List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsAbstractCh. IAsking the Questions: Entrepreneurs and Firms after 22 Years1Ch. IIThe Founding Entrepreneurs: Origins, Education, and Capital23Ch. IIIAchievement Motivation Training and the Entrepreneur59Ch. IVThe Licensing and Liberal Regimes69Ch. VSons and Daughters: Surviving Firms and Replacement Entrepreneurs79Ch. VIWhich Entrepreneurs Innovated?89Ch. VIISocial Mobility, Human Capital, Liberalization, and Entrepreneurship105Appendix115References131Index137
\ BooknewsA study of characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, relying on data the author collected in a 1971 survey of entrepreneurs and a 1993 follow-up survey of surviving firms in a major Indian city. Material answers questions on the extent to which entrepreneurs were upwardly mobile, the effect of education on entrepreneurial success and survival, the impact of India's liberalization reforms of the 1980s and 1990s on entrepreneurial activity, and whether innovative entrepreneurs' firms were more likely to survive than the firms of other entrepreneurs. Nafziger is affiliated with Kansas State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \