The past two decades have witnessed a surge in interest in the field of nascent entrepreneurship. In this title, the editors successfully draw together the most important works that utilize the new real-time approaches for studying early stage entrepreneurial activity that were developed and...

The entrepreneurial process involves all the functions, activities, and actions associated with the perception of opportunities and the creation of the organizations to pursue these opportunities (cf. Key, Foo and Lim, 2002). Shane and Venkataraman (2000) introduced entrepreneurship as a nexus...

Purpose The majority of emerging and young firms work under resource constraints. This has made researchers highlight the importance of resourcefulness. Perhaps the most important theoretical development in this context is the emerging, behavioral theory of entrepreneurial bricolage. However,...

Frequencies of the involvement of the Swedishpopulation in the small business sector and the characteristics of nascententrepreneurs are analyzed. A sample of 405 respondents (out of an initialgroup of 49,979 individuals) were interviewed by phone.The resultsindicate that, at the time of the...