Books in the Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship series

Households as a Site of Entrepreneurial Activity explores the interactions between business activities and entrepreneurial households, demonstrating that new venture creation and growth often hinges on the household-business nexus, and that business decisions are influenced both by family circumstances and prevailing economic conditions.

Investigates two sets of assumptions about the nature of opportunities, the nature of entrepreneurs, and the nature of the decision making context within which entrepreneurs operate. This book suggests that these two sets of assumptions constitute logically consistent theories of entrepreneurship.

A monograph that offers a model and examples of relevant relationships to show how the complexity of family entrepreneurship could be disentangled in order to generate interesting research questions.

A monograph that presents a more complete understanding of both the critical national features and the underlying processes affecting participation in business creation.

A monograph that seeks to assess the contributions of the entrepreneurial orientation concept, provide an overview of the extant EO literature, and evaluate the state of EO research. It also highlights possible avenues for future research, and concludes with a discussion of specific areas where EO research is lacking.

Summarizes a burgeoning research domain focused on understanding the content, governance, and structure of network relations in the entrepreneurial context.

Owner-Level Taxes and Business Activity examines advances in both theoretical and empirical research that paint a clearer picture of the effects of owner-level taxation on business activity.

While there have been a number of excellent literature reviews in recent years published in various academic outlets, Gender and Entrepreneurship: An Annotated Bibliography is more complete than other efforts and places each contribution to the literature into one of 16 descriptive categories.

Agglomeration, Industrial Districts and Industry Clusters: Trends of the 21th Century Literature reviews the early work of 21st century scholarship on agglomerations, industrial districts and industry clusters and explores the context to the prominent themes that emerged between 2000 and 2015.

Start-up Actions and Outcomes: What Entrepreneurs Do to Reach Profitability provides a description of the firm creation process based on five harmonized data sets from four countries that track the business creation process. The second objective is to explore the role of start-up activities on the outcomes for these nascent ventures.

Corporate Entrepreneurship 2.0 organizes and reviews the significant research work that has been done in the corporate entrepreneurship literature over the years and suggests potential future directions for researchers.

Angel Investing provides systematic and comprehensive review of the large body of research literature on angel investors.

Entrepreneurship and Institutions: A Bidirectional Relationship argues that the view that institutions determine the extent to which entrepreneurial activity is productive is only part of the story. Rather, causality is bidirectional, in that entrepreneurship is also, for better or for worse, one of the main drivers of institutional change.