New Frontiers in Entrepreneurship

The volume presents and discusses a variety of recent developments and achievements in research on entrepreneurship. It focuses on the strategic aspects of entrepreneurship and new firm creation, and brings together the insights of an array of experts.

Focuses on the strategic aspects of entrepreneurship and new firm creation, including corporate governance, financing, and intellectual capital/knowledge management Contributions from an international array of leading scholars, practitioners, and policymakers Evolved from a Strategic Management Society conference/workshop designed to push the boundaries of both theory and practice in entrepreneurship Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Corporate Governance and Entrepreneurship.- Initially Distracted: The Influence of Boards on Agency Costs in Initial Public Offering (IPO) Firms.- Horizontal and Vertical Relationships in Developing Economies: Implications for SMEs' Access to Global Markets.- Corporate Governance Systems: Effects of Capital and Labor Market Congruency on Corporate Innovation and Global Competitiveness.- The Entrepreneurial Society.- Mobilizing Capital for Fostering Entrepreneurship.- Mobilizing Capital for Fostering the Early Growth of Firms: The Role of Business Angels in Nascent European Entrepreneurship.- Venture Capital Financing and the Growth of New Technology-Based Firms: Correcting for Sample Self-Selection.- Learning, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.- Creating Exploratory Innovations by Learning from Entrepreneurial Ventures.- Business-University Alliances and Innovation in New and Adolescent Technology Ventures.- Open Innovation and New Entrepreneurship.- A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship in the Open Source Software Virtual Community.- Open Innovation and the Implications for Sustainable Profits.