The Life Cycle of Entrepreneurial Ventures, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007 International Handbook Series on Entrepreneurship Series, Vol. 3

about nascent entrepreneurship distilled from recent research. Wagner ?rst summarises evidence about the incidence of nascent entrepreneurship before surveying the start-up activities of nascent entrepreneurs. He then goes on to provide a ?birds-eye view? of the characteristics of nascent entrepreneurs; the factors associated with becoming a nascent entrepreneur; and the outcomes of nascent entrepreneurs, in terms of whether they start, quit or continue preparing for eventual business entry. Wagner?s chapter provides a wealth of information about nascent entrepreneurship, summarising key ?ndings from a large, fa- growing and diverse literature which looks set to continue growing rapidly in the years ahead. In Chapter 3, Shaker Zahra reviews the literature on new venture strategy and its implications for organizational survival, ?nancial performance and growth. Zahra discusses competitive, cooperative and political strategies, and highlights the importance of synchronizing these strategies. A particular strength of this chapter is its ability to uncover similarities and unifying themes in apparently divergent views. In this way, the chapter succeeds in resolvingsomeapparentcontradictions byputtingthedifferentperspectivesinto a complementary context and identifying areas where convergence appears to be within reach. Zahra goes on to highlight the contributions of the different strategic approaches, as well as their shortcomings. He concludes by identifying several implications for future research.

Beginnings.- Nascent Entrepreneurs.- New Venture Strategies: Transforming Caterpillars into Butterflies.- Aspects of Entry and New Venture Creation.- Entrepreneurship Education—A Compendium of Related Issues.- Immigration, Entrepreneurship and the Venture Start-up Process.- Location and New Venture Creation.- On Factors Promoting and Hindering Entry and Exit.- Financing Ventures.- Debt Finance and Credit Constraints on SMEs.- Public Policy, Start-up Entrepreneurship and the Market for Venture Capital.- Informal Sources of Venture Finance.- Microfinance and Poor Entrepreneurs.- Venture Development I: Private Sector Issues.- Entrepreneurs as Producers.- What Do We Know About Small Firm Growth?.- Venture Development II: Social Issues.- Nonprofit Social Entrepreneurship.- Entrepreneurship among Disadvantaged Groups: Women, Minorities and the Less Educated.- Venture Performance and Harvesting.- Early Stage Survival and Growth.- Venture Performance and Venture Inputs: The Role of Human and Financial Capital.- Harvesting in High Growth Firms.

Contains digestible overviews of several issues in entrepreneurship, including nascent entrepreneurship; social entrepreneurship; formal, informal and developmental start-up capital; job creation; venture performance; and harvesting Help researchers and practitioners who want to cut pinpoint the key points emerging from the latest academic thinking Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras