Product Description: Often considered one of the major forces behind economic growth and development, the entrepreneurial firm can accelerate the speed of innovation and dissemination of new technologies, thus increasing a country's competitive edge in the global market...read more

Product Description: The contributors to this original volume of theoretically grounded case studies of the entrepreneurial phenomenon look at the process of entrepreneurship in the emerging regions of India, China, Ireland, Eastern Europe, North and South America, and North and South-East Asia...read more

Product Description: While the public policy community has turned to entrepreneurship to maintain, restore, or generate economic prosperity, the economics profession has been remarkably taciturn in providing guidance for public policy for understanding the links between entrepreneurship and economic growth as well as for framing and weighing policy issues and decisions...read more

Product Description: Corporate Entrepreneurship and Venturing is positioned at the crossroads of the strategy and entrepreneurship fields. The common theme is how and why corporate entrepreneurship and corporate venturing can contribute to innovation and strategic renewal in large established companies, in particular it explores ways to balance exploitation and exploration in established companies...read more

Product Description: The existing literature in both public economics and financial economics often fails to consider how appropriate and effective public policy may be in promoting the venture capital industry. Public economics has dealt extensively with the effect of taxes and subsidies but has neglected the unique role of venture capitalists as active investors who provide not only funding but added value...read more

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Product Description: Drawing from contributions by scholars of entrepreneurship from North America, Western Europe and Asia, this text celebrates the vibrancy and interdisciplinarity of entrepreneurship research.

Many nations invite foreigners to work within their borders, but few welcome them. Those countries that do receive a torrent of immigrants create pressures that analysts expect to intensify as population growth and social unrest mount in the less developed countries of the world. Immigration and Entrepreneurship, now in paperback, offers a comparative analysis of worldwide immigration issues while focusing more specifically on the emerging influence of entrepreneurship as a potent factor in the economic and social integration of immigrants. In linking the common immigrant and settler experiences with the upsurge in self-employment, the contributors to this volume use California as their base of comparison. The state has both a huge and varied immigrant population and an entrepreneurial economy that has facilitated the formation of immigrant-owned firms. The Los Angeles riots of the nineties indicated the volatility of the mix. Aided by ethnic and familial networks, such firms have served as a route of economic advancement. Immigration and Entrepreneurship offers a comparative perspective unique in the literature of immigration by broaching the topic from both global and local perspectives. Whereas most studies examine the experience of a single group or groups in a particular destination economy, this volume emphasizes variations in the way different nations receive immigrants as causes of differences in immigrant behavior. Among the innovative themes discussed by a range of international scholars are the entrepreneurial efforts and tensions in the garment industry in Los Angeles, Paris, and Berlin; Koreans' enterprise and identities in Los Angeles and Japan; and U.S. immigration policies. The result is a genuinely global methodology. (view table of contents)

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Employing a multidisciplinary approach, the chapters cover all aspects of current entrepreneurship theory in multinational, economics, organizational sociology, marketing and finance. Other issues discussed include gender and networking, strategies in entrepreneurial growth, job satisfaction and franchising.

Product Description: The latest volume in the Fuji Business History series explores the role of the entrepreneur and small business in the economies of the East and West. The volume presents contributions from well-known international scholars, including Michael Cusumano on Bill Gates and High-Tech Entrepreneurship; Martin Kenney on Venture Capital in Silicon Valley; and Mary Rose on issues of succession in entrepreneurial firms...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Scholars and popular writers have written a great deal about entrepreneurs and the formation of new companies, but they have not succeeded in predicting when and where large numbers of new organizations will emerge. This volume attempts, from the viewpoint of the interdisciplinary field of organization studies, to answer two major questions about entrepreneurship: First, what are the conditions that prompt the founding of large numbers of new organizations or entirely new industries? Second, what are the real and significant effects of such entrepreneurial activities on existing industries, economies, and societies?The authors emphasize that new organizations do not emerge full blown from the idiosyncratic minds of individual entrepreneurs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Entrepreneurship 2000 is a one-of-a-kind, cutting-edge collection of more than 20 original research papers on the entrepreneurial art, written by today's best researchers in the field, and presented at The State of the Art of Entrepreneurship Conference. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a collection of empirical studies about business start-ups, early development, entrepreneurial behaviour, small business, family business and private enterprise.

Product Description: A collection of papers based upon a joint symposium of business historians from the universities of Lancaster and Reading. Each paper addresses some aspect of entrepreneurship and topics under that heading range from business culture and family firms to cartels and the British arms industry...read more