"This important Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics reports on the
Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED), the most
comprehensive scientifically representative study to date of
nascent entrepreneurs. The book is unique because the study
identified individuals in the process of creating new businesses to
understand how, at its very source, people move from considering
the option of starting a new business to its actual founding. This
has never been done before in the history of entrepreneurship
research... I cannot recommend this book more strongly to
entrepreneurship scholars and those interested in where
entrepreneurs come from and how they move from their initial idea
to new venture founding." --Claudia Bird Schoonhoven, University of
California, Irvine "This Handbook makes a terrific contribution to
understanding entrepreneurship and new business creation. Its 38
chapters report major findings from the Panel Study of
Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED), an unprecedented research program
involving more than a hundred researchers from 10 countries. This
Handbook is 'must reading' for anyone interested in
entrepreneurship research." --Andrew H. Van de Ven, Carlson School
of Management, University of Minnesota Entrepreneurial activity
provides profound positive benefits across an important set of
measures of social and economic well-being, much of it concentrated
in new economic sectors such as information technology. Yet, even
though entrepreneurship has been shown to provide many benefits, it
is surprising that there has not been a systematic study of the
entrepreneurial process. The Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics:
The Process of Business Creation fills this gap by offering
theories, ideas, and measures that can be used to explore and
understand the factors that encompass and influence the creation of
new businesses. The chapters in the handbook provide the rationale
for questionnaires used in the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial
Dynamics (PSED). The PSED is a research program that was initiated
to provide systematic, reliable, and generalizable data on
important features of the new business creation process. The PSED
includes information on the proportion and characteristics of the
adult population involved in efforts to start businesses, the
activities and characteristics that comprise the nature of the
business start-up process, and the proportion and characteristics
of those business start-up efforts that actually become new
businesses. The handbook also describes the PSED data collection
process; provides documentation of the interview schedules,
codebooks, data preparation and weighting scheme; as well as offers
examples of how analyses of PSED data might be conducted. The
authors identify specific measures that can be used to
operationalize theory as well as provide evidence from the PSED
data sets on these measures' reliability and validity. The Handbook
of Entrepreneurial Dynamics is ideal for a sizeable audience,
including graduate students, academics, and librarians in schools
of business and management who need a comprehensive reference on
business creation. In addition, researchers and policy makers at
the federal, state, and local level will find this an invaluable
reference covering all of the factors involved in new venture
formation. Key Features: * Considers categories of data not
available prior to the PSED * Includes a comprehensive overview of
theories about new business formation * Provides demographics of
nascent entrepreneurs * Analyzes the cognitive characteristics of
nascent entrepreneurs * Explores all of the processes of new
business formation
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