Entrepreneurship Books

New and Published Books

1. Asia's Entrepreneurs

   Dilemmas, Risks and Opportunities

   By Virginia Cha, Jennifer Lien

   This book is a collection of technology startup cases in Asia, told in a narrative form, to give readers an insider view to how innovators and technopreneurs view entrepreneurial opportunities from use of technology, how the technopreneurs raise funding to support their vision, and the subsequent...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. Islamic Entrepreneurship

   By Rasem N. Kayed, M. Kabir Hassan

   Series: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

   This book discusses the idea that there is a specific Islamic form of entrepreneurship. Based on extensive original research amongst small and medium sized enterprises in Saudi Arabia, it shows how businesses are started and how they grow in the context of an Islamic economy and society. It argues...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
3. Tiger Girls

   Women and Enterprise in the People's Republic of China

   By Minglu Chen

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   The existing scholarship on women in China suggests that gender inequality still exists against the background of the country’s reform and opening in recent years. However, the situation of women in enterprise ownership and leadership seems to indicate that despite such notions of disadvantage...

   Published January 16th 2013 by Routledge
4. Entrepreneurship in the Informal Economy

   Models, Approaches and Prospects for Economic Development

   Edited by Mai Thi Thanh Thai, Ekaterina Turkina

   Series: Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship

   Although entrepreneurship in the informal economy occurs outside state regulatory systems, informal commercial activities account for an estimated 30% of economic activity around the world. Informal entrepreneurship goes unmonitored despite the fact that it significantly contributes to poverty...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
5. Female Entrepreneurship

   By Maura McAdam

   Series: Routledge-ISBE Masters in Entrepreneurship

   Female entrepreneurship, and, in particular, the contribution of their ventures to aggregate economic activity has gained increasing attention over recent years in terms of theory, practice and policy. This concise book explores how women fit into the contemporary entrepreneurial discourse by...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
6. Producing Prosperity

   An Inquiry into the Operation of the Market Process

   By Randall Holcombe

   Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

   The substantial prosperity that characterizes market economies at the beginning of the twenty-first century is relatively recent in human history. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, economic progress was so slow that people would not have been able to recognize it in their lifetimes, whereas today...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
7. Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation

   By Kenneth Amaeshi, Paul Nnodim, Osuji Onyeka

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Ethics

   Despite its recent popularity in literature, theory, and practice, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) remains a vague concept that struggles to define itself beyond the confines of corporate philanthropy or sustainability. In some circles, it is a response to the present and anticipated climate...

   Published November 26th 2012 by Routledge
8. China's Rational Entrepreneurs

   The Development of the New Private Sector

   By Barbara Krug

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   The ability of China's entrepreneurs to establish firms in the midst of a strangling bureaucratic system is a topic which demands attention not least because it forms the basis of China's economic development. Combining theoretical approaches with extensive fieldwork, China's Rational Entrepreneurs...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Innovation Policy Challenges for the 21st Century

   Edited by Deborah Cox, John Rigby

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   As the economies of western countries move from primarily resource-based to knowledge-based, and trade liberalization limits what governments can do through direct action, the landscape of innovation is changing and policymakers must react accordingly. This exciting new book examines the challenges...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
10. Entrepreneurship

    A Global Perspective

    By Stephen Roper

    Series: Routledge-ISBE Masters in Entrepreneurship

    Entrepreneurs exist in every country but the nature and level of entrepreneurial activity differs remarkably. Why is this? What shapes the level of entrepreneurial activity in each country? What defines entrepreneurial activity? As more and more teaching and research into entrepreneurship reflects...

    Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge