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
chapter |10 pages
Introduction and overview
part |2 pages
Part I Institutional environment of entrepreneurship
chapter |12 pages
Entrepreneurship, development and economic policy in Haiti
chapter |18 pages
Economic aspects of entrepreneurship: the case of Peru
part |2 pages
Part II Entrepreneurs’ motivations
part |2 pages
Part III Gender and entrepreneurship
chapter |18 pages
Barriers to women’s entrepreneurship: evidence from Indonesia
chapter |12 pages
The dynamics of women’s entrepreneurship in Iran
part |2 pages
Part IV Informal sector entrepreneurship
part |2 pages
Part V Entrepreneurship education and learning
part |2 pages
Part VI Policy implications and synthesis