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.
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 ...
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 ...
The Management of Small and Medium Enterprises
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthias Fink, Sascha Kraus
March 17, 2011
Due to the vital importance of SMEs in developed economies worldwide, this book aims to provide a unique and much-needed investigation into the underlying mechanisms and practices of management within these companies by collecting a wide range of original conceptual and empirical research in the ...
The Internationalization of Small Firms: A Strategic Entrepreneurship Perspective
1st Edition
By Shameen Prashantham
February 08, 2011
Drawing on empirical case-study research carried out in the Bangalore software industry, this book explores the role of network relationships in the internationalization of small knowledge-intensive firms. Using a conceptual framework, it looks at a range of key themes. These include: networks ...
The Foundations of Small Business Enterprise: An Entrepreneurial Analysis of Small Firm Inception and Growth
1st Edition
By Gavin C. Reid
August 10, 2010
This volume is an excellent addition to Routledge’s Studies in Small Business series. In this extended and novel entrepreneurial analysis of small firm inception and growth, a leading authority in the field develops a new kind of ‘micro-micro’ analysis, applying rigorous methods from economics...
Managing Labour in Small Firms
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Marlow, Dean Patton, Monder Ram
December 17, 2004
The majority of employees currently working in the private sector are now employed in small firms, yet little is known about their working conditions. This collection of essays addresses this gap. Based on theoretical analysis supported by contemporary empirical evidence, the book explores key ...
The Financing of Small Business: A Comparative Study of Male and Female Small Business Owners
1st Edition
By Lauren Helena Read
May 07, 1998
A detailed empirical study of how small business owners finance their enterprises, this volume compares the experiences of women with those of men. The author redresses an over-reliance on subjective and anecdotal evidence of discrimination in this area with a controlled study of forty matched ...