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'A timely and highly relevant contribution. Congratulations are due
to the editors and contributing authors for producing such a
valuable work.' - Leo-Paul Dana, Princeton University 'This is a
comprehensive and ground-breaking volume on the complex
relationships between enterprise, community and neighbourhood. The
editors have succeeded in bringing together a wide variety of
scholars who are at the cutting edge of research and theorising in
this field. The book presents new and significant research findings
and throws important new light on the contribution of
entrepreneurship to community development at a local level.' -
Peter Somerville, University of Lincoln, UK Despite the growing
evidence on the importance of the neighbourhood, entrepreneurship
studies have largely neglected the role of neighbourhoods. This
book addresses the nexus between entrepreneurship, neighbourhoods
and communities, confirming not only the importance of `the local'
in entrepreneurship, but also filling huge gaps in the knowledge
base regarding this tripartite relationship. Interdisciplinary
chapters explore the importance of the neighbourhood and local
social networks for individual entrepreneurs, highlighting the
importance of `the local' in entrepreneurship across several
countries. Considering entrepreneurship as a community-based,
rather than individual, effort, key contributions explore how
entrepreneurship can influence neighbourhoods and communities, in
particular through entrepreneurial actions of residents joining
forces. The book critically examines the ways in which
entrepreneurship can benefit, shape and transform neighbourhoods,
particularly those areas affected by social deprivation and
poverty. Finally, it outlines a research agenda to further extend
the scientific and policy-relevant knowledge on the relationships
between entrepreneurship, neighbourhoods and communities. As a
response to the international call for an interdisciplinary
approach to entrepreneurship research and neighbourhood and
community studies, this book will engage scholars and researchers
from entrepreneurship studies, urban geography, housing studies,
political studies, sociology and urban planning. Contributors
include: N. Bailey, I. Capdevila, E. Casper-Futterman, J. Chrisman,
M. de Beer, J. DeFilippis, R. Kleinhans, J. Lendrum, C. Mason, A.M.
Peredo, D. Reuschke, E. Rijshouwer, V. Schutjens, E. Stam, S.
Swider, S. Syrett, J. Uitermark, V. van de Vrande, M. van Ham, D.
Varady, B. Volker, C. Williams, N. Williams
This volume addresses the increase in the number of firms in mixed
or residential neighbourhoods. It offers a balanced and
well-informed set of contributions on this significant spatial
shift. These contributions focus on how these businesses make use
of the Internet, how they are affected by urban policies, how they
are embedded (also in an emotional sense) in their neighbourhoods,
and how work and care are combined in home-based businesses. This
volume, then, provides a timely and highly relevant comprehensive
view of an important phenomenon not just in the Global North but
also in the Global South.' - Robert C. Kloosterman, University of
Amsterdam, the Netherlands'This edited volume breaks new ground by
examining a neglected but important issue. Given that over half of
all businesses in many advanced economies are home-based, making
the connections between entrepreneurship and peoples' homes and
local neighbourhoods is essential for both national policies to
increase start-up rates and local policies to promote economic
development. This book will be required reading for all wishing to
understand how to harness the significant but untapped potential
for local growth by doing so.' - Colin C. Williams, University of
Sheffield, UK Entrepreneurship in Cities focuses on the neglected
role of the home and the residential neighbourhood context for
entrepreneurship and businesses within cities. The overall
objective of the book is to develop a new interdisciplinary
perspective that links entrepreneurship research with neighbourhood
and urban studies. A key contribution is to show that
entrepreneurship in cities is more than agglomeration economies and
high-tech clusters. This is the first book to connect
entrepreneurship with neighbourhoods and homes, recognising that
business activity in the city is not confined to central business
districts, high streets and industrial estates but is also
increasingly found in residential neighbourhoods. It highlights the
importance of home-based businesses for the economy of cities.
These often overlooked types of businesses and workers
significantly contribute to the 'buzz' that makes cities favourable
places to live and work. Including interdisciplinary and
international perspectives, this will be an invaluable resource for
researchers and Masters students in entrepreneurship, urban
studies, geography, and planning, as well as practitioners involved
in urban planning and development. Contributors: N. Bailey, B.
Baldauf, S.-A. Barnes, H. Behle, S. Carter, W.A.V. Clark, M. de
Hoyos, C. Ekinsmyth, I. Fischer-Krapohl, F. Flogel, S. Gartner, A.
Green, H. Hanhoerster, C. Mason, G. Mollenhorst, S. Mwaura, D.
Reuschke, V. Schutjens, A. Southern, S. Syrett, M. van Ham, H.
Verrest, B. Volker, S. Weck, G. Whittam
This title was first published in 2002. Portugal experienced rapid
and dramatic change over the final decades of the twentieth
century. After the turbulence that followed the 1974 revolution,
the 1980s and 1990s provided a period of unprecedented political
stability and economic modernization during which Portugal
converged rapidly with the wealthier member states of the European
Union. This important new volume offers a timely focus on this
recent period. Written for a wide audience by a multidisciplinary
team of experts, the book provides an accessible overview and
analysis of the key dimensions of recent economic and political
change in Portugal and identifies the tensions and policy
challenges that rapid change has produced. In so doing the book
reveals something of the complexity of contemporary Portugal: an
outward looking modern, democratic and European state, but one
where the legacy of its recent traditional, colonial and often
inward looking past continues to influence and shape its
development in the twenty-first century.
This title was first published in 2002. Portugal experienced rapid
and dramatic change over the final decades of the twentieth
century. After the turbulence that followed the 1974 revolution,
the 1980s and 1990s provided a period of unprecedented political
stability and economic modernization during which Portugal
converged rapidly with the wealthier member states of the European
Union. This important new volume offers a timely focus on this
recent period. Written for a wide audience by a multidisciplinary
team of experts, the book provides an accessible overview and
analysis of the key dimensions of recent economic and political
change in Portugal and identifies the tensions and policy
challenges that rapid change has produced. In so doing the book
reveals something of the complexity of contemporary Portugal: an
outward looking modern, democratic and European state, but one
where the legacy of its recent traditional, colonial and often
inward looking past continues to influence and shape its
development in the twenty-first century.
Jobs and enterprise are critical to creating viable neighbourhoods.
Yet much recent policy activity aimed at the regeneration of
deprived neighbourhoods has had only a marginal impact on the
economic challenges presented by areas of concentrated
disadvantage. This book directly addresses the economic development
issues central to neighbourhood renewal, drawing on the authors'
original research and wide-ranging analysis of recent academic
theory and policy practice. Their critical examination of the
economic problems of deprived areas, and the range of employment
and enterprise-related policy initiatives and governance
arrangements that have attempted to address them, offers informed
insights into what does and what does not work. Through its topical
focus on issues of work and enterprise in deprived neighbourhoods,
"Renewing neighbourhoods" goes to the heart of much current policy
practice that seeks to combine concerns of economic competitiveness
with those of social exclusion. It will be essential reading for
academics, practitioners and policy makers working in the fields of
urban regeneration, neighbourhood renewal and local and regional
economic development. It will also be a key text for students of
urban studies, planning, social policy, human geography and related
disciplines.
Jobs and enterprise are critical to creating viable neighbourhoods.
Yet much recent policy activity aimed at the regeneration of
deprived neighbourhoods has had only a marginal impact on the
economic challenges presented by areas of concentrated
disadvantage. This book directly addresses the economic development
issues central to neighbourhood renewal, drawing on the authors'
original research and wide-ranging analysis of recent academic
theory and policy practice. Their critical examination of the
economic problems of deprived areas, and the range of employment
and enterprise-related policy initiatives and governance
arrangements that have attempted to address them, offers informed
insights into what does and what does not work. Through its topical
focus on issues of work and enterprise in deprived neighbourhoods,
"Renewing neighbourhoods" goes to the heart of much current policy
practice that seeks to combine concerns of economic competitiveness
with those of social exclusion. It will be essential reading for
academics, practitioners and policy makers working in the fields of
urban regeneration, neighbourhood renewal and local and regional
economic development. It will also be a key text for students of
urban studies, planning, social policy, human geography and related
disciplines.
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