Entrepreneurship: A Global Perspective

1.Setting the scene 1.1.Introduction 1.2.Entrepreneurship in context 1.3.Outline of later chapters 2.A world of enterprise 2.1.Introduction 2.2.Local, national and international drivers of entrepreneurship 2.3.A world of enterprise 2.4.Summary and key points 2.5.Discussion questions and further reading 3.Enterprising nations 3.1.Introduction 3.2.Entrepreneurship: growth and development effects 3.3.Enterprising nations compared 3.4.Summary and key points 3.5.Discussion questions and further reading 4.Who are the entrepreneurs? 4.1.Introduction 4.2.Structure, agency and the entrepreneurship decision 4.3.Bio-demographic characteristics 4.4.Behavioural and cognitive perspectives 4.5.Putting it all together 4.6.Summary and key points 4.7.Discussion questions and further reading 5.The start-up decision 5.1.Introduction 5.2.Thinkers and doers 5.3.Conceptual perspectives Contents note continued: 5.4.Summary and key points 5.5.Discussion questions and further reading 6.Understanding business success: strategy, luck and policy 6.1.Introduction 6.2.Growth, high growth and gazelles 6.3.Understanding growth 6.4.Policy support for business growth 6.5.Summary and key points 6.6.Discussion questions and further reading 7.Financing entrepreneurship 7.1.Introduction 7.2.SME funding - the global picture 7.3.Addressing the financing gap 7.4.Islamic finance 7.5.Summary and key points 7.6.Discussion questions and further reading 8.Small firms and innovation 8.1.Introduction 8.2.Innovation and entrepreneurship - two sides of the same coin? 8.3.Small firms in the Innovation landscape 8.4.Barriers and enablers of small firm innovation 8.5.Summary and key points 8.6.Discussion questions and further reading 9.Antisocial, unlawful and criminal enterprise 9.1.Introduction Contents note continued: 9.2.Entrepreneurship - the moral dimension 9.3.Conceptual perspectives 9.4.Summary and key points 9.5.Discussion questions and further reading 10.Enterprise policy 10.1.Introduction 10.2.Why should government intervene? 10.3.What type of policy intervention? 10.4.Framework conditions 10.5.Evaluating entrepreneurship policy 10.6.Summary and key points 10.7.Discussion questions and further reading 11.Looking forwards.