TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction and overview – Colin C Williams and Anjula Gurtoo Part I Institutional environment of entrepreneurship The institutional environment of entrepreneurship in developing countries: an introductory overview – Colin C Williams and Anjula Gurtoo Entrepreneurship, development and economic policy in Haiti – Andres Marroquín Entrepreneurship and SME development in a least developed country: lessons from Laos – B B Bhasin, Sivakumar Venkataramany, Lee Keng Ng Mapping entrepreneurial activities and entrepreneurial attitudes in Turkey – Esra Karadeniz and Özlem Özdemir Regulative environment and entrepreneurial activity: insights from Sub-Saharan Africa - EldredeKahiya and Rebecca Kennedy Nascent enterprises and growth aspirations in a post-conflict environment: The role of social capital – Anna Rebmann, Adnan Efendic, Tomasz Mickiewicz Planning as a means to innovation in small and medium entrepreneurial firms in India –Neharika Vohra, Safal Batra The failure of government policies to drive entrepreneurial performance in Croatia – Will Bartlett Economic aspects of entrepreneurship: the case of Peru – Matthew Bird Developing an entrepreneurship climate in Indonesia: A case study of batik as a cultural heritage – Vanessa Part II Entrepreneurs’ Motivations Motivations and determinants of entrepreneurship in developing countries: an introductory overview – Colin C Williams and Anjula Gurtoo Necessity versus opportunity-driven entrepreneurs in Vietnam – Jürgen Brünjes and Javier Revilla Diez Being an entrepreneur of the Vicenarian and Tricenarian generation: the case of Turkish entrepreneurs, 2006-2012 –Esra Karadeniz and Ahmet Ozcam Factors influencing the success of enterprises: the case of Laos – SutanaBoonlua Social entrepreneurship and the nonprofit sector in developing countries – Michelle J. Stecker, Tonia L. Warnecke, and Carol M. Bresnahan Social types of small-scale entrepreneurship in Bulgaria – Tanya Chavdarova Social Entrepreneurship, International Development, and the Environment – Tonia L. Warnecke Social entrepreneurship and fashion innovation in Brazil: A case study of Crafty Women (MulheresArteiras) and RedeAsta -Vanessa Ratten, Joao Ferreira, Cristina Fernandes Part III Gender and entrepreneurship Gender and entrepreneurship in developing countries: an introductory overview – Colin C Williams and AnjulaGurtoo Barriers to women’s entrepreneurship:evidence from Indonesia – TulusTambunan Social Entrepreneurship, Social Change, and Gender Roles in Azerbaijan – MehrangizNajafizadeh Women Entrepreneurs in the Informal Economy: Is formalisation the only solution for business sustainability?– ShyamaRamani, Ajay Thutupalli, Tamas Medovarszki, Sutapa Chattopadhyay, and Veena Ravichandran The dynamics of women’s entrepreneurship in Iran – Leyla Sarfaraz and Nezameddin Faghih Part IV Informal sector entrepreneurship Informal entrepreneurship in developing countries: an introductory overview – Colin C Williams and AnjulaGurtoo Entrepreneurship at the base of the pyramid: the case of Nicaragua – Michael J. Pisani Determinants of informal sector employment in Sri Lanka: Evidence from a recently conducted special survey – ChandaniWijebandara and N. S. Cooray Understanding informal entrepreneurship in Sub Saharan Africa and its implications for economic development: the Ghanaian experience – Kwame Adom Cross-sectoral characteristics of informal sector micro-enterprises in Pakistan – Muhammad ShehryarShahid, Halima Shehryar and MinhaAkberAllibhoy Characteristics and structures of informal entrepreneurship in Botswana – Vanessa Ratten, Léo-Paul Dana The influence of credit and formalization on growth of SMEs in Tanzania – Joseph A. Kuzilwa and Ganka D. Nyamsogoro Part V Entrepreneurship education and learning Entrepreneurship education in developing countries: an introductory overview – Colin C Williams and AnjulaGurtoo Capacity building for entrepreneurship education and research in the conflict zone of Peshwar– Lorraine Warren Entrepreneurship education in Cameroon matters: reorganising the teaching of the subject – Alan A Ndedi An evaluation of the impact of entrepreneurship education on the entrepreneurship intentions in the Albanian late transition context – Elvisa Drishti, Drita Kruja and Mario Curcija Organizational learning in Indian family firms: a social network based approach for entrepreneurship – Nobin Thomas, Neharika Vohra Part VI Policy implications and synthesis Policy efforts to foster innovative SMEs in South Korea: Lessons for developing countries Addressing entrepreneurial heterogeneity in developing countries: designing policies for economic growth and inclusive development – Micheline Goedhuys and Elisa Calza Harnessing entrepreneurship in developing countries: a lived practices approach – Colin C Williams and Anjula Gurtoo