Entrepreneurship, Community, and Community Development (Hardcover)

1. Community entrepreneurship development: an introduction Michael W-P Fortunato and Theodore Alter  2. Entrepreneurship and community development: what matters and why? Thomas S. Lyons  3. Rural economic development under devolution: A test of local strategies Jessica A. Crowe, Ryan Ceresola, Tony Silva and Nicholas Recker  4. Complex transactions: Community development financial institutions lending to ethnic entrepreneurs in Los Angeles R. Varisa Patraporn  5. Invisible struggles: the representation of ethnic entrepreneurship in US newspapers Leona Achtenhagen and Cindy J. Price Schultz  6. Constructing a multi-dimensional measure of local entrepreneurial culture Nicole Breazeale, Michael W.-P. Fortunato, James E. Allen IV, Ronald J. Hustedde and Helen Pushkarskaya  7. Government and the entrepreneurial ecology: The case of Halifax, Nova Scotia Bruce Dye and Theodore R. Alter  8. Creating and sustaining a model of community-based enterprise learning: a participatory case study of ready hubs Tim Vorley and Nick Williams  9. Creating entrepreneurial communities: building community capacity for ecosystem development Deborah M. Markley, Thomas S. Lyons and Donald W. Macke