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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.

This guide looks at the People's Liberation Army in China from an economic viewpoint. It describes and analyses the entrepreneurial activities of the PLA and provides a detailed history of the military-business complex in China.

Drawing on original empirical research, the contributions describe the different aspects of the business development and innovation process, including the creation and development of technology-based enterprises, the growth of the firm, different types of networking activities, and various development strategies when the firm is established.

Entrepreneurial Economics is concerned with the role of entrepreneurs, and the nature and scope of entrepreneurship in the economy. Also considered are government policies to increase the number of entrepreneurs in the economy and social entrepreneurship linked to economic development.

A new addition to the Oxford Management Readers series that looks at the culture and role of the entrepreneur from an interdisciplinary perspective. Introduced by an internationally known and highly respected editor, this volume contains the best that has been written on the subject by economists, sociologists, historians, and anthropologists.

The entrepreneurs of China are dynamic and contributing positively to economic development, but unlike Western entrepreneurs, they are uncertain and insecure about government policies and their position in society.

This volume examines the worldwide growth of women-owned businesses, who the entrepreneurs are and what motivates them, their successes and how they were achieved, with lists of sources for assistance and a model business plan for those in search of funding.

Anyone can start a business. But only leaders can succeed. Most entrepreneurs know the long odds: only a fraction of them will lead their enterprises through the rocky stages of growth to launch self-sustaining companies.

This book brings together important aspects of both the technological and business skills needed to successfully start and operate a small food processing business. The emphasis is on thorough planning before the enterprise is established and then careful control of production to minimize costs and maintain the desired product quality. The book is a training aid for extension workers and small enterprise development organizations.Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (ACP-EU)The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) was establishedin 1983 under the Lome Convention between the ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific)Group of States and the European Union Member States. Since 2000 it has operatedwithin the framework of the ACP-EC Cotonou Agreement. CTA''s tasks are to developand provide services that improve access to information for agricultural and ruraldevelopment, and to strengthen the capacity of ACP countries to produce, acquire,exchange and utilise information in this area. CTA''s programmes are organised aroundfour principal themes: developing information management and partnership strategiesneeded for policy formulation and implementation; promoting contact and exchange ofexperience; providing ACP partners with information on demand; and strengtheningtheir information and communication capacities.CTA, Postbus 380, 6700 AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands

Provides a forum for scholars to generate a different theory, identify promising research directions, and present important insights to a wide audience of scholars in entrepreneurship. In order to study individuals as their businesses take shape, this book located and studied nascent entrepreneurs in the process of building their enterprises.