This book identifies Friederike Welter’s key contribution to entrepreneurship research over recent decades, and shows how her work is contextualised in time and place. The book gives a differentiated understanding of entrepreneurship and contexts, celebrating diversity as well as complexity.

Contents: Introduction: Friederike Welter 1. David Smallbone and Friederike Welter (2001), ‘The Distinctiveness of Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies’, Small Business Economics , 16 (4), June, 249–62 2. David Smallbone and Friederike Welter (2003), ‘Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies: Necessity or Opportunity Driven?’, Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BKERC) paper , 1–16 3. Leona Achtenhagen and Friederike Welter (2005), ‘(Re-) Constructing the Entrepreneurial Spirit’, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research , Babson College, MA, USA, 104–17 31 4. Friederike Welter and Frank Lasch (2008), ‘Entrepreneurship Research in Europe: Taking Stock and Looking Forward’, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice , 32 (2), March, 241–8 5. Jürgen Schmude, Friederike Welter and Stefan Heumann (2008), ‘Entrepreneurship Research in Germany’, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice , 32 (2), March, 289–311 6. Friederike Welter and David Smallbone (2008), ‘Women’s Entrepreneurship from an Institutional Perspective: The Case of Uzbekistan’, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal , 4 (4), December, 505–20 7. Candida G. Brush, Anne de Bruin and Friederike Welter (2009), ‘A Gender-aware Framework for Women’s Entrepreneurship’, International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship , 1 (1), 8–24 8. Kerstin Ettl and Friederike Welter (2010), ‘Gender, Context and Entrepreneurial Learning’, International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship , 2 (2), 108–29 9. Leona Achtenhagen and Friederike Welter (2011), ‘“Surfing on the Ironing Board” – The Representation of Women’s Entrepreneurship in German Newspapers’, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development , 23 (9–10), December, 763–86 10. Lutz Trettin and Friederike Welter (2011), ‘Challenges for Spatially Oriented Entrepreneurship Research’, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development , 23 (7–8), September, 575–602 11. Friederike Welter (2011), ‘Contextualizing Entrepreneurship – Conceptual Challenges and Ways Forward’, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice , 35 (1), January, 165–84 12. Friederike Welter and David Smallbone (2011), ‘Institutional Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Behavior in Challenging Environments’, Journal of Small Business Management , 49 (1), January, 107–25 13. Friederike Welter (2012), ‘All You Need is Trust? A Critical Review of the Trust and Entrepreneurship Literature’, International Small Business Journal, 30 (3), May, 193–212 14. Friederike Welter and Mirela Xheneti (2013), ‘Reenacting Contextual Boundaries – Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness in Challenging Environments’, in Andrew C. Corbett and Jerome A. Katz (eds), Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: Competing with Constraints (Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, Volume 15), Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 149–83 15. Friederike Welter, Candida Brush and Anne de Bruin (2014), ‘The Gendering of Entrepreneurship Context’, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn Working Paper 01/14, February, 1–23 277 16. Friederike Welter and David Smallbone (2015), ‘Creative Forces for Entrepreneurship: The Role of Institutional Change Agents’, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn Working Paper 01/15, March, 1–29 17. Friederike Welter, David Smallbone and Anna Pobol (2015), ‘Entrepreneurial Activity in the Informal Economy: A Missing Piece of the Entrepreneurship Jigsaw Puzzle’, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 27 (5–6), 292–306 18. Friederike Welter (2016), ‘Wandering Between Contexts’, in David B. Audretsch and Erik E. Lehmann (eds), The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Modern Entrepreneurship, Chapter 19, Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 213–32 19. Ted Baker and Friederike Welter (2017), ‘Come on Out of the Ghetto, Please! – Building the Future of Entrepreneurship Research’, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 23 (2), 170–84 20. Friederike Welter, Ted Baker, David B. Audretsch and William B. Gartner (2017), ‘Everyday Entrepreneurship – A Call for Entrepreneurship Research to Embrace Entrepreneurial Diversity’, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 41 (3), May, 311–21 Index