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Cover -- Enterprise and Small Business -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Publisher's acknowledgements -- Introduction Sara Carter and Dylan Jones-Evans -- Background -- The purpose of this book -- Structure of this book -- Part I Entrepreneurship -- The evolution of entrepreneurship theory Luke Pittaway -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- Economic perspectives -- Early psychological and sociological perspectives -- Contemporary thought -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks -- Entrepreneurship and economic development Robert Huggins and Nick Williams -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- Entrepreneurship and economic development -- Regional and local perspectives -- Entrepreneurship and endogenous development -- Knowledge spillovers and entrepreneurship -- Culture, social capital and entrepreneurial places -- Entrepreneurship policy -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks -- Government and small businesses Robert J. Bennett -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- The role of government -- The case for government action for SMEs -- Finding a niche for government action -- Limitations on government action -- Possibilities for targeting -- Forms of government action for small businesses -- National policy -- Sector policy -- Local policy -- A case study of SME advice and support: Business Link and LEPs -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks -- The real world of the entrepreneur Friederike Welter -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- The concept of context -- Theorising (about) context -- The social world: moving from networks towards families andhouseholds -- The sociospatial world: a bridge between the social and thesocietal contexts -- The institutional world: between laws, societal values andunwritten codes of conduct -- Outlook -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks.
Part II The entrepreneurial process -- The entrepreneurial process Per Davidsson -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- Some steps in the entrepreneurial process -- The discovery process -- The exploitation process -- The relationship between discovery and exploitation -- The effectuation process: an alternative entrepreneurial logic? -- Which process is better? -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks -- Entrepreneurial opportunities Dimo Dimov -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- Different levels of thinking about opportunities -- Typologies of opportunities -- The person behind an opportunity -- The process of opportunity recognition -- Contextual and social influences on idea generation -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks -- Effectuation and entrepreneurship Saras Sarasvathy -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- Entrepreneurial expertise -- Non-predictive control: the overall logic of effectuation -- The five principles of effectuation -- The dynamics of effectuation in the start-up process -- The implications of effectuation for the performance of firm andentrepreneur -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks -- The psychology of the entrepreneur Frédéric Delmar and Frédérik C. Witte -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- The challenges of a psychological approach -- Development of the research field: from traits to cognition -- Individual characteristics of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial behaviour -- Cognitive models of entrepreneurial behaviour -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks -- Entrepreneurial failure James E. Dever -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- What is business failure? -- Antecedents and perceptions of business failure -- Entrepreneurial risk -- Liquidation or bankruptcy -- Fear of failure or comparative optimism -- Exit strategies -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks.
Part III Types of entrepreneurship -- Ethnicity and entrepreneurship Monder Ram, Giles Barrett and Trevor Jones -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- Ethnicity and enterprise -- Ethnic minority enterprises: an international perspective -- Ethnic minority business activity: the British experience -- The business entry decision -- Family and co-ethnic labour -- Restricted spatial markets -- Funding ethnic minority enterprises -- Ethnic minority businesses and enterprise support -- Millennial shifts -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Web links -- Gender and entrepreneurship Sara Carter, Susan Marlow and Dinah Bennett -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- Gender and enterprise -- The growth of female entrepreneurship -- The characteristics and experiences of female entrepreneurs -- The management and financing of female-owned businesses -- The performance of female-owned firms -- Looking to the future: addressing neglect and advancing debate -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks -- Family businesses Carole Howorth and Eleanor Hamilton -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- Family businesses -- Family firms throughout the world -- Theories of family firms -- Gender relations in family businesses -- Entrepreneurship and innovation in family businesses -- Succession -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks -- Habitual entrepreneurs Mike Wright, Paul Westhead and Deniz Ucbasaran -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- Defining habitual entrepreneurship -- T he habitual entrepreneur phenomenon -- Resources and capabilities -- Performance and strategy -- Policy and practitioner implications -- Unresolved issues -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks -- Technical entrepreneurship Niall G. MacKenzie and Dylan Jones-Evans -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- Defining technical entrepreneurship -- Previous literature.
Methodologies for analysis -- The development of technical entrepreneurship -- Atypology of technical entrepreneurship by background andexperience -- Examples of technical entrepreneurs -- Policy and technical entrepreneurship -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks -- Social entrepreneurship Dominic Chalmers and Simon Fraser -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- The emergence of social entrepreneurship -- Defining social entrepreneurship -- Defining the social element -- Defining the entrepreneurial element -- Hybridity in social enterprise -- Competing logics and multiple identities -- Antecedents of social entrepreneurship -- Drivers of contemporary social entrepreneurship: a UK perspective -- Social entrepreneurship: an international perspective -- Social entrepreneurship: a critical approach -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks -- Community entrepreneurship Ingebjørg Vestrum, Gry Agnete Alsos and Elisabet Ljunggren -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- The role of community entrepreneurship -- What is community entrepreneurship? -- Community ventures -- Community entrepreneurship actors -- The process of community entrepreneurship -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks -- Part IV Entrepreneurial management -- Entrepreneurial marketing Eleanor Shaw -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- The characteristics of small firms: implications for marketing -- Entrepreneurial marketing: theory and practice -- T he process and tools of entrepreneurial marketing -- Future research -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks -- Entrepreneurial networks and the small business Steve Conway and Oswald Jones -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- Alternative foci of network research in entrepreneurship -- An overview of the social network perspective -- Retelling the Dyson story from a social network perspective.
What has research told us about entrepreneurial networks? -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks -- Finance and the small business Robin Jarvis and Emmanouil Schizas -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- Finance and the small firm -- The finance gap -- Sources of finance -- The capital structure decision -- Financial reporting considerations -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks -- Strategy and the small firm Colm O'Gorman -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- What is strategy? -- Strategymaking in small businesses -- Success strategies in small firms -- The strategic problems of small businesses -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks -- Growth and development in the small firm David Smallbone and Peter Wy -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- Growth and development in the small firm -- Explaining growth in small firms -- Barriers and growth constraints - the external operating context -- Barriers and growth constraints - the internal operating context -- Managing growth -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks -- Internationalisation and entrepreneurial businesses Kevin Ibeh -- Introduction -- Learning objectives -- Internationalisation and entrepreneurial SMEs -- Internationalisation and entrepreneurial SMEs: concepts, contextand extent -- Explaining SME internationalisation -- Stimulating international entrepreneurship -- Barriers to SME internationalisation -- Policy and institutional support for SME internationalisation -- Chapter summary -- Questions -- Weblinks -- References and further reading -- Index.
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Economia e gestione delle piccole imprese del Mezzogiorno / Guido Capaldo, Pasquale Persico, Mario Raffa (a cura di) ; prefazione di Patrizio Bianchi ; contributi di Vito Albino ... \et al.!
