Using data and ideas from a large five-year research problem they had just completed, economists Delmar (EMLYON Business School, France and Institute of Industrial Economics, Sweden) and
Wennberg (Stockholm School of Economics) investigate the entrepreneurial processes of the emergence, growth, and eventual demise and exit of firms in the modern knowledge-intensive economy.
Using an approach they characterize as both inherently multi-level and theoretical eclectic, they explore the start-up conditions of individual entrepreneurs, the evolution of the firms they
create, and how both social mechanisms and economic incentives shape these patterns. Their topics include the role of entrepreneurship and new firm dynamics for economic development, geography
in the birth of new firms, firm exit, and firm growth. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
