Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 America: Land of Entrepreneurship in an Entrepreneurial Era? -- 2 What Are Today's Entrepreneurial Industries? -- 3 Who Becomes an Entrepreneur? -- 4 What Does the Typical Start-Up Look Like? -- 5 How Are New Businesses Financed? -- 6 How...

Employing a multidisciplinary approach, the chapters cover all aspects of current entrepreneurship theory in multinational, economics, organizational sociology, marketing and finance. Other issues discussed include gender and networking, strategies in entrepreneurial growth, job satisfaction and...