Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business

This book deals with business transfer as a whole, following a logic of continuity and sustainability for the transferred firm. It offers a refreshing point of view on business transfers, in terms of both the process and the actors, and from both the seller's and the buyer's sides.

This book makes an important contribution to the understanding of small firms by bringing together a number of key themes in management/organization studies.

'Business transfer' refers to the transfer of ownership and leadership from one or more outgoing owner-manager(s) to one or more incoming owner-manager(s). Apart from all the company's material assets, it presupposes that information, relationships, know-how and social capital are also transmitted from one to the other.While much of the research on entrepreneurship has focused on new business ventures, few studies have considered business transfers as an alternative way of embarking on entrepreneurial activities. Business Transfers, Family Firms and Entrepreneurship provides the international community with a more comprehensive state-of-the-art of business transfer studies, which will enrich readers' understanding. The business transfer is examined through different prisms: family businesses, internal business transfers to employees, external business transfers, and woman in business transfers.This book deals with business transfer as a whole, following a logic of continuity and sustainability for the transferred firm. It offers a refreshing point of view on business transfers, in terms of both the process and the actors, and from both the seller's and the buyer's sides. It presents the research on all types of business transfer including internal and external transfers and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of entrepreneurship, small business management, family business, and strategic management. It can also be instructive for practitioners and stakeholders involved in a business transfer.

This book examines the deep sociocultural dynamics supporting effective and emergent entrepreneurial ecosystems and communities for a new generation of ecosystem builders and researchers.

This book makes an important contribution to the understanding of small firms by bringing together a number of key themes in management/organization studies.

Using statistical, econometric and qualitative methods of research, this book tracks and analyses the evolution of one-hundred-and-fifty small firms from their early years through to maturity.

Argues that even as IT hardware, software, data and associated processes are becoming more of a commodity, it has never been more important to manage IT as a strategic asset. This book identifies, explains and critically evaluates research in this area.

Explores the role of network relationships in the internationalization of small knowledge-intensive firms. Using a conceptual framework, this book looks at a range of key themes including: networks, knowledge, and technology.

Examining entrepreneurship and small business in Russia and the key countries of Eastern Europe, this book shows how small businesses have developed, and discusses how market reforms and a market mentality have been taken up by ordinary people in the real everyday economy.

Suitable for those in various areas of business and economics.

This book addresses the lack of academic and practical research into corporate venturing by examining the role of this activity as both a form of large firm-small firm collaboration and as a source of equity finance for small firms.

This book reviews different types of small-business network, using case-studies from Singapore, New Zealand, Scandinavia and the UK to give a comprehensive and comparative assessment.