Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship : The Birth, Growth and Demise of Entrepreneurial Firms

Delmar, Frederic; Wennberg, Karl

ISBN 10: 1848449909 / ISBN 13: 9781848449909

Editore: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010

Codice articolo 12113547-n

Riassunto:

How and why are firms created, expanded and terminated by entrepreneurs in the knowledge intensive economy? The authors show these entrepreneurship processes are firmly embedded in a given social and economic context, that shapes the process by which some individuals discover entrepreneurial opportunities, creating new firms that sometimes grow to remarkable size, but more often stay mundane or eventually exit.

The authors expertly provide a theoretical and empirical examination of new knowledge intensive firms over their whole life cycle using a unique set of matched employee–employer data containing over three million individuals and over 200,000 firms. With theoretical pillars anchored in industrial organization economics, evolutionary organization theory, and entrepreneurship research, this book presents a detailed investigation of the entrepreneurial processes of firm entry, growth, and their eventual demise.

This insightful book will prove to be invaluable for business policymakers as well as postgraduate students and researchers in management, economics, and entrepreneurship.

Informazioni sull'autore: Frédéric Delmar, Professor, EMLYON Business School, France and Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Sweden and Karl Wennberg, Stockholm School of Economics and Institute of Analytical Sociology, Linköping University, Sweden

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Titolo: Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship : The ...
Casa editrice: Edward Elgar Publishing
Data di pubblicazione: 2010
Legatura: Rilegato
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