The Life Cycle of Entrepreneurial Ventures

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Parker, Simon (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Series: International Handbook Series on Entrepreneurship ; 3
• Subjects: Business.; Management science.; Entrepreneurship.; Industrial organization.; Business and Management.; Business and Management, general.; Industrial Organization.

The Life Cycle of Entrepreneurial Ventures discusses topical issues in entrepreneurship organized around the various stages of venture creation, development and performance. The book is arranged in several parts, dealing with the pre-start stage, followed by venture creation, financing ventures, ven...

Table of Contents:

• Beginnings
• Nascent Entrepreneurs
• New Venture Strategies: Transforming Caterpillars into Butterflies
• Aspects of Entry and New Venture Creation
• Entrepreneurship Education—A Compendium of Related Issues
• Immigration, Entrepreneurship and the Venture Start-up Process
• Location and New Venture Creation
• On Factors Promoting and Hindering Entry and Exit
• Financing Ventures
• Debt Finance and Credit Constraints on SMEs
• Public Policy, Start-up Entrepreneurship and the Market for Venture Capital
• Informal Sources of Venture Finance
• Microfinance and Poor Entrepreneurs
• Venture Development I: Private Sector Issues
• Entrepreneurs as Producers
• What Do We Know About Small Firm Growth?
• Venture Development II: Social Issues
• Nonprofit Social Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship among Disadvantaged Groups: Women, Minorities and the Less Educated
• Venture Performance and Harvesting
• Early Stage Survival and Growth
• Venture Performance and Venture Inputs: The Role of Human and Financial Capital
• Harvesting in High Growth Firms.