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"This Handbook focuses on the complex relationship between entrepreneurship and conflict. Editors Wim Naudé and … entrepreneurs, states capturing businesses, entrepreneurship in post-conflict reconstruction, and entrepreneurs in conflict against … other entrepreneurs. Contributing authors analyze pragmatic evidence and academic literature to explore entrepreneurship and …
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1. Introduction -- 2. Key concepts -- 3. The historic debate -- 4. Profit maximization is only part of the answer -- 5. Organizational mortality and its fruits -- 6. Causes of organizational failure -- 7. Uncontrollability -- 8. Empirical evidence -- 9. The soft constraint syndrome -- 10. When...
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The book compares the 1954-79 labour productivity record of 5 expanding public sector industries to that of 24 expanding, capital intensive, mass-production industries in the British private sector. The author shows that the public sector industries' labour productivity growth was significantly...
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This important and well-researched book examines the challenges to private sector growth in twelve Middle East and North African (MENA) countries, assessing comparative performance against a number of indicators and focussing on the special role of SMEs and entrepreneurial activity
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This accessible book aims to inform readers interested in assessing privatization and market development concepts on a global scale, and outlines a range of thinking on how these policy ideas have moved around the globe. Bringing together an international team of contributors, the book traces...
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The debate on whether high standards of labour market legislation affect economic growth and the rate of employment is topical and important. The contributors to this book address three main issues: * how Taiwan's labour market was able to work so well prior to 1996, maintaining full employment...
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"The contextual turn in the field of entrepreneurship means it is crucial for scholars to integrate into their research … the multifaceted contexts in which entrepreneurship is embedded. This insightful book explores the different spatial …, social, digital, institutional and policy contexts for entrepreneurship and investigates their relevance for entrepreneurship …
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Important Option for the Desperate -- 11. New Firms: Change Agents Hiding in Plain Sight -- Appendix A Global Entrepreneurship …"Policy makers give a lot of attention to business creation and entrepreneurship, but they do not have a good resource … for understanding The Truth about Entrepreneurship. The extensive media coverage of Wall Street entrepreneurship provides …
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an emerging industry -- 8. What are we talking about when we talk about entrepreneurship? -- 9. Acting as if … to entrepreneurship scholarship -- 18. Entrepreneurial narrative and a science of the imagination -- 19. Entrepreneurship …This book draws together William B. Gartner's key contributions to entrepreneurship research over the past 25 years. An …
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The Handbook of Measures for International Entrepreneurship Research is a user-friendly collection of multi …-item measures developed and used in the research of international entrepreneurship and important areas related to it: international … business, entrepreneurship, marketing, strategy, and innovation. Editors Nicole Coviello and Helena Yli-Renko carefully …
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