The Economics of Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship
Cambridge University Press, 2/19/2004
EAN 9780521828130, ISBN10: 0521828139
Hardcover, 344 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
Language: English
As self-employment and entrepreneurship become increasingly important in our modern economies, Simon C. Parker provides a timely, definitive and comprehensive overview of the field. In this book he brings together and assesses the large and disparate literature on these subjects and provides an up-to-date overview of new research findings. Key issues addressed include: the impact of ability, risk, personal characteristics and the macroeconomy on entrepreneurship; issues involved in raising finance for entrepreneurial ventures, with an emphasis on the market failures that can arise as a consequence of asymmetric information; the job creation performance of the self-employed; the growth, innovation and exit behaviour of new ventures and small firms; and the appropriate role for governments interested in promoting self-employment and entrepreneurship. This book will serve as an essential reference guide to researchers, students and teachers of entrepreneurship in economics, business and management and other related disciplines.
1. Introduction
Part I. Entrepreneurship
Theories, Characteristics and Evidence
2. Theories of entrepreneurship
3. Characteristics of entrepreneurs and the environment for entrepreneurship
4. Ethnic minority and female entrepreneurship
Part II. Financing Entrepreneurship
Debt Finance for Entrepreneurial Ventures
5. Debt finance for new start-ups
6. Other sources of finance
7. Evidence of credit rationing
Part III. Running and Terminating an Enterprise
8. Labour demand and supply
9. Growth, innovation and exit
Part IV. Government Policy
10. Government policy
issues and evidence
Part V. Conclusion
11. Conclusions.