Routledge Companion to the Makers of Modern Entrepreneurship

David B. Audretsch is a Distinguished Professor and Ameritech Chair of Economic Development at Indiana University, USA, where he also serves as Director of the Institute for Development Strategies. He is also an Honorary Professor of Industrial Economics and Entrepreneurship at the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, UK. Erik E. Lehmann is a Full Professor of Management and Organization at Augsburg University, Germany, and Director of the Global Business Management Program. He is also Adjunct Professor at Indiana University, USA and Visiting Professor at University of Bergamo, Italy.

'Instead of presenting new research findings in entrepreneurship, this new book provides interesting stories about many of the luminary scholars in the field of entrepreneurship. Their intellectual and academic journeys are interesting and shed light on how entrepreneurship emerged as a genuine cross-disciplinary field of research.' - Robert Fairlie, Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA'The autobiographical essays in this unique book reveal the passions and motivations of the scholars whose works created the surge in entrepreneurship research, and it provides an essential history of the thinkers and their thoughts' - John T. Scott, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College, USA'This book is an extraordinary guide to the mysterious world of entrepreneurship. It is an attempt at defining a non-disciplinary area, born like a new country with blurred boundaries open to continuous contamination. Exploring entrepreneurship is often finding something that is necessary but never sufficient to define it. Despite this, a new community has grown around it. This book presents a cultural challenge (not only to academia) that will fit our agenda in the decades to come.' - Stefano Paleari, Full Professor of Finance, University of Bergamo, Italy

• 1. David B Audretsch and Erik E. Lehmann: Modern Makers of Entrepreneurship2. Zoltan J. Acs: The Godfather of Entrepreneurship3. Howard E. Aldrich: Fifty Years in the Making. My Career as a Scholar of Organizations and Entrepreneurship4. David B. Audretsch: Roots & Wings5. Sara Carter: The Effects of Business Ownership on People’s Lives6. Marc Cowling: Back to the roots7. Douglas J. Cumming and Silvio Vismara: A research journey into entrepreneurial finance8. Per Davidsson: What an Opportunity! 9. Dimo Dimov: Getting "There" without Knowing Where I was Going. Only to Find … Myself Staring at the Future10. Nicolai N. Foss: Judgement, The Theory of the Firm, and the Economics of Institutions: My contributions to the Entrepreneurship Field11. Michael Fritsch: Entrepreneurship and Growth—A Personal Story12. William B. Gartner: Anecdotes of Destiny13. Peter G. Klein: My Contributions to Entrepreneurship Theory14. Donald F. Kuratko: Corporate Entrepreneurship - A Research Journey15. Albert N. Link: From Integrating Functions to Integrating Ideas16. Olav Sorenson: Location Matters17. Roy Thurik: Visions of the past: wish you had been there18. Mary Lindenstein Walshok: A Place for Entrepreneurship19. Friederike Welter: Wandering between Contexts20. Johan Wiklund: RE-SEARCH = ME-SEARCH21. Mike Wright: The Conquest of Interestingness - Entrepreneurial Ownership Mobility22. Shaker A. Zahra: Researching Entrepreneurship at the Intersection – Reflections on Three Decades of ResearchConclusion