprise ownership and leadership seems to indicate that despite such notions of disadvantage...

   Published January 16th 2013 by Routledge
7. Entrepreneurship in the Informal Economy

   Models, Approaches and Prospects for Economic Development

   Edited by Mai Thi Thanh Thai, Ekaterina Turkina

   Series: Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship

   Although entrepreneurship in the informal economy occurs outside state regulatory systems, informal commercial activities account for an estimated 30% of economic activity around the world. Informal entrepreneurship goes unmonitored despite the fact that it significantly contributes to poverty...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
8. Female Entrepreneurship

   By Maura McAdam

   Series: Routledge-ISBE Masters in Entrepreneurship

   Female entrepreneurship, and, in particular, the contribution of their ventures to aggregate economic activity has gained increasing attention over recent years in terms of theory, practice and policy. This concise book explores how women fit into the contemporary entrepreneurial discourse by...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
9. Producing Prosperity

   An Inquiry into the Operation of the Market Process

   By Randall Holcombe

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   The substantial prosperity that characterizes market economies at the beginning of the twenty-first century is relatively recent in human history. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, economic progress was so slow that people would not have been able to recognize it in their lifetimes, whereas today...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
10. International Entrepreneurship (RLE International Business)

    The Effect of Firm Age on Motives for Internationalization

    By Candida Brush

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: International Business

    This volume provides important benchmarks for the integration of entrepreneurship and international business. It extends scholarship beyond the firm as single unit of analysis, instead including the role of the founder/entrepreneur. Exploration of this domain discusses possibilities for theory...

    Published November 26th 2012 by Routledge