Strategic entrepreneurship

Contents Preface to the fourth edition Entrepreneurship in the modern world Part 1 The entrepreneur as an individual 1 The nature of entrepreneurship 1.1 What is entrepreneurship? 1.2 The entrepreneur's tasks 1.3 The role of the entrepreneur 1.4 The entrepreneur as a person 1.5 Entrepreneurship: a style of management 1.6 The human dimension: power leadership and motivation 2 Types of entrepreneur 2.1 Classifying entrepreneurs 2.2 Serial and portfolio entrepreneurship 2.3 Entrepreneurship and small business management: a distinction 3 The entrepreneurial personality 3.1 Personality and entrepreneurship: some theoretical issues 3.2 Schools of thinking on personality 3.3 Entrepreneurship and psychometric testing 4 Entrepreneurship, cognition and decision-making 4.1 Cognitive approaches to understanding entrepreneurship 4.2 Entrepreneurial decision-making 4.3 Entrepreneurs and the human response to risk 5 Taking the entrepreneurial option 5.1 Who becomes an entrepreneur? 5.2 Characteristics of the successful entrepreneur 5.3 Entrepreneurial skills 5.4 The supply of entrepreneurs 5.5 Influences in the move to entrepreneurship 5.6 The initiation decision and process Part 2 The entrepreneur in the macro-economic environment 6 The economic function of the entrepreneur 6.1 The entrepreneur in economic theory 6.2 Entrepreneurship: wealth, utility and welfare 6.3 Entrepreneurship and information 7 Entrepreneurship and economic development 7.1 Entrepreneurship, economic performance and economic growth 7.2 National governance and entrepreneurship 7.3 National cultural and entrepreneurial inclination 8 Not for profit and public entrepreneurship 8.1 The role of entrepreneurship in the non-profit sector 8.2 The development of entrepreneurship in the non-profit sector 8.3 The challenge of entrepreneurship in the non-profit sector 9 Success, stakeholders and social responsibility 9.1 Defining success 9.2 Success factors for the new venture 9.3 Measuring succes