The contributors to this volume explore the emerging patterns of SME growth and international expansion in response to the evolving competitive environment, dynamics of competitive behavior, entrepreneurial processes and formulation of strategy

Deckblatt -- Titelseite -- Impressum -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- 1 Einführung -- 1.1 Strategie, Planung und Management -- 1.2 Mittelstand, KMU und Start-ups -- 1.2.1 Das Konstrukt Mittelstand -- 1.2.2 Mittelstand und KMU -- 1.2.3 Was ist ein Start-up? -- 1.2.4 Unterschiede KMU versus...

Technology-based industries have come to account for ever-greater shares of economic activity during the last 30 years. Recently, rapid, digitally-enabled technological change has generated new opportunities for value creation, enabled new ways of capturing value, and stimulated the emergence of...

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Diffusion of Startups addresses, for the first time, the emerging notion of entrepreneurial ecosystems. Chapters from leading scholars in the fields of entrepreneurship and strategy explore new ideas and provoke debate in both academia and practice. Covering...

11 Towards more synergy in entrepreneurial competence research in entrepreneurship education12 Learning fictions or facts? Moving from case studies to the impact-based method; 13 The personal dimension of an entrepreneurial competence: an approach from the Spanish basic education context; 14...