The Entrepreneurial Culture highlights the subtle yet powerful influence of national cultural heritage on entrepreneurship ventures, using an alternative and fresh approach to explore the entrepreneurial culture of Chinese and Irish software firms. This book presents a unique analysis of...

pt. I. Theoretical building blocks -- pt. II. Partner selection and alliance investment decisions -- pt. III. Contractual foundations of alliances -- pt. IV. Relational and behavioral aspects of alliances -- pt. V. Alliance networks and portfolios -- pt. VI. Novel collaborative relationships --...

Digital business ecosystems : theoretical underpinnings -- The business ecosystem as a multiple dynamic network / Angelo Corallo -- The paradigm of structural coupling in digital ecosystems / Paolo Dini, Francesco Nachira -- The organizational dimension of digital business ecosystems -- The...

This illuminating Handbook presents the state-of-the-art in the scientific field of experience economy studies. It offers a rich and varied collection of contributions that discuss different issues of crucial importance for our understanding of the experience economy. Each chapter reflects...

pt. 1. Understanding and measuring customer equity -- pt. 2. Identifying key drivers to augment customer equity -- pt. 3. Applying the customer equity concept to enhance firm performance -- pt. 4. Strategic management of customer equity -- pt. 5. Implementing customer equity in firms.

'This volume is excellent. Students who are interested in Asian business should read it and will find the comprehensive bibliography offered by the different contributors very helpful. In light of the recent global financial crises, it is time to re-examine the "Asian miracles," as well as the...

Contents: 1. Introduction to the Handbook on Customer Centricity -- Robert w. Palmatier, Christine Moorman, and Ju-Yeon Lee -- Part I: Organizational design perspectives on customer centricity -- 2. Customer centricity: A multi-year journey / Ajay K. Kohli, Bernie J. Jaworski, and Nabil Shabshab...

From its launch in 1997, the Frankfurt technology stock exchange developed spectacularly as did other European technology exchanges. Many Europeans thought that a new age of entrepreneurship had dawned. Following the downturn, however, the search for blame began. Much of this blame was...

Readers with interests in managing knowledge- and innovation-intensive businesses and those who are seeking new insights about how knowledge economies work will find this book an invaluable reference tool. Chapters deal with issues such as open innovation, wellbeing, and digital work that...

This fascinating Handbook defines how knowledge contributes to social and economic life, and vice versa. It considers the five areas critical to acquiring a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge economy: the nature of the knowledge economy; social, cooperative, cultural, creative, ethical...