The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance (Oxford Handbooks) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195391241 ISBN 13: 9780195391244

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

The topic of Entrepreneurial Finance involves many issues, including but not limited to the risks and returns to being an entrepreneur, financial contracting, business planning, capital gaps and the availability of capital, market booms and busts, public policy and international differences in entrepreneurial finance stemming from differences in laws, institutions and culture. As these issues are so extremely broad and complex, the academic and practitioner literature on topic usually focuses on at most one or two of these issues at one time. The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance provides a comprehensive picture of issues dealing with different sources of entrepreneurial finance and different issues with financing entrepreneurs. The Handbook comprises contributions from 48 authors based in 12 different countries. It is organized into seven parts, the first of which introduces the issues, explains the organization of the Handbook, and briefly summarizes the contributions made by the authors in each of the chapters. Part II covers the topics pertaining to financing new industries and the returns and risk to being an entrepreneur. Part III deals with entrepreneurial capital structure. Part IV discusses business planning, funding and funding gaps in entrepreneurial finance with a focus on credit markets. Part V provides analyses of the main alternative sources of entrepreneurial finance. Part VI considers issues in public policy towards entrepreneurial finance. Part VII considers international differences in entrepreneurial finance, including analyses of entrepreneurial finance in weak institutional environments as well as microfinance.

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About the Author

Douglas Cumming is Professor and Ontario Research Chair at the Schulich School of Business, York University.

Review

"This is a wide-ranging and comprehensive handbook which provides an outstanding introduction to the field. It provides an excellent overview of all the main aspects of financing entrepreneurial businesses and is to be welcomed especially for the broad range of international experience it covers."--Alan Hughes, Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies and Director of the Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0195391241
• ISBN 13: 9780195391244
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 936
• Editor: Cumming Douglas