Bridging business and modern Mediterranean practices, this book combines cutting edge contributions from both academics and practitioners. The Middle East is experiencing unprecedented challenges and it is in this context that the business community can play a game-changing role, turning these...

This book focuses on issues related to entrepreneurship and SME management on the African continent by providing insights from different conceptual, empirical and case studies. In doing so, it focuses on context-specific challenges for conducting entrepreneurial activities or business endeavors...

Opportunity -- to the 2nd Edition of the Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research -- Opportunity -- Debates in Entrepreneurship: Opportunity Formation and Implications for the Field of Entrepreneurship -- An Update to the Individual-Opportunity Nexus -- Three Views of Entrepreneurial Opportunity --...

An Introduction to Sport Entrepreneurship -- The Sport Industry and Entrepreneurship -- Game Changes in Sport: The Role of Innovation and Creativity -- Athlete Entrepreneurs -- Perspectives of Sport Entrepreneurship -- Sport Business and Entrepreneurship -- System Processes in Sport...

This book looks at the challenges and possibilities facing leadership in Africa today by providing a rich history of the continent, the complexities the continent has experienced, and the great hope and encouragement that remains. It explores what African leadership is and the possible effects...

Based on theory and an empirical survey, Philipp K. Berger measures the amount of fear for different groups of entrepreneurs. He draws parallels to Prospect Theory revealing the components of fear and shows, that entrepreneurial fear is a rather rational subconscious evaluation of the situation....

This book analyzes rapidly-growing world-class Spanish retail banks. It argues that their success is due to excellent management, clear-headed CEOs, the presence of a cluster of like-minded executives who complement each other and create a homogenous strategy pattern, and that IT systems and the...

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Economics and Management, MS 2016, held in Teruel, Spain, in July 2016. The event was co-organized by the AMSE Association and the University of Zaragoza through the GESES...

Bundes- und länderbezogene Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien -- Internationale Aspekte der nationalen Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie der Bundesregierung — Kooperationen mit Mittel- und Osteuropa -- Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien des Freistaates Sachsen -- Netzwerke für einen internationalen Wissenstransfer --...