1st Edition

Toward Entrepreneurial Community Development Leaping Cultural and Leadership Boundaries

Edited By Michael Fortunato, Morgan Clevenger Copyright 2017
330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

Toward Entrepreneurial Community Development is about developing entrepreneurial communities, and goes beyond theories of the firm to demonstrate how local and regional society contributes in important ways to the vitality of entrepreneurs. The literature is rich with insights about leadership and culture within SMEs, and the behaviours and attitudes of their founders, founding teams, and... Read more

1. An Introduction to Entrepreneurial Community Development

Michael W-P Fortunato and Morgan R. Clevenger

2. Perceptions of Entrepreneurs and Community: From Historical Roots to a Contemporary Kaleidoscope

Morgan R. Clevenger

3. Models of Entrepreneurial Community and Ecosystem Development

Michael W-P Fortunato

4. Understanding the Impact of Culture in Entrepreneurship

Nicole D. Breazeale and Ronald J. Hustedde

5. Transformational Leadership to Build an Entrepreneurial Community

Morgan R. Clevenger and Chao Miao

6. The Value and Process of Social Networking for Entrepreneurs

Morgan R. Clevenger, Michael W-P Fortunato, and Kathleen Houlihan

7. High- and Low-entrepreneurial Communities: A Multiple Case Study

Michael W-P Fortunato

8. Analysis of the Case Study Data: Considerations for Studying or Launching an Entrepreneurial Community or Ecosystem

Michael W-P Fortunato

9. Entrepreneurial Community Success: Psychological Characteristics, Experiences, and Identities

Ellen E. Newell

10. Leaping Cultural and Leadership Boundaries: Catalyzing Entrepreneurial Communities

Michael W-P Fortunato and Morgan R. Clevenger

Biography

  • Michael W-P Fortunato is the Director of the Center for Rural Studies at Sam Houston State University
  • Morgan Clevenger is an Assistant Professor at Sidhu School of Business, Wilkes University