"This important new Handbook provides a coherent and compelling set of key insights garnered from the striking inroads made by organization theorists and sociologists in understanding innovation and entrepreneurship. The high level of both scholarship and relevance makes the book essential reading to anyone interested in innovation and entrepreneurship. The Handbook finds that rare sweet spot between reflecting on the significance of the most salient theories and findings in the extant literature and boldly positing new directions and ideas driving the future research agenda."
David Audretsch, Distinguished Professor and Ameritech Chair of Economic Development, Indiana University

"A tour de force! This impressive volume deepens the overlooked connections between entrepreneurship and innovation – phenomena often separated in research but strongly overlapped in practice. Smart, timely, comprehensive."
Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, SW Ascherman Professor of Strategy and Organization, Stanford University.

"As entrepreneurship and innovation have become more central to business and public policy, sociologists have increasingly focused on these phenomena. These chapters summarize their insights in a clear and well-organized way, as well as areas that remain unclear. This book will be of interest both to sociologists interested in the state of knowledge in their field on these important topics and scholars in adjacent fields (e.g., economics) eager to learn from their peers."
Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor, Harvard Business School