The economics of self-employment and entrepreneurship

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Title:

Author:

Parker, Simon C.

ISBN:

9780521828130

Personal Author:

Parker, Simon C.

Publication Information:

New York : Cambridge, 2004.

Physical Description:

p. cm.

Contents:

1. Introduction -- I. Entrepreneurship: theories, characteristic and evidence -- 2. Theories of entrepreneurship -- 3. Characteristics of entrepreneurs and the environment for entrepreneurship -- 4. Ethic minority and female entrepreneurship -- II. Financing entrepreneurial ventures -- 5. Debt finance for entrepreneurial ventures -- 6. Other sources of finance -- 7. Evidence of credit rationing -- III. Running and terminating an enterprise -- 8. Labour demand and supply -- 9. Growth, innovation and exit -- IV. Government policy -- 10. Government policy: issues and evidence -- 11. Conclusions.

Abstract:

"This book will serve as an essential reference guide to researchers, students and teachers of entrepreneurship in economics, business and management and other related disciplines."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Managerial economics.

Entrepreneurship.

New business enterprises -- Management.

Self-employed.

Self-employed -- Government policy -- Case studies.

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam032/2003061085.html
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam032/2003061085.html

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Summary

As self-employment and entrepreneurship become increasingly important in our modern economies, Simon C. Parker provides a timely, definitive and comprehensive overview of the field. In this book he brings together and assesses the large and disparate literature on these subjects and provides an up-to-date overview of new research findings. Key issues addressed include: the impact of ability, risk, personal characteristics and the macroeconomy on entrepreneurship; issues involved in raising finance for entrepreneurial ventures, with an emphasis on the market failures that can arise as a consequence of asymmetric information; the job creation performance of the self-employed; the growth, innovation and exit behaviour of new ventures and small firms; and the appropriate role for governments interested in promoting self-employment and entrepreneurship. This book will serve as an essential reference guide to researchers, students and teachers of entrepreneurship in economics, business and management and other related disciplines.