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The economics of self-employment and entrepreneurship / Simon C. Parker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parker, Simon C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Managerial economics.
- Entrepreneurship.
- New business enterprises--Management.
- New business enterprises.
- Self-employed.
- Self-employed--Government policy--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 323 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- The Economics of Self-Employment & Entrepreneurship
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As self-employment and entrepreneurship become increasingly important in our modern economies, Simon C. Parker provides a timely, definitive and comprehensive overview of the field. In this book he brings together and assesses the large and disparate literature on these subjects and provides an up-to-date overview of new research findings. Key issues addressed include: the impact of ability, risk, personal characteristics and the macroeconomy on entrepreneurship; issues involved in raising finance for entrepreneurial ventures, with an emphasis on the market failures that can arise as a consequence of asymmetric information; the job creation performance of the self-employed; the growth, innovation and exit behaviour of new ventures and small firms; and the appropriate role for governments interested in promoting self-employment and entrepreneurship. This book will serve as an essential reference guide to researchers, students and teachers of entrepreneurship in economics, business and management and other related disciplines.
- Contents:
- Theories of entrepreneurship
- Characteristics of entrepreneurs and the environmental for entrepreneurship
- Ethnic minority and female entrepreneurship
- Debt finance for entrepreneurial ventures
- Other sources of finance
- Evidence of credit rationing
- Labour demand and supply
- Growth, innovation and exit
- Government policy : issues and evidence.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-14749-2
- 1-280-44945-4
- 0-511-18584-7
- 0-511-18501-4
- 0-511-18768-8
- 0-511-32703-X
- 0-511-49343-6
- 0-511-18675-4
- OCLC:
- 271786850
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