Entrepreneurship in Europe (Routledge Revivals): The Social Processes

ISBN-13: 9781138889385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 210 str.

Robert Goffee; Richard Scase

Opis

The changing character of the economies in Eastern and Western Europe are leading more people to start their own businesses. This volume, first published in 1987, highlights the trends developing over the closing decades of the twentieth century. Although business start-up requires financial and marketing skills, it also demands important physchological and sociological inputs. On the basis of detailed accounts of the relevant social processes, this volume describes the varied experiences of entrepreneurship as they are emerging among various groups in both Eastern and Western Europe including the unemployed, women, ethnic minorities and others. This book will be of interest to students of business studies and sociology.

Spis treści

Notes on Contributors;  Preface;  1. Introduction  2. The Development of Small Firms, the Traditional Family and Agrarian Patterns in Italy  3. Trends in Small Business Start-up in West Germany  4. Small Business and Social Mobility in France  5. Patterns of Business Proprietorship among Women in Britain  6. Ethnic Entrepreneurs in Britain and Europe 7. Ethnic Enterprise in Britain and Europe  7. Ethnic Enterprise in the Netherlands: the Surinamese of Amsterdam  8. Entrepreneurship in a Corporatist State: the Case of Sweden  9. Independent Economic Activity under State Socialism: is there a Petite Bourgeoisie in Eastern Europe?  10. The Social Analysis of Small Business: Some Emerging Themes;  Index

O autorze

Robert Goffee is Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at the London Business School having previously held posts at the Universities of Bath, Kent and Surrey. He is the author, with Richard Scase, of several articles and books including The Real World of the Small Business Owner, 2nd Edition (Croom Helm, 1987), The Entrepreneurial Middle Class (Croom Helm, 1982) and Women in Charge (Allen and Unwin, 1985). Richard Scase is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author of Social Democracy in Capitalist Society (Croom Helm, 1977) and co-author (with Robert Goffee) of The Entrepreneurial Middle Class (Croom Helm, 1980); Women in Charge (Allen and Unwin, 1985); and The Real World of the Small Business Owner, 2nd Edition (Croom Helm, 1987); and (with Howard Davis) of Western Capitalism and State Socialism (Blackwell, 1985). He is also the editor of Readings in the Swedish Class Structure (Pergamon Press, 1976); Industrial Society; Class, Cleavage and Control (Allen and Unwin, 1977) and The State in Western Europe (Croom Helm, 1980).