Entrepreneurship / Start-ups

This book investigates the birth and evolution of craft breweries around the world.

This book focuses on topics such as the cultural specificity of Arab family businesses with regard to shaping their governance and management; the influence that specific values in the Arab world could exert on the management of family businesses; how spiritual and religious values influence business in Arab family firms; and the role of emotions in the management of family firms in the Arab World.

This book presents a state-of-the-art portrait of entrepreneurship in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as well as Georgia and Ukraine.

This book explores the internationalization of Turkish multinationals by examining a set of firms from various industries and providing eleven detailed case studies.

This book explores how novel digital services, including e-services, digital platforms and mobile apps, are increasingly being innovated through open processes.

This volume discusses entrepreneurship education in Europe on the basis of in-depth case studies of related activities at twenty higher education institutions.

Based on migration dynamics in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, this edited volume focuses on the activities of grassroots and informal non-state actors.

This book focuses on market developments of crowdfunding, crowdinvesting, crowdlending, social trading, robo-advice, personal financial management, online payment and mobile payment in Germany.

This book develops a unified framework to explain the phenomena of competitive advantage and firm value creation in dynamic environments.

This book explores challenges and approaches to the development, financial management and growth of Eastern European organizations, both public and private.

This book provides a thorough perspective on the realities of doing business in Ghana, outlining the economic, social, technological, and cultural dimensions of the society.

This book identifies the potential of intellectual property as a competitive asset for Latin American firms.

This book explains the political origins and evolution of capitalist institutions in developing countries by looking at distinct patterns in the electronics industry in three Southeast Asian countries: Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore.

This book presents a systematic literature review of 156 published papers on business model innovation (BMI).

Korine reframes the question of succession in family and founder-lead businesses as an issue of entrepreneurial choice, concentrating on the challenge of succession for change as opposed to the traditional focus on succession for continuity.

This volume examines the theoretical and empirical landscape of social entrepreneurship in both non-profit and profit sectors.

This book presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art portrait of entrepreneurship and small business management issues in Iran, and among the Iranian Diaspora.

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the essential issues in effective entrepreneurial management.

This book examines corporate approaches to responsible management by investigating the stakeholder relationships between business and society.

This book explores the gender dimension in technology commercialization through a collection of papers by internationally renowned scholars in the USA, Mexico and Europe.

Presenting 17 tools developed through rigorous design science research, this book bridges the relevance gap within network management.

This book presents the latest research perspectives on how the Industry 4.

This contributed volume presents a state-of-the-art compendium for startups and corporations, focusing on corporate ventures.

This book offers a comprehensive, easy to understand guide for startup entities and developing companies, providing insight on the various sources of funding that are available, how these funding sources are useful at each stage of a company's development, and offers a comprehensive intellectual property strategy that parallels each stage of development.

This book challenges readers to imagine social entrepreneurship as an innovative, creative model for building justice and sustainability.

This book analyses the importance of the entrepreneurial university, specifically in relation to the creation of entrepreneurial ideas and attitudes in students and entrepreneurial initiatives in academic institutions.

Focusing on the role entrepreneurship centres can play within the UK and other countries; this edited volume explores the effective construction of viable and sustainable entrepreneurship centres.

This book assesses the 2008-2009 financial crisis and its ramifications for the global economy from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This volume brings together selected papers from the 17th EBES Conference, organized in Venice in winter 2015.

This comprehensive book responds to the growing demand to study entrepreneurship as a key driver of innovation and competitive advantage.

The book explores various aspects of cognitive and motivational psychology as they impact entrepreneurial behavior.

The book aims to collect the most recent research and best practices in the cooperative and networking small business field identifying new theoretical models and describing the relationship between cooperation and networks in the small business strategy context.

This book contributes to our understanding of the reasons for the uneven geographic emergence and distribution of innovative start-ups and human capital, analyzing the role of the regional knowledge base and specifically academic knowledge.

This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to the issue of "e;local liabilities"e;, drawing on close analysis of the case of Chinese migrants and the Italian industrial district of Prato in order to elucidate the problems, or liabilities, that derive from the separation between natives and immigrants in local systems of people and firms.

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Addressing the wide-ranging challenges of global entrepreneurship and innovation faced by both East and West, this edited volume provides a multi-faceted overview of the complexity facing entrepreneurial firms within global value chains.

This book examines the ways in which universities can play a crucial role in inclusive development, social innovation and social entrepreneurship.

This volume aims to outline the fundamental principles behind leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship and show how the interrelations between them promote business and trade practices in the global economy.

This book addresses the increasing prominence of family-owned business groups and their potential to influence growth and development in the global economy.

Every year the US federal government will spend roughly 100 billion dollars through competitive IDIQ (Indefinite Duration Indefinite Quantity) contracts.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2016, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in June 2016.

This book presents a radically different approach to innovation aimed at creating new growth cycles for the Russian economy.

In this book the author investigates the role of entrepreneurship in the socio-economic development of emerging economies, highlighting its vital part in implementing development programs and policy initiatives.

Analyzing the role of creative industries, this book explores regional development within the economic cycle.

This volume focuses on the latest findings concerning financial environment research and the effects on business.

The aim of this volume is to explore entrepreneurship and business from the perspective of Islamic principles, which are usually based on collaboration, teamwork, generosity and altruism.

The edited collection brings into focus the meanings, interpretations and the process of value creation in international business.

This book presents the nature, challenges and successful cases of female entrepreneurship in Iran.

This book provides a framework for understanding micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSMEs) as important contributors to economic growth.

Aston challenges and reshapes the on-going debate concerning social status, economic opportunity, and gender roles in nineteenth-century society.