Entrepreneurship / Start-ups

This contributed volume explores and reveals the dynamics, strengths and weaknesses, trends and implications of entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

This volume analyzes the barriers to, as well as new drivers for, entrepreneurial development in post-communist countries.

Reflecting increasing investment in entrepreneurship in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), this new book offers extensive coverage of the factors that enable Emiratis to start and grow a business.

Entrepreneurial ecosystems involve a complex synergy of factors, including social and structural changes that are frequently cumulative within territories, promoting the improvement of citizens' quality of life and higher development levels.

Sharing information and knowledge, co-innovating with clients, communities, and competitors and adopting cognitive technology, robo advisors, crowdfunding, and blockchain reflect current socio-economic behaviour.

Addressing the need for further theorisation and operationalisation of social entrepreneurship in India, this edited collection provides a critical and deeper understanding of the social entrepreneurial ecosystem.

This unique book reveals how Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) can be used to achieve resilience to change and external shocks.

This book provides a broad understanding of what it means to internationalise entrepreneurially.

This book outlines the unique challenges and opportunities of doing business in Africa, analysing how varying degrees of development across its countries affects entrepreneurship.

This book provides a critical analysis of the current state of knowledge on the relationship between family firms and a wide range of accounting choices, including earnings management, accounting conservatism, and financial and non-financial disclosure.

This book draws attention to the classic, seminal articles in entrepreneurship that have made profound contributions to the field's emergence, development, and maturity.

This collection of expert articles explores the development drivers of new technology-based firms and projects.

This book introduces the structure, economic arguments, and business strategies for entrepreneurship in sport.

The book brings together an international panel of experts on economic integration and international business to address the essential link between the two fields, namely the impact of integration processes on the business environment.

Examining the experiences of Africans setting up businesses back home, the main focus of this book is to establish the economic, social and psychological reasons for such 'home direct investment'.

Taking the themes of entrepreneurship, start-ups, innovation and collaboration, this book seeks to answer the urgent question of how countries and companies can stay competitive in an ever-changing digital environment.

This book presents a collection of interrelated research advances in the field of technological entrepreneurship from the perspective of competition in emerging markets.

This book is a must-read guide for those entering the world of HealthTech startups.

This book presents a multidimensional approach by providing a state of the art on EIS ecosystems, as well as structural and changing dynamics and its impact on citizens' quality of life.

The ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS (UK and Ireland Chapter) Published in association with the UK and Ireland Chapter of the Academy of International Business.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2017, held in Essen, Germany, in June 2017.

This book provides detailed examination of start-up companies which entered the smartphone industry following the revolution triggered by Apple with its iPhone in 2007.

Drawing on empirical insights from the field of desktop 3D printing, this book elaborates the concept of innovation communities as a pattern of open and distributed innovation.

This book teaches readers the fundamentals of innovation and reduces them to practice in the context of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship.

This edited collection outlines the issues central to youth engagement in research and social innovation.

This book explains and analyzes entrepreneurship and cultural management issues in the creative and cultural sectors and discusses the impacts of economic, social and structural changes on cultural entrepreneurship.

This book examines the adverse effects of complexity, information asymmetries, transaction costs, and uncertainty on investors' decision making.

This book focuses on various types of crowdfunding and the lessons learned from academic research.

This brief presents a detailed look at the entrepreneurial ecosystem of nations around the wold by combining individual data with institutional components.

Contributing to academic discussions on entrepreneurship and gender in Africa, this book provides coverage of recent trends and an exploration of the evolution of female entrepreneurship over time.

This book examines the complex relationship between corruption and entrepreneurship in countries of varying levels of economic development.

The book focuses on the historical, political, economic, and cultural elements of Korea and the strong influence these have on women leaders in the nation.

This brief captures the contextual features of entrepreneurship by measuring entrepreneurial attitudes, abilities, and aspirations at both the individual- and country-level.

This book features latest research insights into the study of the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

This book presents a critical analysis of the corporate university.

This book presents methods for dealing with conflict in family firms.

This volume brings together three areas of interest: the rule-based approach, the entrepreneur, and Japan as an empirical application.

The book explores different approaches towards the 'entrepreneurial university' paradigm, explores channels and mechanism used by universities to implement the paradigm and contributes to the public discussion on the impact of commercialization on university research and knowledge.

This book connects entrepreneurship and psychology research by focusing on the personality dimensions of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial cognition, entrepreneurial leadership, and gender behavior.

The book illustrates the considerable advances in modern evolutionary economics and addresses core questions of economic behaviour, interaction of heterogeneous actors in uncertain environments and the possibility of aggregating observations on a macro-economic level.

This book explores technological innovation in family firms, seeking to reconstruct the links between the heterogeneous dimensions of family businesses and their innovative behaviour.

This book shares unique perspectives on the successful global evolution and future ambitions of Chinese consumer companies.

This book provides engineering faculty members and instructors with a base understanding of why the entrepreneurial mindset is important to engineering students and how it can be taught.

This book of expert contributions provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary global marketing issues under different international business settings.

This volume offers an overview of the critical challenges faced by aspiring African entrepreneurs and their coping strategies to sustain and develop their businesses.

This book investigates the transfer of technology from basic research to society.

This book proposes an alternative strategy to improve and sustain prosperity, through the creation of an entrepreneurial culture in learning cities or city regions.

This book focuses on social perspectives of women's entrepreneurship, in the context of work-life balance and crowd-based business modelling, and economic perspectives associated with quality-of-life expectations.

This volume provides a critical examination of branding and marketing in higher education from national, regional, and global perspectives.

This book investigates spatial institutional variation and its influence on entrepreneurial activity in the Russian Federation, building on an innovative geometric clustering approach.