Edited by Robert Blackburn, Professor, University of Liverpool Management School, UK, Ulla Hytti, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Turku, Finland and Friederike Welter, President and Managing Director, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn and Professor, University of Siegen, Germany

‘This volume demonstrates the dynamism and diversity of entrepreneurship as it is practised by men and women across a variety of contexts, and also the vibrancy and relevance of the entrepreneurship research field as it attempts to understand and communicate this widespread social and economic phenomenon.’

• Contents:1. IntroductionRobert Blackburn, Ulla Hytti and Friederike Welter2. Entrepreneurial Activity under ‘Transition’Alexander Chepurenko3. Women Gender and Entrepreneurship: Why Can’t a Woman be More Like a Man?Susan Marlow4. Institutional Entrepreneuring in Erratic EnvironmentsJan Hermes and Tuija Mainela5. The Effect of University and Social Environments on Graduates’ Start-up Intentions: An Exploratory Study in IberoAmericaMaribel Guerrero and David Urbano6. Determinants and Measurement of Entrepreneurial Self-efficacy Among Woman EntrepreneursSilke Tegtmeier and Jay Mitra7. Gendering Entrepreneurship: A Discursive Analysis of a Woman’s Entrepreneur CompetitionCelile Itır Göğüş, Örsan Örge and Ozan Duygulu 8. The Gendered Nature of Family Business Succession: Case Studies from FranceJanice Byrne and Salma Fattoum9. Practices Hindering Employee Innovative Behaviour in Manufacturing SMEs Satu Aaltonen and Ulla HyttiIndex

Edited by Robert Blackburn, Professor, University of Liverpool Management School, UK, Ulla Hytti, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Turku, Finland and Friederike Welter, President and Managing Director, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn and Professor, University of Siegen, Germany

‘This volume demonstrates the dynamism and diversity of entrepreneurship as it is practised by men and women across a variety of contexts, and also the vibrancy and relevance of the entrepreneurship research field as it attempts to understand and communicate this widespread social and economic phenomenon.’

• Contents:1. IntroductionRobert Blackburn, Ulla Hytti and Friederike Welter2. Entrepreneurial Activity under ‘Transition’Alexander Chepurenko3. Women Gender and Entrepreneurship: Why Can’t a Woman be More Like a Man?Susan Marlow4. Institutional Entrepreneuring in Erratic EnvironmentsJan Hermes and Tuija Mainela5. The Effect of University and Social Environments on Graduates’ Start-up Intentions: An Exploratory Study in IberoAmericaMaribel Guerrero and David Urbano6. Determinants and Measurement of Entrepreneurial Self-efficacy Among Woman EntrepreneursSilke Tegtmeier and Jay Mitra7. Gendering Entrepreneurship: A Discursive Analysis of a Woman’s Entrepreneur CompetitionCelile Itır Göğüş, Örsan Örge and Ozan Duygulu 8. The Gendered Nature of Family Business Succession: Case Studies from FranceJanice Byrne and Salma Fattoum9. Practices Hindering Employee Innovative Behaviour in Manufacturing SMEs Satu Aaltonen and Ulla HyttiIndex

Edited by Robert Blackburn, Professor, University of Liverpool Management School, UK, Ulla Hytti, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Turku, Finland and Friederike Welter, President and Managing Director, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn and Professor, University of Siegen, Germany

‘This volume demonstrates the dynamism and diversity of entrepreneurship as it is practised by men and women across a variety of contexts, and also the vibrancy and relevance of the entrepreneurship research field as it attempts to understand and communicate this widespread social and economic phenomenon.’

• Contents:1. IntroductionRobert Blackburn, Ulla Hytti and Friederike Welter2. Entrepreneurial Activity under ‘Transition’Alexander Chepurenko3. Women Gender and Entrepreneurship: Why Can’t a Woman be More Like a Man?Susan Marlow4. Institutional Entrepreneuring in Erratic EnvironmentsJan Hermes and Tuija Mainela5. The Effect of University and Social Environments on Graduates’ Start-up Intentions: An Exploratory Study in IberoAmericaMaribel Guerrero and David Urbano6. Determinants and Measurement of Entrepreneurial Self-efficacy Among Woman EntrepreneursSilke Tegtmeier and Jay Mitra7. Gendering Entrepreneurship: A Discursive Analysis of a Woman’s Entrepreneur CompetitionCelile Itır Göğüş, Örsan Örge and Ozan Duygulu 8. The Gendered Nature of Family Business Succession: Case Studies from FranceJanice Byrne and Salma Fattoum9. Practices Hindering Employee Innovative Behaviour in Manufacturing SMEs Satu Aaltonen and Ulla HyttiIndex