Description
Book SynopsisThe contributors to this collection provide a wealth of new analyses of both traditional and emerging aspects of entrepreneurship, from a variety of national perspectives and from a variety of disciplines.
Globalization has begun to dismantle the barriers that traditionally segregated local business opportunities and local firms from their international counterparts. Local markets are becoming integral parts of broader, global markets. As globalization proceeds apace, entrepreneurs and small businesses will play a more prominent role on the global business arena. The volume is divided into three sections. The first looks at the internationalization process itself while the second focuses on factors facilitating this process in small and medium-sized firms. The last section examines emerging dimensions in management policy.
This book provides valuable insights for business leaders, policy formulators, students and academics alike in understanding and coping with our rapidly changing world.
Trade Review'The perspectives generated are refreshingly new and highly revealing. The scholars deserve rich compliments. Those interested in entrepreneurship as well as international business will find this collection facilitating and useful for further research as they fill many gaps in the literature.' -- V.K. Kumar, Global Business Review
'Globalization and Entrepreneurship
is a well-edited volume that brings together important aspects of the internationalisation process with special reference to small and medium sized enterprises. As it is dealing with a contemporary issue this book will undoubtedly be of interest to the academic world, but there is also much to interest the business reader.' -- Max Good, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Table of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: The Internationalization Process 1. Globalization and Entrepreneurship 2. On the Determinants of Exporting: UK Evidence 3. Integrated Outsourcing: A Tool for the Foreign Expansion of Small-business Suppliers 4. Small Multinationals in Global Competition: An Industry Perspective Part II: Facilitating Small-Firm Internationalization 5. Internationalization of Australian SMEs: Challenges and Opportunities 6. Cluster Development Programmes: Panacea or Placebo for Promoting SME Growth and Internationalization? 7. Social Capital, Networks and Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurs: Transnational Entrepreneurship and Bootstrap Capitalism 8. Small Business in the Czech Republic and Japan: Successes and Challenges for Women Entrepreneurs Part III: Emerging Dimensions of Management Policy 9. Toward a Transnational Techno-culture: An Empirical Investigation of Knowledge Management 10. E-Commerce and the Internationalization of SMEs 11. Managing Relations: The Essence of International Entrepreneurship Index
