Studies contextual networks to explain the network as an intermediary between a firm and its global environment. In contrast to the "habitat" or "milieu," the context model focuses specifically on entrepreneurship -- offering both stability and change, suggesting guidelines but allowing for...

Although entrepreneurship, management, and familyconcerns are generally viewed as mutually exclusive aspects of familybusinesses, the tensions generated by the entrepreneurial drive, the family associal institution, and the management profession may actually energize themedium-sized family...

In the face of structural economic changes in Western industrialized countries, ensuring the survival of communities requires local mobilization. Using the example of Sweden, the present research focuses on the initiation and management of local efforts for economic development and argues that...

In this vital new book, leading international scholars highlight the unique characteristics and rich variety of European research in entrepreneurship. They pursue several different perspectives and focus on the key issues and most significant developments in the field

In identifying and enacting roads to sustainable development in welfare states, several divides fragment the research community as well as the public policies being practised. First there is a major gap between what might be addressed as a functional and a territorial rationale. The former is...

This article suggests that the key to entrepreneurial success is to be found in the ability to develop and maintain a personal network. In elaborating this proposition I regard the environment of the business venture as "enacted". The inexperienced new entrepreneur needs support to create a...

Our main purpose is to test the proposition that Swedish entrepreneurship and small-business research has established a theoretical platform of its own over the last quarter of a century. In order to cope with that challenge we have to provide answers to some basic questions, for example: (i)...