De Gruyter Handbooks in Business, Economics and Finance provide a comprehensive, must-have survey of a whole subject area critically discussing the leading views in the field. The main goal of each handbook is to survey a topic, explaining why an issue is important and critically discussing the leading views in the area. Aimed at the international market, these handbooks cover emerging and cutting edge topics in business, economics and finance.

• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Editor and contributor biographies
• Introduction
• Part I: The individual level
• Introduction
• 1 The role of founders’ tangible resources in founding new ventures
• The bootstrapping-bricolage interface
• 3 Effectuation and entrepreneurial finance
• 4 Portfolio entrepreneurs: The role of risk
• Part II: The inner circle
• Introduction
• 5 Informal financing of entrepreneurs
• 6 Funding entrepreneurs within business groups: An emerging market view
• 7 How business incubators and accelerators finance startups
• Part III: The wider world
• Introduction
• 8 Formal debt as a source of entrepreneurial finance
• 9 Microfinance and entrepreneurial finance: A review and future research agenda
• 10 Venture capital as a source of entrepreneurial finance
• 11 Corporate venture capital: A literature review and research agenda
• 12 The role of business angels in the new financial landscape
• 13 Government financing of startups
• 14 Family offices as startup investors: A synergetic relationship of the old and new economy?
• Part IV: Emerging perspectives
• Introduction
• 15 A scoping review of most influential entrepreneurial finance studies in developing countries
• 16 Conceptualizing gender in entrepreneurial finance: Past trends, current developments and future opportunities
• 17 Indigenous entrepreneurial finance: Mapping the landscape with Canadian evidence
• 18 Financing entrepreneurs in post-conflict and disaster zones
• 19 Ethics and entrepreneurial finance
• Conclusion
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Index