The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship is a major reference work and the first of its kind to present a comprehensive overview of this vast and evolving field. Providing readers with reliable and up to date definitions and explanations of the key terms, definitions and concepts, it offers a critical understanding of entrepreneurial people, entrepreneurial organisations, process and the environment in which entrepreneurship happens.

Presenting an extensive range of issues drawn from both traditional literature as well as the varied new interpretations of entrepreneurship, the Encyclopedia draws on implications for business, work, the arts, economic development, social change society and critical issues of our time, such as inequality, poverty and climate change to name a few. Furthermore entries cover how these implications are manifested in all parts of the world.

International in scope and comprising over 200 entries, the Encyclopedia meets the scholarly and referential needs of students, academic researchers, reflective policy makers and practitioners.

Content is published online first, long before the static and print e-book editions are available, and therefore immediately citable. Our major reference works have extremely high access rates. Our bespoke online management system, Meteor, supports our editorial teams and authors with submission, review and eventual progress to publication.

Jay Mitra is Professor of Business Enterprise and Innovation and Director of the Venture Academy at Essex Business School, University of Essex. He is also the Editor of the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies published by Sage. He has acted as a Scientific Adviser to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) as the Head of the Scientific Committee on Entrepreneurship for the OECDs Centre for Entrepreneurship and the LEED (Local Economic and Employment) Programme at its Trento Centre and in Paris. He is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Luneburg, Germany, and has held Visiting Professorships at University Externado, Colombia, the Institute of Management Technology, India, the School of Management, Fudan University, and the School of Public Policy at Jilin University, both in China, at Bologna University, Italy and EDHEC Business School, France. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK.

Jay Mitra also leads the International Entrepreneurship Forum (IEF) a unique network and forum for researchers, policy makers and business practitioners working on entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development issues. At Essex he established the School of Entrepreneurship and Business (SEB) in 2005. This achievement preceded his contribution to the creation of Essex Business School in 2008. He also created the first International Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (ICER) and has been leading it since its inception in 2006, which has now morphed into The Venture Academy, scoping entrepreneurship and innovation beyond research to generate new forms of learning, foster economic development, all involving, students, academic staff, and institutional stakeholders .