SMEs and Competitiveness - Facts and Challenges -- New Approaches in Supporting to SMEs Competitiveness -- Prototyping Competitive Strategy -- Arranging Benchmarking Collaborative Group -- Coordinating Benchmarking Collaborative Group -- Benchmarking Collaborative Network - Summarizing.

This book is an ethnographic case study, based on first hand observation, of family businesses in the northern Vietnamese village of Ninh Hiệp along the Red River Delta, which became a major hub for textiles in the wake of the country’s shift towards market socialism. The author explores how...

This unique book reveals how Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) can be used to achieve resilience to change and external shocks. COINs, which consist of 'cyberteams' of motivated individuals, are self-organizing emergent social systems for coping with external change. The book describes...

Wie die Dot-coms die Welt veränderten -- Der neue Goldrausch: Green to Gold -- Wege vom Silicon Valley ins Green Valley -- Unternehmertum nach Silicon Valley Muster -- Neuausrichtung der Hochschulbildung auf Nachhaltigkeit -- Resümee.

Welche Standortbedingungen fördern Innovation und Unternehmertum und steigern somit die regionale Wertschöpfungskompetenz? Die Autoren gehen dieser zentralen Frage auf der Grundlage einer multi- und interdisziplinären Diskussion nach. Anhand neuer konzeptioneller und empirischer...

Benedict C. Doepfer critically analyzes a networked approach to value creation processes of young knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms and assesses precise strategies and tactics in a regional context. He introduces the concept of co-innovation competence which he also examines empirically....

Chapter 1: Introduction to "Entrepreneurship in Post-Communist Countries: New Drivers towards a Market Economy" -- Part 1: Entrepreneurship in Post-Transition Context -- Chapter 2: The influence of the motives of entrepreneurial activity on economic growth of developing countries in Southeast...

Scale your single-person business to profitability. Increase your audience, create multiple products, and generate more profit. This book takes you through the entire process of building a scalable business from the seemingly impossible place of "being just one person." Most single-person...

This volume brings together selected papers from the 17th EBES Conference, organized in Venice in winter 2015. The theoretical and empirical papers present the latest research in diverse areas of business, economics, and finance from many different regions. They chiefly focus on the interactions...