Skip to main content
Palgrave Macmillan

The Theory of Entrepreneurship

Creating and Sustaining Entrepreneurial Value

  • Book
  • © 2014

Overview

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 119.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Starting Up: Introduction

  2. From External Intention and Opportunity to Entrepreneurial Competence

  3. From Entrepreneurial Competence to Entrepreneurial Reward

  4. Summing Up: The Theory of Entrepreneurship

Keywords

About this book

The Theory of Entrepreneurship examines the interiors of the entrepreneurial value creation process, and offers a new unified and comprehensive theory to afford empirical investigations as well as delineate a broader view of the entrepreneurial contextual milieu.

Reviews

"This book is an important contribution to understanding the phenomenon of entrepreneurship in its entirety. It is thorough and comprehensive in its exploration of current research and knowledge in the entrepreneurship field and offers a framework for combining the many disparate threads of evidence on entrepreneurship that have been generated over the past 40 years. The book offers critical insights about entrepreneurial processes that have significant implications for practice, theory, and future research efforts." - William Gartner, Professor of Entrepreneurship and the Art of Innovation, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

"By recombining bits of knowledge about entrepreneurship, Mishra and Zachary have created a cohesive whole that is worth more than the sum of its parts." - Dean A. Shepherd, Professor and David H. Jacobs Chair of Strategic Entrepreneurship, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Business Venturing, Indiana University, USA

"This stimulating book integrates opportunity seeking and competence creation to provide an exciting new framework for understanding entrepreneurial behaviour. It will be essential reading for scholars and practitioners alike." - Mark Casson, Professor of Economics, University of Reading, United Kingdom

"The Theory of Entrepreneurship offers the reader a comprehensive and integrated theoretical framework of the entrepreneurial process within the context of value creation. The book is a must read for any serious researcher exploring issues in entrepreneurship." - J. William Petty, Professor of Finance and W.W. Caruth Chair of Entrepreneurship, Baylor University, USA

"The Theory of Entrepreneurship contrasts ever finer-grained theorizing with an ambitious theoretical model of breadth and scope, tying together the major elements of the entrepreneurship education and training process." - Jerome A. Katz, Coleman Foundation Professor of Entrepreneurship, Saint Louis University, USA

"Mishra and Zachary introduce the comprehensive theory we have been seeking the creation of value through entrepreneurship. They show it is not just the creative individual, but a complex interaction of factors that lead to success." - Frank Hoy, Paul R. Beswick Professor of Entrepreneurship, Director of the Collaborative for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

Authors and Affiliations

  • Florida Atlantic University, USA

    Chandra S. Mishra

  • Baruch College, The City University of New York, USA

    Ramona K. Zachary

About the authors

Author Chandra S. Mishra: Chandra S. Mishra is Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Management Programs, College of Business, Florida Atlantic University, USA. He is co-author of The Theory of Entrepreneurship (2014). His interests include finance and entrepreneurship, including venture design, venture capital, technology commercialization, incentive compensation, and mergers and acquisitions.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us