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This is a book about the formation, development and success or failure of new high technology companies, focusing on those that grew up around Route 128 in Boston at the end of World War II.

Why did the US economy move beyond its chief competitors? This 1999 collection suggests the pattern of divergent development was partly reliant upon the role of the entrepreneur. By examining the process that entrepreneurs play in the economy, these essays make a fundamental contribution to our understanding of the macroeconomy.

Softcover version of the successful Handbook which sold over 500 copies world wide. Brings together leading scholars from a broad spectrum of fields such as management, finance, economics, sociology and psychology.

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.

Stimulated by the work of Peter Mathias, one of the leading figures in the field of post-war business and economic history, this volume explores the myriad of micro-decisions that ultimately help to explain the overall performance of industries, sectors, and national economies as they evolve.

The phenomenon of increasingly visible groups of immigrant entrepreneurs raises a host of questions. What are the causes of immigrant entrepreneurship and what are its consequences? This work provides a broad view of entrepreneurship in multicultural communities.

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.

"Media Moguls" details the emergence of a few very powerful individuals in control of large sections of world communications industries during an era of media de-regulation. The book considers the transatlantic trade of Hollywood television, the international news agencies and the influence of media lobbying over EC policy-makers.

Contributes to the emergence of the entrepreneurial economics field, or school of thought, in which the study of patterns in the complex, seemingly chaotic and unpredictable process of entrepreneurship and its role in the economy stands central. This title also includes articles that provide the research done on entrepreneurship.

Presents the studies on entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. This work looks at social and technological factors affecting mid-size businesses, including: education; job training; health policy; and, information technology.

Does dynamic competition furnish a new rationale for activist antitrust, or a new reason for government to leave the markets alone? In this volume, more than a dozen leading scholars with extensive antitrust experience explore this question in the context of the Microsoft case, merger policy, and intellectual property law.

There are numerous books on entrepreneurship, but very few deal exclusively with the author's successful track record of buying and selling companies. Terry Allen balances basic principles with his own practical experiences and writes in a nontraditional format about beginning a business with little cash.

A modern approach to self-employment and business start-up.

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.

Seeks to catalyze the emergence of a novel field of policy studies: entrepreneurship policy. Practical experience and academic research both point to the central role of entrepreneurs in the process of economic growth and to the importance of public policy in creating the conditions under which entrepreneurial companies can flourish.

This text presents the expertise of authorities on leadership and entrepreneurship. They examine the entrepreneur from a personal, organisational and multidimensional point of view.

Growing New Ventures, Creating New Jobs provides sponsors, boards, and the management teams of business incubation programs with proven strategies for enhancing the creation and development of new ventures and ensuring the success of programs that support business growth and development. Business creation experts Jana B.

At last, a functional guide that focuses on putting the concept of group-process consultation into actual practice! Readers will learn how and under what circumstances a process consultant should intervene to make a group's work more effective. They'll also discover how to help groups identify, diagnose, and resolve problems as they occur. Real-world examples show how to make critical group concepts work. Also includes responses to commonly asked questions from working group-process consultants. A much-needed guide for the professional consultant and a useful resource for anyone who plays a role in the workings of a small group.

An intelligent, humanistic, and exciting alternative to welfare reform.

This volume introduces a new concept -- strategic entrepreneurship -- which integrates the insights of entrepreneurship and strategic management. * This volume describes a new concept -- strategic entrepreneurship -- which fuses the insights of entrepreneurship and strategic management.

Entrepreneurs play a major role in the increasingly global economy - but what is this vital, yet undefined business force called entrepreneurial spirit? This study examines the opportunities that entrepreneurs pursue, the traits they require, and the social and economic contributions they make.

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.

Concerns with the process of developing entrepreneurship - in society and the economy, people and organisations.

Presents studies on entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. This work looks at reinventing government and the problem of bureaucracy.

Includes a series of papers which examine the contributions of entrepreneurship education on the performance of graduates. Using survey data for 2,484 entrepreneurship and non-entrepreneurship graduates, this work provides an analysis which indicates that entrepreneurship education contributes to risk taking, and the formation of new ventures.

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.

As an intellectual movement, entrepreneurial studies began about the same time as the Austrian revival. The beginnings of the entrepreneurship movement might be dated to sometime before 1978 when Babson College established its Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, the first such center in the US.

This work examines the role of new firm formation in regional economic development. While the focus is on Scotland, the strong policy orientation and comparative treatment mean that the issues covered have a much wider application and interest.

Looks at the process by which leaders, as entrepreneurs and strategists, attempt to build and craft the skill-bases of their firms to best create long-term value for their customers. This book examines the foundations of resource-based approaches to management and strategic thinking, and also presents the case histories of four different firms.