Entrepreneurship Trajectories: Entrepreneurial Opportunities, Business Models, and Firm Performance

Front Cover
Entrepreneurship Trajectories
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Framing the entrepreneurship phenomenon
	1.1 The state-of-the-art of entrepreneurship studies
	1.2 Overview of the main research themes in entrepreneurship studies
		1.2.1 Opportunities and the entrepreneurial process
		1.2.2 Venture financing
		1.2.3 Entrepreneurial cognition
		1.2.4 Economic development and entrepreneurship
		1.2.5 Family business
		1.2.6 Corporate entrepreneurship
		1.2.7 Social entrepreneurship and sustainability
		1.2.8 Women and minority entrepreneurship
		1.2.9 Global entrepreneurship
		1.2.10 Entrepreneurship research, education, and pedagogy
	1.3 Reflections about the main research themes in entrepreneurship studies
	1.4 The structure of the book
	References
	Further reading
2 The performance of entrepreneurial firms
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Problems with prior research
		2.2.1 Defining entrepreneurial firms
		2.2.2 Refining the concept of performance achieved by entrepreneurial firms
		2.2.3 Reviewing the factors that can affect the growth of entrepreneurial firms
	2.3 A pragmatic approach to the performance of entrepreneurial firms
		2.3.1 A review of the official reports on the performances of entrepreneurial firms
		2.3.2 Discussion about the performances of entrepreneurial firms
	2.4 Possible outputs of entrepreneurship trajectories
	References
3 The business model
	3.1 The business model: an overlapping concept
	3.2 Defining the business model
	3.3 Setting up the business model
		3.3.1 Innovation, adaptation, and experimentation
	3.4 Factors affecting the setting up of a business model
		3.4.1 Relevance of industry
		3.4.2 Relevance of firm age
	3.5 Entrepreneurial firms and their business models
	3.6 Concluding remarks
	References
	Further reading
4 Entrepreneurial opportunities
	4.1 The identification of entrepreneurial opportunities
	4.2 The neoclassical approach
	4.3 The Austrian approach
	4.4 The contemporary approach
	4.5 Reflections on the identification of entrepreneurial opportunities
	4.6 Concluding remarks
	References
	Further reading
5 Entrepreneurship trajectories
	5.1 The approach for drawing entrepreneurship trajectories
	5.2 Flat trajectory
	5.3 Incremental trajectory
	5.4 Adventurous trajectory
	5.5 Entrepreneurship trajectories
	References
6 Selected cases
	6.1 The choice of the research method
	6.2 The data collection system: semistructured interviews
	6.3 Selected cases
	6.4 Lascò ltd
	6.5 Ludus Magnus Studio llc
	6.6 Xonda Derm ltd
	6.7 Comments on the cases
	References
7 Conclusion
Index
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