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The theory and practice of entrepreneurship :

The theory and practice of entrepreneurship : frontiers in European entrepreneurship research / edited by David Smallbone ... [et al.]. - Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2010. - x, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / David Smallbone, João Leitão, Mário Raposo, Friederike Welter -- the entrepreneurial climate at universities: the impact of organizational factors / Mario Geissler, Steffen Jahn, Peter Haefner -- overcoming critical junctures in spin-off companies from non-elite universities: evidence from Catalonia / Pablo Migliorini, Christian Serarols, Andrea Bikfalvi -- Benefiting from publicly funded pre-competitive research: differences between insiders and outsiders / Verena Eckl, Dirk Engel -- A feminist inquiry into entrepreneurship training / Janice Byrne, Alain Fayolle -- Knowledge and experience in the internationalization of knowledge-intensive firms / Niina Nummela, Sami Saarenketo, Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki, Kaisu Puumalainen -- The nature of international relationships and performance: policy implications from the case of globally integrated small firms / Christos Kalantaridis, Ivaylo Vassilev -- Exploring entrepreneurial exits: a study of individual exit experiences in Finland and the UK / Satu Aaltonen, Robert Blackburn, Jarna Heinonen -- The virtualization potential of sme networks: an exploratory investigation / Emilio Esposito, Pietro Evangelista, Vincenzo Lauro, Mario Raffa -- Knowledge and organizational entrepreneurship: a relational perspective / Ana Maria Bojica, María del Mar Fuentes Fuentes, Matilde Ruiz Arroyo -- The impact of legitimacy building signals on access to resources / Cristina Díaz García, Juan Jiménez Moreno -- Antecedents of the entrepreneurial orientation of the firm: the case of St Petersburg, Russia / Tatiana Iakovleva -- Entrepreneurial orientation and performance in micro-sized firms: comparing agricultural and non-agricultural firms / Jorunn Grande -- Entrepreneurship in urban and rural Switzerland: similar or worlds apart? / Heiko Bergmann, Daniel Baumgartner.

The book provides a fresh perspective on contemporary research in the field of entrepreneurship and small business in theory and application. It showcases the depth and richness of contemporary Eurpean research.T

9781849803793 (hbk.) 184980379X (hbk.)

2010922148

GBB073568 bnb

015578834 Uk


Entrepreneurship--Europe.

HB615 / .T463 2010

338.04