Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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 December 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation

   By Kenneth Amaeshi, Paul Nnodim, Osuji Onyeka

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Ethics

   Despite its recent popularity in literature, theory, and practice, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) remains a vague concept that struggles to define itself beyond the confines of corporate philanthropy or sustainability. In some circles, it is a response to the present and anticipated climate...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
9. Small Firms and Innovation Policy in Japan

   Edited by Cornelia Storz

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   This new book discusses the extent to which the Japanese economy encourages entrepreneurship and innovation. Although Japan has a strong reputation as an innovator, some people argue that this reputation is misplaced. Contrary to earlier expectations, the USA rather than Japan emerged as the...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. China's Rational Entrepreneurs

    The Development of the New Private Sector

    By Barbara Krug

    Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

    The ability of China's entrepreneurs to establish firms in the midst of a strangling bureaucratic system is a topic which demands attention not least because it forms the basis of China's economic development. Combining theoretical approaches with extensive fieldwork, China's Rational Entrepreneurs...

    Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge