This Research Handbook advances entrepreneurship theory in new ways by integrating and contributing to contemporary theories of practice. Leading theorists and entrepreneurship experts, who are part of the growing Entrepreneurship as Practice (EaP) research community, expertly propose methodologies, theories and empirical insights into the constitution and consequences of entrepreneuring practices. This comprehensive Research Handbook pushes boundaries in the scholarship concerning what entrepreneurship is and what it can become. It is split into four Parts covering new foundations, new theoretical advances, new methodological advances and new empirical advances. Together, with an insightful Foreword by William B. Gartner, chapters examine the nature and consequences of entrepreneurship, its practices and relations, as well as novel research methods for conducting empirical EaP research. Collectively, this Research Handbook marks a bright future for EaP research. This insightful Research Handbook will provide an excellent up-to-date introduction to EaP research for entrepreneurship, management and organization scholars as well as scholars new to theories of this practice. Practitioners and researchers will also benefit from the wider perspective that this book provides in a novel, exciting and powerful way to fully understand entrepreneurship.

Failure is inherent to the entrepreneurship process, yet, this frequent outcome from entrepreneurial efforts was overlooked. The entrepreneurship field has started to take failure seriously, with a growing body of literature focusing on the impact that failure has on entrepreneurs. Insights from entrepreneurial failure have the potential to provide valuable knowledge on how entrepreneurs learn from experience, the antecedents to habitual entrepreneurship, and the well-being and financial risks of independent entrepreneurship. Understanding Entrepreneurial Failure takes stock of the emerging body of literature on entrepreneurial failure with a focus on how failure has been conceptualized, the impact that failure has on entrepreneurs, and the different theoretical and methodical approaches taken to understand failure to lay the foundation for identifying new avenues for future research. This review is focused on entrepreneurial failure in the context of independent entrepreneurship where the entrepreneur and their business are tightly intertwined.