Entrepreneurship and growth in local, regional and national economies :
[Book]
frontiers in European entrepreneurship research /
editors, David Smallbone, Hans Landström, Dylan Jones-Evans.
Northampton, MA :
Edward Elgar,
2009.
ix, 372 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
"In association with the ECSB."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Regional innovation, collective entrepreneurship and green clusters / Philip Cooke -- Determinants of early-stage entrepreneurial activity in European regions : distinguishing low and high ambition entrepreneurship / Niels Bosma and Veronique Schutjens -- Can new ventures develop pioneer behaviour in industries with unfabourable conditions? The role of cababilities / Pedro M. García-villaverde and María J. Ruiz-Ortega -- Switching from paid employement to entrepreneurship : the effect on individuals' earnings / Miguel Torres Preto, Rui Baptista and Francisco Lima -- The financial requirements of early-stage entrepreneurs / Colm O'Gorman -- An examination of the link between growth attitudes and realized growth / Anders Isaksson and Vladimir Vanyushyn -- Becoming an ex-entrepreneur : firm performance and the sell-out or dissolution decision / A. Miguel Amaral, Rui Baptista and Francisco Lima -- The entrepreneur in 'risk society' : the personal consequences of business failure / Colin Mason, Sara Carter and Stephen Tragg -- The creation of higher education institutions and firm entry : a policy evaluation / Joana Mendonça, Rui Baptista and Francisco Lima -- Cooperation with universities and research institutions for corporate entrepeneurship activities : the influence of the technology intensity of the environment / Ángela González-Moreno and Francisco J. Sáez-Martínez -- ICT-related small firms with different collaborative network structures : different species or variations on a theme? / Vinit Parida and Mats Westerberg -- Does enterprise discourse have the power to enable or disable deprived communities? / Carole Howorth, Caroline Parkinson and Alan Southern -- Transnationalism, mixed embeddedness and Somali entrepreneurs in Leicester / Trevor Jones, Monder Ram and Nicholas theodorakopoulos -- the emergence of entrepreneurial potential in transition environments : a challenge for entrepreneurship theory or developmental perspective? / Friederike Welter and David Smallbone.