The Illusions of Entrepreneurship
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The Illusions of Entrepreneurship

The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By

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The Illusions of Entrepreneurship

The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By

About this book

A challenge to the myths we hold about entrepreneurs in America—who they are, what they do, and how they succeed

There are far more entrepreneurs than most people realize. But the failure rate of new businesses is disappointingly high, and the economic impact of most of them disappointingly low, suggesting that enthusiastic would-be entrepreneurs and their investors all too often operate under a false set of assumptions. This book shows that the reality of entrepreneurship is decidedly different from the myths that have come to surround it. Scott Shane, a leading expert in entrepreneurial activity in the United States and other countries, draws on the data from extensive research to provide accurate, useful information about who becomes an entrepreneur and why, how businesses are started, which factors lead to success, and which predict a likely failure. The Illusions of Entrepreneurship is an essential resource for everyone who has dreamed of starting a new business, for investors in start-ups, for policy makers attempting to facilitate the formation and survival of new businesses, and for researchers interested in the economic impact of entrepreneurial activity. 

Scott A. Shane is A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. He is the author or editor of eleven books and more than sixty scholarly articles on entrepreneurship and innovation management. He lives in Shaker Heights, OH.

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Information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2008
eBook ISBN
9780300150063
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business Development
Index
Business
trends
in
self-employment
rates
from
1955
to
2002
go
in
a
downward
di-
rection
in
all
of
the
OECD
countries
except
Portugal,
New
Zealand,
and
the
United
Kingdom.
10
A
last
bit
of
data
looks
at
different
cohorts
of
people—people
who
graduated
from
school
in
the
same
year—to
see
how
their
rate
of
self-
14
Land
of
Entrepreneurship
Figure
1.3.
Incorporated,
Unincorporated,
and
Total
Self-Employment,
over
Time
Source:
Adapted
from
S.
Hipple,
“Self-Employment
in
the
United
States:
An
Update,”
Monthly
Labor
Review,
July
2004,
13–23.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. America: Land of Entrepreneurship in an Entrepreneurial Era?
  5. 2. What Are Today’s Entrepreneurial Industries?
  6. 3. Who Becomes an Entrepreneur?
  7. 4. What Does the Typical Start-Up Look Like?
  8. 5. How Are New Businesses Financed?
  9. 6. How Well Does the Typical Entrepreneur Do?
  10. 7. What Makes Some Entrepreneurs More Successful Than Others?
  11. 8. Why Don’t Women Start More Companies?
  12. 9. Why Is Black Entrepreneurship So Rare?
  13. 10. How Valuable Is the Average Start-Up?
  14. Conclusion
  15. Notes
  16. Index