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Entrepreneurship and SME Management Across Africa : Context, Challenges, Cases

Achtenhagen, Leona (ed.); Brundin, Ethel (ed.) - 2016

This book focuses on issues related to entrepreneurship and SME management on the African continent by providing … personnel and environmental concerns. Entrepreneurship and SME Management Across Africa: Context, Challenges, Cases will be … -- Section IV: Commentary -- Chapter 13: Entrepreneurship and SME Management Across Africa: A perspective and a short review …

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Entrepreneurship, sustainable growth and performance : frontiers in European entrepreneurship research

Landström, Hans (contributor) - Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business … - 2008

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 …pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Entrepreneurs and their role -- pt. 3. Entrepreneurship in family firms -- pt. 4 …

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Narratives of enterprise : crafting entrepreneurial self-identity in a small firm

Down, Simon - 2006

Simon Down's timely ethnographic study takes a philosophically reflective and empirically detailed look at the way in which enterprising people use narrative resources to construct their identity as entrepreneurs. The book draws on a wide range of intellectual sources, from naturalistic...

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Economic Development and Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies : Issues, Obstacles and Perspectives

Aleljević, Jovo (ed.); Trivić, Jelena (ed.) - 2016

Business Environment in Transition Economies -- Entrepreneurship and Transition Experiences -- Particular Fields of … Entrepreneurship Development. …This book contributes to a better understanding of entrepreneurship in transition economies. Current literature …

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Patents and the measurement of international competitiveness : new data on the use of patents by universities, small firms, and individual inventors

Kingston, William - 2006

This highly original book represents a major advance in the use of patents to compare countries' technological competitiveness. It tabulates and analyses 280,000 United States patents from countries across the world over a ten year period. Specifically, these patents were granted to...

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The Economics of Small Businesses : An International Perspective

Calcagnini, Giorgio - 2011

Is small still beautiful? The recent economic and financial crisis has shown that developed countries in which firms are smaller suffered the biggest GDP plunges. Today, economic growth depends more than in the past on sound and well-organized firms, which means more innovation, a better...

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Small Businesses in the Aftermath of the Crisis : International Analyses and Policies

Calcagnini, Giorgio - 2012

Preface -- 1 SME and Entrepreneurship Policies After the Crisis -- 2 The Italian Small- and Medium-Sized Firms in the …

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Innovative Start-Ups and the Distribution of Human Capital : The Role of Regional Knowledge

Aamoucke, Ronney - 2016

This book contributes to our understanding of the reasons for the uneven geographic emergence and distribution of innovative start-ups and human capital, analyzing the role of the regional knowledge base and specifically academic knowledge. Using extensive datasets from West German regions and...

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State of Literature on Small to Medium-Size Enterprises and Entrepreneurship in Low-Income Communities

Acs, Zoltán J.; Kallas, Kadri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

, entrepreneurship and low income (LI) communities, needs to be put into perspective and that is not simple. So, let us start with a … simpler question: Does entrepreneurship impact communities in general, and, if so, how?.. …

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Innovation, strategic renewal and its effect on small firm performance

Folkeringa, Mickey; Meijaard, Joris; Stel, Adriaan J. van - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between strategic renewal and the performance of smaller firms (less than 100 employees). We use a panel of micro data on about 1000 Dutch firms. The dataset contains information on aspects of strategic renewal, including process innovation and...

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