Advances in
Entrepreneurship Research
ISBN: 978-960-6672-33-0, 475 pages, Hardback
First published in 2008 by ATINER
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Table of Contents
1. |
Advances
in Entrepreneurship Research: An Introduction Veloutsou, C. |
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Section 1.
Defining
Entrepreneurship
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2. |
An Evolutionary Approach to the Study of
Entrepreneurship Breslin, D. |
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3. |
Determinants of Entrepreneurship in Tajnikar, M. and Pusnik, K |
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4. |
Determinants of Entrepreneurship Szelagowska-Rudzka, K.
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Section 2. Entrepreneurship and Learning
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Entrepreneurship Risk, Reward and Reality: Education for the Future Scales, T.W. and Frantz, D.W. |
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6. |
Frameworks: A Key to the
Success of Undergraduate Client Projects for Small Businesses McLeod, R. |
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7. |
Challenges in the
Education of Design Entrepreneurs to Financial and Management Skills: Accommodating Learning
Styles in Three Settings Overby, C. J. |
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8. |
Knowledge Transfer in
Non-collaborative Client Relationships – A Preliminary Investigation of Small
to Medium Entrepreneurial Firms Geneste, L. |
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9. |
Public Sector Research
Institutions and Small – and Medium – Sized Enterprises: Suggestions for a
Revised Model of Technology Transfer (EU and US) Gough, N. |
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Knowledge
Sharing Challenges between Innovative SMEs in the
Process of European Integration Elenurm, T. |
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Section 3. Deciding on the
Strategic Direction of Small and Medium Sized Firms |
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How the Unpredictability
of an External Market Factor affects the Strategy of an SME?
A Case Study Belt, P., Kauppila,
O. and Belt, T. |
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12. |
How do Smes’ Managers
Perceive their Environment? Rochette C. |
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13. |
Russian Small Business
& Environmental Issues: Case of Chemical Company Podmetina, D. and
Vaatanen, J. |
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14. |
Navigating the Future in
Small and Medium Enterprises through Organizational Leadership Processes O’Mullane, M. |
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15. |
Modelling Dynamic Capabilities in Small
Businesses Atkinson,
D. |
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16. |
Development of Small Business
in CIS Countries: Case of Vaatanen, J. and
Podmetina, D. |
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17. |
Assessing the Impact of
Entrepreneurial Motivation on New Firms´ Growth: An Empirical
Investigation Barba-Sanchez, V. and Martínez-Ruiz,
M. |
207 |
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18. |
Globalisation and the Internationalisation of
Mexican SMEs in European Markets Ruiz Garcia, L. |
225 |
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Section 4. SME’s
and Competition |
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Competitive
and Cooperative Strategies of Polish Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Nogalski, B. and Rybicki, J. |
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20. |
High
Quality in Low Cost: Krasteva, N. and Gessiou, S. |
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21. |
Impact of EU Accession Process to Turkish Small-Medium Sized
Enterprises Tatlidil, F. and Muslumov, A. |
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22. |
E-Business Issues for Engineering Regions and their SMEs: Materialising the Digital Businesses Ecosystem
Concept Armoutis, N.,
Bal, J. and Swift, M. |
285 |
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Methodology for Competitive
Advantage Creation through the Development of a Strategic Market Focus in
Mexican SME´s Rostro Contreras, F.R. and Grudzewski, W.M. |
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24. |
A
Resource-based Perspective on E-commerce and Sustained Firm Competitive
Advantage: An Empirical Study of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Yang, T. |
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Section 5. Management and
Marketing for SME’s |
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In Place of Formality?
Line Management and Personnel in a Small, Non-profit making Organisation Hunter, W. |
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26. |
The
Employee Resistance during Organizational Change within the Sme’s: A Case Study in the Marble Sector Yilmaz, C., Karakilic, N.Y., Kaynar,
B. and Ozgoz, A. |
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Measuring
Employee Satisfaction in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Zaim, H. and Zaim, S. |
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28. |
Emotional Labour in
a Greek SME Koskina, A. and Keithley,
D. |
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29. |
Organizational, Technological and Environmental
Determinants of Electronic Commerce Adoption in Small and Medium Enterprises
in Francis, J., Lin, C-S and Polak, R. |
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30. |
Marketing the Small Information Firm Nebenzahl, O. |
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31. |
On the Pitfalls of using
Hierarchical Clustering for Analysing Data, and the Advantages of using
Self-organizing Maps – The Case of Entrepreneurs of SME Lobo, V.J.A.S, Vieira, A.J.G.C and Alves, A.C.R.R. |
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Collaborative Quality
Management in Small and Medium Enterprises Polatoglou, H.M. and Zachariadis,
A.I. |
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Section 6. Finance and Accounting
Issues for SME’s |
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To Give or not to Give:
Dilemma of a Specialized Financial Institution for Small and Medium
Enterprises Borrowers in Ramlee, S. and Berma, M. |
423 |
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34. |
Investment Climate and SME Development in Berma, M. and Ramlee, S |
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35. |
Promoting Financial
Reporting Quality: A Survey of Turkish SMEs’
Perceptions Regarding Accounting Issues Kaya, I. |
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36. |
Balance-sheet Analysis and
Forecast of Insolvency in Small and Medium-sized Companies Comite, U. |
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