| Where can scholars go to find out what research is in progress or has been published on entrepreneurship? Listed here are major print and Internet resources on entrepreneurial research grouped by type of source. A note to the researcher in search of the Holy Grail of comprehensiveness: there is no guide or source or combination that will cover everything. Checking these sources, though, should give you good coverage. 
Literature Reviews
What are the major research studies on entrepreneurship in recent years? Who is publishing entrepreneurial research? The following works assess of the state of entrepreneurial research.
- Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research: an interdisciplinary Survey and Introduction. Edited by Zoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch. Kluwer Academic Publishers. HB 615 .H36 (Information Desk1)
The Blackwell Handbook of Entrepreneurship. Edited by Donald L. Sexton and Hans Landstrom. Blackwell Publishers HB 615 .B617 2000
Entrepreneurship 2000. Edited by Donald L. Sexton & Raymond W. Smilor. Chicago: Upstart blishing Co., HB615.S725 1997 - This is the fourth in a series of reviews of changes in the state of the art of entrepreneurship with research needs and issues to the year 2000. Articles are written by leading researchers in each area covering Financing Growth, Growth Strategies, Entrepreneurship Education, Broader Dimensions... (family business, ethnic, international and nonprofit entrepreneurship) and Research Applications, Issues and Needs.
- Earlier editions in this series are:
- The State of the Art of Entrepreneurship edited by Donald L. Sexton & John D. Kasarda; Boston: PWS-Kent Publishing Co., HB615.S725
- The Art and Science of Entrepreneurship edited by Donald L. Sexton & Raymond W. Smilor; Cambridge, Ma: Ballinger Publishing Co., HB62.5.A78
- The Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship edited by Calvin A. Kent, Donald L. Sexton, & Karl H. Vesper; Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, HB615.E59
- Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth. Edited by Jerome A. Katz and Robert H. Brockhaus, Sr. JAI Press HB615.A38 V.1 - The contents of this series on current theories and methodologies for research in entrepreneurship are listed at Katz' eWeb site and at Elsevier Science. Volume 4 is of particular interest covering Databases for the Study of Entrepreneurship.
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- Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth. Edited by Gary Libcap, Director, Karl Eller Center, University of Arizona. JAI Press HD2346.E9 E567 - The contents of the latest volumes in this series, now up to volume 13, are listed at Elsevier Science. The latest volume is titled Entrepreneurial Inputs and Outcomes: New Studies of Entrepreneurship in the United States.
Entrepreneurship & Small Business Research in Europe: an ECSB survey. Edited by Hans Landstrom, Hermann Frank & Jose Veciana. Ashgate Publishing Co., ISBN: 1-85972-632-1
- Shane, Scott A. "Who is Publishing the Entrepreneurship Research." Journal of Management Vol. 23, Pages 83-95.
Thornton, Patricia H. "The sociology of entrepreneurship." Annual Review of Sociology; Palo Alto: Annual Reviews, Inc. HM1.A763 V.25; and via ProQuest 
Online and Printed Bibliographies
Literature reviews are selective; bibliographies are more comprehensive but often limited to a certain topic area. Below are several general sources covering entrepreneurial research. The General Indexes cover broad ranges of business and economic topics.
CELCEE Database - Curriculum guides, training support, program reports, analyses and evaluation for entrepreneurship education is the focus of this indexing and analysis service. The CELCEE is The Center of Entrepreneurial Leadership Clearinghouse on Entrepreneurial Education supported by UCLA and the Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation. CELCEE also recommends using federally-funded ERIC, the Education Resources Information Center to identify and obtain documents.
Frontiers of Entreprenuerial Research. Babson College Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. 1981+ - A list of papers presented at the annual Conference on Entrepreneurship can be browses by topic or by year presented. The fulltext of 1994 and later volumes can be viewed online or order a print volume through the Center's web site.
Family Firm Institute. Bibliography. Annual. - The Institute publishes an annual bibliography, plus proceedings, the Family Business Review and compiliations of their best articles. The 1999 Bibliography is available on the web.
International Entrepreneurship and Small Business Bibliography, edited by Harold Welsch. DePaul University, ISBN: 0-96337-170-3. HD69.S6 I58 - This first edition, the ICSB Entrepreneurship Bibliography, can be searched at SLU's eWeb. The Family Business chapter is available from Harold Welsch.
Fisher, Leslie R. "Venture Capital: A Start-Up Guide to Electronic Resources." Database (February/March 1997), pages 35-46. - The primary purpose of Fisher's article is a review of the major electronic resources of the venture capital industry, but she also includes lists of statistical yearbooks and Web sites with data on venture capital activities.
Conference Proceedings
Many recent proceedings are now available online. Check your local catalog and librarian to locate older editions. The contents of older editions will also be indexed in EconLit and PapersFirst.
Frontiers of Entreprenuership Research. 1981+ . Babson College Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. - A list of papers presented at the annual Conference on Entrepreneurship can be browses by topic or by year presented. The fulltext of 1994 and later volumes can be viewed online or order a print volume through the Center's web site.
Small Business Advancement National Center Research Archive - the Small Business Advancement National Center (SBANC) has a searchable database of proceedings and papers for several conferences including those sponsored by: -
- International Council for Small Business World (More on ICSBW)
- United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE)
- Small Business Institute Director's Association (SBIDA)
The search results take you directly to relevant text; use the directional buttons at the top to page back to document title page. The Center also maintains a list of Calls for Papers for future conferences.
Research at the Marketing/Entrepreneurship Interface, sponsored by the AMA-MEIG The University of Illinois at Chicago and the American Marketing Association sponsor an annual symposium for the Marketing and Entrepreneurship Interest Group (MEIG).
Working Papers and Research Notes
Research continues and the publishing process can be slow. Researchers often present preliminary and summary results in working papers and brief research notes. These reports will be in various stages of their journey through the peer review process.
NetEc provides a comprehensive index to economics working papers with fulltext of man. So does the Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics which is incorporated into the EconLit database. The other sites below provide research notes and reports at their Web site. For more comprehensive indexing of working papers, use WorldCat.
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
Harvard Business School Division of Research - Harvard provides summaries of individual faculty's current research projects, 1996+ working papers in Adobe Acrobat image format, and a new quarterly newsletter Working Knowledge. A link to the Baker Library catalog is provided for detailed searching and older years.
Institute for Enterprise Education - IEE, affiliated with Brock University in Ontario, Canada, has several research initiatives. - NetEc - this is a database of working papers in economics and include economic papers on entrepreneurship. Most records have abstracts and some are available in fulltext.
RISEbusiness: Research Institute for Small & Emerging Business - RISEbusiness is an independent, nonprofit research and educational organization which sponsors and distributes studies relevant to small business and entrepreneurship public policy. Their site provides executive summaries and press releases on their working papers.
SDSU Entrepreneurial Management Center: Research and Publications - Executive summaries of research being performed by faculty in the College of Business at San Diego State University.
Stanford University Graduate School of Business: Research - You can search abstracts of the GSB Research Paper Series or GSB's entire site. Don't forget to look at the Stanford Project on Emerging Companies
University of Texas IC2 Institute: Publications - The Institute's working papers are listed but not described.
Case Studies
Case studies are researched and prepared for class analysis and discussion of business principles. Most of the sites below provide a way to search by topic, view summaries and order cases online. Your local university bookstore may also be able to order copies for you.
COLIS: European Case Clearing House Case On-Line Information System. - provides more international coverage of case studies in all topics. ECCH has a U.S. office on the campus of Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Harvard Business School Publishing - At this site you can search their entire catalog of books, cases, videos Harvard Business Review articles and other materials or search just the case collection. A printed Catalog of Teaching Materials is also available.
INSEAD: Research and Development Activities. - the case studies, business simulations and rking papers developed at INSEAD in France can be browsed by broad subject categories including Entrepreneurship. Publications generally have a European or international focus.
Darden Case Collection - search the online version or obtain and browse the Darden Case Bibliography: Management Cases and Notes.
Richard Ivey School of Business Case and Publications Service - The Ivey School, formerly called the Western Business School, is at the University of Western Ontario and has a large collection of cases.
Stanford University Graduate School of Business: Research - Check out the Case Descriptions listed by broad topic.
Statistics
U.S. Small Business Administration. Office of Advocacy. - sponsors a number of research studies and annual Small Business Economic Indicators. Horn Library has the State of Small Business and its successor, The Small Business Economy, in HD2346 .U5 S626 (Reference).
Major Research Journals covering Entrepreneurship
Jerome Katz' Core Publications in Entrepreneurship and Related Fields: A Guide to Getting Published - provides a good list of major scholarly journals covering entrepreneurship plus a list of major magazines for entrepreneurs.
Scott A. Shane of MIT has published an assessment of "Who is Publishing the Entrepreneurship Research" in the Journal of Management Vol. 23, pages 83-95.
Major Web Sites for the Researcher
Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Babson College - besides the topical index of papers in the Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Babson has a list of the companies covered in their collection of Uniform Franchise Operating Circulars.
eWeb, Saint Louis University - Jerome Katz has a bunch of goodies at this site including Core Publications Entreprenurship and Related Fields: A Guide to Getting Published and a searchable version of the Welsch/ICSB Bibliography on Entrepreneurship. Check out his EWEB Top 10, the Calls for Papers and What's New.
- Entrepreneurial Management Center at San Diego State University - SDSU has broad range of resources on entrepreneurship education and resources for entrepreneurs.
Small Business Advancement National Center (SBANC), University of Central Arkansas - packed with information including a searchable Catalogue of Business Research sponsored by the SBA, the fulltext of Conference Proceedings, conference notices (check What's New) and the fulltext of many SBA publications. Wait patiently for the graphically-intensive option buttons at the bottom of the page to load or click the Apple E.G. icon and search the site.
Major Web Sites for the Entrepreneur
Edward Lowe Foundation - an innovative site providing guides to articles, books, book chapters, and other materials for entrepreneurs and small business including much fulltext. The business database ABI/Inform can be searched online by individuals for a modest price and articles and chapters can be purchased online if not available online for free. The smallbizNet Small Business and Entrepreneurship chapter from Business Sources on the NET (BSN) provides an extensive listings of Internet links grouped in 50 categories. The Entrepreneur's Reference Guide to Small Business Information is a subject listing of 172 practical books, reference guides and directories for entrepreneurs selected from the extensive collection of the Library of Congress.
- EntreWorld - the breadth of information sources is bewildering and EntreWorld provides a selective review guide to Web sources for the entrepreneur. Sources are organized by the stages of business development with summaries for appropriate selecting.
Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Inc
Inc. Magazine - Inc's fulltext Archives covers articles back to August 1988.
LookSmart - this highly commercial site has a unique way of tiering down through a directory. Start with Business & Finance and work through to publications and web sites on topics from Franchising to Family Business.
General Indexes for Articles, Books and Dissertations
Consult these services to identify and locate monographs and articles from a wide range of sources. The Library of Congress can be used on the Internet. All the other the services below, though, are subscription services and means of access will vary among institutions. Consult your librarian to find out how you can use these.
Proquest. 1971 to the present. - one of the primary business databases covering over 1000 scholarly and popular U.S. and international business journals. There are different versions of this database some with just abstracts and others with fulltext, fulltext with graphics and/or full images of the original documents on and off the Web. The Global edition covers more international journals. Consult your librarian to find out how you can use it or try the Edward Lowe Foundation for a low cost alternative.
Dissertation Abstracts via Firstsearch. 1861 to the present. - Yes, this covers U.S. dissertations from 1861 plus British and European dissertations from 1988. Copies of most can be ordered from UMI. Dissertations will also be listed in library catalogs.
EconLit via Firstsearch. 1969 to the present. Updated monthly. - an index and abstracts over 400 journals, over 500 collective volumes per year, plus books, articles, dissertations, and working papers.
- Library of Congress Catalog - links to LC's catalog for one of the largest single catalogs in the world and you can also go to 220 other major catalogs. Use Yahoo to locate particular college's Web site and their library catalogs.
PapersFirst via Firstsearch. Updated monthly. - indexes the papers in every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library from October 1993 to the present.
PsychINFO. Updated monthly. - covers the research literature of psychology, organizational behavior and marketing. The indexing and abstracting are detailed for effective searching. PsychFirst covers only the most recent years of a more selective list of journals.
- SocialSciSearch via DIALOG. 1972+. - The value of this database, also called the Social Science Citation Index, is the keyword indexing of cited references found in significant articles in "the world's most important social science journals."
Ingenta- provides the table of contents of thousands of journals. You can browse by journal title and date or search keywords in the article title. There are no subject headings added and article summaries are only available if they were in the original table of contents. You can obtain the fulltext of the article through your local library or by ordering online and paying with your charge card.
WorldCatvia Firstsearch. - a newcomer to the world of research. The library cataloging network OCLC allows one to search a large subset of its database of records from thousands of libraries. As you view the results you can also check to see which libraries have the book you want. If your own library doesn't have the book then you can request an Interlibrary Loan while still in the database.
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