Why do some individuals decide they want to create businesses and then actually do so? Why do others decide against this course of action, even though they appear to have what it takes to succeed? These two questions were among the first that researchers in the field of entrepreneurship tried to answer. Recently, it seems that the problem is much more difficult to solve than it first appeared thirty years ago. The venture creation phenomenon is a complex one, covering a wide variety of situations. The purpose of this book is to improve our understanding of this complexity by offering both a...
Why do some individuals decide they want to create businesses and then actually do so? Why do others decide against this course of action, even though...
Since its emergence in the early eighties, the subject of Corporate Entrepreneurship has gained relevance as a subject of academic research and in the world of business practice. Yet corporate entrepreneurship remains an elusive notion.
Written by two entrepreneurship experts this practical book introduces the field and highlights the importance of balancing the encouragement of new venture style behaviour with managing an established firm. Covering both theory and practice, the book also switches between the perspective of the individual intrapraneur and the organization to provide the...
Since its emergence in the early eighties, the subject of Corporate Entrepreneurship has gained relevance as a subject of academic research and in ...
Since its emergence in the early eighties, the subject of Corporate Entrepreneurship has gained relevance as a subject of academic research and in the world of business practice. Yet corporate entrepreneurship remains an elusive notion.
Written by two entrepreneurship experts this practical book introduces the field and highlights the importance of balancing the encouragement of new venture style behaviour with managing an established firm. Covering both theory and practice, the book also switches between the perspective of the individual intrapraneur and the organization to provide the...
Since its emergence in the early eighties, the subject of Corporate Entrepreneurship has gained relevance as a subject of academic research and in ...
This book explores different topics in the field of female entrepreneurship, such as motivational factors of female entrepreneurs, career perspectives of women, social female enterprises, tourism and hospitality, and emotional and institutional support of female entrepreneurial initiatives in the perspective of different transitional countries.
This book explores different topics in the field of female entrepreneurship, such as motivational factors of female entrepreneurs, career perspectives...
Family Entrepreneurship: A Developing Field contributes to the previous literature on this topic in three different ways. First, through the offered conceptualization of family entrepreneurship, the authors make it possible to disentangle complex relationships that characterize the field. Second, this review of the literature offers some examples of how entrepreneurial behaviors can be affected by the interplays that can occur among these actors and sheds light on the fact that not only family businesses are social systems composed of the controlling family unit, the business entity, and the...
Family Entrepreneurship: A Developing Field contributes to the previous literature on this topic in three different ways. First, through the offered c...
Entrepreneurship is a growing field of research, attracting researchers from many different disciplines including economics, sociology, psychology, and management. The concept of entrepreneurship, and research in the field, is becoming institutionalized, increasingly oriented by influential trends, theories and methods, following the mainstream and being shaped accordingly.
The objective of this book is to move beyond mainstream approaches and assumptions which are dominating the field, and to raise questions about the nature and process of entrepreneurship research. Over...
Entrepreneurship is a growing field of research, attracting researchers from many different disciplines including economics, sociology, psychology,...
Family business is the most prominent form of business organization, and its importance to the global economy cannot be under-estimated. Until recently, the impact of the family on entrepreneurial firms has been under-researched, leading to a conceptual gap between the two areas of study, and an underestimation of the contribution of family systems to entrepreneurial success.
Starting from the consideration that family is an intimate and essential aspect of entrepreneurship, this book considers connections between family, family members, entrepreneurial behavior, family...
Family business is the most prominent form of business organization, and its importance to the global economy cannot be under-estimated. Until rece...
Entrepreneurship research attracts scholars from a wide spectrum of disciplines. Yet the field is multi-paradigmatic and lacking consensus, even on the nature of core entrepreneurial phenomena. What is recognized is that it is characterized by dynamic and emergent processes - a complex interplay between actors, processes and contexts. As a result, post-positivistic approaches are gaining traction in a field long dominated by positivistic philosophies.
This book reflects on the fundamental philosophical basis of entrepreneurship scholarship. It explores the shifting meanings...
Entrepreneurship research attracts scholars from a wide spectrum of disciplines. Yet the field is multi-paradigmatic and lacking consensus, even on...
