Jerome A Katz
Series
Publisher
Emerald
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Volume 14 addresses the central issue of entrepreneurial action: while many factors are important to the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship does not happen until someone takes action! Leading scholars address this through cutting edge thinking on entrepreneurial action via concepts such as 'world-making' and entrepreneurial agency. Two empirical chapters examine how conditions of uncertainty shape the action that underlies opportunity...
Series
Publisher
Emerald
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
This volume explores the theme of "resources" in entrepreneurship, and examines the resourcefulness of entrepreneurs that persevere in uncertain times to build new businesses. The different perspectives gathered in this volume present new ways of thinking about how entrepreneurs acquire, borrow, and make use of resources in seemingly impossible environments. Contributions discuss how entrepreneurs can yield success using bricolage; how to leverage...
Series
Publisher
Emerald
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Volume 12 will consider the timely issue of entrepreneurship and family business. Papers consider the issues, problems, contexts, or processes that make a family firm more entrepreneurial. A representative, but by no means exhaustive, listing of relevant topics includes: the emergence and growth of family businesses; founding conditions unique to family firms; maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit of the founding generation; the role of family in...
Series
Advances in entrepreneurship firm emergence and growth volume Volume 16
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"[This book] considers the central issue of academic entrepreneurship: the factors and concepts that underpin the fostering of university-based entrepreneurial ventures. Specifically, it contains research on the consequences of university technology transfer, with a strong emphasis on the entrepreneurial dimension of this activity."--Provided by publisher.