US contributors in areas such as entrepreneurship, business, sociology, management, and information and decision sciences reaffirm the importance of taking action within entrepreneurial
research. They address topics such as social protection and starting businesses in knowledge-intensive industries, university scientists’ choices to commercialize their discoveries, and
teaching entrepreneurial action. A theory of entrepreneurial agency in firm survival is presented, and a model of cognitive processes underpinning entrepreneurial action is provided. Corbett is
affiliated with Babson College. Katz is affiliated with Saint Louis University. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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