The book explores various aspects of cognitive and motivational psychology as they impact entrepreneurial behavior. Building upon the 2009 volume, Understanding the Entrepreneurial Mind, the editors and contributors explore the cognitions, motivations, passions, intentions, perceptions, and...

Many of the challenges faced by family-owned businesses develop after the firm has reached a stage of maturity, when the first generation is faced with issues concerning the role of their children in the business and the long-term future of the enterprise. This collection of case studies from...

Chapter 1 Where Have We Been and Where We Should Be Going in Family Business Research -- Chapter 2 Family Business: A Global Perspective from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics and the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor -- Chapter 3 Intentions in the Family Business: The Role of Family...

Introduction -- Reading a Family Business Case -- Case One: Bacardi Limited - A growing family’s firm in a consolidating industry -- Case Two: Thai-Rolls Restaurants - Growth and Delegating Control to Non-Family Management -- Case Three: Seattle Homes and the Waterman Family - Transitions in...

1 Introduction -- 2 How Did Growth Become So Interesting? -- 3 Entrepreneurship, Growth, and High-Growth in Research and Policy -- 4 Measuring growth -- 5 Growth and profit -- 6 Conflicting agendas: Stakeholders, Growth and Profit -- 7 Do Experts Know What Growth Is? Two studies on perception --...