Managing complexity and change in SMEs frontiers in European research
The process of founding new enterprises and making them grow and prosper is a far more convoluted undertaking than it was just a few decades ago. This book explores the complexity faced by today's entrepreneurs. Institutional boundaries, evolutionary perspectives and the intricacies of manageme...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham, U.K
Edward Elgar
c2006
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| Summary: | The process of founding new enterprises and making them grow and prosper is a far more convoluted undertaking than it was just a few decades ago. This book explores the complexity faced by today's entrepreneurs. Institutional boundaries, evolutionary perspectives and the intricacies of management are the central themes in this study of entrepreneurs and SMEs in a world marked by major transitions 1. One decade later : following up the "Gröna Kvisten" prize-winning growth firms / Leona Achtenhagen ... [et al.] -- 2. New business early performance : differences between firms started by novice, serial and portfolio entrepreneurs / Gry Agnete Alsos, Lars Kolvereid and Espen John Isaksen -- 3. Small firms' relationships and knowledge acquisition : an empirical investigation / Mariachiara Colucci and Manuela Presutti -- 4. The evolution of firms created by the Swedish Science and Technology Labor Force, 1990-2000 / Frédéric Delmar, Karin Hellerstedt and Karl Wennberg -- 5. Innovation and the characteristics of cooperating and non-cooperating small firms / Mark Freel -- 6. Complex explanations of order creation, emergence and sustainability as situated entrepreneurship / Ted Fuller and Lorraine Warren -- 7. Extreme entrepreneurs : challenging the institutional framework / Bengt Johannisson and Caroline Wigren -- 8. Debriefing and motivating knowledge workers in small IT firms : challenges to leadership / Mette Mønsted -- 9. Business angels investing at early stages : are they different? / Nils Månsson and Hans Landström -- 10. Internationalization of new ventures : mediating role of entrepreneur and top management team experience / Johanna Pulkkinen |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 267 p ill |
| ISBN: | 1845429087 9781847202857 9781845429089 |