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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808335903321

Autore

Whittaker D. H (D. Hugh)

Titolo

Comparative entrepreneurship : the UK, Japan, and the shadow of Silicon Valley / / D. Hugh Whittaker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

9786612235115

1-282-23511-7

0-19-156978-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Disciplina

338.0409

Soggetti

Entrepreneurship - Great Britain

Entrepreneurship - Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-202) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Figures and Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Comparative Entrepreneurship; 2 Opportunity and Business Creation; 3 Ties and Teams in Start-up; 4 Entrepreneurial Orientations and Business Objectives; 5 Competitive Orientations and Growth Limitations; 6 HRM, Leadership, and Culture; 7 Interfirm Collaboration; 8 Entrepreneurship and Markets; 9 Entrepreneurship, Rationality, and Time; Appendix 1 Design, Methods, Analysis, and Interpretation: An Act of Sensemaking; Appendix 2 Factor Analysis Tables; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q

RS; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Are entrepreneurs essentially the same everywhere? Are the processes of entrepreneurship similar? Or are they shaped by their environments? If so, how? This study brings insights from entrepreneurship to comparative institutions and varieties of capitalism, and vice versa, and draws on two surveys and 25 case interviews in both the UK and Japan. - ;Are entrepreneurs essentially the same everywhere? Are the processes of entrepreneurship similar? Or are they shaped by their environments? If so, how? We know a lot about national differences in management practices, corporate governance, and even