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Book SynopsisCollective entrepreneurship plays an important role in European service activities such as tourism, health care, leisure, trade, logistics and transportation. Collective Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary European Services Industries provides a historical account and a managerial approach on how companies in the service industry have grown, innovated, and internationalised along the last centuries in Western Europe.
Using collective entrepreneurship and collaborative networks within firms and between firms and external associations and institutions such as governments, the authors contribute to a better interdisciplinary understanding of the long-term dynamics of European companies.
Collective Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary European Services Industries borrows and applies existing concepts and theories from business history and from entrepreneurship. A multidisciplinary and inter-territorial approach, this collection combines business history and entrepreneurship theory to respond to recent calls for a historic turn in entrepreneurship studies, offering the opportunity to relaunch the dialogue between history and theory.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Role of Business Services in the Development of European Commodity Trading Companies in the 20th Century; Espen Storli
Chapter 2. Collective Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Hotel Industry: The Internationalization of a Domestic Cluster; Jorge Hernández-Barahona, Teresa Mateo, Águeda Gil-López, and Elena San Román
Chapter 3. Collective Entrepreneurship and the Development of Private Clinics in Geneva, 1860-2020; Pierre-Yves Donzé
Chapter 4. The Transfer of the North American Ideas of Hospital Management to Europe in the 20th Century: The Case of Spain; Paloma Fernández Pérez
Chapter 5. Evolution of Public Services: The Case of UK Leisure Centres in the Late 20th Century; Alex Gillett and Kevin Tennent
Chapter 6. Alliances as a Coopetitive Strategy of the Airlines: The Case of Iberia (1980-2020); Javier Vidal Olivares
Chapter 7. Building an Enterprise for the Future Through Network Bricolage and Memories of the Past; Águeda Gil, Elena San Román, Sarah Jack, and Ricardo Zózimo
Chapter 8. The Asymmetry of Expectations on the Outcomes of Strategic Alliances Between Biotechnology Start-ups and Pharmaceutical Corporations; Félix Barahona Márquez, Susana Domingo Pérez, and Ernest Solé Udina
Chapter 9. Effects of the Subsidiaries’ Networks on the Service Multinationals Innovation Activity; Paloma Miravitlles, Fariza Achcaoucaou, and Tim Laurin Spieth
Chapter 10. The Collective Entrepreneurial Process: From Public Entrepreneurship to Collective Action for the Common Good; Lizbeth Arroyo and Jaume Valls-Pasola
