Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business
About the Book Series
Entrepreneurship is a widely-used term that has gained traction in modern academic discourse. This series aims to contribute to the knowledge and conceptualization of entrepreneurship in modern society from a variety of lenses. It promotes research and enquiry on the economic, social, cultural and personal dimensions of entrepreneurship for academic, practitioner and policy audiences. Publications in this series originate from different perspectives on the field including, though not exclusive to, studies that examine entrepreneurship as an activity – the launch of a small business, for example - a mindset and attitude, and having a specific spatial and temporal context. The research methods may draw upon primary and secondary sources or be conceptual, thus using a variety of methodological approaches. Hence, the series includes studies that cover a diverse range of conceptual, empirical and scholarly topics to both inform the field and push the boundaries of our understanding of entrepreneurship further.
Corporate Volunteering, Responsibility and Employee Entrepreneurship
1st Edition
By Aldona Glińska-Neweś, Beata Glinka
September 25, 2023
Supporting employee entrepreneurship is among major challenges contemporary organizations face. Many facets of corporate entrepreneurship are investigated, and the body of knowledge in the field is growing rapidly; nevertheless, there are still knowledge and research gaps to be filled. Notably, ...
The Persistence of Entrepreneurship Myths: Reclaiming Enterprise
1st Edition
By Simon Bridge
September 25, 2023
Triggered largely by claims that small businesses were the main source of new jobs, an ‘explosion’ of interest in enterprise, entrepreneurs and small business has led to the establishment of a conventional wisdom about enterprise. Mistaken theories can become influential and examining the ...
Business Transfers, Family Firms and Entrepreneurship
1st Edition
Edited
By Bérangère Deschamps, Audrey Missonier, Catherine Thévenard-Puthod, Paulette Robic, Dominique Barbelivien
August 01, 2022
‘Business transfer’ refers to the transfer of ownership and leadership from one or more outgoing owner-manager(s) to one or more incoming owner-manager(s). Apart from all the company's material assets, it presupposes that information, relationships, know-how and social capital are also transmitted ...
Managing People in Small and Medium Enterprises in Turbulent Contexts
1st Edition
By Alexandros Psychogios, Rea Prouska
March 31, 2021
Managing People in Small and Medium Enterprises in Turbulent Contexts explores a range of human resource management (HRM) issues specific to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Based on a series of research studies and secondary sources of data, the book’s primary aim is to contextualise HRM...
How Small-to-Medium Enterprises Thrive and Survive in Turbulent Times: From Deconstructing to Synthesizing Organizational Resilience Capabilities
1st Edition
By Yiu Ha Chu, Kosmas Smyrnios
December 18, 2020
Political and financial upheaval is not a new phenomenon – from the tulip bulb bubble in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century to Black Monday in 1987, businesses throughout history have worked to adapt and cope. However, today’s climate is even more fraught with crises, raising the levels of ...
Motivating SMEs to Cooperate and Internationalize: A Dynamic Perspective
1st Edition
By George Tesar, Zsuzsanna Vincze
December 05, 2019
Interest in generally expanding the understanding of small and medium-sized enterprises, especially understanding their strategies and operations to enter international markets, is growing rapidly among researchers and academics globally. Government officials, regional and economic specialists, and...
Small Businesses and Effective ICT: Stories and Practical Insights
1st Edition
By Carmine Sellitto, David Banks, Scott Bingley, Stephen Burgess
December 05, 2019
Small businesses make up some 90-95 percent of all global firms. Many undervalue the importance of information and communication technology (ICT). Within the small business segment there can be significant differences amongst the avid early adopters of ICT and the laggards. Research on early ...
The Formation and Development of Small Business: Issues and Evidence
1st Edition
By Peter Johnson
May 26, 2016
This book brings together thirty years of original empirical research on key aspects of the formation and development of small firms from selected articles authored or co-authored by Peter Johnson. Complete with a comprehensive introduction from the author placing the work in relation to the ...
Information Technology and Competitive Advantage in Small Firms
1st Edition
By Brian Webb, Frank Schlemmer
February 27, 2015
Does Information Technology matter? This book argues that even as Information Technology hardware, software, data and associated processes are becoming more of a commodity, it has never been more important to manage Information Technology as a strategic asset. However, managing Information ...
Small Firms and Network Economies
1st Edition
By Martin Perry
December 01, 2014
Recent development experience points to the way business can be the key to a dynamic small business sector, especially where those links are built on high trust co-operative relations.This book reviews different types of small business network, illustrated by an international selection of case ...
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development in Post-Socialist Economies
1st Edition
By David Smallbone, Friederike Welter
June 13, 2012
This book examines entrepreneurship and small business in Russia and key countries of Eastern Europe, showing how far small businesses have developed, and discusses how far 'market reforms' and a market mentality have been taken up by ordinary people in the real everyday economy. For each of the ...
Corporate Venture Capital: Bridging the Equity Gap in the Small Business Sector
1st Edition
By Kevin McNally
December 08, 2011
This book addresses the lack of academic and practical research into corporate venturing by examining the role of this activity as both a form of large firm-small firm collaboration and as an alternative source of equity finance for small firms. These issues are explored through surveys of ...