Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship
About the Book Series
This series extends the meaning and scope of entrepreneurship by capturing new research and enquiry on economic, social, cultural and personal value creation. Entrepreneurship as value creation represents the endeavours of innovative people and organisations in creative environments that open up opportunities for developing new products, new services, new firms and new forms of policy making in different environments seeking sustainable economic growth and social development. In setting this objective the series includes books which cover a diverse range of conceptual, empirical and scholarly topics that both inform the field and push the boundaries of entrepreneurship.
Stakeholder Management and Entrepreneurship in Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Samuel Adomako, Michael Asiedu Gyensare, Mujtaba Ahsan
December 26, 2025
Building on past research in the broad field of stakeholder management and entrepreneurship, this book pushes a new agenda for more effective stakeholder engagement and management in entrepreneurial firms in Africa. Adomako, Gyensare, and Ahsan provide a novel lens for entrepreneurs to manage ...
Corruption and Entrepreneurship: Testing the Theory of Planned Behavior
1st Edition
By Mohammad Heydari
November 28, 2025
This book examines corruption as a collective behavior problem for entrepreneurs. In particular, it considers Azjen’s theory of planned behavior (TPB) to explain perceived corruption and its effects on entrepreneurship. Heydari argues that behavioral intentions are shaped by variables such as ...
Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Asian Region: Building Sustainable and Responsible Businesses
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane Menzies, Meena Chavan, Ambika Zutshi, Andrea North-Samardzic, Sultana Lubna Alam
November 14, 2025
This book explores women’s entrepreneurship in Asia and analyses the experiences of women entrepreneurs through institutional logics. Covering ten different countries throughout Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Nepal, Brunei, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, this book ...
Entrepreneurship in the Arab World
1st Edition
Edited
By Haya Al-Dajani, Bettina Lynda Bastian, Poh Yen Ng, Bronwyn P Wood
October 14, 2025
Entrepreneurship in the Arab World is a pioneering academic reader and research companion offering an in-depth exploration of entrepreneurship in the Arab world. Edited by leading scholars with deep regional expertise, the book addresses the cultural, institutional, religious and socio-economic ...
Gendering Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Levelling the Field
1st Edition
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By Marit Breivik-Meyer, Marta Lindvert, Anne-Charlott Callerstig, Dag Balkmar, Gry Agnete Alsos
February 11, 2025
The increased interest in entrepreneurial ecosystems often builds on the underlying assumption that entrepreneurs have equal access to resources, participation, and support. However, women are underrepresented in successful entrepreneurial ecosystems and a persistent gender bias continues to exist....
Enterprise, Deprivation and Social Exclusion: The Role of Small Business in Addressing Social and Economic Inequalities
1st Edition
By Alan Southern
October 14, 2024
There is little doubt that in recent years, enterprise has been considered an essential approach in the alleviation of deprivation existing in the developed world. The assumption is that area-based initiatives provide a means by which enterprise can include all members of society in mainstream ...
Enterprising Initiatives in the Experience Economy: Transforming Social Worlds
1st Edition
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By Britta Timm Knudsen, Dorthe Refslund Christensen, Per Blenker
October 14, 2024
Over the last decade, the close relationship between culture and economy - or "the experience economy" – has risen on the agenda. Although there is an established research field for analysing the economic impact of entrepreneurship, there is currently a limited amount of research that ...
Entrepreneurship in the Informal Economy: Models, Approaches and Prospects for Economic Development
1st Edition
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By Mai Thi Thanh Thai, Ekaterina Turkina
October 14, 2024
Although entrepreneurship in the informal economy occurs outside state regulatory systems, informal commercial activities account for an estimated 30% of economic activity around the world. Informal entrepreneurship goes unmonitored despite the fact that it significantly contributes to poverty ...
Skills, Creativity and Innovation in the Digital Platform Era: Analyzing the New Reality of Professions and Entrepreneurship
1st Edition
By Seppo Poutanen, Anne Kovalainen
October 09, 2024
Skills, Creativity and Innovation in the Digital Platform Era: Analyzing the New Reality of Professions and Entrepreneurship brings together two important areas: the separate research topics of professions, platforms, and entrepreneurship, and the various dimensions of what platformization means to...
Dark Sides of the Startup Nation: Winners and Losers of Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Israel
1st Edition
By Sibylle Heilbrunn
May 27, 2024
Israeli national neoliberalism has promoted innovation policies leading to an ostensible paradox: At the center is a startup nation with a vibrant and successful high-tech entrepreneurial ecosystem, accumulating resources and enabling constant growth. At the geographical and social periphery, there...
Entrepreneurship and the Creation of Organization
1st Edition
By Daniel Hjorth, Robin Holt
January 29, 2024
When re-imagining, re-thinking, and re-writing entrepreneurship in this book, the authors have come to the conclusion that the concept that describes it most precisely is one that signifies a process that includes imagining, seductively describing, playfully organizing, political agility in ...
Entrepreneurship in Creative Crafts
1st Edition
Edited
By Vanessa Ratten
January 29, 2024
Popular eCommerce platforms like Etsy have attributed to a sharp increase in creative craft entrepreneurs, and craft entrepreneurship has strong links to the cultural and lifestyle field. This timely book looks at craft entrepreneurship and defines what qualifies as craft entrepreneurs and their ...