Managing Our Margins is a qualitatitve study of middle class women who own small firms. Building upon the knowledge and confidence they gained through employment and the development of careers in business, many women seek to achieve greater control over their working lives by making a transition to entrepreneurship. However, they must negotiate gender norms and gender-related expectations in both business and personal relationships when they become independent dealmakers.
Managing Our Margins is a qualitatitve study of middle class women who own small firms. Building upon the knowledge and confidence they gained through...
There is little doubt that in recent years enterprise has been considered an essential approach in the alleviation of deprivation existing in the developed world. The assumption is that area-based initiatives provide a means by which enterprise can include all members of society in mainstream social and economic activities. The rationale behind this book is to critically challenge the notion that enterprise can address the complexity behind deprivation and social exclusion by demonstrating UK and North American examples. The contributions in this edited collection offer a distinct opportunity...
There is little doubt that in recent years enterprise has been considered an essential approach in the alleviation of deprivation existing in the deve...
Much research in entrepreneurship presents results as if they are universally and timelessly valid. 'Entrepreneurship in Context' takes the opposite tack: it studies entrepreneurship as a context bound phenomenon.
Much research in entrepreneurship presents results as if they are universally and timelessly valid. 'Entrepreneurship in Context' takes the opposite t...
The empirical case study research literature on Chinese management is meagre. This rapidly changing market environment requires more research to provide an understanding of empirical processes of management practice and the business landscape in which they operate. This book adopts a holistic view to assess the impact of market socialism upon evolving economic enterprises and their ownership forms, which laid an emphasis on the effects of market socialist policies in shaping contrasting management patterns and behaviours in China between 2005-2010.
The book provides a comparative...
The empirical case study research literature on Chinese management is meagre. This rapidly changing market environment requires more research to pr...
Although entrepreneurship in the informal economy occurs outside state regulatory systems, informal commercial activities account for an estimated 30% of economic activity around the world. Informal entrepreneurship goes unmonitored despite the fact that it significantly contributes to poverty reduction and economic development. As a result, the informal sector is open to unethical practices including corruption, worker exploitation, and natural environment abuse to name just a few. In the media, debates have formed around whether informal entrepreneurship should be assisted or...
Although entrepreneurship in the informal economy occurs outside state regulatory systems, informal commercial activities account for an estimated ...
Over the last several decades there has been a growing interest in the relationship between entrepreneurship and university-industry collaboration, namely how such cooperation can benefit entrepreneurship development at individual, national, and regional levels. While there are several refereed journal articles on different aspects of university-industry cooperation, most studies dwell primarily on instruments such as spin-offs, incubators and graduate entrepreneurs. This collection offers the first book-length compendium of international comparative perspectives on university-industry...
Over the last several decades there has been a growing interest in the relationship between entrepreneurship and university-industry collaboration,...
This book explores the development of the rapidly evolving field of entrepreneurial learning by bringing together contributions from an international team of researchers, who offer new understanding of its emerging development and its potential scope for the future. Using the three domains of theory, education, and learning-in-practice, this book offers differing and complementary perspectives on entrepreneurial learning:
Conceptual work which reviews and summarises prior work in the field and advances theoretical understanding of entrepreneurial learning...
This book explores the development of the rapidly evolving field of entrepreneurial learning by bringing together contributions from an internation...
Entrepreneurship in Small Island States and Territories is the first publication to consider the 'creative' side of enterprise in small island states and territories. Rather than playing out as remote, vulnerable and dependent backwaters of neo-colonialism, the world's small island states and territories (with resident populations of less than 1 million) show considerable resourcefulness in facing up to the very real challenges of their predicament.
The creative endeavours of their residents, facilitated by adroit public policy, has created economic and investment...
Entrepreneurship in Small Island States and Territories is the first publication to consider the 'creative' side of enterprise in small is...
Entrepreneurship and Cluster Dynamics focuses on the origin and development of clusters and specifically on the role played by the strategic entrepreneurship in these contexts. Although separately entrepreneurship and cluster studies have already attracted the attention of academics and practitioners; this book aims to go further and offer an integrated and interactive view of topics.
The cross-cutting approach is one of the main attributes of this book. In fact, the book involves a great range of organizational and economic perspectives, from social psychology to conventional applied...
Entrepreneurship and Cluster Dynamics focuses on the origin and development of clusters and specifically on the role played by the strategic entrep...
Toward Entrepreneurial Community Development is about developing entrepreneurial communities, and goes beyond theories of the firm to demonstrate how local and regional society contributes in important ways to the vitality of entrepreneurs. The literature is rich with insights about leadership and culture within SMEs, and the behaviours and attitudes of their founders, founding teams, and managers. Since most of the attention in the entrepreneurship literature is focused on firms, we wish to explore everyone else: The social environment surrounding the entrepreneur, and how...
Toward Entrepreneurial Community Development is about developing entrepreneurial communities, and goes beyond theories of the firm to demo...
