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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Research on Techno-Entrepreneurship,
Book SynopsisWhile knowledge-intensive environments encourage and foster new ideas for products, services, production methods and business models, they also entail high levels of risk derived from the fast and dynamically changing nature of technology. This Handbook explores the new theoretical frameworks that are needed to cope with the growing relevance of techno-entrepreneurship initiatives globally. Demonstrating that techno-entrepreneurship and its ecosystems create opportunities across national borders, this Handbook also shows how they proactively shape their business environment and engage in more complex collaborative networks. Chapters cover emerging areas in the field, such as frugal innovation, the drone industry and gender-specific entrepreneurship. Separated into sections dedicated to entrepreneurial ecosystems - with original research into incubators, accelerators and crowd funding - and techno-entrepreneurship across countries, the contributors examine specific issues that arise in context. With international scope, this Handbook will be an essential read for entrepreneurship and innovation scholars. Any researcher with an interest in entrepreneurial ecosystems will also benefit from the original research presented.Table of ContentsContents: Part I Conceptualisation 1. Technological Embeddedness as a Determinant of Techno-Entrepreneurship Sang-Joon Kim and Juil Lee Part II New categories of Entrepreneurship 2. Reverse Innovation: Review of a Decade Max von Zedtwitz and Marine Hadengue 3. Modes and Routines of Frugal Innovation: An Examination on the Basis of the Auto Components Industry Rajnish Tiwari and Stephan Bergmann 4. The Interplay of Technology Entrepreneurs and Regulation in a New Industry: The Case of the Drone Industry Ferran Giones, Kerem Gurses and Alexander Brem 5. Unveiling Women Entrepreneurship in Technology Ventures: Gendered Organization and Gendered Society Interactions Dilek Cetindamar and Berna Beyhan Part III Ecosystems 6. Techno-entrepreneurship development support in theory and practice: the case of incubators and accelerators in Canada Fabiano Armellini, Cynthie Dega, Angie Garcia and Francisco Machado 7. Crowdfunding as a tool for innovation marketing: technology entrepreneurship commercialization strategies Ferran Giones and Alexander Brem 8. Fostering Techno-Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation Practices in the Innovation Ecosystems – Case Nokia Jarkko Pellikka and Timo Ali-Vehmas 9. Digital technologies, techno-entrepreneurship and regional ecosystems: The case of The Net Value Moreno Frau and Ludovica Moi Part IV Academic Entrepreneurship 10. Research-based spin-offs as agents of knowledge dissemination: evidence from the analysis of innovation networks Oscarina Conceição, Cristina Sousa and Margarida Fontes 11. Individual Innovativeness as a driver of career success: academic tehno-experts in an entreprneeurial ecosystem Anna-Maija Nisula and Heidi Olander Part V Country-specific entrepreneurship 12. SME Techno-Entrepreneurship: Drivers and Barriers in sub-Saharan Africa Olayinka David-West, Omotayo Muritala and Immanuel Ovemeso Umukoro 13. Entrepreneurship, technological knowledge and industrial heterogeneity: Evidence from Italian NUTS3 regions. Alessandra Colombelli, Gianluca Orsatti and Francesco Quatraro 14. Nurturing Healthy Korean Startup Ecosystem Gyewan Moon 15. Understanding the dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems: Evidence from a longitudinal case study Maria Cristina Cinici, Valeria Schifilliti and Fabrizio Cesaroni Index
£41.75
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Research Agenda for Entrepreneurship Policy
Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This book makes the case for a change in the research agenda on entrepreneurship policy. An exemplary group of authors addresses the agenda for entrepreneurship policy researchers, policy makers and practitioners in the field. A key theme is the importance of context, which is particularly marked where policy transfer is attempted. Themes covered include monitoring and evaluation, policies to promote internationalisation and critical approaches to analysing public policy in the field. The book also presents national cases where relevant policy experience is judged as worthy of wider dissemination. These chapters focus on entrepreneurship policy issues in China, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Sub Saharan Africa and Poland. This book will be required reading for researchers and policy makers alike. A key message to researchers is the need to increase their understanding of the policy process as well as their engagement with policy makers. At the same time policy makers need to increase the use of systematically gathered evidence into the policy making process. Contributors include: N. Arshed, V. Barinova, H. Do, I. Drummond, X. Li, T. Mazwai, I. Mitsui, B. Ndemo, B. Piasecki, J. Potter, A. Rogut, D. Smallbone, D. Storey, M. Xheneti, J. Xu, S. ZemtsovTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Why we need a different research agenda on entrepreneurship policy David Smallbone and Friederike Welter PART I KEY THEMES IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP POLICY 2. Reviewing and revising the rhetoric of enterprise policy: Going back to basics Norin Arshed and Ian Drummond 3. Placing enterprise policy in context: A policy transfer approach Mirela Xheneti 4. A research agenda for entrepreneurship policy David Storey and Jonathan Potter 5. Policies to support internationalisation: Who needs them and what do they need? David Smallbone and Hang Do PART II NATIONAL CASE STUDIES 6. China: A focus on local policy David Smallbone, Xiao Li and Jianbo Xu 7. SMEs and entrepreneurship policy in Russia Vera Barinova, Stepan Zemtsov and David Smallbone 8. Entrepreneurship and the middle income trap: The case of Poland Anna Rogut and Bogdan Piasecki 9. Policy issues for SMEs: Practical lessons from Japan's experiences in the 2010s Itsutomo Mitsui 10. The role of mobile technologies and inclusive innovation policies in SME development in Sub Saharan Africa Bitange Ndemo 11. Stimulating entrepreneurship in South Africa’s townships Thami Mazwai Index
£28.95
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd How to Make your Doctoral Research Relevant:
Book SynopsisEveryone wants their research to be read and to be relevant. This exciting new guide presents a broad range of ideas for enhancing research impact and relevance. Bringing together researchers from all stages of academic life, it offers a far-reaching discussion of strategies to optimise relevancy in the modern research environment. This book is crucial reading for advanced masters students, doctoral students and researchers in the social sciences wishing to grow the relevance of their research beyond academia. Senior researchers and educators offering doctoral courses will also benefit from its insight into the development of a generation of young researchers in the contemporary academic environment. Contributors include: T. Alfahaid, A. Aljarodi, C. Alvarez, S. Aparicio, E. Breit, A. Buhrandt, D. de Castro Leal, K. Ettl, S. Feldermann, I. Haase, J. Janisch, P. Köhn, T. Lopez, A. Löscher, A. Müller, M. Paschke, P.J. Ruf, J. Schnittker, C. Soost, D. Urbano, C. Weigel, F. WelterTrade Review'This book may become the beginning of a new movement as it encourages new researchers to examine the relevance of their work beyond the world of academic publications. As community engagement becomes an ever greater aspect of the work of universities, How to Make your Doctoral Research Relevant should become prescribed reading for any new researcher who wants their work to have meaningful impact for multiple stakeholders.' --Thomas M. Cooney, Technological University Dublin, Ireland'This is a very timely book addressing a pressing question of impact and relevance in research. Most importantly the book not only suggests relevance and impact to matter but embraces a challenge how to promote and sustain change in academia. This is done by inviting PhD students and junior researchers to discuss ways to identify relevant questions to be studied with relevant approaches and how to transfer our research results for the society. As such, the book actively aims at resisting ''publication frenzy'' and offers a way out to the more inspiring future in research!' --Ulla Hytti, University of Turku, Finland'This is a different book - unique regarding both the collection of contributors and their combined messages. Together the authors stress the importance of connecting their intellectual curiosity to value creation - for themselves, their academic institutions, and explicitly for society. By reflecting on their group discussions and then sometimes quite personal introspection, they promote the continued need for questioning assumptions and applying novel research methodologies. Overall, Welter and Urbano have worked with their early career contributors to craft an exploration of impact and relevance of academic research that makes me optimistic for the future.' --Patricia Greene, Babson College, USTable of ContentsContents: WHY SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT THE RELEVANCE AND IMPACT OF OUR RESEARCH? 1 Introducing the book: the what, why and how of relevance and impact 2 Friederike Welter, David Urbano, Turki Alfahaid, Abdullah Aljarodi, Elsa Breit, Andreas Buhrandt, Débora de Castro Leal, Sina Feldermann, Jonas Janisch, Philipp Köhn, Tatiana Lopez, Anne Löscher, Anna Müller, Max Paschke, Philipp Julian Ruf, Julia Schnittker and Christine Weigel HOW TO IDENTIFY RELEVANCE IN YOUR RESEARCH TOPIC: NEW DIRECTIONS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH 2 Bring your background up and keep the context in mind to choose the right conversation 11 Sebastian Aparicio 3 Irrelevant or relevant: key learnings from an early career researcher for other early career researchers 13 Jonas Janisch 4 Schrödinger’s family firm: on the German legislator implicitly defining the family business and how he attempts to protect it 23 Andreas Buhrandt 5 Can you spare a dollar, please? Foreign exchange shortage as a persistent challenge to economic development 34 Anne Löscher HOW TO MAKE YOUR RESEARCH APPROACHES RELEVANT 6 Find your conversation and join it 48 Claudia Alvarez 7 The real deal: a researcher among practitioners 50 Inga Haase 8 From practice to practice: an example for the relevance of research (projects) and its implications 61 Julia Schnittker 9 Different approaches of context in quantitative entrepreneurship research 69 Abdullah Aljarodi, Tatiana Lopez and Turki Alfahaid 10 How to study context in quantitative entrepreneurship research 80 Christine Weigel and Christian Soost 11 Reflections of an activist-academic 92 Débora de Castro Leal HOW TO TRANSFER YOUR RESEARCH RESULTS 12 Be passionate about your research topics and share this passion 104 Kerstin Ettl 13 The life cycle of academia and its impact on early career researchers’ publishing behaviour 106 Philipp Julian Ruf and Philipp Köhn 14 Living under the restrictions of a ‘publish or perish’ culture 119 Christine Weigel and Anna Müller 15 Fighting for attention: early career researchers and the online scientific community 130 Inga Haase and Anna Müller 16 The value of business events for engaged scholarship 142 Elsa Breit 17 Bridging the gap: contextualization as a lighthouse 154 Max Paschke AFTERTHOUGHTS 18 An ongoing journey: developing relevance and impact dimensions of entrepreneurship research 167 Tatiana Lopez, Anna Müller and Max Paschke Index 174
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd What do Entrepreneurs Create?: Understanding Four
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the different kinds of businesses launched by entrepreneurs and explains why their differences are so critical for our understanding of entrepreneurship. While entrepreneurs create a wide variety of businesses, overwhelming emphasis has been placed on explosive growth firms such as Facebook, Google, Amazon, Uber and Airbnb. Although important, these businesses represent less than one percent of start-ups. The book distinguishes four types of new ventures: survival, lifestyle, managed growth and aggressive growth. Underlying characteristics of each type are investigated, together with the resources, skills and capabilities necessary for their success. Issues that arise based on this typology are explored, including reasons why ventures of one type rarely change to become another, and how entrepreneurs determine which they should pursue. In addition, the authors introduce the 'portfolio' concept, where the need to develop a balanced mix of venture types is emphasized. The principal audiences for What Do Entrepreneurs Create? include entrepreneurship educators, scholarly researchers, public policy developers, economic development professionals, and community organizations striving to foster entrepreneurial activity.Trade Review'What do entrepreneurs create? Prominent, well-known authors Michael H. Morris and Donald F. Kuratko answer this question in their newest fascinating book. They emphasize that a venture is organic and that it is a living, breathing thing with a purpose and mission. Rather than view venture creation is an end, they explain the phenomenon as a journey. A very refreshing read indeed! Hats off to the authors.' --Leo P Dana, Montpellier Business School, France'This important book delivers what everyone wants to know - how to be entrepreneurial and all of the vast ways that entrepreneurship is manifested. The book is not only full of practical and essential lessons from two of the most prominent world class experts, but it is also rife with rare gems and insights that will guide anyone interested in learning about entrepreneurs. The passion, knowledge and experience that these authors bring jumps out on every page.' --David Audretsch, Indiana University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Entrepreneurial Journey: Intention versus Emergence 2. Venture Types: What Entrepreneurs Actually Create 3. Survival Ventures: Just Getting By 4. Lifestyle Ventures: Seeking Stability 5. Managed Growth Ventures: Learning to Fly 6. Aggressive Growth Ventures: Changing the World 7. A Resource-based Perspective on Venture Types 8. How Ventures Develop Unique Identities 9. The Fit between Type of Venture and Entrepreneur 10. Types Within Types 11. Why All Ventures Matter: Toward a Portfolio Perspective 12. Venture Types, Public Policy and Ecosystem Support Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Big Questions and Great Answers in
Book SynopsisBig Questions and Great Answers in Entrepreneurship Research underscores the progress that has been made and the challenges that remain within the field of entrepreneurship research by considering the fieldâs rapid expansion over the last thirty years.
£130.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship and
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Research Handbook offers new insights into how family businesses use entrepreneurship and innovation to address global challenges and ensure their survival and growth across generations.Using expertise from leading scholars around the world, this Handbook takes an international perspective and explores different national contexts and cultures. Key themes include theoretical advances and perspectives in entrepreneurship and innovation in family firms, current state-of-the-art research in entrepreneurship and innovation in family firms, and new and established research methods in entrepreneurship, innovation, and family firm research. Covering important concepts, including internationalization, governance, and resilience, this Research Handbook lays out a highly topical selection of advances in research on entrepreneurship and innovation in family firms.Examining the major overarching themes of theory, empirics and methods, this Research Handbook will be a valuable resource for scholars and advanced students of entrepreneurship, family business, organizational innovation, and organization studies. It will also be useful for business leaders and practitioners in these areas.Trade Review‘The continuity of family firms is dependent in part in the ability of business families to continue their entrepreneurial spirit and to promote innovation within the organization. The Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Family Firms provides a really good overview of the many components of innovation and entrepreneurship in family firms. These include theoretical approaches that can enrich our understanding, relevant areas of research, and important methodological approaches. This Handbook can help those who are starting their journey in the field and those that have been part of the field for a long time to better understand entrepreneurship and innovation.’ -- Isabel C. Botero, University of Louisville, US‘In an increasingly uncertain and volatile environment, many family businesses survive for decades and even centuries. This book offers the main keys to this long-term success, analyzing the role of entrepreneurship and innovation. An essential book to understand the future of the family business in new times.’ -- José C. Casillas, University of Seville, SpainTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Family Firms 1 Sascha Kraus, Thomas Clauss and Andreas Kallmuenzer PART I NOVEL THEORETICAL ADVANCEMENTS AND PERSPECTIVES ON THE FIELDS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND/OR INNOVATION IN FAMILY FIRM RESEARCH 2 Mapping the intellectual structure of family firm research and proposing a research agenda 14 Markus Wulff, Victor Tiberius and Raj V. Mahto 3 State of research on family businesses and the corporate brand: current findings, future fields of research and approaches to strategic use 38 Giuseppe Sorrentino, Mario Situm and Stefan Märk 4 Disruptive innovation in family firms: a systematic literature review 60 Josef Schindler 5 Institutional influences on succession intentions: an extension of the theory of planned behavior 88 Simon Jebsen and Britta Boyd 6 Family business resilience: a multilevel process approach 107 Javier Monllor, Doaa Althalathini and Shelley Beck 7 A new intersection in family business: causation, effectuation and entrepreneurial bricolage approaches 127 Mihaela Mikić, Tin Horvatinović and Marina Dabić 8 Introduction to corporate entrepreneurship in family firms: overview and current issues 145 Vanessa Weimann, Maike Gerken and Marcel Hülsbeck PART II CURRENT STATE-OF-THE-ART RESEARCH IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND/OR INNOVATION IN FAMILY FIRMS 9 Resilient businesses in times of crisis: pandemic effects on competence strategies in rural family SMEs 166 Kristin Sabel, Cecilia Dalborg and Yvonne von Friedrichs 10 Role of boards of directors of family SMEs in balancing tradition and innovation 192 Paolo Roffia and Stefania Moracchiato 11 New concepts for traditional family-run inns 215 Alexander Plaikner, Barbara Weiskopf, Katharina Weiskopf and Marco Haid 12 Product and process innovation activities of family firms in comparison to non-family firms 239 Izabella Steinerowska-Streb and Teresa Kraśnicka 13 Introducing ownership innovation as an approach to study family firms’ ownership practices 261 Suvi Konsti-Laakso, Marita Rautiainen, Timo Pihkala and Naveed Akhter 14 (Social) innovation as a way out of a crisis? How small family firms become innovative 279 Börje Boers 15 Analysis of the internationalization of the family business from the approach of entrepreneurial orientation 298 Felipe Hernández-Perlines and Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano 16 International entrepreneurship of family firms from Central Europe: the example of Poland 324 Krzysztof Wach, Agnieszka Głodowska and Marek Maciejewski 17 Family businesses’ business networks in the VUCA world 345 Katie Hyslop, Dietmar Roessl and Isabella Hatak PART III NEW AND ESTABLISHED RESEARCH METHODS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INNOVATION AND FAMILY FIRM RESEARCH 18 Patent data and how it can be matched to (family) firm data: an example and a guideline 368 Tom Willeke, Jörn Block, Matthias Johann, Darius Lambrecht, Holger Steinmetz and Issah Wunnam 19 Serious games to study the management of paradoxes in family firms: Introducing a research agenda 389 Clemens Krüger, Laura Bechthold and Reinhard Prügl 20 How and when do family businesses support entrepreneurship? An exploratory analysis on the relationship among family influence and entrepreneurial opportunities in family firms 412 Álvaro Rojas, Daniel Lorenzo and Pedro Núñez-Cacho 21 A case study of an emergent, family owned and operated private tour company 437 Daniel M. Spencer and Lenna V. Shulga Index 461
£175.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd How to Become an Entrepreneur in a Week: The
Book SynopsisCan you learn to be an entrepreneur in a week? The book focuses on short entrepreneurship education initiatives and includes eleven courses from European research-based universities. The book provides insights on best practice and lessons learned from experience for potential and current organizers of such initiatives. Entrepreneurship initiatives are a common response to top-down decisions to include entrepreneurship in all disciplines and study programs. There is often also a regional or societal goal for these activities. Different types of programme are analysed, from those aiming to instil an entrepreneurial mindset, those preparing the individual for an entrepreneurial career to those based on collaborations between universities. The authors make comparisons of the audiences, goals, organization and pedagogical approaches in each case to answer whether entrepreneurship can be taught in one week. By reading this book university managers, course designers and those delivering entrepreneurship initiatives will be able to make a more informed decision regarding if and how they should be organized. Contributors include: L. Aaboen, V.L. Ausrød, O. Belousova, A. Blesa, C. Cantù, S. Costa, S. Delanoë-Gueguen, A. Groen, J. Guldager, J. Heinonen, U. Hytti, P.P. Iglesias-Sánchez, A. Jacobsson, A. La Rocca, H. Landström, E.M. Laviolette, C.J. Maldonado, L. Martínez, G.-B. Neergard, A. Ouendag, M. Ripollés, C.A.F. Rosenstand, E. Simmons, R. Sørheim, P. Stenholm, C. TollestrupTrade Review'Would it be possible to become entrepreneurial in one week? The editors and contributors of this book, all greatly experienced in designing and delivering entrepreneurship courses believe so. To convince the readers, they present and describe pedagogical activities such as week-long courses, camps and summer schools in a wide diversity of settings and contexts, showing the mechanisms by which students develop entrepreneurial ideas and initiatives. A more than needed book for those interested in learning from best practices in entrepreneurship education.' --Alain Fayolle, EMLYON Business School, France'Entrepreneurship education, like higher education, requires disruption and new approaches to content delivery and learning. This book represents a way to help students learn in quick chunks rather than over an archaic period of time we know as a semester. This book is an important step in a right direction.' --Heidi M. Neck, Babson College, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 How do you become entrepreneurial in one week? 1 Lise Aaboen, Hans Landström and Roger Sørheim PART I SKILLS, COMPETENCIES AND AWARENESS AMONG STUDENTS 2 WOFIE: Workshop For Innovation and Entrepreneurship 15 Christian Tollestrup and Claus Andreas Foss Rosenstand 3 Innovation camp for nursing students: igniting an entrepreneurial spirit in three days 29 Gunn-Berit Neergård and Antonella La Rocca 4 SEMIS (seedlings): sowing the entrepreneurial competences of first-year master’s students 47 Servane Delanoë-Gueguen and Eric Michael Laviolette 5 Entrepreneurship and society: providing learners with a social lens on entrepreneurship 65 Emilee Simmons PART II START-UPS AND ENTREPRENEURS FROM THE UNIVERSITY 6 SommarMatchen™: a student jump-start into the entrepreneurial life 84 Arne Jacobsson 7 Entrepreneurship for research professionals: triggering transformative learning? 100 Ulla Hytti, Jarna Heinonen and Pekka Stenholm 8 VentureLab Weekend: developing entrepreneurial skills from idea to action 119 Sílvia Costa, Olga Belousova, Aniek Ouendag and Aard Groen 9 Training entrepreneurial competences involving key stakeholders 140 Patricia P. Iglesias-Sánchez, Carmina Jambrino Maldonado and Carlos de las Heras-Pedrosa PART III ENTREPRENEURIAL CITIZENS 10 Pursuing Entrepreneurship: a blended approach to teaching entrepreneurship in two weeks 159 Vegar Lein Ausrød and Jeppe Guldager 11 5UCV-E2: fitting your business proposal in seven sessions 175 María Ripollés, Andreu Blesa and Laura Martínez 12 ComoNExT iStart Academy: exploring the development of managerial skills 193 Chiara Cantù Index 211
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Emerald Publishing Limited Entrepreneurship and Post-Pandemic Future
Book SynopsisFor many years now, entrepreneurship has been considered one of the most important solutions to the three-pronged challenges - poverty, unemployment, and inequality - of most African countries. COVID-19 has exerted severe damage to economies and businesses globally. For countries in Africa, the implications of COVID-19, on both businesses and individuals, will be enormous as many African societies are rarely equipped to absorb unexpected shocks of this magnitude, as the social and welfare schemes are far below the required levels. Entrepreneurship and Post-Pandemic Future illuminates entrepreneurship in the African setting, focusing on the prospects, challenges as well as the post-pandemic future and captures insights on the impact of COVID-19, the containment strategies that businesses are embracing to cope, and the post-pandemic future. This book will be essential reading to entrepreneurs, governments and government agencies, academics, researchers, and students who are interested in understanding issues relating to entrepreneurship development within the African continent.Table of ContentsForeword; Harry Entebang Chapter 1. Entrepreneurship-based SME Strategies: The Sustainability and Prosperity in the Pandemic Period; Anthony Abiodun Eniola and Harry Lydia Ineba Decster Chapter 2. Coronavirus (Covid-19) and Entrepreneurship in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for Small and Medium Enterprises Innovation; Mirhiga Peter Okuwhere and Andrew Ehiabhi Tafamel Chapter 3. Social Entrepreneurship and Covid-19: Impact, Challenges and Opportunities in Nigeria; Adelekan Saidi Adedeji and Ojo James Olanipekun Chapter 4. Six Sigma, Disruptive Technology and Performance of Nigerian Healthcare Systems during Covid-19 Pandemic; Akinwale Olusegun Emmanuel and Olonade Olanrewaju Paul Chapter 5. Social Media in Nigeria: A Curse or Blessing in Time of Covid-19 and Crisis Situation? A Behavioural Perspective; Akinwale Olusegun Emmanuel and Onokala Uchechi C. Chapter 6. Why I Buy What I Buy? The Dynamics of Brand Awareness on Consumers' Choice; Ojo James Olanipekun and Adelekan Saidi Adedeji Chapter 7. Exploring the responses of Federal Government in the governance of coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria; Yekeen A. Sanusi Chapter 8. Analysing Nigeria's PPE Manufacturing Capacity and the Resultant Entrepreneurial Opportunities due to Covid – 19; Omoseni Oyindamola Adepoju and David Love Opeyemi Chapter 9. Customary Tenancy and Sustainable Post Covid-19 Agricultural Development in Nigeria; Busari Morufu Salawu, Mujidat Olabisi Salawudeen, and Maimunat Dunmade Salawudeen Chapter 10. COVID-19 and the New Marketing Paradigm: Transitory or Permanent?; Oluwaseun Oluwadamilare Oluwasanmi Chapter 11. Knowledge and Compliance with Infectious disease Preventive Measures among Market-involved Individuals: A Case of Covid-19; Olayinka Onayemi, Isaac Oyekola, and Tunde Adebisi
£70.29
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Contextual Heterogeneity in Entrepreneurship
Book SynopsisThis insightful book explores the importance and influence of contextual heterogeneity in the field of entrepreneurship research, illuminating the circumstances, conditions or environments that may enable or constrain entrepreneurship. Expert contributors present the results of empirical studies in a wide variety of contexts, describing their depth and meaning both for entrepreneurship research and practice. Chapters illustrate a range of topics and research methods, including business model innovation in start-up companies, the challenges and opportunities for women entrepreneurs in STEM, and the use of technology signalling in explaining the performance of immigrant entrepreneurship in market economies. Presenting new scientific evidence in the field, together with research-informed policy and practical implications, the book demonstrates that a multitude of research approaches must be used to reflect the multi-dimensional nature of context in entrepreneurship. Warning against simplistic interpretations and superficial conclusions of research, this book will prove to be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of entrepreneurship. Its use of empirical studies will also be beneficial for practitioners in this field.Table of ContentsContents: 1 An introduction to Contextual Heterogeneity in Entrepreneurship Research 1 Eddy Laveren, Cyrine Ben-Hafaïedh, Agnieszka Kurczewska and Yi Dragon Jiang 2 Interestingness in entrepreneurship research: international isomorphism and/or contextual heterogeneity? 15 Gouya Harirchi and Hans Landström 3 Breaking the rules to reach the top? The ethical dimension bound to the opportunity process 41 Gustav Hägg and Agnieszka Kurczewska 4 Digital transition and CSR in French SMEs: managing paradoxes? 61 Sandrine Berger-Douce 5 Effectuation elements of entrepreneurial networking under uncertainty 83 Somayeh Taghvaee and René Mauer 6 Business model innovation and the Board in start-up companies: a dynamic capabilities perspective 100 Paolo Di Toma 7 Accelerator networks as embedding mechanisms for internationalizing start-ups: a study in the Finnish edtech context 116 Anette Kairikko and Spinder Dhaliwal 8 Career paths of women entrepreneurs in STEM: challenges and opportunities 135 Julia Schnittker and Kerstin Ettl 9 Explaining the performance of immigrant entrepreneurship in market economies: empirical evidence of technology signaling 155 Marc Duhamel and Étienne St-Jean Index
£94.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Digital Entrepreneurship: Disruption and New
Book SynopsisRecognizing how the lines between digital and traditional forms of entrepreneurship are blurring, this forward-thinking book combines digital technology and entrepreneurship perspectives to advance knowledge on this paradigm-shifting typology of entrepreneurship. Kisito Futonge Nzembayie and Anthony Paul Buckley explore how in the digital age, the micro-level activities of digital entrepreneurs in new venture creation continue to digitally transform and disrupt economic systems at macro-levels. As digital entrepreneurship and other typologies of entrepreneurship in the digital age become increasingly conceptually fuzzy, the book sets out to define the digital entrepreneurship domain; what it is and why it is distinctive and disruptive. It concludes by offering a pragmatic framework for digital entrepreneurship implementation and demonstrates how the authors have put this into practice in their own work. Placing digital entrepreneurship in its conceptual and historical context, the book provides a clear understanding of the mechanisms driving the digital entrepreneurial process and practical tools to help nurture and develop new digital ventures. It will be valuable reading for business scholars and students interested in the role of technology in their field. Business managers and practitioners will also benefit from the book’s guidelines and analytical tools.Trade Review‘Digital technologies have fundamentally reshaped entrepreneurship. Uniquely and deeply informed by both scholarship and business practice, this book offers an up-to-date account of entrepreneurship in the digital age while addressing sub-topics of great contemporary interest, such as disruption, external enablement, design thinking, and the process nature of venture creation.’ -- Per Davidsson, QUT Business School, Australia and Jönköping International Business School, Sweden‘Nzembayie and Buckley have provided a digital entrepreneurial process model to guide digital entrepreneurs in this volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world of the 21st century. That their model is grounded in an action research design provides an invitation for other digital entrepreneurs to exploit their experience in like rigorous, reflective and relevant action design research processes to advance the growth of digital ventures.’ -- David Coghlan, University of Dublin Trinity College, IrelandTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Digital entrepreneurship: context and conceptualization 2. Theories of the entrepreneurial process 3. Conceptualizing the digital entrepreneurial process 4. External enablers and barriers to digital entrepreneurship 5. Pragmatic model of digital new venture creation 6. Synopsis: digital new venture creation and disruption Glossary of terms Bibliography Index
£101.63
Edward Elgar Publishing Stimulating Entrepreneurial Activity in a
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Start-Up Incubation
Book SynopsisThis insightful and comprehensive Research Handbook explores the concept of start-up incubation ecosystems and investigates the various factors that interact to provide a nurturing environment suitable for the creation and successful development of start-ups. Chapters employ a range of approaches for the study of incubation ecosystems, including literature reviews, theoretical studies, and empirical research featuring both quantitative and qualitative methods. An international team of authors analyze data from a diverse range of countries to cover topics including: multi-level approaches to incubation ecosystems; start-up support mechanisms such as incubators, accelerators and co-working spaces; and the role of organizations involved in incubation ecosystems such as universities, government agencies and multinational companies. The Handbook thus illustrates the critical part played by the early development of start-ups within entrepreneurial ecosystems. Scholars and doctoral students working in entrepreneurship and innovation will find this Handbook invaluable to their understanding of start-up incubation ecosystems and in illuminating future research agendas. It will also prove useful to practitioners and policymakers working with start-ups and organizations that support them. Contributors include: B.W. Amo, C. Bellavitis, P. Benneworth, P.M. Bican, A. Billström, J.J. Bragelien, M. Breivik-Meyer, A. Brem, E. Carlsson, T.H. Clausen, C.M. DaSilva, M. Good, J. Grande, M. Gulbrandsen, J.Ø. Hansen, R.R. Hermann, E.J. Isaksen, A. Jensen, A.R. Johnson, E.J.B. Jørgensen, K. Kassel, M. Knockaert, L. Kolvereid, M. Landoni, K. Lesniak, A. Mariussen, K.E. Masyn, A. McKelvie, K. Messeghem, S. Mitchell, D. Modic, N. Nguyen, G. Nonet, N. Nordling, A. Novotny, A. O'Connor, I.B. Pettersen, R. Pugh, E. Rasmussen, T. Ratinho, S. Saarenketo, S.R. Sardeshmukh, M. Sargent, R.M. Smith, R. Sørheim, O. Straub, C. Theodoraki, E. Thomas, L. Torkkeli, E. van der Lingen, H. Velt, K.H. Voldsund, J. Wiklund, T. Yoshioka-KobayashiTrade Review'This book successfully narrows down the broad concept of ''ecosystems'' and focuses on a more delineated context that surrounds firms when they start learning how to become independent by using available resources in their proximate environment. Readers can learn not only about SUPIEs as a multilayered system but can also indulge in exploring the effective functioning of their essential parts, such as incubators, accelerators, universities and of course start-up and spin-off firms.' --Rosa Grimaldi, University of Bologna, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Preface xi Introduction: Helping birds to fly: Introducing start-up incubation ecosystems 1 Adam Novotny, Einar Rasmussen, Tommy H. Clausen, and Johan Wiklund PART I HOLISTIC APPROACHES TO SUPIEs 1 The role of smart specialization in providing regional strategic support for establishing sustainable start-up incubation ecosystems 19 Nhien Nguyen, Åge Mariussen, and Jens Ø. Hansen 2 Incubating start-ups in entrepreneurial ecosystems: A multilevel perspective on entrepreneurial resources 40 Shruti Sardeshmukh, Allan O’Connor, and Ronda Smith 3 The domains of entrepreneurship support 60 Tiago Ratinho 4 In support of university spinoffs – what drives the organizational design of technology transfer ecosystems? 74 Matthew Good and Mirjam Knockaert 5 The support system’s influence on nature-based business start-ups in a rural context 94 Jorunn Grande and Espen Carlsson 6 Transnational entrepreneurial ecosystems: The perspectives of Finnish and Estonian born-global start-ups 110 Hannes Velt, Lasse Torkkeli, and Sami Saarenketo 7 A contingency approach to the incubation of new ventures in entrepreneurial ecosystems: Descriptive exploratory plots for continuous and survival outcomes 135 Alan R. Johnson, Katherine E. Masyn, and Alexander McKelvie PART II START-UP SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS 8 Organizational sponsorship: An overview of the state of knowledge and future research directions 174 Marit Breivik-Meyer 9 Understanding startup development organizations in the context of startup incubation ecosystems 194 Cristiano Bellavitis, Michael Sargent, and Carlos M. DaSilva 10 Distinguishing self-sufficient business incubators in start-up incubation ecosystems 206 Oliver Straub, Peter M. Bican, and Alexander Brem 11 Incubators’ coopetition strategy in the start-up incubation ecosystem 224 Christina Theodoraki and Karim Messeghem 12 A comparative analysis of USA enterprise support organizations for conscious capitalism and conventional capitalism 239 Kerul Kassel, Shelley F. Mitchell, and Guénola Abord-Hugon Nonet 13 Incubation and founders’ champion behaviour 254 Are Jensen, Nhien Nguyen, and Jens Ø. Hansen 14 Multinational companies’ roles in start-up incubation ecosystems: The case of Microsoft Innovation Centers in Brazil 273 Nadja Nordling, Elisa Thomas, Rhiannon Pugh, and Roberto Rivas Hermann 15 Outsider support, firm births and outcomes 285 Lars Kolvereid and Espen J. Isaksen PART III UNIVERSITY-BASED SUPIEs 16 Bridging or isolating? The role of the university Technology Transfer Office in the start-up incubation ecosystem 299 Adam Novotny 17 The key drivers for emergence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem – the role of brokerage, role models and inspiration 319 Karolina Lesniak and Roger Sørheim 18 Toward a model for universities as incubation ecosystems: Facilitating students for an entrepreneurial career 335 B.W. Åmo, I.B. Pettersen, E. van der Lingen, K. Voldsund, and J.J. Bragelien 19 Individual-level determinants of academic patent licensing to start-ups: impacts of principal investigators’ embeddedness in the industry 349 Dolores Modic and Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi 20 The university ecosystem and the internationalization of spin-off firms 366 Eva Jenny B. Jørgensen and Adam Novotny 21 The academic entrepreneurship ecosystem: The role of the university for societal impact of academic spin-offs 381 Anders Billström 22 Urban universities as a start-up ecosystem: The case of academic spin-offs in Milan 402 Matteo Landoni 23 Motivating universities to support spin-off firms: Stakeholders and start-up incubation ecosystems 418 Einar Rasmussen, Paul Benneworth, and Magnus Gulbrandsen Index 435
£41.75
Edward Elgar Publishing Handbook of Research on Base of the Pyramid Entrepreneurship
Book SynopsisThis pioneering Handbook surveys the evolution of research on entrepreneurship at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) since the emergence of the field over two decades ago. Leading experts highlight how entrepreneurship among low-income populations globally can enhance mainstream processes and management theory and methodology.
£186.67
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Cases on Digital Entrepreneurship: How Digital
Book SynopsisHow are digital technologies changing the creation of new ventures? What are the critical skills for entrepreneurs in the digital age? How does digitalization change product design and communication with customers? How can small businesses in non-digital industries overcome the digital divide? This book helps answer these questions through real-world case studies and lessons learnt from the perspectives of real entrepreneurs in various industries, countries and types of business. Each case has abundant materials to support learning and reflection, including: discussion questions and assignments to stretch students decision-making simulations rich and detailed teaching notes to help enliven your teaching. Highlighting how entrepreneurship is changing in the digital age, this book will be an excellent resource for teachers and students of entrepreneurship, innovation management, new venture creation, marketing and strategy. Trade Review‘This book highlights the diversity and dynamism of digital entrepreneurship. Through case studies drawn from multiple industries and different countries, including the Global South, readers are introduced to the challenges and opportunities associated with digital technologies. These are varied, as are the tools that the book provides to help readers understand how the cases developed. Through combining the cases and tools, what emerges is a rich set of insights into digital entrepreneurship, enabling readers to develop their analytical skills and further their understanding of this area.’ -- Jason Whalley, University of Northumbria, UK‘Digital entrepreneurship has such a broad scope that it is sometimes difficult to discern what is being talked about when we hear this term. The present collection brings together a series of concrete case studies that delve into the details of what digital entrepreneurship means in practice and in specific contexts. This collection provides a valuable resource to entrepreneurship educators that want to provide their students with tangible and well-researched accounts from the real-world trenches of digital entrepreneurship.’ -- Mohammad Keyhani, University of Calgary, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Cases on Digital Entrepreneurship: digital entrepreneurship as digital transformation xvii Luca Iandoli and Carmine Gibaldi 1 What do my customers really want? Pivoting digital technology and business models in emergency response management 1 Cesar Bandera and Katia Passerini 2 The dark side of a student online startup 11 Michael Dominik 3 E-Bro APS: opportunities and challenges for digital social entrepreneurs 24 Ada Scupola 4 The role of digital technologies in the development of the Shape Stretch body stretching bar: a case study in product innovation and management resources 35 John DiMarco 5 Agroads case: technological solutions for the agricultural sector 45 Rubén A. Ascúa, Andrea Minetti and José A. Borello 6 Leveraging collaboration between academic research and SMEs to support digital transformation in the agri-food Italian industry: the case of Santomiele 58 Roberto Parente, Rosangela Feola and Ricky Celenta 7 Bringing the traditional farm into the digital era: entrepreneurship with digitalization and diversification 75 Anna Sörensson and Maria Bogren 8 Escaping the “tortoise shell paradox”: digitalization and servitization in the green building construction industry – the case of Marlegno 90 Davide Gamba, Tommaso Minola and Matteo Kalchschmidt 9 The case of Dodo Pizza: how a Russian pizza making startup transformed itself into a thriving digital company 102 Dmitry Katalevsky 10 Digital entrepreneurship for influencer marketing: the case of Buzzoole 116 Gianluca Elia, Alessandro Margherita, Pasquale Del Vecchio, Giustina Secundo and Marco Valerio Izzo 11 Between agility and growth: (re-)designing the IT landscape of a digital gazelle in the online marketing industry 130 Nils J. Tschoppe, Jan K. Tänzler and Paul Drews 12 Lenali, the first audio social media: the Malian app empowering small-business owners 145 Katia Richomme-Huet and Odile De Saint Julien Chapter 1: teaching notes 160 Cesar Bandera and Katia Passerini Chapter 2: teaching notes 165 Michael Dominik Chapter 3: teaching notes 173 Ada Scupola Chapter 4: teaching notes 180 John DiMarco Chapter 5: teaching notes 184 Rubén A. Ascúa, Andrea Minetti and José A. Borello Chapter 6: teaching notes 190 Roberto Parente, Rosangela Feola and Ricky Celenta Chapter 7: teaching notes 201 Anna Sörensson and Maria Bogren Chapter 8: teaching notes 205 Anna Sörensson and Maria Bogren Chapter 9: teaching notes 214 Dmitry Katalevsky Chapter 10: teaching notes 225 Gianluca Elia, Alessandro Margherita, Pasquale Del Vecchio, Giustina Secundo and Marco Valerio Izzo Chapter 11: teaching notes 230 Nils J. Tschoppe, Jan K. Tänzler and Paul Drews Chapter 12: teaching notes 238 Katia Richomme-Huet and Odile De Saint Julien index
£105.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Entrepreneurial Financial Resilience and
Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge book explores the impact of pandemic shocks and other crises on businesses. Focusing on growing threats to business resilience, it offers innovative strategies to manage financial change and reposition small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs for success.The expert team of contributors provide multi-dimensional perspectives on how to support businesses to access finance. Focusing on SMEs, the book analyses the diverse coping strategies adopted by firms to resolve entrepreneurial issues. Chapters evaluate the impact of crises on SMEs’ finances; the latest developments in debt, equity and asset-based finance; and recent global inflationary pressures. Ultimately, the book argues that SME resilience is central to a strong economy, and swift action from governments, financial institutions, and other stakeholders is needed to curb the liquidity trap faced by businesses.Tackling theoretical, practical and policy issues, this book will be a useful resource for students and researchers of entrepreneurship, financial regulation and the economics of innovation. It will also be an invaluable guide for policymakers and practitioners seeking to boost SME resilience and control economic shocks.Trade Review‘With significant focus on the impact of the Covid pandemic on SMEs, this book has considerable contemporary relevance. But as the editors emphasise, the Covid pandemic is just one of several sources of turbulence and disruption that are currently impacting SMEs across the globe. Moreover, as they go on to note, turbulence and disruption are recurring events, giving the book ongoing relevance beyond the pandemic.’ -- Colin Mason, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK‘The editors have assembled a distinguished and diverse collection of contributors who are able to offer real insights into the marketplace for entrepreneurial finance. Although these marketplaces differ massively between countries, they are united in the common theme that participants lack power. They are constantly subject to shocks from which some, but not all, survive. Who does, who does not, and why, are therefore key questions addressed in the volume.’ -- David Storey, University of Sussex Business School, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Entrepreneurial financial resilience and financial innovation in a turbulent era 1 Jonathan M. Scott, Javed G. Hussain, Samuel Salia and David Deakins 2 The impact of the Covid-19 global pandemic upon the entrepreneurial financial resilience of SMEs 22 Harry Matlay 3 Chinese ventures’ strategic choices and recurring disruptions in the entrepreneurial process 36 Li Xiao 4 Evaluation of an enterprise resource planning system in turbulent times: a case study of the SMEs of the United Kingdom and Australia 46 Dilek Demirbaş, Kathleen Flynn and David Bennett 5 Collective resilience in constrained environments: entrepreneurship in a sub-Himalayan community and the COVID-19 pandemic 65 Sanjay Bhowmick and Prasoom Dwivedi 6 Crowdfunding and traditional finance: the prospects and challenges for SMEs in Nigeria 86 Oyerinmade R. Oladejo, Adekunle I. Ogunsade, Seun Kolade and Victor Atiase 7 Understanding SME financial resilience and survivability in Africa 107 Victor Atiase, Senyo Agbanyo, Patronella Ganza, Johnson Ameh and Robert Sambian 8 Seeding the green recovery: an assessment of the roles of UK government venture capital funds 134 Robyn Owen 9 Designing financial products that support rural livelihoods: making microfinance work for the poor 155 Gilbert Zana Naab, Rashmi Arora, Prathivadi Anand, Francis Zana Naab, Pattanapong Tiwasing and Joseph Kwadwo Danquah 10 Developing Brazil’s sustainable finance entrepreneurship ecosystem: the role of keystone actors and institutional logics 190 Patrick Elf and Robyn Owen Index
£90.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd International Entrepreneurship: Second Edition
Book SynopsisThoroughly revised and updated, International Entrepreneurship explains the opportunities and challenges facing internationalising entrepreneurial ventures. With a new section on international sustainable entrepreneurship and new cases and examples throughout, this second edition of a successful textbook will be indispensable for students of international entrepreneurship. Key Features: Theory and practice go hand in hand so there are real-world gains for future born globals Flexibility of use for instructors to fit their own context and needs, particularly for integrating into current entrepreneurship or business courses Accessible and highly-relevant case studies provide insight into how real companies handle current issues, preparing students for future entrepreneurial ventures Further reading references and supplementary example boxes allow students to extend their knowledge outside the lecture hall and inspire a passion for the subject A dedicated overview illustrating the state-of-the-art solely from the point of view of international entrepreneurship allowing students to build in-depth knowledge on the topic from a single resource International Entrepreneurship provides the foundation for all international entrepreneurship courses, as well as an ideal supplementary text for graduate students studying entrepreneurship and international business.Trade Review‘Exceptionally well organized and presented, this new second edition of International Entrepreneurship provides a solid foundation for all international entrepreneurship course curriculums, as well as an ideal supplementary text for graduate students studying entrepreneurship and international business.’ -- James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review‘This book written by Antonella Zucchella, Birgit Hagen and Manuel G. Serapio covers very much the topics I think everyone studying international entrepreneurship should know about. It is easy and enjoyable to read, contains many managerial and practical examples, but at the same time it is well-embedded into theory and academic literature on international entrepreneurship.’ -- Olli Kuivalainen, LUT University, Finland‘This new edition of the book on International Entrepreneurship arrives at an era where entrepreneurial ventures are even more prevalent and critical to the global economy. Written by a highly qualified team of authors, this book will appeal to scholars and practitioners of international entrepreneurship alike. Complete with a thorough discussion of fundamentals as well as contemporary research findings, it will also serve as a primary resource for courses on international entrepreneurship. Numerous cases, featuring diverse contexts, also make the book ideal for classroom use. Thanks are due to the author team for such a stellar contribution to the literature.’ -- S. Tamer Cavusgil, Georgia State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Patricia McDougall-Covin 1. Setting the field 2. International entrepreneurial organizations: common characteristics and new typologies 3. Sensing, seizing and transforming international entrepreneurial opportunities 4. Processes of building and managing the international entrepreneurial firm 5. International entrepreneurial entry: implementation processes Index
£85.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd International Entrepreneurship: Second Edition
Book SynopsisThoroughly revised and updated, International Entrepreneurship explains the opportunities and challenges facing internationalising entrepreneurial ventures. With a new section on international sustainable entrepreneurship and new cases and examples throughout, this second edition of a successful textbook will be indispensable for students of international entrepreneurship. Key Features: Theory and practice go hand in hand so there are real-world gains for future born globals Flexibility of use for instructors to fit their own context and needs, particularly for integrating into current entrepreneurship or business courses Accessible and highly-relevant case studies provide insight into how real companies handle current issues, preparing students for future entrepreneurial ventures Further reading references and supplementary example boxes allow students to extend their knowledge outside the lecture hall and inspire a passion for the subject A dedicated overview illustrating the state-of-the-art solely from the point of view of international entrepreneurship allowing students to build in-depth knowledge on the topic from a single resource International Entrepreneurship provides the foundation for all international entrepreneurship courses, as well as an ideal supplementary text for graduate students studying entrepreneurship and international business.Trade Review‘Exceptionally well organized and presented, this new second edition of International Entrepreneurship provides a solid foundation for all international entrepreneurship course curriculums, as well as an ideal supplementary text for graduate students studying entrepreneurship and international business.’ -- James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review‘This book written by Antonella Zucchella, Birgit Hagen and Manuel G. Serapio covers very much the topics I think everyone studying international entrepreneurship should know about. It is easy and enjoyable to read, contains many managerial and practical examples, but at the same time it is well-embedded into theory and academic literature on international entrepreneurship.’ -- Olli Kuivalainen, LUT University, Finland‘This new edition of the book on International Entrepreneurship arrives at an era where entrepreneurial ventures are even more prevalent and critical to the global economy. Written by a highly qualified team of authors, this book will appeal to scholars and practitioners of international entrepreneurship alike. Complete with a thorough discussion of fundamentals as well as contemporary research findings, it will also serve as a primary resource for courses on international entrepreneurship. Numerous cases, featuring diverse contexts, also make the book ideal for classroom use. Thanks are due to the author team for such a stellar contribution to the literature.’ -- S. Tamer Cavusgil, Georgia State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Patricia McDougall-Covin 1. Setting the field 2. International entrepreneurial organizations: common characteristics and new typologies 3. Sensing, seizing and transforming international entrepreneurial opportunities 4. Processes of building and managing the international entrepreneurial firm 5. International entrepreneurial entry: implementation processes Index
£31.30
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Entrepreneurial Behavior,
Book SynopsisWhat do entrepreneurs do? In a comprehensive and detailed exploration using three perspectives - behavior, practice and process - this Research Handbook demonstrates specific methods for answering that question and provides insights into the implications of pursuing that question. The authors demonstrate a variety of methods including ethnography, autoethnography, participant observation, diaries, social media platforms and multilevel research techniques to delve into the foundations of entrepreneurial behavior. In addition to reinvigorating this long dormant area of scholarship, these chapters provide scholars with the idea that the disparate perspectives on this topic are really headed in the same direction. They also demonstrate the notion that similar tools can be utilized to answer the same type of questions emanating from these different perspectives. The contributors go on to offer insights to a wide range of scholarship on organizations. Entrepreneurship scholars, PhD students, and upper level graduate and undergraduate students who want a current overview on the theories, methods and implications of studying entrepreneurship will welcome the insights explored in this Research Handbook. Contributors include: A. Brattström, O. Byrne, A. Caetano, H.S. Chen, F. Delmar, D. Dimov, A. Fayolle, D. Fletcher, W.B. Gartner, B. Johannisson, A.R. Johnson, T. Karlsson, M. Lackéus, J.R. Mitchell, R.K. Mitchell, H. Neergaard, R.D.M. Pelly, K. Poldner, S.C. Santos, P. Selden, B.T. Teague, N.A. Thompson, C. Thrane, M. Tillmar, H. Vahidnia, E. van Burg, J.P. Warhuus, K. WennbergTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Entrepreneurial Behavior, Practice and Process 1 William B. Gartner and Bruce T. Teague PART I PERSPECTIVES 2 Expert skills: implications for studying the behavior of entrepreneurs 12 Bruce T. Teague and William B. Gartner 3 Advancing entrepreneurship as practice: previous developments and future possibilities 30 Neil Aaron Thompson and Orla Byrne 4 Entrepreneurial process: mapping a multiplicity of conversations 56 Dimo Dimov PART II METHODS 5 Ethnography’s answer to the plus zone challenge of entrepreneurship 82 R. Duncan M. Pelly and Alain Fayolle 6 Performing affirmation: autoethnography as an activist approach to entrepreneurship 102 Kim Poldner 7 Searching for the roots of entrepreneuring as practice: introducing the enactive approach 138 Bengt Johannisson 8 Practicing participant observations: capturing entrepreneurial practices 168 Malin Tillmar 9 Capturing action from within: the use of personal diaries 182 Elco van Burg and Tomas Karlsson 10 Collecting digital research data through social media platforms: can “scientific social media” disrupt entrepreneurship research methods? 199 Martin Lackéus 11 Perspectives in multilevel research in entrepreneurship 242 Susana C. Santos and António Caetano PART III INSIGHTS 12 Temporality and embodied practice: theorizing the relationality of entrepreneurial events 263 Paul Selden and Denise Fletcher 13 Socially situated entrepreneurial cognition: promising linkage and directions in studying entrepreneurial behavior, practice and process 283 Hamid Vahidnia, Ronald K. Mitchell, J. Robert Mitchell and H. Shawna Chen 14 A longitudinal project of new venture teamwork and outcomes 309 Anna Brattström, Frédéric Delmar, Alan R. Johnson and Karl Wennberg 15 Designing experiential entrepreneurship education based on entrepreneurial practice and behavior 335 Jan P. Warhuus, Helle Neergaard and Claus Thrane Index 361
£41.75
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd How to Become an Entrepreneurship Educator
Book SynopsisWith an increasing global demand for entrepreneurship education, and the need to prepare students for the challenges of an ever-changing world of work, Colin Jones tackles the difficult question: just where do these educators come from to meet this demand? How to Become an Entrepreneurship Educator is the first book to tackle how we create expert entrepreneurship educators at all levels of education. Using activity theory as a lens, the book unites the developmental trajectories of 20 eminent contemporary experts at different levels of enterprise and entrepreneurship education. Jones identifies these journeys in order to share the collective lessons learned. By highlighting a range of global insights, readers are enabled to reflect on their own strategies, creating order in the domain of enterprise and entrepreneurship education - an order that holds the power to propel the domain of enterprise and entrepreneurship education onwards to new heights. Such highly reflective accounts of how to teach entrepreneurship will be an invaluable guide to educators from numerous backgrounds to contemplate new strategies for teaching enterprise and entrepreneurship in the context of their own choosing.Trade Review'I remember my first lectures in entrepreneurship, the questions I had and the theoretical/pedagogical issues I needed to deal with. At that time there were only a few textbooks in the field, so I would have appreciated reading How to Become an Entrepreneurship Educator. As the author states in the preface, an important aim of this edited book is to ''help other educators understand the journeys other colleagues have undertaken to become entrepreneurship educators''. Reading 20 journeys of entrepreneurship educators from different countries and educational contexts is a great learning journey for the reader. This kind of reading gives inspiration, interesting ideas and raises self-efficacy, optimism, hope and resilience - four key components of our educational psychological capital.' --Alain Fayolle, EMLYON Business School, FranceTable of ContentsContents: Preface x PART I THE EARLY YEARS 1 Deep Learning and EE: engage the world, change the world 2 Max Drummy 2 EE-STEM in primary-middle years 11 James Davis 3 Space to question 19 Catherine Brentnall 4 EE teachers: agents of agency 27 Shani Hartley 5 The early years 35 Colin Jones PART II THE PRE-GRADUATE YEARS 6 The art of making it possible 39 Paz Fernández de Vera 7 Developing enterprising habits 46 Lesley Cottrell 8 Creating giants 54 Maria Sourgiadaki 9 If I could … before I do 61 Colin Jones 10 Insights of an accidental enterprise educator 69 Penny Matthews 11 The pre-graduate years 77 Colin Jones PART III THE GRADUATE YEARS 12 Sheep assisted: the importance of being open to diversion 81 Elinor Vettraino 13 From instructor to educator 90 Norris Krueger 14 Designing change: seeing beyond the obvious and influencing others 97 Andy Penaluna 15 Slow, lazy and stupid 104 Elena Oikkonen 16 Getting curious about creativity: the why and the how? 109 Kathryn Penaluna 17 The graduate years 117 Colin Jones PART IV THE POST-GRADUATE YEARS 18 If you’re riding a dead horse, dismount! 121 Zen Parry 19 Authentic grit: the elusive (but essential) entrepreneurial trait 129 Alex Maritz 20 Specialist in enterprise and employability in UK HE 137 Amy Gerrard 21 Team entrepreneurial learning: building sustainable businesses 145 Ainurul Rosli and Jane Chang 22 Student-centred action learning 153 John Dobson 23 The post-graduate years 161 Colin Jones References 169 Index 176
£27.95
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Small Firms and U.S. Technology Policy: Social
Book SynopsisWhile much has been written about the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program from both an institutional and a policy perspective, there remains a conspicuous void of general information about firms and research projects that are funded through the program. Providing a multi-dimensional picture of such firms and their projects, this incisive book is designed to help the reader understand in more depth the social benefits associated with the SBIR program.Albert N. Link and Martijn van Hasselt discuss the U.S. SBIR program from an institutional, empirical, and policy perspective, examining the policy transfer of the program to other countries, the transfer of technical knowledge through patents and scientific publications, and the technology transfer of commercialised research outputs. Exploring new program and project relationships, the book could serve as a springboard for future in-depth analyses about the SBIR program and its impact on economic and social matters.Forward-thinking in approach, Small Firms and U.S. Technology Policy provides a roadmap for future academic and policy research into the SBIR program, making it a valuable read for scholars and students of business and management studies. U.S. and international policymakers and business owners will also benefit from its discerning look into the SBIR program.Trade Review‘Link and van Hasselt provide novel and original insights on the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research Program. They meticulously and rigorously consider and combine institutional, empirical and policy perspectives. Link and van Hasselt’s unique focus on the social benefits enables a wider empirical investigation of the SBIR programme in the context of wider U.S. technology policy. Moreover, their consideration and focus on failed projects and the unanticipated consequences provide novel and important insights that have relevance to scholars and policymakers. This is a must-have book for policymakers and other stakeholders that are involved in SBIR programmes in the U.S. and other countries. For scholars, Link and van Hasselt's book is a seminal contribution that exemplifies all the hallmarks of novel, original and grounding-breaking scholarship. They outline future research avenues that scholars can build upon and take inspiration from in furthering this important research and policy agenda.’ -- James Cunningham, Newcastle University, UK‘Albert Link and Martijn van Hasselt have written an instant classic - the definitive analysis of the noted Small Business Innovation Research Program. Few U.S. hard tech start-ups scale up without trying for SBIR funding - it has become a key tool for U.S. tech entrepreneurship and has now been replicated in nine other nations. This new book does the long-needed analysis to tell us how the program works best, and how successful companies that use it make it work for them. For anyone interested in U.S. technology policy, it is a must read.’ -- William B. Bonvillian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US‘In an era where public policy is increasingly politicized and decisive, this important new book sheds pathbreaking light on how evidence-based analysis can provide a neutral scientific-based assessment of technology policy. The careful findings make it clear how and why technology policy can unleash the innovative potential of not just small firms but an entire society and economy.’ -- David B. Audretsch, Indiana University, US‘The SBIR program has been a cornerstone of U.S. innovation policy since the early 1980s. It has been widely copied outside the country. This book provides an authoritative look at the history, politics, and economics of this important program that has supported an amazing roster of technology-intensive companies in this country. A must read for students of knowledge entrepreneurship.’ -- Nicholas Vonortas, The George Washington University, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I SBIR PROGRAM: INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVES 1. Introduction to Small Firms and U.S. Technology Policy 2. Legislative history of the SBIR program 3. The SBIR program: an element of U.S. technology policy PART II SBIR PROGRAM: EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVES 4. SBIR databases and empirical studies of the SBIR program 5. Demographics of SBIR awardees 6. Productive capital 7. When research fails 8. University collaborators on SBIR projects 9. Knowledge production functions 10. Financial stakeholders in SBIR projects 11. Market for SBIR developed technologies PART III SBIR PROGRAM: POLICY PERSPECTIVES 12. Unanticipated consequences 13. A counterfactual analysis 14. Concluding remarks References Index
£75.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and the
Book SynopsisThe international cast of authors in this important book explore how internationalizing small and medium sized enterprises (iSMEs) face major crises, such as COVID-19, and have managed them to reach a stable and desired state post-crisis. Chapter orientations vary from theoretical to empirical. Each focuses on issues related to a major crisis, and present already-deployed success strategies in 14 different country environments. The rich diversity of chapters offers a highly significant and timely contribution to the field.This book consists of five parts. An introduction to the volume and an extensive literature review open the book and are followed in Part II by general, yet critical, topics such as firm capabilities, resources and orientations, which collectively influence how smaller firms perceive emerging, approaching or unfolding crises in their environments and how the national public policy as well as the evolution of the crisis affects them. Part III extends this discussion to look at digitization and ‘servitization’ for higher customer and market-orientation, supply chains and overall governance. Specific research-based examples of potent strategies by four internationalized SMEs in different industries and country environments fill out Part IV and the final part offers a view beyond the current crisis.Scholars and students in entrepreneurship, international business and other related areas will find this very timely volume illuminating.Table of ContentsContents: Preface xxx PART I INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW 1 Introduction to small and medium sized enterprises and the COVID-19 response 2 Hamid Etemad 2 A systematic literature review of crisis management in and by small and medium-sized enterprises 38 Aidin Salamzadeh and Léo Paul Dana PART II FIRMS’ CAPABILITIES, RESOURCES AND STRATEGIC RESPONSE TO PERCEIVED CRISIS WITHIN THEIR RESPECTIVE ENABLING AND CONSTRAINING ENVIRONMENTS 3 Resources, capabilities and crisis management in the SME 63 Gary Knight and S. Tamer Cavusgil 4 Kiwi ingenuity and a helping hand: how New Zealand’s SMEs are surviving the COVID-19 pandemic 83 Rod B. McNaughton and Deborah Shepherd 5 What policies support SMEs through the crisis? Financial and innovation support in Québec (Canada) 112 Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Nathalie Lachapelle 6 Micro-macro dynamics in navigating enduring crises: empirical illustrations in a volatile institutional context 138 Sofiane Baba, Taïeb Hafsi and Hind Ouguenoune PART III INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL AND REGIONAL FIRMS’ CHOICES OF CORE STRATEGIES, INCLUDING FURTHER DIGITIZATION AND ‘SERVITIZATION’ 7 The relevance of digital dynamic capabilities and servitization in a crisis management context: building a business (re)modelling framework for non-digital international entrepreneurial ventures from the Spanish post-COVID-19 perspective 165 Andreu Blesa, Alex Rialp, Josep Rialp and Maria Ripollés 8 The COVID-19 crisis and Italian firms: digitalization, internationalization, and global value chain reconfiguration 199 Valerio Veglio and Rubina Romanello 9 Decision-making in Colombian B Corps during the COVID-19 crisis 223 Vinciane Servantie, Sebastian L. Schorch and Luz Elena Orozco Collazos 10 The COVID-19 pandemic and the intention to export: a study of small Brazilian entrepreneurial firms 252 Angela da Rocha, Clarice S. Kogut, Luiza Fonseca and Renato Cotta de Mello 11 The impact of COVID-19 on Malaysian SMEs and policy responses 273 Sedigheh Moghavvemi and Huda Mahmoud PART IV DEPLOYING INCREASED CUSTOMER AND MARKET ORIENTATION AND INNOVATIVE CUSTOMIZATION STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL GROWTH TO COUNTERACT POTENTIAL STAGNATION AND POSSIBLE DEMISE 12 Survival strategies of Finnish SMEs in the time of global crisis 291 Sami Saarenketo, Olli Kuivalainen, Lasse Torkkeli, Akseli Isotalo and Alexander Myers 13 The competitiveness of internationalizing SME suppliers during and after COVID-19 306 Yi Wang and Tage Koed Madsen 14 COVID-19 crisis challenges and responses: evidence from selected Greek SMEs 323 Pavlos Dimitratos and Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos 15 Customer-oriented manufacturing as a resilience strategy for Norwegian small international manufacturers 347 Ottar Bakås, Arild Aspelund and Øystein Moen PART V A WINDOW TO THE FUTURE: LEARNING FROM THE PAST AND EXPLORING IMPLICATIONS AND LESSONS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS 16 Averting or avoiding a crisis: innovate or decline 369 Sorin Cohn-Sfetcu, Hamed Motaghi and Julie Ricard 17 Learning from the past and exploring implications and lessons of previous chapters 395 Hamid Etemad Index
£140.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Cases on STEM Entrepreneurship
Book SynopsisCases on STEM Entrepreneurship provides essential insight into a nuanced collection of STEM case studies and is highly accessible for both educators and students. Importantly, it will help readers to identify with actual role models and their entrepreneurial challenges, delving into the complexities of fields such as environmental science and revolutionary modes of transport. Key Features: Diverse collective of case study subjects Highlights the critical importance of using STEM case studies in entrepreneurship education Provides a broad selection of cases, varying in problems addressed and business type, that can be applied across STEM and business higher education curriculums This expansive casebook will be perfect for those teaching entrepreneurship to students of STEM and business disciplines. Due to its practical scope, it will additionally benefit students and early career graduates pursuing entrepreneurship.Trade Review‘Case studies add to students’ understanding of entrepreneurial thinking and business problem solving. This collection of case studies provides deep insights into various STEM entrepreneurial careers around the world. A much needed and highly relevant resource for STEM educators and students!’ -- Friederike Welter, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn and University of Siegen, Germany‘This book is a significant contribution to understanding the creation of new firms by STEM students. These enterprises face specific problems which the variety and richness of the case studies presented here enable students to examine in a detailed fashion. These case studies represent essential reading for educators and students in the field of STEM entrepreneurship, as well as for technology start-ups founders, university managers and innovation policy makers.’ -- Philippe Mustar, Mines Paris – PSL, France‘The case study approach requires students to identify and pose solutions for real-world problems. This inquiry process strengthens critical thinking skills that can be applied across a student’s learning journey. This book will help to meet the needs of entrepreneurship educators and students by addressing the constraints to STEM case study usage experienced by both groups at present.’ -- Tui McKeown, Monash University, Australia‘Taking Brian Arthur’s insight that technology is a means to fulfil human needs and at the core of our way of being, the convergence of technology and entrepreneurship is an enthralling way to educate future leaders, inspire potential entrepreneurs, and instil social innovation. This book is full of stories of technology-based startups, offering considerable insights regarding how STEM entrepreneurs navigate the intricacies of several technologies, succeed in a maze of invention complexities, and craft their business models to build a better future for all. A must-have book for any STEM entrepreneurship educator.’ -- Tiago Ratinho, IESEG School of Management, France‘Working in a faculty that combines business administration and industrial engineering, I am deeply familiar with the need for case studies in STEM entrepreneurship. The use of STEM case studies in entrepreneurship has been highlighted in numerous international studies as being critically important in entrepreneurship education as they enable STEM students to better identify with relevant role models and work with more appropriate challenges. This volume therefore provides a highly valuable addition to entrepreneurship education.’ -- Mats Westerberg, Luleå University of Technology, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Cases on STEM Entrepreneurship xvii Cyrine Ben-Hafa.edh and Thomas M. Cooney 1 The use of case studies in entrepreneurship education 1 Thomas M. Cooney 2 Innovative Fermentations (New Zealand) 23 Janine Swail and Stefan Korber 3 Venture Orbital Systems (France) 37 Cyrine Ben-Hafaïedh and Jacques Angot 4 ApisProtect (Ireland) 49 Gillian Barrett and Ciara Fitzgerald 5 heliopas.ai (Germany) 58 Ralph Henn, Orestis Terzidis, Tim Haubeil, Mailin Schultmann, and Luise Kaufmann 6 Micron Agritech (Ireland) 72 Thomas M. Cooney and Martina Brophy 7 Volocopter (Germany) 87 Sarah Manthey, Marcos Gonzalez, and Orestis Terzidis 8 Wellness Technologies (Chile) 102 Valeria Bravo and Katherina Kuschel 9 MARGE (Germany) 120 Jelena Simon and Kerstin Ettl Index
£80.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: The
Book SynopsisEntrepreneurship and Economic Development addresses the importance of business creation, which is endemic in subsistence indigenous cultures, widespread in developing economies, and a critical feature of adaptation in the most advanced economies. The author offers systematic comparisons of six stages of economic development which provide information about the adjustments in the economic and social context affecting participation in business creation, the sectors where activities occur, and the nature of the contributions to economic growth and adaptation.Implications for public policy varies for countries at different stages of development. The book includes an introduction to harmonized data developed over the past two decades while avoiding technical complexity. Descriptions are based on representative samples of business creation with an emphasis on grassroots business creation in countries during all stages of economic development.Entrepreneurship, economic development and public policy scholars and faculty as well as policy analysts focusing on economic development will benefit from the breadth of knowledge included in this exploration of business creation.Trade Review‘Reynolds knows more about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship than any person alive. This book is a much needed analysis of the global economic impact of entrepreneurship. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the role of entrepreneurs in wealth creation.’ -- Derek Lidow, Princeton University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Business creation: A global phenomenon 2. Economic development: Structures and values 3. Subsistence economies: Specialization and survival 4. Agricultural economies: Exiting farming 5. Agricultural-Industrial economies: Industry and service 6. Service-Industrial economies: Education and opportunity 7. Progressive Service-Industrial economies: Values and knowledge based 8. Knowledge-Service economies: Expertise and fulfilment 9. Transitions: Continuity and adaptation 10. Overview and implications A Global Entrepreneurship Monitor program B Economic development: Cross-stage descriptions References Index
£99.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and
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£190.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Cases on Arts Entrepreneurship
Book SynopsisHow can entrepreneurial thinking be applied to ventures in the arts? What strategies can artists employ to build viable professional careers? How can sustainable and thriving arts organizations be created? Merging the worlds of business and the arts, this engaging book of case studies of individuals and organizations, written by experts spanning a broad range of fields within the arts, offers insight into answering these key questions.Bringing together nuanced details from across the arts to provide a broad understanding of arts entrepreneurship, it also gives readers the tools to apply insights from other artistic disciplines to their own, synthesizing unique, targeted strategies from a myriad of sources. Each chapter includes: engaging classroom activities and discussion ideas teaching notes that allow material to be easily incorporated into any course extraction of important principles of arts entrepreneurship from each case study. Equally applicable to formal and individual study, this book will prove an invaluable and inimitable resource for not only educators, researchers and scholars in arts entrepreneurship, management or administration but also individuals pursuing careers in this highly competitive industry.Trade Review‘Cases on Arts Entrepreneurship represents a significant and successful step in this emerging field’s curricular options. In addition to representing a variety of arts disciplines, Tonelli and Heise’s editorial efforts are first rate – as are the cases themselves. This is a book all arts entrepreneurship educators should use in the classroom. I certainly will.’ -- — Gary Beckman, North Carolina State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xii Acknowledgements xv Introduction to Cases on Arts Entrepreneurship xvi Mark Tonelli and Andrew Heise 1 Belltower Coffeehouse & Studio: negotiating hybrid value creation in a dual-mission arts venture 1 Josef Hanson 2 Fayetteville Roots 15 Adrienne Callander, Kristie Moergen, Rachel Sullivant, and Stacie Burley 3 Astrid von Ussar: a profile in dance innovation and evolution 28 Stacey Tirro 4 The Metropolitan Players: the search for a unique value proposition 44 Drew X. Coles 5 Margo Jones: bridging divides to craft a hybrid logic for theater in the US 56 Diane Ragsdale 6 Joe Von Battle and Joe’s Record Shop 80 Jeremy J. Peters 7 A normal southern boy: anything but … 100 Roger Bennett Riggle Jr 8 Beau Bledsoe: shifting revenue streams in a guitarist’s portfolio career 120 Diane R. Scott 9 A student-run media firm: learning from failures 133 Jessa Wilcoxen 10 Shelter Music Boston: a sustainable business model for community engagement work 147 Jeffrey Nytch 11 Beth Morrison Projects: ambitious vision urges opera forward 157 Hannah Grannemann 12 Jason Harrod, singer-songwriter: minding the motivational mix 179 Kathryn L. Brown 13 Michael Devine: acting like the police 194 Antoinette Doherty 14 Conclusion: a bird’s eye view of arts entrepreneurship cases 206 Mark Tonelli and Andrew Heise Index
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Collective Ink Be Different
Book SynopsisBeing different begins with intellectual disobedience, having the courage to throw off the shackles of conventionality to achieve amazing results - Be Different!
£11.99
Emerald Publishing Limited Decision-Making in International
Book SynopsisWhen it comes to international operations of entrepreneurial ventures, more clarification is needed to explore how, why, and under what conditions Small and Mid-size Enterprises (SME’s) decide to take the risk of expanding internationally. This collection of studies presents an understanding of the processes, methods, and approaches towards decision-making in international entrepreneurship. Decision-Making in International Entrepreneurship provides comprehensive insight into what drives small and medium firms to internationalize entrepreneurially. Stressing multidisciplinary methods that support entrepreneurs in their internationalisation decision, the chapters analyse a broad range of statistical methods – regressions, panel data, structural equational modelling – as well as decision-making and optimisation models in both certain and uncertain circumstances. Decision-Making in International Entrepreneurship is essential reading for researchers, scholars, and practitioners looking to synthesise the process of decision-making towards exploiting entrepreneurial opportunities across national borders.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Social Media Usage and Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition among Internationalising SMEs; Emmanuel Kusi Appiah Chapter 2. The Perceived ‘Double Disadvantage’ of Gender and Ethnicity: A Capabilities Perspective of Rapidly Internationalising Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs in the UK; Shiv Chaudhry, Dave Crick, and James M. Crick Chapter 3. Decision to Start a New Venture: A Cross-National Study of Social Benefit Systems and Fear of Failure; Kaveh Moghaddam, Thomas Weber, and Amirhossein Maleki Chapter 4. When the Family Travels Abroad. Decision-Making and Practices of International Expansion of a Swiss Family Business in the XIX Century; Giuseppe De Luca and Matteo Landoni Chapter 5. Innovative Decision-Making and Ambiguity: Women Entrepreneurs Exploring Internationalisation Opportunities; Sundas Hussain, Safiya Mukhtar Alshibani, and Amir Daneshvar Chapter 6. Decision-Making in Scaling up Internationalised Start-ups; Faezeh Hanifzadeh, Kambiz Talebi, and Parisa Rasoulian Chapter 7. Entrepreneurial Decision-making and the Hunt for the “Right” Internationalisation Strategy with a State-owned Enterprise; Irina Nikolskaja Roddvik, Birgit Leick, and Runar Gundersen Chapter 8. Unveiling Factors Propelling Start-ups towards Entrepreneurial Internationalisation: A fuzzy Multi-layer Decision-making Approach; Fatemeh Yaftiyan, Marziyeh Rassaf, Mohammadjafar Nikimaleki Borchalouei, and Hamide Ghahremani Chapter 9. Challenges of Footwear Business Internationalisation in Emerging Economies: A Multilayer Sustainable Decision-Making Approach; Babak Zamani Chapter 10. International Entrepreneurship Opportunity Recognition and Prioritisation in the Industrial Sector of Kish Free Zone: A Multi-layer Decision-making Approach; Hasan Boudlaie, Mohammad Hosein Kenarroodi, Razieh Sadraei, and Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi Chapter 11. Prioritising SMEs Internationalisation Practices Considering Their Various Interrelating Barriers: A Sustainability and Resiliency Approach; Ali Zamani Babgohari, Danial Esmaelnezhad, and Mohammadreza Taghizadeh-Yazdi Chapter 12. Toward the Analysis of Industrial Symbiosis Enablers in Small and Medium Enterprises: A Hesitant Fuzzy Approach; Seyyed Mohammadreza Ayazi, Ali Zamani Babgohari, and Mohammadreza Taghizadeh-Yazdi Chapter 13. Employees Should Care: A Hybrid Study of the Internationalisation Destructive Impacts on SMEs’ Human Resources in an Emerging Economy through Multi-Layer Decision Making Model-Psychological Solutions; AliAsghar Abbassi Kamardi and Sina Sarmadi Chapter 14. Investigating the Sustainable Aspect of Food Supply Chain and its Effect on International Entrepreneurship: An Experimental Study in the Free Economic Zone of Mazandaran; Vida Khaledi, Badrosadat Hashemipour, and Sepehr Gheiratmand Chapter 15. Sustainability in the Civil Aviation Industry supply chain based on Attracting International Entrepreneurs: A Case Study of a Civil Aviation Company in Iran; Badrosadat Hashemipour and Sayed-Shakoor Shahidi Chapter 16. How Does Owners' Personality Impact Business Internationalisation in Family SMEs?; Elaheh Heydari, Mojtaba Rezaei, Marco Pironti, and Federico Chmet
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Public Sector Entrepreneurship: Innovative
Book SynopsisThis timely book argues that the overcrowding of national parks in the United States represents a social problem in need of public sector action and a policy solution, as no systematic means to address this problem has been implemented either nationally or on a park-by-park basis. Throughout the book, Albert N. Link provides an innovative pricing solution to the overcrowding of the parks which will help to change the existing status quo. Utilizing a methodology grounded in economics, and expanding the use and policy relevance of the concept of public sector entrepreneurship, the author illustrates how individuals respond to prices and offers a method to estimate the impact of a seasonal entrance fee based on calculated price elasticities of demand. Chapters also provide recommendations for increases in seasonal entrance fees individually for each of the national parks that currently have an entrance fee.Public Sector Entrepreneurship will be a key resource for academics and students in the fields of entrepreneurship, public management and resource management who are looking to use economics as a framework for analyzing tourism topics, as well as environmental researchers and public policy officials responsible for national parks.Trade Review‘The overcrowding of national parks around the world is not a new phenomenon. This book offers a classic economic rationing technique – differential prices – as a policy remedy to the overcrowding of U.S. national parks. The implementation of this seasonal pricing scheme is illustrated across several examples of national parks. Professor Link offers here a straightforward solution to an old problem. This is a very valuable book to all of us grappling with the overuse of public assets.’ -- Nicholas Vonortas, The George Washington University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Public sector entrepreneurship: a policy framework 2. Responding to “high altruism” 3. Characteristics of the national parks 4. Benchmarking overcrowded national parks 5. The public good nature of national parks 6. Visitors’ responses to higher entrance fees 7. Impact of policies toward overcrowding: case studies 8. Why not to implement a reservation system for visiting a national park 9. Overcrowding in national parks without entrance fees 10. Public sector entrepreneurship: a restatement of a pricing policy recommendation References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Womenâs Entrepreneurship in a Turbulent Era
Book SynopsisUncovering how women entrepreneurs have navigated adverse situations through innovation and adaptability, Womenâs Entrepreneurship in a Turbulent Era explores the nuanced experiences of these business owners. It offers valuable insights into women's entrepreneurial efforts in redefining the norms and rules in a rapidly changing world.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Organizational Ethnography
Book SynopsisEthnography is at the heart of what researchers in management and organization studies do. This crucial book offers a robust and original overview of ‘’doing’’ organizational ethnography, guiding readers through the essential qualitative methods for the study of organizations.Preparing students to enter the field with a confident outlook and a toolkit of skills, chapters present a series of action-learning projects to arm readers with practical exercises that will hone the abilities of the organizational ethnographer. Expert contributors offer crucial outlines into a variety of essential skills, including shadowing, autoethnography, interviews, media analysis and storytelling. The book concludes with a chapter by a doctoral student, providing unique insights into the development of the ethnographic understanding of organizational realities.Featuring useful exercises and an accessible style, this book is critical reading for PhD and Masters students in business administration and organizational theory, as well as social science students undertaking qualitative methodology programmes. It will also be useful for students on MBA courses in need of a humanistic approach to organizations.Trade Review’If only I had a book like this when I was starting out! Organizational Ethnography gives helpful direction for doing this important type of qualitative research in a multitude of ways. Each chapter presents an accessible account of a different ethnographic technique presented by researchers who have practiced it successfully. Insightful examples and helpful tips abound. I highly recommend this book to anyone intending to practice ethnography in organizations, new students and experienced researchers alike.’ -- - Mary Jo Hatch, University of Virginia, US and author of Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic and Postmodern PerspectivesTable of ContentsContents List of contributors vii 1 Doing ethnography: introduction 1 Nancy Harding and Monika Kostera 2 Notes and poetry from the field: a fieldwork diary 18 Monika Kostera and Joanna Średnicka 3 Observation: on the importance of being there 31 Monika Kostera 4 How to shadow organizing 45 Barbara Czarniawska 5 Autoethnography 59 Mark Learmonth and Mike Humphreys 6 To look at the world from the Other’s point of view: interview 74 Monika Kostera and Anna Modzelewska 7 Inter-ethnography: from individual beings to collective becoming 91 David Calås, Katarina Ellborg, Daniel Ericsson, Elin Esperi Hallgren and Alina Husung 8 Media analysis: on the importance of everyday images 110 Alexia Panayiotou 9 Reading and interpreting social media: exploring positive emotional expressions in organizing 129 Noomi Weinryb, Nils Gustafsson and Cecilia Gullberg 10 Autoethnography through the folk tale lens 151 Anna Zueva 11 Ethnography meets storytelling: a marriage made in heaven 166 Hamid Foroughi 12 In search of openness to the ethnographic analysis of work: early organisational anthropology and contemporary organisational theorising 178 Paweł Krzyworzeka and Hugo Gaggiotti 13 Learning to see the wood through the trees as a PhD ethnographer 200 Sarah Bloomfield Index 217
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Edward Elgar Publishing Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Learning
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Cases on Entrepreneurship and Diversity
Book SynopsisThis erudite casebook draws from first-hand experiences to reflect upon different approaches to, mindsets regarding and attitudes towards entrepreneurship. With contributions from highly experienced academics from a variety of backgrounds, it will help entrepreneurship educators and teachers to decolonise business and innovation curricula while reflecting on key academic questions relating to unique entrepreneurial journeys.Key Features: Contributions from leading international scholars Practical and useful learning outcomes, discussion questions and teaching notes True life experiences of entrepreneurs from around the globe to explore both their strengths and the challenges they face with their ventures Cases on Entrepreneurship and Diversity will be essential for students of such disciplines as business and entrepreneurship who wish to fully understand how diversity affects their chosen fields. It will additionally be of use within executive and practitioner education programmes.Trade Review‘This book makes an important and timely contribution by addressing the unanswered questions that we have all been asking. The book presents a mixture of compelling case studies and case histories to illuminate the lived experiences of diverse entrepreneurs. The book is an essential read for academics, researchers and educators as it shines an important light on the importance of diversity in practical ways.’ -- Professor Kiran Trehan, University of York, UK‘Cases on Entrepreneurship and Diversity by Dr Spinder Dhaliwal, a collation of case studies of entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds and circumstances, is very welcome and is an invaluable asset to developing greater understanding of the huge range of drivers, experiences and outcomes of entrepreneurship throughout the world. The appeal to me as an educator is clear, but I’m sure wider audiences will also appreciate seeing better representation of the diversity of entrepreneurship out there.’ -- Professor Laura Galloway, Professor of Business & Enterprise, Edinburgh Business School, UK‘Cases on Entrepreneurship and Diversity offers genuine insights to real entrepreneurs with discussion questions and debates. It is an important book for the current climate and an essential text for every entrepreneurship course. The importance of diversity in entrepreneurship is exemplified in these relevant and varied cases.’ -- Dr Jonathan M. Scott, Senior Lecturer, Waikato Management School, University of Waikato, New ZealandTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Cases on Entrepreneurship and Diversity 1 Spinder Dhaliwal 1 1 Sisters organizing for change: a historical case of women’s enterprise support 3 Debra Blisson 2 Ailim Healing 23 Thomas M. Cooney and Martina Brophy 3 Leicester, UK: city of intercultural creativity and entrepreneurial placemaking 41 David Rae and Sudesh Sangray 4 A tale of two female Pakistani entrepreneurs: the constraining and supporting nature of norms 56 Adila Khan, Philippa Ward and Robin Bown 5 The outsidership dilemma of a healthtech start-up entering the US market 67 Basel Hammoda 6 Migrant entrepreneurship characteristics – a case study from regional Australia 81 Sujana Adapa and Subba Reddy Yarram 7 I am a former refugee and a woman from an ethnic community: do these shape my entrepreneurial journey? 101 Nadeera Ranabahu, Huibert P. de Vries and Zhiyan Basharati 8 AnatolianCraft: sustainable female entrepreneurship – a case study from Turkey 114 Gizem Kutlu 9 Institutions and female entrepreneurship: the case of a family business in China 128 Shihang Su, Laura A. Costanzo and Knut Lange 10 Female entrepreneurs and discrimination in South Africa: leveraging network embeddedness to access governmental support for social innovation 144 Sindile Dlamini, Luca Cacciolatti and Ioannis Christodoulou 11 Female entrepreneurship in a rural area – is mentoring the key to success? 159 Alison Theaker 12 Mindset and entrepreneurial learning in social entrepreneurship: ListenField – a driving force of sustainable solutions and impact for farmers 174 Nattida Srisaracam 13 Pikala Bikes, Marrakesh, Morocco: a social entrepreneurship company 186 Richard George 14 Nashtaa Café: the journey of Nisha Bajwa – entrepreneurial opportunity identification and development 200 Emilee L. Simmons and Saba Bibi 15 A quest for an identity 210 Emilee L. Simmons and Saba Bibi 16 Doubling down in gentrifying Brooklyn, New York City, USA 218 Eda Sanchez-Persampieri, Katja Schroeder and Vincent Vazzana
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Cases on Born Globals
Book SynopsisCases on Born Globals brings together a wealth of case studies covering a range of industries and countries on emerging firms known as ‘Born Globals’ that seek to enter international markets immediately upon creation. Bringing together 11 key cases, Erik Rasmussen highlights how these firms have been increasing in number over the last 20 years. He further explores the speed of their growth, the challenges experienced and likely future prognoses. The book also discusses whether early internationalisation could be advantageous to entrepreneurial firms by linking up to other more prominent firms and thereby creating a greater reach for the newly-created firms. Key Features: Broad span of cases with global reach Showcasing different themes of Born Global research Discussion questions and assignments provided, together with further reading Providing expert guidance on how to apply theoretical concepts and models, this will be an excellent resource for teachers and students of international entrepreneurship, internationalisation and international business.Trade Review‘This welcome collection of case studies by Erik S. Rasmussen and colleagues marks a 30 year history of research on the “Born Global” firm. First described by Rennie (1993) from a study in Australia, the field now spans several strands of thought that differently explain the early and rapid nature of internationalisation by firms known as e.g. Born Globals, rapid internationalisers and international new ventures. This book takes a fresh look at a diverse set of Born Global cases including Cirque du Soleil, medical cannabis, footwear and digital technology stemming from countries including Canada, Italy and Turkey. The cases are bound to stimulate discussion, in both practice and theory in the classroom and beyond. Each case is accompanied by questions, additional information sources and key references.’ -- Marian V. Jones, University of Sheffield, UK‘The book is timely and much needed. The attention around Born Global firms has grown in the last three decades, but what has been missing so far is a collection of cases capable of bridging theory and practice. Another key strength of the book lies in the variety of cases, across diverse countries and typologies of businesses, well-written by expert authors.’ -- Antonella Zucchella, University of Pavia, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Preface xiv Eric S. Rasmussen Table of cases xxiv 1 The show’s over at Cirque du Soleil 1 Étienne Desfossés and Félix-Antoine Chavanelle 2 Born Globals or born nomads? The case of medical cannabis producers in Denmark 15 Ulrik Nielsen 3 GASTECH, a French born-again global firm 24 Pierre-Louis Meuric, Véronique Favre-Bonté and Charles Aymard 4 CLOUDTECH, how to grow a Born Global firm 40 Pierre-Louis Meuric, Véronique Favre-Bonté and Charles Aymard 5 A decacorn in on-demand delivery: the case of Getir from Turkey 56 Rifat Kamasak, Deniz Palalar Alkan, Berk Kucukaltan and Mustafa F. Özbilgin 6 From dying SME to re-born global to multinational: Vendlet 74 Nicolaj Hannesbo Petersen 7 Reinventing the footwear industry: the role of digital technologies in the market development strategy of an Italian Born Global firm 84 Giorgia Masili, Alessio Travasi and Fabio Musso 8 The digitalisation of internationalisation activities: is social media the next international entrepreneurial opportunity recognition tool for Born Globals? 97 Emmanuel Kusi Appiah 9 The influence of decision-making logic on the internationalisation of Born Globals: Bolt 112 Tairi Leis 10 Cabaïa: can an eco-branding sustainability strategy foster the internationalisation of a Born Global? 130 Véronique Boulocher-Passet, Peter Daly and Sabine Ruaud 11 Boris & Rufus: hotspot on screen and costs on the backyard 146 Sílvio Luís de Vasconcellos, Clarice Zimmermann and Gérson Tontini
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Research Agenda for Family Business: A Way
Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This exciting Research Agenda expertly addresses the question: What will be important within the family business field and for family businesses in practice over the next decade? Top international contributors explore farsighted theories, methods and topics, often taking a multi-disciplinary approach in order to outline the potential routes for further advancing family business research. Chapters cover the significance of new family trends, entrepreneurial legacy, board diversity, spatial-familiness, corruption, innovation and digital business transformation, challenging core assumptions surrounding the family business phenomenon and mapping the future of the discipline. A Research Agenda for Family Business will prove a stimulating read for family business and entrepreneurship scholars, as well as academics focusing on strategy, HR, organizational behaviour and corporate governance. Practitioners will also find this book valuable for reflecting on challenges that they are facing and navigating developments in the family business field. Trade Review‘This book represents a turning point in family business research by putting on the table research gaps of special relevance that address the heterogeneity of the family business. Future research topics relevant to the family and business systems and how the first system affects the behaviour and strategic decisions of the family business are addressed.’ -- Myriam Cano-Rubio, Journal of Management and Governance'This is an inspiring book - it offers an interesting agenda for future research on family business. It comprehensively covers the domain of the field, emerging research areas, innovative theories, and promising research methods. Written by a diverse group of scholars from 17 countries, the book brings together rich insights that promise to fuel innovative scholarship. Its message is timely and impactful.' --Shaker A. Zahra, University of Minnesota, US'In impressive fashion, the study of family firms has gone through a phase of rapid growth towards establishing itself as a distinct area of study. It is the overlap and cross pollination with a wide array of more established fields of research that turns the family business field into a rich opportunity for new, exciting research. In working towards this goal, the present book is an excellent guidepost and source of inspiration. Its broad coverage of topics, delivered by established and more junior scholars from around the world, makes it a fascinating contribution for anybody who wishes to move beyond what we know, and towards uncharted, exciting research opportunities.' --Thomas Zellweger, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland'Amidst the new realities of our world, ranging from invisible viruses that pause humanity to the changing concept of family and community, I applaud the efforts of Professor Andrea Calabrò and forty-six notable scholars to identify a multi-disciplinary agenda for family business research. Interested scholars will draw inspiring ideas for meaningful research directions, while business families and policy makers eager to support the development of usable knowledge on family enterprises will appreciate efficient chapter summaries. Thesis students will add this book to their must-read lists.' --Pramodita Sharma, University of Vermont and Northwestern University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introducing A Research Agenda for Family Business by Andrea Calabrò xv 1 Family trends shaping the family business landscape 1 Joyce Kox and Astrid Kramer 2 Developing a “sociological imagination” of families in family business research 15 Eric R. Kushins and Elaina Behounek 3 History as a source and method for family business research 29 Christina Lubinski and William B. Gartner 4 Engaging the next generation of family members through work: adolescence and beyond 61 Marjan Houshmand, Marc-David L. Seidel and Dennis Ma 5 Entrepreneurial legacy: how narratives of the past, present and future affect entrepreneurship in business families 73 Miruna Radu-Lefebvre, Vincent Lefebvre, Jean Clarke and William B. Gartner 6 From turmoil to synergism: how business leaders’ human resource mental models and family control impact employees 87 Chiung-Wen Tsao and Shyh-Jer Chen 7 Diversity on family firm boards: a research agenda for 2020–30 103 Mary Barrett and Ken Moores 8 The role of vision in determining family, small business and minority ethnic business research 121 Claire Seaman and Richard Bent 9 Strategic and organizational choices in family firms: introducing sense-making 135 Luca Gnan and Giulia Flamini 10 Advancing research on creativity in family firms 157 Julia Vincent Ponroy and Dianne H.B. Welsh 11 Changing landscape of Indian family businesses 169 Kavil Ramachandran, Sougata Ray and Yashodhara Basuthakur 12 Spatial familiness: a bridge between family business and economic geography 185 Rodrigo Basco and Lech Suwala 13 Family-owned MNEs and transparency: a focus on corruption risk in host countries 203 Matteo Caroli, Claudia Pongelli and Alfredo Valentino 14 Financing the growth of the family business: a research agenda 215 Alessandro Cirillo, Alexandra Dawson, Anneleen Michiels and Donata Mussolino 15 Innovation in family business groups: going beyond an R&D perspective 231 Marita Rautiainen, Suvi Konsti-Laakso and Timo Pihkala 16 The digitalization of family firms: a research agenda 247 Catherine E. Batt, Peter Cleary, Martin R.W. Hiebl, Martin Quinn and Pall M. Rikhardsson 17 Digital business transformation in family firms: how the owning family sets the scene 261 Ann Sophie Löhde, Giovanna Campopiano and Daniela Gimenez Jiménez Conclusion Andrea Calabrò Index 279
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Edward Elgar University Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
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£75.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Research Agenda for International
Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Addressing the intersection between the fields of international business and entrepreneurship, this topical Research Agenda wholly encapsulates the multi-dimensional nature of international entrepreneurship. It provides essential insight into themes for future research alongside their practical implications. This crucial Research Agenda proposes a fully up-to-date definition for international entrepreneurship, discussing how particular new ventures may be effective in assessing factors such as the abilities of firms to collaborate and solve problems. Authors offer significant insight into contemporary topics within the study of international entrepreneurship, including the effects of digital technology on market strategy and post-pandemic entrepreneurial undertakings. Those studying international business, marketing and entrepreneurship will find this Research Agenda to be hugely beneficial. Due to its use of exemplar cases, entrepreneurs of new business ventures will benefit from its practical applicability.Trade Review‘A timely, insightful book for all interested in the research, pedagogy and practice of international entrepreneurship (IE). Editors Felzensztein and Fuerst outline an impactful research agenda for the field with each chapter providing a unique perspective on some of the most important IE research questions of the post-COVID era.’ -- Professor Martina Musteen, San Diego State University, US‘While the field of international entrepreneurship has grown over the past few decades, there is still much work to do to address the ever-changing grand challenges of our time. This must-read collection of articles provides a comprehensive overview and path for moving the field forward.’ -- Professor Stephanie Fernhaber, Butler University, US‘This research book constitutes a very timely and highly relevant input to the academic studies of International Entrepreneurship. The book centers around the research areas of IE; Founders, Firm and Environment (Madsen et al 1997) and brings in the newest progress in the field. The book presents interesting viewpoints as to different kinds of International New Ventures/Born Globals and research insights about Entry Modes, Learning and Internationalization processes. The book advances the view of network processes, sustainability, and digitalization. As a contribution to the UN SDGs has a pivot chapter on Internationalizing new ventures from emerging markets.’ -- Professor Per Servais, Linnaeus School of Business & Economics. Distinguished professor, Voxen University, IndiaTable of ContentsContents: 1 A research agenda for international entrepreneurship 1 Sascha Fuerst and Christian Felzensztein 2 The born global phenomenon: A review of process research 15 Stine Øyna 3 Learning in incrementally and rapidly internationalizing firms: a review of the literature and propositions 55 Juan M. Pellegrino and Rod B. McNaughton 4 Typology for strategizing in international new ventures 91 Eyal Benjamin and Eli Gimmon 5 Scaling and scalability in volatile global markets: An exploratory study of rapidly internationalizing Finnish SMEs 117 Jani Mäkelä, Niina Nummela, and Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki 6 International entrepreneurship, inter-firm collaboration and export capability development 143 James M. Crick and David Crick 7 The government as an effectual stakeholder in the entrepreneurial co-creation of markets for emerging technologies: the case of Rocket Lab 165 Jonathan Van Mumford and Peter John Mumford 8 Surviving the jungle or driving the change: International entrepreneurs as agents in institutional change 193 Eini Haaja, Anna Karhu, and Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki 9 International entrepreneurial marketing in the digital era 215 Man Yang and Lasse Torkkeli 10 Entrepreneurial perception and intention: The influence of networks on Spanish SMEs’ intention to internationalize towards China 235 Yang Yang, Rosario Andreu, and Laura Rienda 11 Ethnic profiling of luxury goods consumers in Southeast Asia: New insights in the international entrepreneurship approach 259 Massimo Ferdinandi and Manuela Presutti 12 Institutions and internationalization of SMEs in an emerging African economy: The moderating role of sustainable entrepreneurship 287 Adeniyi Damilola Olarewaju, Sunday Abayomi Adebisi, Olusoji James George, and Lizbeth Alicia Gonzalez-Tamayo Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Truth about Entrepreneurship: Policy Making
Book SynopsisPolicy makers give a lot of attention to business creation and entrepreneurship, but they do not have a good resource for understanding The Truth about Entrepreneurship. The extensive media coverage of Wall Street entrepreneurship provides an incomplete portrayal of most business creation. While both high profile and everyday new firms provide major contributions to economic growth, the ongoing, bottoms-up activity pursued by over half a billion around the world is not widely recognized. This book reviews some of the most salient features of grass roots business creation, such as the total amount of activity, differences related to national economic development, the relationship to business churning and job creation, the impact of national context, the mixed contributions of high growth firms, the modest effect of external financial support, the unequal distribution of sunk costs related to successful payback, importance as an option for the most desperate in poor countries, and the tendency to overlook the continuing incremental impact of Main Street business creation. Entrepreneurial scholars, faculty, policy analysts and graduate students interested in economic development, entrepreneurship and public policy will find clarity and gain a depth of knowledge about policymaking and business creation with The Truth about Entrepreneurship.Trade Review'A comprehensive account of business creation and its role in society by the architect behind the largest research programs on entrepreneurship in the world. Reynolds covers a multitude of important aspects of entrepreneurship - from grassroots to grandiose - underpinned by solid data.' --Per Davidsson, QUT Business School, Australia and Jönköping University, Sweden'Truth is always illuminating, and never more so than understanding what is true concerning entrepreneurship, where myths too often prevail over the truth concerning this essential source of prosperity. Paul's book is now the definitive source of this truth and is indispensable for anyone who wants to help the world become more prosperous.' --Derek Lidow, Princeton University, US'Entrepreneurship (business creation) is a wide-spread human activity that currently involves 600 million people starting about 400 million new ventures, word-wide. Paul Reynold's new book The Truth About Entrepreneurship provides essential facts and insights about how and why entrepreneurship occurs across the globe and offers policy makers and others critical knowledge about this important economic and social activity. This book, and his earlier text, Business Creation, are critical resources for anyone who wants a comprehensive understanding of the process and characteristics of entrepreneurship and its value for economic and social growth and change.' --William B. Gartner, Babson College, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Business Creation: Wall Street and Main Street 2. Business Creation: Scope and Stability 3. Business Creation and Economic Growth: Churning is Good 4. New Firms are the Major Source of New Jobs 5. Different National Development: Different Business Creation 6. Context Counts, But May be Hard to Change 7. Growth Firms and Job Redistribution 8. Money is Necessary, But Not Sufficient 9. Everyone Pays, Some Benefit a Lot 10. An Important Option for the Desperate 11. New Firms: Change Agents Hiding in Plain Sight Appendix A Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Program Appendix B U.S. Regional Business Dynamics Data Set Appendix C U.S. Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED) Program References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Role of Ecosystems in Developing Startups:
Book SynopsisPresenting cutting-edge research from Europe and beyond, The Role of Ecosystems in Developing Startups examines the diverse triggers of the entrepreneurial process and evaluates the richness of different entrepreneurial ecosystems.Novel approaches and methodologies in the field of startups, small business and entrepreneurship are provided, together with the conceptualisation of ecosystems in the managerial field. The book also demonstrates the importance of context in terms of actors and networks, the complete entrepreneurial journey as a set of complex processes and the role of time and resources supporting new companies. Furthermore, the use of social networks in both the early stages and in strategy execution are investigated as key to the entrepreneurial process and its ultimate success.The book’s up-to-date empirical approach and practical guidance will provide an excellent resource to scholars and researchers in entrepreneurship alongside other business and management topics, practitioners and policy analysts in the field of entrepreneurship and management.Trade Review‘In The Role of Ecosystems in Developing Startups. . . eight chapters guide the reader through different aspects of the entrepreneurial process, including the role of ecosystems in developing startups.‘This collection of works from outstanding academics in the field of small business and entrepreneurship provides a valuable collection of research with interesting theoretical and practical insights into various perspectives on the emerging entrepreneurial process, such as digital transformation, entrepreneurial ecosystems, or family entrepreneurship. A thought-provoking resource for stimulating new research in this area.’ -- Sascha Kraus, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy‘The Frontiers series offers a selection of the leading-edge research on diverse triggers of the entrepreneurial process. This book, written by a group of researchers from different countries, provides stimulating coverage of important topics in different contexts of startups, entrepreneurial ecosystems, family firms, born globals and hybrid entrepreneurs. It rewards the reader with interesting empirical and theoretical insights about the current state of entrepreneurship research.’ -- Eddy Laveren, University of Antwerp and Antwerp Management School, Belgium, Past President ECSB‘Understanding better the entrepreneurial process is of key importance for entrepreneurship research and practice. This book, written by a group of international scholars, offers new and fresh research perspectives. The contributions highlight the multiple dynamics influencing the entrepreneurial process related to the different types of firms (e.g. family firms, born globals and high-tech firms), operating in different economic environments, ecosystems and support structures. The book transcends both disciplinary and geographic boundaries in developing insight of an important research area.’ -- Ulla Hytti, University of Turku, Finland, President of ECSBTable of ContentsContents: 1 An introduction to The Role of Ecosystems in Developing Startups 1 Pierluigi Rippa, Cyrine Ben-Hafaïedh, Agnieszka Kurczewska, Mario Raffa and Mirela Xheneti PART I DIVERSE TRIGGERS OF THE ENTREPRENEURIAL PROCESS 2 Nascent hi-tech startups and entrepreneurial process duration: the human capital that matters 9 Syed Rizwan Shahid Pirzada 3 The role of family factors in shaping the entrepreneurial intentions of women: a case study of women entrepreneurs from Peshawar, Pakistan 40 Madiha Gohar, Ayesha Abrar and Adeel Tariq 4 The role of corporate governance in the development of strategy execution in family firms 64 Paolo Di Toma 5 Contribution to the study of Born Globals’ reticular dynamic via a socio-material approach: the case of three Moroccan Born Globals 81 Fatima Zahra Kasmaoui, Martine Hlady-Rispal and Abdenbi Louitri PART II THE RICHNESS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEMS 6 Entrepreneurial ecosystem’s black box: inter-organizational ties in low-income countries: the case of Morocco and Madagascar 107 Grégory Guéneau, Didier Chabaud and Marie-Christine Chalus-Sauvannet 7 The power of the business incubator managerʼs profile in service offering and startup survival and growth 135 Bernd van der Kwast, Johanna Vanderstraeten and Bram Mondelaers 8 Characterizing hybrid entrepreneurship across generations: the Dutch case 167 Amelia Román and Jesse Blits 9 Digital transformation and CSR practices in artisanal family SMEs: a matter of strategic alignment? The case of Les Bougies de Charroux 188 Sandrine Berger-Douce, Marc-André Vilette and Jalila Elbousserghini Index 212
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Emerald Publishing Limited Creative and Cultural Industry Entrepreneurship
Book SynopsisBoth volumes of Creative (and Cultural) Industry Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century map and elucidate the adaptations and challenges faced by the creative professionals and the entrepreneurial solutions they have co-developed.
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Emerald Publishing Limited Informal Manufacturing and Environmental
Book SynopsisThe chapters here emerge against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving global landscape, where the informal sector plays a pivotal role in employment, income generation, and economic development, particularly in developing and emerging countries.
£80.75
Emerald Publishing Limited Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Theory and Practice
Book SynopsisEntrepreneurial Ecosystems in Theory and Practice offers a comprehensive and multi-dimensional understanding of entrepreneurial ecosystems through a blend of theoretical and practical insights, and comparative analyses.
£45.00
Emerald Publishing Limited Small is Significant
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Emerald Publishing Limited Small is Significant
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Emerald Publishing Limited Neurodiversity and Entrepreneurship
Book SynopsisNeurodiversity and Entrepreneurship increases our understanding of how different types of entrepreneurial activity may help to improve the inclusion of neurodiverse individuals in the workplace and society. Providing new contributions to the disability literature, research on autism in the workplace, and the intersection of entrepreneurship and neurodiversity, the chapters in this book focus on the various ways entrepreneurship is emerging to improve the careers of neurodiverse individuals, their positive impact on society, and how different types of entrepreneurship manifest themselves across career stages and in the workplace of the future.This is an essential resource for scholars studying neurodiversity in the workplace, organizations interested in obtaining the benefits of hiring neurodiverse individuals, advocacy groups supporting the transition and employment needs of neurodiverse individuals, and neurodiverse individuals, their families, and caregivers. The individual, organizational, and societal issues associated with neurodiversity in the workplace underscore this topic's importance for academics, practitioners, the neurodiverse community and our collective economic well-being and quality of life.
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Emerald Publishing Limited Entrepreneurial Behaviour of Family Firms
Book SynopsisOffering perspectives on the entrepreneurial behaviour of family businesses in emerging economies, the chapters collected here present a systematic analysis focusing on gender, culture, policy, issues of succession, growth and economic impact.
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Emerald Publishing Limited The Innovation Approach
Book SynopsisInnovation and entrepreneurship have always had a strong and synergistic relationship. While Design Thinking and the Lean Startup have emerged as popular methodologies for managing innovation and entrepreneurial endeavours, the time is ripe for a rethinking of the innovation approach by going back to core principles.By considering the strengths and weaknesses of Design Thinking and the Lean Startup within their respective contexts, expert David C. Roach revisits the fundamentals of innovation management. Addressing the cultural gap between STEM and business perspectives, Roach emphasizes the importance of managing the front-end of innovation, where the most critical decisions are made, and concepts shaped. Demonstrating how Design Thinking's enthusiasm for observational research can be particularly useful, while the Lean Startup's passion for hypothesis-driven minimum viable product (MVP) testing is a clear strength, Roach argues that the success of innovation depends on a ro
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Emerald Publishing Limited The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Risk and Decisions:
Book SynopsisBecoming a successful entrepreneur is impossible without accepting risk – the question is which risk to take and at what time. Expert authors Thomas G. Pittz and Eric W. Liguori draw on years of working with and in early-stage ventures to provide guidance for managing the risk associated with these decisions. Throughout this book, they offer practical, no-nonsense advice for marketing and financing your business, bringing on partners and employees, networking with key connectors, and launching your business as inexpensively and aggressively as possible. Following lean startup logic, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Risk and Decisions: Building Successful Early-Stage Ventures cuts through to the strategically important – and emotionally charged – decisions that separate the successful entrepreneurs from the unsuccessful. It is designed to help entrepreneurs move quickly, rapidly iterate their business models based on customer feedback, and provide guideposts for managing the risks inherent in all startup ventures.Trade ReviewThere are few resources that effectively help entrepreneurs navigate the black box of risk and decision-making along their tumultuous journey. Every aspect of that journey - whether it be marketing, financing, partnerships, HR, networking, or actually launching has unlimited landmines that can put an end to a dream. This book is a critical how-to guide for any entrepreneur at any stage to spot and disarm those landmines with expert precision. -- Doan Winkel, Senior Vice President of Programming, United States Association for Small Business and EntrepreneurshipIn their new book, The Entrepreneur's Guide... Thom Pittz and Eric Liguori have identified all of the key issues that entrepreneurs face in developing and growing businesses and provide critical and detailed guidance for success. I am pleased to see a major section of the book devoted to networks and networking as an entrepreneur's network of support is the foundation for entrepreneurial innovation and growth. -- William B. Gartner, The Bertarelli Foundation Distinguished Professor Family Entrepreneurship, Babson CollegeThis book is an essential tool for every entrepreneur during his startup journey. It provides a handy reference which can be reverted to based on real life experiences. An essential companion for all aspiring entrepreneurs or small business owners. -- Ahmed Osman, President, International Council for Small BusinessTable of ContentsChapter 1. ProcessI. Ideas vs Execution II. Business Plans vs. Business Models III. Prototyping IV. The Pitch V. Market Segmentation & Pivoting Chapter 2. People I. Finding and Selecting Partners II. Determining Equity & Vesting III. Building Culture IV. Hiring Employees V. Choosing Mentors Chapter 3. Networks I. Networking Fundamentals II. Navigating Networks (ESOs, community services, etc.) III. Building Networks IV. Exploiting Networks V. Maintaining Networks Chapter 4. Sales & Marketing I. Learning to Sell II. Sales Pipeline and Tracking Metrics III. Failure, Rejection, Learning IV. Guerilla Marketing V. Pricing Models VI. Branding Chapter 5. Financing I. Financial Literacy II. Bootstrapping III. Crowdfunding IV. Equity Financing V. Debt Financing Chapter 6. Nuts and Bolts I. Legal Considerations (filing your business, ownership decisions, etc.) II. Human Resource Basics (important laws & filings, etc.) III. Compliance & Business Systems IV. Tax Considerations V. Exit Strategies
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