Research Handbook of Entrepreneurial Exit

Edited by Dawn R. DeTienne, Colorado State University, US and Karl Wennberg, Stockholm School of Economics and Institute of Analytical Sociology, Linköping University, Sweden

‘In this Handbook, two of the leading researchers in the field of entrepreneurial exit bring together a group of scholars who address the topic from a wide variety of vantage points. Taken together, this volume provides for a rich, multifaceted and comprehensive understanding of this important and hitherto understudied aspect of the entrepreneurial journey. It left me energized, inspired and full of ideas for researching the topic!’

• Contents:IntroductionDawn R. DeTienne and Karl Wennberg1. Perpetually on the Eve of Destruction? Understanding Exits in Capitalist Societies at Multiple Levels of AnalysisHoward E. Aldrich2. Re-evaluating Business Exit from a Gendered PerspectiveSusan Marlow and Janine Swail3. When Silos Collapse, what Happens to the Seeds?: A Case Study of the Diffusion of People and Ideas when a Firm's Research Programs are Cancelled Kelley A. Packalen4. Survey on Venture Capital Financing Exit StageSaloua el Bouzaidi5. Event History Analysis using the Kauffman Firm SurveyJoseph Farhat and Alicia M. Robb 6. An Entrepreneur's Perspective – Beginning and ExitGary Salomon7. The Role of Retirement Intention in Entrepreneurial Firm ExitSohrab Soleimanof, Michael H. Morris and Imran Syed8. Psychological Barriers and Coping Strategies in Business Transfers Explored: Towards a Conceptual ModelEdwin Weesie and Lex van Teeffelen 9. The Entrepreneurial Break-up: Disengaging from the Start-up PhaseChristina Wicker and Per Davidsson10. Social Ventures: Exploring Entrepreneurial Exit Strategies with a Structuation LensYolanda Sarason and Grace Hanley11. For the Greater Good: Why and how Social Entrepreneurs Exit Social VenturesJason Lortie12. Entrepreneurial Exit: Who, What or to Where? Regional Relocation as a Form of ExitAnna Jenkins, John Steen and Martie-Louise VerreynneIndex