Bücher der Reihe Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth

Focuses on the entrepreneurial processes that have an impact on strategic outcomes such as organizing, learning, and contributing to outstanding financial performance. This book contains chapters that address entrepreneurial processes in a corporate setting including large and medium-sized corporations.

In a world defined by increasing uncertainty and complexity, understanding the concept of Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) is of critical importance. This volume convenes some of the world's leading experts on EO to provide readers with an overview of the current state of EO research and set a compelling agenda for its future.

Seminal Ideas for the Next Twenty-Five Years of Advances is the second of two volumes exploring and celebrating some of the most long-lasting and influential contributions to Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth.

Contains an Open Access chapter. Various perspectives on hybrid ventures are explored in this volume, incl. the costs to all when some entrepreneurs do not pursue hybrid approaches, whether hybrid ventures are, or should be, the new norm, and whether the social, environmental, and economic value are distinct and should be separated from each other.

Volume 16 considers the central issue of academic entrepreneurship: the factors and concepts that underpin the fostering of universitybased entrepreneurial ventures. Specifically, it contains research on the consequences of university technology transfer, with a strong emphasis on the entrepreneurial dimension of this activity.

Explores the theme of "resources" in entrepreneurship, and examines entrepreneurs that persevere in uncertain times to build new businesses. The different perspectives gathered in this volume present new ways of thinking about how entrepreneurs acquire, borrow, and make use of resources in seemingly impossible environments.

Volume 18 will focus on approaches to thinking about and creating the start-up. Both theoretical and empirical manuscripts that consider all aspects of start-up planning, thinking and action will be considered. We also encourage practice-based research and manuscripts that explore cutting-edge pedagogical approaches.

Deals with the issue of entrepreneurship and family business. This title considers the issues, problems, contexts, or processes that make a family firm more entrepreneurial. It covers topics such as the emergence and growth of family businesses, and the use of entrepreneurial policies, practices and strategies by family firms.

Part of the series "Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth", this volume focuses on international entrepreneurship. It covers topics such as: international social capital, technology sharing and foreign market learning in internationalizing entrepreneurial firms; the export intensity of venture capital backed companies; and more.

The last years of the 20th Century may well have reflected a brief "golden age" for human resource management. In an economy where ideas and capital were plentiful, the critical facet for success increasingly became human resources. This volume debates issues arising from this phenomenon.

Considers the issues of social and sustainable entrepreneurship. This title tackles lingering definitional issues such as the distinctions between social, sustainable, and environmental entrepreneurship, or proposes social entrepreneurship research agendas based on key research questions found in prior studies.

Includes chapters by new breed of European entrepreneurship researchers that offer a lesson that those values and world-views which have traditionally been the hallmark of the European approach, remain evident as the underpinnings of the new breed approach. This book highlights 'new breed' thinking and focuses on European entrepreneurship.

Contains papers reporting on the structure, utilization and analytic concerns arising from the use of the major datasets in small business and entrepreneurship research, including: the National Federation of Independent Businesses surveys; US Small Business Administration datasets; the General Social Survey; and more.

Explores the research, and theoretical and methodological efforts in the field of entrepreneurship, and its related disciplines of small business, family business, and population ecology. This book considers various demographic issues.

Gives an annual examination of the major research, theoretical and methodological efforts in the field of entrepreneurship and its related disciplines of small business, family business and population ecology, plus firm growth and emergence research.

Gives an annual examination of the major research, theoretical and methodological efforts in the field of entrepreneurship and its related disciplines of small business, family business and population ecology, plus firm growth and emergence research.

Covers a review of theory, research, and practice on corporate entrepreneurship and the behavior of managers; the central problems of managing innovation and corporate entrepreneurship and the central problems of longitudinal research on the topic; and more.

These papers provide an ongoing exploration of the major current theoretical and methodological efforts in the fields of entrepreneurship, small and family business growth and firm emergence and growth.

Focuses on entrepreneurial strategic content. This title addresses the types of strategies that entrepreneurial companies use to effectively position themselves and gain competitive advantages. It identifies several strategic dilemmas and strategic choices that organizations face in their efforts to be more entrepreneurial.