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It is not widely understood that the importance of small businesses
only became apparent with the publication of David Birch's book The
Job Generation Process in 1979. Over the past four decades,
governments across the globe have struggled to design, implement
and evaluate policies that benefit the development of small firms.
Deciding whether macro or micro policies are more appropriate for a
given context has usually created an initial challenge for
policy-makers. However, a cause for even greater dispute has been
determining and agreeing what might be the preferred outcomes of
such policies (e.g. more firms, better performing firms, fewer firm
failures, job creation, greater productivity, higher levels of
innovation, inclusivity of disadvantaged groups). Furthermore,
evaluating the impact of specific policies presents a wide range of
difficulties since it is impossible to isolate a simple
cause-and-effect relationship between policy and its stated goal.
This book explores the development of small business policy in five
countries across five continents and seeks to develop a deeper
understanding regarding how small business policy has evolved in
these countries and what we might learn from their experiences.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Small
Enterprise Research.
'The book is a much needed foundation into current scholarship on
the practice and logic of team formation and function in
entrepreneurial situations. The book offers both in-depth and
comprehensive views of theory on entrepreneurial teams, as well as
examples of current research. I am particularly impressed with the
insights offered through a disciplined focus on the contextual
aspects of entrepreneurial teams.' - William B. Gartner, Copenhagen
Business School, Denmark and California Lutheran University, US In
recent years there has been an increasing body of evidence
suggesting that firms founded by entrepreneurial teams are more
likely to achieve fast growth than firms founded by lone actors.
This Research HandbookM explores the position of entrepreneurial
teams within existing literature and challenges current
perspectives through a diverse range of research lenses. Research
Handbook on Entrepreneurial Teams expands the boundaries of
entrepreneurship literature by examining essential issues such as
formation, structuring, deep-level diversity and emergent states.
The chapters also consider different contexts of application and
investigate under-researched topics such as entrepreneurial teams
within indigenous communities, ethnically diverse groups and women
entrepreneurs. This comprehensive Research Handbook offers a wide
range of research methodologies, perspectives and insights that
will appeal to scholars, practitioners and entrepreneurs alike.
Contributors include: H.E. Aldrich, C. Ben-Hafaiedh, M. Brettel, G.
Campopiano, L. Cassia, L.M. Cloutier, T.M. Cooney, S. Cueille, J.P.
De Borst, A. Discua Cruz, F. Dufays, E. Hadjielias, M. Henare, C.
Howorth, B. Huybrechts, M.K. Kihiko, P.H. Kim, M.W. Kinoti, J.-F.
Lalonde, J. Levie, B. Lythberg, R. Mauer, T. Minola, A. Nicholson,
G. Recasens, S. Schoss, D. Vredenburgh, C. Woods, W. Zhou
Bringing much needed clarity and definition to the term 'minority
entrepreneur,' this authoritative and timely handbook explores the
distinctive challenges that minority communities face when founding
and managing new ventures. The handbook is inclusive of any
community who might be considered disadvantaged or
under-represented in terms of entrepreneurial activity and included
are women, youths, seniors, disabled, immigrants, Indigenous
peoples, LBGTQ+, ex-offenders, Roma, refugees and many others.
Chapters highlight the idiosyncratic nature of the many communities
examined before offering frameworks and models that draw together
the various findings. With a cast of international contributors,
this scholarly handbook discusses the surrounding literature of
minority entrepreneurship and takes an all-encompassing approach to
its interpretation. It also addresses the sorely under-researched
area of entrepreneurial behaviour among minorities and
disadvantaged groups. This is particularly important for
policymakers tasked with designing and delivering initiatives that
are appropriate for the needs of these communities. Ultimately this
handbook contributes to existing knowledge by: * providing a
current understanding of the literature for each of the
communities; * investigating the uniqueness of the entrepreneurial
behaviour within the communities; * offering new frameworks/models
from which future researchers can build new knowledge. The handbook
provides a comprehensive account of an important and fast emerging
field of entrepreneurship, and is an invaluable resource for
students, researchers and policymakers.
Bringing much needed clarity and definition to the term 'minority
entrepreneur,' this authoritative and timely handbook explores the
distinctive challenges that minority communities face when founding
and managing new ventures. The handbook is inclusive of any
community who might be considered disadvantaged or
under-represented in terms of entrepreneurial activity and included
are women, youths, seniors, disabled, immigrants, Indigenous
peoples, LBGTQ+, ex-offenders, Roma, refugees and many others.
Chapters highlight the idiosyncratic nature of the many communities
examined before offering frameworks and models that draw together
the various findings. With a cast of international contributors,
this scholarly handbook discusses the surrounding literature of
minority entrepreneurship and takes an all-encompassing approach to
its interpretation. It also addresses the sorely under-researched
area of entrepreneurial behaviour among minorities and
disadvantaged groups. This is particularly important for
policymakers tasked with designing and delivering initiatives that
are appropriate for the needs of these communities. Ultimately this
handbook contributes to existing knowledge by: * providing a
current understanding of the literature for each of the
communities; * investigating the uniqueness of the entrepreneurial
behaviour within the communities; * offering new frameworks/models
from which future researchers can build new knowledge. The handbook
provides a comprehensive account of an important and fast emerging
field of entrepreneurship, and is an invaluable resource for
students, researchers and policymakers.
It is not widely understood that the importance of small businesses
only became apparent with the publication of David Birch's book The
Job Generation Process in 1979. Over the past four decades,
governments across the globe have struggled to design, implement
and evaluate policies that benefit the development of small firms.
Deciding whether macro or micro policies are more appropriate for a
given context has usually created an initial challenge for
policy-makers. However, a cause for even greater dispute has been
determining and agreeing what might be the preferred outcomes of
such policies (e.g. more firms, better performing firms, fewer firm
failures, job creation, greater productivity, higher levels of
innovation, inclusivity of disadvantaged groups). Furthermore,
evaluating the impact of specific policies presents a wide range of
difficulties since it is impossible to isolate a simple
cause-and-effect relationship between policy and its stated goal.
This book explores the development of small business policy in five
countries across five continents and seeks to develop a deeper
understanding regarding how small business policy has evolved in
these countries and what we might learn from their experiences.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Small
Enterprise Research.
A body of research exists which suggests that firms founded by
entrepreneurial teams are more likely to be fast-growing than firms
founded by individuals. This 2001 study does not question the
validity of such findings, but instead builds from it by asking "if
this is true, then what do firms founded by entrepreneurial teams
uniquely effect that makes them fast-growth?." A detailed
exploration of the literature brought the decision to examine the
different firm classifications through structures and strategies.
The primary proposition was that fast-growth firms founded by
entrepreneurial teams would display a unique combination of organic
structure and emergent strategy. To test the hypotheses, a survey
of software firms was undertaken in Massachusetts (U.S.A.) and
Ireland. The principal finding of the study was that the coupling
of organic and emergent strategy was not unique to fast-growth
firms founded by entrepreneurial teams but instead the lessons from
fast-growth firms were about mindsets and sharing.
This book contains 10 cases in entrepreneurship that are drawn from
5 countries. Daft.ie is an internet company started by two brothers
who have reached the stage of second phase growth. De Boerinn
Activity Centre is a family farm that is diversifying. Digicel is
primarily concerned with corporate social responsibility. Echinades
is exploring opportunities for fish-based tourism. EcoServe has a
new Managing Director who needs to develop a positioning strategy.
General Records is about two friends who identify an opportunity to
start a record company. Guardian Angel is a Business Plan prepared
by three female graduates who developed the idea as part of their
studies. Heylen is a small enterprise that provides ecological
management services to protected areas. South Hill Enterprise is a
business in which each member of staff (excluding Supervisors and
Managers) has some form of intellectual disability. Supreme
Seafoods is a fish processing firm that is struggling to cope with
the recession. The cases feature a wide range of issues found in
different entrepreneurship contexts and were written between
2005-2009.
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