Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics: The Process of Business CreationWilliam B Gartner Entrepreneurial activity provides profound positive benefits across an important set of measures of social and economic well-being, much of it concentrated in new economic sectors such as information technology. Yet, even though entrepreneurship has been shown to provide many benefits, it is surprising that there has not been a systematic study of the entrepreneurial process. The Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics: The Process of Business Creation fills this gap by offering theories, ideas, and measures that can be used to explore and understand the factors that encompass and influence the creation of new businesses. The chapters in the handbook provide the rationale for questionnaires used in the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED). The PSED is a research program that was initiated to provide systematic, reliable, and generalizable data on important features of the new business creation process. The PSED includes information on the proportion and characteristics of the adult population involved in efforts to start businesses, the activities and characteristics that comprise the nature of the business start-up process, and the proportion and characteristics of those business start-up efforts that actually become new businesses. The handbook also describes the PSED data collection process; provides documentation of the interview schedules, codebooks, data preparation and weighting scheme; as well as offers examples of how analyses of PSED data might be conducted. The authors identify specific measures that can be used to operationalize theory as well as provide evidence from the PSED data sets on these measures reliability and validity. The Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics is ideal for a sizeable audience, including graduate students, academics, and librarians in schools of business and management who need a comprehensive reference on business creation. In addition, researchers and policy makers at the federal, state, and local level will find this an invaluable reference covering all of the factors involved in new venture formation. |
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Contents
Life Context Personal Background | 3 |
Gender | 12 |
Race and Ethnicity | 26 |
Household Structure | 39 |
Household Income and Net Worth 49 | 49 |
Labor Force Participation and Residential Tenure | 62 |
Personal Background | 78 |
Family Background | 94 |
Opportunity Recognition | 259 |
Startup Problems | 273 |
Teams | 299 |
Social Networks | 324 |
Funding the First Year of Business | 352 |
Measures of Financial Sophistication | 372 |
Future Expectations for the New Business | 386 |
The Entrepreneurial Context and Environment | 403 |
Time Use | 104 |
Work Participation History | 115 |
The Cognitive Characteristics | 131 |
Entrepreneurial Expectancies | 153 |
DecisionMaking InnovatorAdaptor Style | 171 |
Entrepreneurial Intensity | 186 |
Attribution and Locus of Control | 205 |
Social Skills | 220 |
The Startup Process | 237 |
The Economic and Community Context | 421 |
Technology Entrepreneurs | 438 |
Data Collection | 453 |
Data Documentation | 477 |
Examples of Analysis Work File | 495 |
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About the Editors | 563 |
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