The contributors to this collection provide a wealth of new analyses of both traditional and emerging aspects of entrepreneurship, from a variety of national perspectives and from a variety of disciplines. Globalization has begun to dismantle the barriers that traditionally segregated local...

Introduction / Richard W. Wright -- Theoretical foundations of international entrepreneurship / Leo-Paul Dana, Hamid Etemad, Richard W. Wright -- A framework for understanding accelerated international entrepreneurship / Benjamin M. Oviatt, Patricia P. McDougall -- The role of alliances in...

The rapid increase in the globalization of businessesin recent yearscan be attributed to two events:the downfall of thenation-state as the main macroeconomic unit of international economic activityand the departure of the stand-alone firm as the essential unit ofcompetition.The decreased...