Handbook of research on international entrepreneurship / edited by Léo Paul Dana.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dana, Leo Paul.

Charles R. Anderson Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International business enterprises--Research.

International business enterprises.

Entrepreneurship--Research.

Entrepreneurship.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 822 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2004]

Contents:

Part 1 Reflections

1 Emerging paradigms of international entrepreneurship / Leo-Paul Dana, Richard W. Wright 3

2 An accidental international foray / Frank Hoy 16

3 Women in international entrepreneurship / Nancy J. Adler 30

4 Women, age and money: international entrepreneurship theory in the work of Candida G. Brush / Candida G. Brush, Tatiana S. Manolova 41

5 The new globetrotters / Laurel J. Delaney 58

6 International entrepreneurship and Chinese business research / Henry Wai-chung Yeung 73

7 A typology / Hamid Etemad 94

Part 2 Conceptual Chapters

8 Internationalization: motive and process / A. Bakr Ibrahim 129

9 International entrepreneurship and internationalization: common threads / Lawrence S. Welch 137

10 The praxeological concept of international entrepreneurship / J. Patrick Gunning 150

11 Entrepreneurship and marketing: issues for independent inventors / Len Tiu Wright, Celia Harvey 172

12 Learning, innovation and globalization: the competitive advantage of collaborative entrepreneurship / Harry Matlay, Jay Mitra 190

13 Marshalling relations / Hamid Etemad 213

14 Entrepreneurial capabilities: a resource-based systemic approach to international entrepreneurship / Jean-Jacques Obrecht 248

Part 3 Geographic Perspectives of International Entrepreneurship

15 Asia-Pacific perspectives of international entrepreneurship / John Milton-Smith 267

16 East Asian perspectives of international entrepreneurship / Chew Soon Beng, Rosalind Chew 292

17 Two types of self-employed in Canada / Louis Jacques Filion 308

18 Canadian perspectives of international entrepreneurship / Martine Spence 330

19 The case of Canadian computer software firms / Rod B. McNaughton, Peter Brown 338

20 Business support for internationalization in England / Leigh Sear, Robert T. Hamilton 352

21 Estonian perspectives of international entrepreneurship / Tiit Elenurm 370

22 Finnish perspectives of international entrepreneurship / Reijo Luostarinen, Mika Gabrielsson 383

23 Three case studies from Finland / Niina Nummela 404

24 French perspectives of international entrepreneurship / Alain Fayolle 431

25 Greek perspectives of international entrepreneurship / Pavlos Dimitratos, Spyros Lioukas 455

26 Indian perspectives of international entrepreneurship / Shameen Prashantham 481

27 Irish perspectives on developing international entrepreneurs / Jim Bell, David Demick, Ian Callaghan, Aidan O'Reilly 499

28 Japanese perspectives of international entrepreneurship / Paul W. Beamish, Jane W. Lu 512

29 New Zealand perspectives of international entrepreneurship / Howard H. Frederick, John Thompson, Peter J. Mellalieu 533

30 International expansion of New Zealand firms / Heather I.M. Wilson, Sylvie K. Chetty, Gurvinder S. Shergill 549

31 Swedish perspectives of international entrepreneurship / Anders Blomstermo, Kent Eriksson, D. Deo Sharma 564

32 The internationalization process of firms in the United Kingdom / Dave Crick 580

33 Internationalization and size, age and profitability in the United Kingdom / Graham Hall, Ciwen Tu 596

34 United States perspectives of international entrepreneurship / Bella L. Galperin 614

35 Internationalizing European IPOs in the United States / Boyd D. Cohen 635

Part 4 Franchising Perspectives

36 The internationalization of franchising systems into industrialized economies / Dianne H.B. Welsh, Ilan Alon 655

37 The internationalization of franchise systems into emerging and transitional economies / Dianne H.B. Welsh, Ilan Alon 667

38 A model for the choice of organizational form in international franchising / V. Nilakant, Callum J. Floyd, Mary Ellen Gordon 688

Part 5 Towards Future Research in International Entrepreneurship

39 A network perspective of international entrepreneurship / Susanna Hinttu, Maria Forsman, Soren Kock 715

40 Emerging research issues in international entrepreneurship / Shaker A. Zahra, Peggy Cloninger, Ji Feng Yu, Youngjun Choi 732

41 An action research approach for internationalization / Claudio Vignali 748

42 Family business successions: toward future research / Robert H. Brockhaus Sr. 765

43 On field research methods for theory building and testing / Thierry Volery 781.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles R. Anderson Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

184376069X

OCLC:

52601339