Prelims -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The distinctive domain of entrepreneurship research -- Chapter 2: The distinctive domain as a durable way forward -- Chapter 3: Is it worth it? The relevant performance yardstick for the entrepreneur -- Chapter 4: From traits to rates: an ecological perspective on organizational foundings -- Chapter 5: Revisiting "traits to rates" after 25 years: organizational ecology's limited impact on entrepreneurship research -- Chapter 6: Toward a theory of entrepreneurial competency -- Chapter 7: Reflection on entrepreneurial competency -- Chapter 8: Nurturing entrepreneurial competencies through university-based entrepreneurship centers: a social constructivist perspective -- Afterword.

Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth provides an annual examination of the major current research, theoretical and methodological efforts in the field of entrepreneurship and its related disciplines, including firm emergence and growth research. It is a key source of articles-of-record for major concepts in the discipline of entrepreneurship.Seminal Ideas for the Next Twenty-Five Years of Advances is the second of two volumes exploring and celebrating some of the most long-lasting and influential contributions to Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth. Written and edited by some of the world's leading entrepreneurship academics, this anniversary volume showcases three chapters from the series, along with author reflections, and three new papers showing how these classic ideas connect and energize leading-edge contemporary research in entrepreneurship and related fields.For any researcher and student of entrepreneurship or related disciplines, this is a fundamental text that celebrates the past, while exploring the future.

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