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. Strategic Entrepreneurship: Integrating Entrepreneurial and Strategic Management Perspectives: Michael A. Hitt (Arizona State University, USA), R. Duane Ireland (University of Richmond, USA), S. Michael Camp (Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurship, USA), Donald L. Sexton (Nova Southeastern University & Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, USA).

Part I: Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management:.

2. The Entrepreneurship: Strategic Management Interface: G. Dale Meyer (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA), Heidi M. Neck (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA), Michael D. Meeks (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA).

3. Discovery and Coordination in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship: Steven Michael (University of Illinois, USA), David Storey (Open University, UK), Howard Thomas (University of Illinois, USA).

4. A Framework for Entrepreneurial Strategy: Scott Johnson (University of Minnesota, USA), Andrew H. Van de Ven (University of Minnesota, USA).

Part II: Entrepreneurial Resources:.

5. Resource-Based Theory and the Entrepreneurial Firm: Sharon A. Alvarez (Ohio State University, USA).

6. Overcoming Resource Disadvantages in Entrepreneurial Firms: When Less is More: Elaine Mosakowski (Purdue University, USA).

Part III: Innovation:.

7. Bisociation, Discovery, and the Role of Entrepreneurial Action: Ken G. Smith (University of Maryland, USA), Dante Di Gregorio (University of Maryland, USA), Robert O. Anderson.

8. Market Uncertainty and Learning Distance in Corporate Entrepreneurship Entry Mode Choice: Robert E. Hoskisson (University of Oklahoma, USA), Lowell W. Busenitz (Ohio State University, USA).

9. Implementing Strategies for Corporate Entrepreneurship: A Knowledge-Based Perspective: Robert K. Kazanjian (Emory University, USA), Robert Drazin (Emory University, USA), Mary Ann Glynn (Emory University, USA).

Part IV: Alliances and Networks:.

10. Networks, Alliances and Entrepreneurship: Arnold C. Cooper (Purdue University, USA).

11. Small Entrepreneurial Firms and Large Companies in Inter-firm R&D Networks: The International Biotechnology Industry: John Hagedoorn (University of Maastricht, The Netherlands), Nadine Roijakkers (University of Maastricht, The Netherlands).

Part V: International Entrepreneurship:.

12. International Entrepreneurship: The Current Status of the Field and Future Research Agenda: Shaker A. Zahra (Georgia State University, USA), Gerard George (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA).

13. What Sort of Top Management Team is Needed at the Helm of Internationally Diversified Firms? Harry Barkema (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Oleg Chvyrkov (Tilburg University, The Netherlands).

Part VI: Strategic Leadership and Growth:.

14. The Entrepreneurial Imperatives of Strategic Leadership: Jeffrey G. Covin (Indiana University, USA), Dennis P. Slevin (University of Pittsburgh, USA).

15. Entrepreneurship as Growth; Growth as Entrepreneurship: Per Davidsson (Jönköping International Business School, Sweden), Frédéric Delmar (Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute, Sweden), Johan Wiklund (Jönköping International Business School, Sweden).

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About the Author

Michael A. Hitt is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Joseph Foster Chair in Business Leadership and the C.W. and Dorothy Conn Chair in New Ventures at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. Recently, he has co-authored Mergers and Acquisitions: A Guide to Creating Value for Stakeholders (2001) and Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization (Fourth Edition, 2001). He is also the co-editor of many volumes, including The Handbook of Strategic Management (Blackwell Publishers, 2001) and Creating Value (Blackwell Publishers, 2002). He is a Past President of the Academy of Management and has served as Editor of the Academy of Management Journal.

R. Duane Ireland is W. David Robbins Chair in Business Policy and Professor of Management Systems at the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business, University of Richmond. He has recently co-authored Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization (Fourth Edition, 2001) and Mergers and Acquisitions: A Guide to Creating Value for Stakeholders (2001). He is serving or has served as a member of the editorial review board for Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, and Journal of Management.

S. Michael Camp is Vice President of Research at the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership in Kansas City. He designs and administers the Center's research program in collaboration with many of the world's leading scholars.

Donald L. Sexton retired as Professor Emeritus from the Ohio State University in 1994. While at Ohio State University he held the William H. Davis Chair in Entrepreneurship. He is the co-author or co-editor of numerous publications including Leadership and Entrepreneurship (1996), Entrepreneurship 2000 (1997), and The Blackwell Handbook of Enterpreneurship (Blackwell Publishers, 2000).