During the last two decades, Vietnam has been undergoing a process of deregulating economic activities and integrating into the global economy. The passing of the Enterprise Law in 1999, which facilitated the establishment of private enterprises, and the achievement of membership of the World...

‘This extremely timely publication addresses an important knowledge gap in this era of shifting economic power and global imbalances. Entrepreneurship is central to the growing success of the wider African economy and understanding the importance of trust within developing relationships can...

Knowledge -- Scenario Setting -- Foundation Laws of Knowledge Dynamics -- The Knowledge Value Chain -- Industry and Knowledge Clusters -- Embracing Business Ecosystems to Enable Sustainable and Accelerated Innovation -- Corporate Management of Knowledge -- Knowledge-Relevant Economic Policy:...

In forschungsintensiven Industrien nimmt die räumliche Konzentration von Akteuren aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik immer größeren Einfluss auf die Standortwahl von Unternehmen. Zusätzlich unterstützen strukturpolitische Maßnahmen die Etablierung von Clusterinitiativen, um die...

Introduction -- Determinants of Institutional Quality: a Case Study of IMF Programme Countries -- Institutional Quality, Macroeconomic Stabilization and Economic Growth: a Case Study of IMF Programme Countries -- IMF Programmes and Institutional Quality Determinants: Economic Scenarios in...

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...

This volume focuses on the latest findings concerning financial environment research and the effects on business. Major topics addressed range from finance-driven globalization, contagion risk transmission, financial sustainability, and bank efficiency, to oil price shocks and spot prices...

1 Taiwan's Economic Development: The Role of Entrepreneurship and its Incubating Factors (with Ho-Don Yan and Shan-Yu Chen) -- 2 A Model of a Small Family Business in Taiwan -- 3 Uncertainty, Learning and Error Elimination: Taiwanese Entrepreneurs in Mainland China -- 4 Taiwan's Entrepreneurs...