ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies is a landmark volume that offers a uniquely comprehensive overview of entrepreneurship in developing countries. Addressing the multi-faceted nature of entrepreneurship, chapters explore a vast range of subject areas including education, economic policy, gender and the prevalence and nature of informal sector entrepreneurship.
In order to understand the process of new venture creation in developing economies, what it means to be engaged in entrepreneurship in a developing world context must be addressed. This handbook does so by exploring the difficulties, risks and rewards associated with being an entrepreneur, and evaluates the impacts of the environment, relationships, performance and policy dynamics on small and entrepreneurial firms in developing economies.
The handbook brings together a unique collection of over forty international researchers who are all actively engaged in studying entrepreneurship in a developing world context. The chapters offer concise but detailed perspectives and explanations on key aspects of the subject across a diverse array of developing economies, spanning Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. In doing so, the chapters highlight the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship in developed economies, and contribute to the on-going policy discourses for managing and promoting entrepreneurial growth in the developing world.
The book will be of great interest to scholars, students and policymakers in the areas of development economics, business and management, public policy and development studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |131 pages
Institutional environment of entrepreneurship
chapter |4 pages
The institutional environment of entrepreneurship in developing countries
chapter |14 pages
Entrepreneurship and sme development policy in a least developed country
chapter |16 pages
Regulative environment and entrepreneurial activity
chapter |20 pages
Nascent enterprises and growth aspirations in a post-conflict environment
chapter |12 pages
Developing an entrepreneurship climate in Indonesia
part |111 pages
Entrepreneurs' motivations
chapter |15 pages
Being an entrepreneur of the vicenarian and tricenarian generation
chapter |12 pages
Factors enterprises perceive to influence their success
chapter |9 pages
Social entrepreneurship and fashion innovation in Brazil
part |71 pages
Gender and entrepreneurship
chapter |20 pages
Women entrepreneurs in the informal economy
part |111 pages
Informal sector entrepreneurship
chapter |21 pages
Determinants of participation in the informal sector in Sri Lanka
chapter |17 pages
Understanding informal entrepreneurship in sub-saharan Africa and its implications for economic development
part |68 pages
Entrepreneurship education and learning
chapter |10 pages
Capacity building for entrepreneurship education and research in the conflict zone of Peshawar
chapter |8 pages
Entrepreneurship education in Cameroon matters
chapter |21 pages
Organizational learning in Indian family firms
part |47 pages
Policy implications and synthesis