Progress in the resource-based approach to strategy faces three obstacles: (1) lack of acceptable definitions and operationalization of key constructs, in particular of organizational competence; (2) lack of measures and (3) ill-specified relationships between constructs. Addressing these gaps...

Employing a multidisciplinary approach, the chapters cover all aspects of current entrepreneurship theory in multinational, economics, organizational sociology, marketing and finance. Other issues discussed include gender and networking, strategies in entrepreneurial growth, job satisfaction and...