The Economics of Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship

ISBN-13: 9780521828130 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 344 str.

Simon Parker

Opis

As self-employment and entrepreneurship become increasingly important in our modern economies, Simon Parker provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the field. Bringing together considerable disparate literature, Parker offers an up-to-date assessment of new research findings. Key issues addressed include raising finance; job creation by the self-employed; growth and exit behavior of new ventures; and the role of government policy in promoting self-employment and entrepreneurship. This book will serve as an essential reference guide to researchers, students and teachers of entrepreneurship.

Spis treści

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.