As self-employment and entrepreneurship become increasingly important in our modern economies, Simon Parker provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the field. Bringing together considerable disparate literature, Parker offers an up-to-date assessment of new research findings. Key issues addressed include raising finance; job creation by the self-employed; growth and exit behavior of new ventures; and the role of government policy in promoting self-employment and entrepreneurship. This book will serve as an essential reference guide to researchers, students and teachers of entrepreneurship.
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As self-employment and entrepreneurship become increasingly important in our modern economies, Simon C. Parker provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the field. Here he brings together the large and disparate literature on these subjects and provides an up-to-date overview of new research findings. Key issues addressed include raising finance; job creation by the self-employed; growth and exit behaviour of new ventures; and the role of government policy in promoting self-employment and entrepreneurship. This book will serve as an essential reference guide to researchers, students and teachers of entrepreneurship.
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Simon C. Parker is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Economics at the University of Durham. He is also Director of the Barclays Centre for Entrepreneurship at Durham Business School. Professor Parker has published widely in economics journals on a variety of issues on self-employment and entrepreneurship.
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- The New Entrepreneurs: Self-employment and Small Business in Europe by Patricia Leighton on 4 pages
- Entrepreneurship, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Macroeconomy by Zoltan J. Acs on 4 pages
- Finance and the Small Firm (Small Business Series) by A. Hughts on 4 pages
- Small Business (Contemporary American Fiction) by Tom Parker on 4 pages
- Employment Gazette: Vol 100 no 1 by Great Britain in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Innovation: The Dynamics of Firms and Industries (International Studies in Entrepreneurship) by Enrico Santarelli on page 101, and page 241
- Entrepreneurship in the Region (International Studies in Entrepreneurship) by Michael Fritsch on page 33
- Jahrbuch zur Mittelstandsforschung 1/2006 (Schriften zur Mittelstandsforschung) (German Edition) by Institut für Mittelstandsforschung on page 67
- Entrepreneurship, Geography, and American Economic Growth by Zoltan J. Acs in Back Matter
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