The purpose of this book is to identify and analyze modern classics in entrepreneurship research with the goal of highlighting cutting-edge themes in the work of various scholars that are pushing the boundaries of the field, post 2000. As the entrepreneurship field matures, it is important to identify the novel contributions that will help shape the next decades of scholarship, by providing scholars with the concepts, frameworks, and approaches needed to help develop the new theories and practices of entrepreneurship. By focusing on emerging key contributions, this book takes a stance that sets it apart from other similar works by scholars that have focused only on existing themes rather than those that will characterize the relationship between entrepreneurship and new technological advances, growing inequalities, gender, diversity and inclusion, and socio-political shifts in the landscape of entrepreneurial ecosystems, allowing for critical and new conversations on entrepreneurship to take shape. This book will provide discussion on emergent themes and approaches that will continue to build the future of entrepreneurship as an exciting and rigorous academic discipline.

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan is Professor of Practice at the School of Engineering and Academic Director of the IE Brown EMBA program at Brown University, USA.

Arturo E. Osorio is Associate Professor of Practice Entrepreneurship at Rutgers Business School Newark New Brunswick and a Fellow at the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship& Economic Development (CUEED) and Senior Research Fellow at the Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies both at Rutgers Newark, USA. 

Dev K. Dutta is Associate Professor of Strategic Management& Entrepreneurship at the Peter T Paul College of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire, USA. 

Vishal K. Gupta is Associate Professor in the Culverhouse College of Commerce at The University of Alabama, USA. 

Golshan Javadian is Assistant Professor of Management at Morgan State University, USA. 

Grace Chun Guo is Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Management at the Jack Welch College of Business, Sacred Heart University, USA.