Issues in entrepreneurship: contracts, corporate characteristics, and country differences, 2002

Entrepreneurship is recognized as critical for the growth of both individual firms and overall economies. Entrepreneurship fosters the introduction of new products, processes and organizations. It provides the flexibility and dynamism required for responding to new market opportunities and challenge...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York JAI 2003
Edition:1st ed
Series:Advances in the study of entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth v. 14
Subjects:
Online Access:DE-634
DE-1043
DE-M347
DE-523
DE-91
DE-473
DE-19
DE-355
DE-703
DE-20
DE-706
DE-824
DE-29
DE-739
DE-1046
Volltext
Summary:Entrepreneurship is recognized as critical for the growth of both individual firms and overall economies. Entrepreneurship fosters the introduction of new products, processes and organizations. It provides the flexibility and dynamism required for responding to new market opportunities and challenges. Despite all of this, entrepreneurship is not well understood. Who is an entrepreneur? What conditions promote entrepreneurship? How does it differ across firms and across countries? Fortunately, as revealed in the chapters included in this volume, there is an active research agenda on entrepreneurship. There is information for academics, business people, and a lay audience on vital issues including, collaborations between R&D firms, corporate entrepreneurship and firm growth, technological change and entrepreneurship in Taiwan, venture capital, cross country comparisons of entrepreneurship by women, the characteristics of high-tech enterepreneurs, and the leading US business plans competition, MOOT Corp
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 251 Seiten) ill
ISBN:9781849502009

There is no print copy available.

Interlibrary loan Place Request Caution: Not in THWS collection! Get full text