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Examines the literature on the returnee phenomena and assesses the impact and influence of Chinese Returnee Entrepreneurs. This book evaluates the impact of Chinese Returnee Entrepreneurs (CREs) in the Chinese globalization process. It also examines the roles, drivers, strategies, and performances of CREs on environment-strategy linkages.

The objectives of the series are to provide up to date research on a variety of aspects of High Technology Small Firm formation and growth (HTSFs) from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives.

Provides the research insights from the international business field on entrepreneurship in the global firm. This collection offers a comprehensive perspective on the wide variety of conceptual and managerial issues that arise as a result of entrepreneurial action in firms operating in the global economy.

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.

Examines whether the roles of higher education institutions have changed, what academics and universities should be doing, and how technology transfer can be made effective and efficient. This book can help readers to understand about an increasingly important aspect of academia and business.

Efforts to expand the scope of legal protection given to reputation and brands in the Asia Pacific region have led to considerable controversy. Written by a variety of experts, the essays in this book consider the developing law of reputation and brands in a fraught area.

An update of one of the bestselling blogging books, written by two of the world's most successful bloggers There's a reason why the first two editions of this book have sold thousands of copies worldwide.

Provides both a snapshot of e-business as it is today and a window into the many developments already underway. It will serve as an integrated e-business knowledge base for those who are interested in the advancement of e-business theory and practice through a variety of research methods, including theoretical, experimental, case, and survey research methods.

Many of us are afraid of failure and spend our lives trying to avoid it. But society's most high achieving figures would all recognise that failure has been an integral part of their success. This title offers a call to bring discussion of failure into the public sphere, and to open up debate about how to build dynamic responses to failure.

This book aims to provide an insight into the role of context in the world of entrepreneurship. It studies not only narrow and wider contexts but also their interconnectedness, their dynamic nature, and the actions that entrepreneurs take to involve, engage, and influence their context.

This book focuses on the importance of entrepreneurship in sustaining the prosperity of society and uses the case studies from Taiwan, Japan as well as China, to provide an insight into Societal Entrepreneuring in Asia, and the construction of an entrepreneurial society. In order to provide a comprehensive and complete picture on entrepreneurship, the authors have also included both case studies of commercial endeavors as well as non-profit making business endeavours. These collective experiences would be invaluable to readers who are seeking to understand the role of entrepreneurship in Asian society.

This volume, comprised of authors from the U.S., Canada, Africa, and Europe, centers on the development, transformation, and role of geographic /regional economies-- specifically in the globalized, post-2009 era. The authors address topics that every region must consider in responding to idea age, globally competitive, regionally driven economies.

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.

Entrepreneurship and small businesses are the basis for economic development. This book employs various strands of theories of entrepreneurship, theories of growth of the firm and the institutional economics approach in order to develop an integrated framework for the investigation of the determinants of entrepreneurial activity.

"Bigger is better turned out to be another 20th century myth. Larry Farrell has eloquently described why."-Peter Drucker, The 20th Century''s Greatest Management Thinker"If you want to learn about international entrepreneurism, Larry Farrell is your man."-Tom Peters, The World''s All-time Best Selling Business AuthorThere''s nothing like a severe, unexpected, worldwide recession to get one''s entrepreneurial juices flowing. After the initial shock and trauma pass, it finally hits home that you can''t trust anyone to run the damn economy and save your job...you''re truly on your own in this crazy and uncertain 21st century global economy! Larry C. Farrell is the Chairman of The Farrell Company, the world''s leading firm for researching and teaching entrepreneurship. He founded the firm in 1983 to do his own ground-breaking research into the high-growth business practices of the world''s great entrepreneurs. Today, with affiliates in North America, Asia, Europe, South America, and Africa, over five million people, in forty countries, across nine languages, have attended the company''s programs. Over the past quarter century, Larry has personally taught entrepreneurship to more individuals, organizations, and governments than any person in the world.

The creative industries are an area of increasing economic importance. In Managing Creativity a team of experts from a diverse range of fields - including management, fine art, music, the internet, design, theatre and publishing - discuss the challenges and opportunities of managing people in creative-based organizations.

This book draws together three overlapping relationships and knowledge domains. These are the cultural entrepreneurship/creative industries, the public and/or private philanthropic contributions that have funded artistic production and the preservation and presentation of place brands as a mechanism to revitalize local economies and communities.

Analyzes 500 entrepreneurial small firms and isolates the reasons for their successes and failures. The authors examine whether there are any "laws" of success that are applicable to small and mid-size companies and identify profitable strategies in various industries.

This book presents a collection of nine studies which contribute to a more robust and richer understanding of entrepreneurship, self-employment and retirement in a diversity of settings, including the Netherlands, Canada, the United Kingdom, Singapore and the US, by drawing on both qualitative and quantitative data.

This book addresses the burgeoning interest in organizational learning and entrepreneurship, bringing together for the first time a collection of new papers dealing explicitly with entrepreneurial learning.

This new edition, fully revised and updated, and including several new chapters, covers all of the primary topics in entrepreneurship, including entrepreneurial behavior, risk and opportunity recognition, equity financing, business culture and strategy, innovation, and the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth and development.

In Valuing an Entrepreneurial Enterprise, Audretsch and Link present a valuation method uniquely tailored to emerging technology-based ventures that have no revenue history to lean on. Their method draws on economic theory to formulate a solution to the problem.

The Oxford Handbook of Venture Capital provides a comprehensive picture of the issues dealing with the structure, governance, and performance of venture capital.

Nuts-and-bolts information on what to do with great ideas and how to make them work.

A comprehensive reference book providing the tactics, strategies, and methodology for establishing a manufacturing plant in China. The book is jam packed with details including sourcing Chinese equipment, importing used or new equipment, building construction, and permit requirements.

An exploration of the interplay between social responsibility, entrepreneurship and the common good which is organized into four sections: business and the common good; educating responsible entrepreneurs; corporate social responsibility (CSR) challenges and the common good; and CSR and entrepreneurship in emerging economies

Edited by a leading light in the field, this book presents contemporary research into the voluntary sector in Europe, exploring its contribution to European society as well as the key challenges it faces, drawing from both economics and sociology.