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Entrepreneurship and the Creation of Small Firms
Empirical Studies of New Ventures
9781848440418 Edward Elgar Publishing
This timely study focuses on the important issue of new venture creation. Using a variety of data sources, methods and theories, the authors demonstrate the factors that aid or hinder new venture creation in a number of settings. The empirical context for this research is Sweden – a small open economy with a renowned quality of data that allows important research questions to be addressed in unique ways. This book presents extensive and high quality work, and considers issues that are of great importance to scholars and policy makers alike.
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Entrepreneurship research often presupposes similarities between national contexts despite evidence of extensive differences. This timely study focuses on the important issue of new venture creation using a variety of data sources, methods and theories.
The authors demonstrate the factors that aid or hinder new venture creation in a number of settings. The empirical context underpinning this research is Sweden – a small open economy with a renowned quality of data that allows important research questions to be uniquely addressed with great concern for relevance and policy implications.
The expert contributors present engaging and significant work, and consider issues of great importance to scholars and policymakers alike.
The authors demonstrate the factors that aid or hinder new venture creation in a number of settings. The empirical context underpinning this research is Sweden – a small open economy with a renowned quality of data that allows important research questions to be uniquely addressed with great concern for relevance and policy implications.
The expert contributors present engaging and significant work, and consider issues of great importance to scholars and policymakers alike.
Contributors
Contributors: S. Andersson, C. Czernich, F. Delmar, K. Hellerstedt, C. Holmquist, A. Landberg, S. Roininen, R. Svensson, K. Wennberg, J. Wiklund, H. Ylinenpää, I. Zander
Contents
Contents:
Preface
1. Introduction
Carin Holmquist and Johan Wiklund
2. New Start-Up Firms Among Swedish Patent Holders
Roger Svensson
3. Entrepreneurial Human Capital: A Real Options Perspective
Karl Wennberg
4. New Ventures’ Entry Strategies: A Comparison of Academic and Non-Academic Business Startups
Sari Roininen and Håkan Ylinenpää
5. How Human Capital Affects Self-Employment Among the Science and Technology Labor Force
Johan Wiklund and Frédéric Delmar and Karin Hellerstedt
6. The Framing of New Business Concepts in Established Corporations: An Explanatory Investigation
Christian Czernich and Ivo Zander
7. Refueling or Running Dry: Entrepreneurs’ Energetic Resources and the Start-Up Process
Anders Landberg
8. International Entrepreneurship and the Theory of Effectuation
Svante Andersson
9. Learning from Swedish Entrepreneurship Research
Carin Holmquist and Johan Wiklund
Index
Preface
1. Introduction
Carin Holmquist and Johan Wiklund
2. New Start-Up Firms Among Swedish Patent Holders
Roger Svensson
3. Entrepreneurial Human Capital: A Real Options Perspective
Karl Wennberg
4. New Ventures’ Entry Strategies: A Comparison of Academic and Non-Academic Business Startups
Sari Roininen and Håkan Ylinenpää
5. How Human Capital Affects Self-Employment Among the Science and Technology Labor Force
Johan Wiklund and Frédéric Delmar and Karin Hellerstedt
6. The Framing of New Business Concepts in Established Corporations: An Explanatory Investigation
Christian Czernich and Ivo Zander
7. Refueling or Running Dry: Entrepreneurs’ Energetic Resources and the Start-Up Process
Anders Landberg
8. International Entrepreneurship and the Theory of Effectuation
Svante Andersson
9. Learning from Swedish Entrepreneurship Research
Carin Holmquist and Johan Wiklund
Index
