Social entrepreneurship has been defined as an innovative, social value creating business activity that can occur within or across the non-profit, business, or government sectors, and the leaders of those enterprises, the “social entrepreneurs”, have been characterized as being primarily...

This work provides an overview of several important concepts and themes relating to entrepreneurship including definitions and types of entrepreneurship such as ecopreneurship, social entrepreneurship, sustainable entrepreneurship and growth-oriented entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship in...

Academics, policymakers, business people, members of civil society and individuals have all recognized the significant effect the activities of the private sector have on employees, customers, communities, the environment, competitors, business partners, investors, shareholders, governments and...

Entrepreneurship has become a popular career path all over the world and there has been intense interest in the subject shown by researchers and policymakers in both developed and developing countries. Research relating to entrepreneurship has been expanding rapidly and has touched upon a...

Motivational traits of prospective entrepreneurs is a vigorously researched topic and this chapter examines some of the most commonly suggested traits for entrepreneurs including risk-taking propensity; educational background of the entrepreneur and his/her parents; number of previous jobs and...

In order to study the role of entrepreneurs in creating new organizations it is necessary to understand how organizations come into existence and then identify the roles that the entrepreneur plays in that process, the activities that the entrepreneur might be engaged in during the process and...

Entrepreneurship is many things, but successful entrepreneurship requires attention to a number of steps over an extended period of time, each of which requires a specific set of skills and resources. This work explores factors influencing the process of entrepreneurship, which plays out in a...

Few topics in the business area have attracted more attention among academics and journalists than “entrepreneurship”. The concept of entrepreneurship has existed for centuries and has been important to the development of modern economic and social life; however, research regarding...