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Part 1 New conceptual frameworks and paradigms in entrepreneurship:paradoxes of entrepreneurship, Bengt Johannisson and Knuth Senneseth; insearch of entrepreneur - business environment contingencies, Asko Miettinenand Nina Hedberg; the process of becoming an entrepreneur - a theoreticalframework of factors influencing entrepreneurs' start-up decisions, VisaHuuskonen; venture teams start-ups - an undiscovered field of research,Detlef Mueller-Boeling; entrepreneurs, competitive definitions - evidencefrom computer-software start-ups, Michael Levenhagen and Howard Thomas. Part2 Special methodological approaches in entrepreneurship research:entrepreneurship - some lessons of social antropology, Peter Rosa and AlisonBowes; real and potential entrepreneurs playing a business simulating game,Heinz Klandt. Part 3 Survival and exit of enterprises: the owner-managersexit-route, Sue Birley and Paul Westhead; survival, entrepreneurship, growth- which relationship? the Milanese area's case, Giuliano Mussati and AndreaFumagalli; new firm and plant survival in united states manufacturing, DavidD. Audretsch. Part 4 Factors influencing entrepreneurial intentions andactivities: entrepreneurial interest among business students - results of aninternational study, Hermann J. Weihe and Frank-Rainer Reich; "ecological"basis for the analysis of gender differences in the predisposition toself-employment, Daphne Hamilton; social continuity and change - thecontextual environment of self-employment, Dieter Boegenhold and Udo Staber.Part 5 Factors influencing entrepreneurial performance: factors associatedwith relative performance amongst small firms in the British instrumentationsector, Graham Hall and Sally Fulshaw; intensity of planning conviction amongentrepreneurs - differences between zealots and non-believers, Harold P.Welsch and Gerhard R. Plaschka. Part 6 Entrepreneurial versus administrativebehaviour: profiling entrepreneurs - multiple perspectives and consequentmethodological considerations, Elisabeth Chell and Jean M. Haworth; a newperspective of entrepreneurship - a dialectic process of transformation withthe entrepreneurial mode, types of flexibility and organizational form, HenkW. Volberda and Hock-Beng Cheah. Part 7 Entrepreneurship and governmentpolicy: towards an effective subsidizing policy, Hermann Frank, et al;incentives for the venture capital industry in Finland, Juha Auer, et al.Part 8 Entrepreneurship and innovation/technology: manager participation ininnovation activities of small and medium-sized enterprises, LiisaHyvaerinen; creating an entrepreneurial management system in largecorporations - the STK innova case, Birgit Helene Jevnaker; introduction ofinformation technology to small firms - a network perspective, Mette Monstedt.