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I am pleased to announce the publication of a new edited book set on small business and entrepreneurship published by Praeger.

Small business in a global economy: Creating and managing successful organizations

This two-volume set analyzes the dynamics involved with creating, growing, and managing small businesses amid different geographic, institutional, and political environments. Written by leading researchers from around the world, the set seeks to provide a holistic source of information to scholars, students, practitioners, and policy makers interested in understanding the behavior and decision-making of owners and managers of small businesses; the operational and strategic challenges they face and the strategies they implement in response to them; the environmental constraints on their businesses' ability to emerge, grow, and survive; and the role their businesses play in the larger economy. The first volume takes a micro view of the small business phenomenon, profiling the owner and the skills necessary to succeed. The second volume takes a more macro view, focusing on the operational concerns of and the environment factors bearing upon small businesses.

For more information about the set, please visit Praeger or Amazon.

Table of Contents

Volume 1

1. Small Businesses' Share of Employment: Charting the Course over the Last Three Decades

Brian Headd

2. The Motivations Underlying Small Business Formation: An Overview and Empirical Examination of Self-efficacy and Commitment

Narda R. Quigley, Scott L. Newbert, and Kevin D. Clark

3. The Irrational Benefits of Small Business Ownership: Constructing Economic Well-being in Business-owning Households

Sara Carter, Gry Agnete Alsos, and Elisabet Ljunggren

4. Effectual Decision Making: Applications for Small Business

Gaylen N. Chandler

5. Women- and Ethnic Minority–owned Businesses: An Overview of Current Research and Future Trends

Susan Marlow and Maura McAdam

6. The A-GES Framework: Understanding the Family Business Difference

Justin B. Craig and Ken Moores

7. Institutional Influences on Entrepreneurial Orientation in Small Businesses: A Nine-country Investigation of Political and Economic Risk

Brian S. Anderson, Patrick M. Kreiser, and K. Mark Weaver

8. Opportunity Unchained: Seeking Success

Charles H. Matthews, Mark T. Schenkel, and Mariah C. Yates

9. Entrepreneurial Storytelling: An Institutional Tale

Lianne M. Lefsrud and P. Devereaux Jennings

10. Personal Networks and Networking Behavior of Small Business Owner-Managers: How to Make Networks Work for You

Erno T. Tornikoski, Alexandra Gerbasi, and Greg Molecke

11. Thinking like MacGyver: Substituting Resourcefulness for Resources in Small Businesses

Craig E. Armstrong

12. Market Entry Timing Decisions: A Formal Modeling Perspective

Moren Lévesque

Volume 2

1. Managing the Small Firm for Growth: Cocreating Stakeholder Value Propositions

Douglas A. Bosse

2. Technology-driven Innovation: Roles and Implications of Technology Capabilities and the Environment on the Success and Survival of Small Businesses

Larry Tribble, Paul Drnevich, and James Ha

3. The Effect of Top Management Team Networks on Innovation: A Comparison of Large and Small Organizations 

Kevin D. Clark and Scott L. Newbert

4. Balancing Institutional Forces and Strategic Demands in Adopting HPWS Practices in Small Innovative Firms: An Overview and Empirical Analysis

Pankaj C. Patel

5. Family Businesses and How They Internationalize: A Review

Manuel Eberhard and Justin B. Craig

6. Strategizing by Social Entrepreneurs: A Longitudinal Analysis

David Gras, G. T. Lumpkin, and Robert S. Nason

7. Small Business Exit: Review of Past Research, Theoretical Considerations, and Suggestions for Future Research

Dawn R. DeTienne and Karl Wennberg

8. Geographic Cluster Region Influences on Innovation: Outcomes for Small Businesses

Brett Anitra Gilbert and Mika Tatum Kusar

9. Institutional Impact on Small Venture Exporting: Differences between Developed and Emerging Market Economies

Joseph LiPuma and Christiane Prange

10. Regional Banking Development and Small Business Growth: Evidence from China

Iftekhar Hasan, Haizhi Wang, and Mingming Zhou

11. Small Firms in Transition Economies: Challenges and Opportunities

David Smallbone

12. Overcoming Hurdles for Commercializing Emerging Technologies: The Harbingers of Schumpeterian Cycles for Superior Economic Rent

Victor A. Chavez, Jonathan D. Linton, Regan Stinnett, and Steven T. Walsh

13. Public Policy Assistance for American Small Business: Promoting Supports and Reducing Impediments

William J. Dennis Jr.