An Evolutionary Approach to Entrepreneurship Selected Essays by Howard E. Aldrich Howard E. Aldrich Kenan Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA ; Edward Elgar Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA Contents Acknowledgements ...

The academic field of entrepreneurship research has grown from groups of isolated scholars doing research on small businesses to an international community of departments, institutes, and foundations promoting research on new and high-growth firms. Growth has produced increasingly systematic and...