Cognitive approaches to entrepreneurship research / Jerome A. Katz, Dean A. Shepherd -- The self-determination motive and entrepreneurs choice of financing / Harry J. Sapienza, M. Audrey Korsgaard, Daniel P. Forbes -- Organizational learning by new ventures : concepts, strategies, and applications / Benyamin Bergmann Lichtenstein, G.T. Lumpkin, Rodney C. Shrader -- Extending the theory of the entrepreneur using a signal detection framework / Jeffery S. McMullen, Dean A. Shepherd -- A transaction cognition theory of global entrepreneurship / Ronald K. Mitchell -- The impact of entrepreneurial experience on opportunity identification and exploitation : habitual and novice entrepreneurs / Deniz Ucbasaran, Mike Wright, Paul Westhead, Lowell W. Busenitz -- Opportunity development : a socio-cognitive perspective / Alice de Koning -- The domain of entrepreneurship research : some suggestions / Per Davidsson -- Entrepreneurial fit : the role of cognitive misfit / Keith H. Brigham, Julio O. de Castro -- The role of regretful thinking, perseverance, and self-efficacy in venture formation / Gideon D. Markman, Robert A. Baron, David B. Balkin.

These papers provide an ongoing exploration of the major current theoretical and methodological efforts in the fields of entrepreneurship, small and family business growth and firm emergence and growth.