One of the obstacles for understanding the phenomenon of entrepreneurship is the lack of integration of different assumptions, units and levels of analysis that are implicit in its many conceptualisations.

Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction Motivation and Content – Héctor Rocha, David B. Audretsch and Julian Birkinshaw PART I ENTREPRENEURSHIP SAFARI: A PHENOMENON DRIVEN SEARCH FOR MEANING 1. Hector Rocha and Julian Birkinshaw (2007), ‘Entrepreneurship Safari: A Phenomenon-Driven Search for Meaning’ PART II ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS THE ENTREPRENEUR A Economics 2. Mark Casson (1982), ‘The Significance of the Entrepreneur’ 3. Frank H. Knight (1921), ‘Author’s Preface’ 4. Israel M. Kirzner (1997), ‘Entrepreneurial Discovery and the Competitive Market Process: An Austrian Approach’ B Psychology 5. Norris F. Krueger, Jr. (2003), ‘The Cognitive Psychology of Entrepreneurship’ PART III ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS INNOVATION A Economics 6. Joseph A. Schumpeter (1934), ‘The Fundamental Phenomenon of Economic Development’ B Evolutionary Economics 7. Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter (1982), ‘Overview and Motivation’ 8. Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter (2002), ‘Evolutionary Theorizing in Economics’ 9. Bengt-Äke Lundvall and Björn Johnson (1994), ‘The Learning Economy’ PART IV ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS ORGANISATION OR BUSINESS CREATION A Sociology 10. William B. Gartner (1989), ‘“Who Is An Entrepreneur?” Is the Wrong Question’ 11. Patricia H. Thornton (1999), ‘The Sociology of Entrepreneurship’ 12. Paul Reynolds, Niels Bosma, Erkko Autio, Steve Hunt, Natalie De Bono, Isabel Servais, Paloma Lopez-Garcia and Nancy Chin (2005), ‘Global Entrepreneurship Monitor: Data Collection Design and Implementation 1998–2003’ 13. William B. Gartner, Nancy M. Carter and Paul D. Reynolds (2010), ‘Entrepreneurial Behavior: Firm Organizing Processes’ B Population Ecology 14. Michael T. Hannan and John Freeman (1977), ‘The Population Ecology of Organizations’ PART V ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS CORPORATE VENTURING 15. Julian Birkinshaw (1997), ‘Entrepreneurship in Multinational Corporations: The Characteristics of Subsidiary Initiatives’ 16. Robert A. Burgelman (1983), ‘A Process Model of Internal Corporate Venturing in the Diversified Major Firm’ 17. Gary Hamel (1999), ‘Bringing Silicon Valley Inside’ 18. Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1982), ‘The Middle Manager as Innovator’ PART VI ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS THE SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISE (SME) A Economics and Small Business Economics 19. William A. Brock and David S. Evans (1989), ‘Small Business Economics’ 20. David B. Audretsch (2004), ‘Sustaining Innovation and Growth: Public Policy Support for Entrepreneurship’ PART VII ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS ENTRY A Industrial Economics 21. P.A. Geroski (1995), ‘What Do We Know About Entry?’ B Evolutionary Economics 22. Sidney G. Winter (1984), ‘Schumpeterian Competition in Alternative Technological Regimes’ PART VIII ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS CHURNING RATE (ENTRY MINUS CLOSURES) A Economics 23. Joseph A. Schumpeter (2005), ‘Development’ B Sociology 24. Paul D. Reynolds (1999), ‘Creative Destruction: Source or Symptom of Economic Growth?’ C Population Ecology 25. Paul D. Reynolds, Brenda Miller and Wilbur R. Maki (1995), ‘Explaining Regional Variation in Business Births and Deaths: U.S. 1976–88’ PART IX ENTREPRENEURSHIP POLICY 26. Magnus Henrekson and Dan Johansson (1999), ‘Institutional Effects on the Evolution of the Size Distribution of Firms’ 27. Brett Anitra Gilbert, David B. Audretsch and Patricia P. McDougall (2004), ‘The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Policy’ 28. Zoltan J. Acs and Laszlo Szerb (2007), ‘Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth and Public Policy’ 29. André van Stel, David J. Storey and A. Roy Thurik (2007), ‘The Effect of Business Regulations on Nascent and Young Business Entrepreneurship’