Entrepreneurship, SMEs and globalization are three important and growing areas within current management research and education. This book aims to draw these three areas together within an organizational framework. It considers how issues of globalization affect the SME, and the implications of innovation, change and business venturing as the key entrpreneurial activities and challenges.

Is the idea of an 'entrepreneurial personality' a concrete reality or a socially constructed phenomenon? In this second edition, Elizabeth Chell revisits the topic, updating the evidence from the Psychometricians that have tested various personality dimensions of the entrepreneurial persona.