Entrepreneurship and the creation of small firms
Subtitle: empirical studies of new ventures
By: edited by Carin Holmquist, Johan Wiklund
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781848440418
Subjects: Kleinbedrijf; Nieuwe ondernemingen; Entrepreneurship; Ondernemerschap; Unternehmensgründung; Small business; Klein- und Mittelbetrieb; New business enterprises
Description: "Entrepreneurship research often presupposes similarities between national contexts despite evidence of extensive differences. This timely study focuses on the important issue of new venture creation using a variety of data sources, methods and theories." "The authors demonstrate the factors that aid or hinder new venture creation in a number of settings. The empirical context underpinning this research is Sweden - a small open economy with a renowned quality of data that allows important research questions to be uniquely addressed with great concern for relevance and policy implications."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Carin Holmquist, Johan Wiklund; title: New start up firms among Swedish patent holders  -- Roger Svensson; title: Entrepreneurial human capital : a real options perspective  -- Karl Wennberg; title: New ventures' entry strategies : a comparison of academic and non academic business startups  -- Sari Roininen, Håkan Ylinenpää; title: How human capital affects self employment among the science and technology labor force  -- Johan Wiklund, Frédéric Delmar, Karin Hellerstedt; title: Framing of new business concepts in established corporations : an explanatory investigation  -- Christian Czernich, Ivo Zander; title: Refueling or running dry : entrepreneurs' energetic resources and the start up process  -- Anders Landberg; title: International entrepreneurship and the theory of effectuation  -- Svante Andersson; title: Learning from Swedish entrepreneurship research -- Carin Holmquist, Johan Wiklund.