Entrepreneurship, sustainable growth and performance
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Entrepreneurship, sustainable growth and performance
（Frontiers in European entrepreneurship research）
E. Elgar, c2008
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"In association with the ECSB"
"Papers presented at the 20th annual Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Conference held in Brussels in Nov. 2006"--T.p. verso (CIP data)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides an invaluable, state-of-the-art overview of current European research in the field of entrepreneurship.
It focuses on four themes, each of which illustrates a key dimension in the overall theme:
* entrepreneurs and their role in entrepreneurship
* entrepreneurship in family businesses
* performance of new ventures and
* entrepreneurial processes.
Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Growth and Performance is written from various perspectives by eminent academics with different methodological approaches. It is an invaluable resource for researchers, scholars and students as well as consultants and policymakers with an interest in entrepreneurship and small businesses.
Table of Contents
Contents:
Foreword
Friederike Welter
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction
Hans Crijns, Eddy Laveren, Hans Landstroem and David Smallbone
2. Looking Back at 20 Years of Entrepreneurship Research: What Did We Learn?
Per Davidsson
PART II: ENTREPRENEURS AND THEIR ROLE
3. The Hunt for the Heffalump Continues: Who is the Flemish Entrepreneur?
Eva Cools
4. How Do You React to Entrepreneurship Education? An Examination of the Role of Predispositions in an Enactive Mastery Experience of Entrepreneurship
Frederic Delmar and Regis Goujet
5. Why Do They Use Financial Bootstrapping? A Quantitative Study of New Business Managers
Joakim Winborg
PART III: ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN FAMILY FIRMS
6. Transgenerational Entrepreneurship: Exploring Entrepreneural Orientation in Family Firms
Mattias Nordqvist, Timothy G. Habbershon and Leif Melin
7. Financing and Growth Behaviour of Family Firms: Differences between First- and Next-generation-managed Firms
Vincent Molly, Eddy Laveren and Ann Jorissen
8. The Link between Family Orientation,Strategy and Innovation in Dutch SBEs: Lagged Effects
Lorraine M. Uhlaner, Sita Tan, Joris Meijaard and Ron Kemp
PART V: PERFORMANCE OF NEW VENTURES
9. New Venture Teams: The Relationship between Initial Team Characteristics, Team Processes and Performance
Daniela A. Almer-Jarz, Erich J. Schwarz and Robert J. Breitenecker
10. Entrepreneurs' Human Capital and Early Business Performance
Espen John Isaksen
11. Direct and Indirect Effects of Entrepreneurial and Market Orientations on the International Performance of Spanish and Belgian International New Ventures
Maria Ripolles, Andreu Blesa, Diego Monferrer and Ysabel Nauwelaerts
PART VI: PROCESSES AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
12. Emergency Entrepreneurship: Creative Organizing in the Eye of the Storm
Bengt Johannisson and Lena Olaison
13. On the Role of Academic Staff as Entrepreneurs in University Spin-offs: Case Studies of Biotechnology Firms in Norway
Olav R. Spilling
14. Innovation at the Intersection of Market Strategy and Technology: A Study of Digital Marketing Adoption Among SMEs
Vladimir Vanyushyn
15. Employment Growth of New Firms
Erik Stam, Petra Gibcus, Jennifer Telussa and Elizabeth Garnsey
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"