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The European Culture Area
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 464

The European Culture Area

Now in its fourth edition, this leading text has been extensively revised to reflect the sweeping changes the past decade have brought to Europe and to incorporate new research in the field. Employing a richly topical rather than a mechanistic region-by-region approach, the book simultaneously presents the overarching unity of Europe as a human entity and its underlying internal diversity. Inclusive, intellectual, rich in ideas, lively, controversial, humanistic, and above all interesting, The European Culture Area is the text of choice for courses on the geography of Europe. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Entrepreneurship in the Region
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Entrepreneurship in the Region

Entrepreneurship in the Region approaches many different aspects of entrepreneurship from a regional perspective. The regional influences on entrepreneurship analyzed entail regional peculiarities and disparities in new business formation processes, the success and the employment effects of new firms, the importance of social capital and of network structures as well as entrepreneurship education and training provided in the regions. The articles in this book provide strong evidence for the importance of regional factors that shape entrepreneurship and new firm formation processes. It is shown that regional differences of start-up rates and entrepreneurial attitudes are not at all elusive but tend to be rather persistent and prevail over longer periods of time. The evidence clearly suggests that the regional level can be an appropriate starting point for entrepreneurship policy and that research on the issue may considerably benefit from properly accounting for the spatial dimension.

Technological Change and Regional Development in Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 424

Technological Change and Regional Development in Europe

This book presents the findings of the extensive research progrannne funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council) and entitled 'Technological Change and Regional Development in Europe'. The goal of this programme was to carry out research by means of empirical surveys into the relationship between technological change and regional development. Over a period of six years, a total of 50 research projects have been undertaken in three phases, each lasting two years. This research programme has succeeded in actively involving leading German regional scientists from many universities as well as non-university research institutions. In addition, numerous research project...

Family Firms in Postwar Britain and Germany
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 363

Family Firms in Postwar Britain and Germany

Examines the culture and conduct of six small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in England and West Germany from 1945 to the late-1970s, drawing on numerous archives in Germany and Britain. This is the first book length study that examines the detailed histories of SMEs in a comparative, transnational manner. Emerging from this study is an evaluation of German and British varieties of capitalism in action, showing that they were not fixed or static, but rather have changed considerably as they evolved over time. The German companies studied formed part of the Mittelstand, the family-owned sector which is unique to German-speaking countries. This book explores whether the principles of a cl...

Social Networks and Migration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Social Networks and Migration

In Far West Nepal - an area extremely impoverished also by Nepalese standards - labour migration to India has been an integral part of the livelihood strategies of the majority of people for several generations. This research is based on case studies among male and female migrants in Delhi coming from four villages of Far West Nepal. The analysis focuses on selected aspects of the migrants' daily lives, such as working and living conditions, management of loans and savings, and remittance transfer. It was found, that the whole migration process is mainly facilitated by transnational kin and friendship networks. To grasp the geographical and social dimensions of the migrant's lives an integra...

Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Ô. . . the book is an important reading in the field of entrepreneurship. One of its main contributions is that it clearly shows that the process of new firm formation is a regional event. The chapters are rich in theoretical insights and data, and are valuable readings for students, academics, and policy-makers interested in entrepreneurship and regional growth.Õ Ð Christine Tam‡sy, Regional Studies ÔEntrepreneurship can have powerful effects on local as well as national economies. The chapters in this edited volume, authored by well-known experts in their fields, explore various aspects of entrepreneurship and regional development. The book provides an illuminating overview of the cu...

Collaborative Advantage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Collaborative Advantage

Collaborative Advantage offers a bold new take on the drivers and consequences of globalization, both for innovation in renewable energy industries and domestic politics. In an era of rapid international economic integration, how do countries interact, innovate, and compete in industries, like energy, that are fundamental to national interests? In Collaborative Advantage, Jonas Nahm examines the development of the wind and solar industries, two historically important sectors that have long been the target of ambitious public policy. As wind and solar grew from cottage industries into lucrative global sectors of geopolitical importance, China, Germany, and the United States each developed dis...

IBSS: Economics: 1993 Vol 42
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 660

IBSS: Economics: 1993 Vol 42

This bibliography lists the most important works published in economics in 1993. Renowned for its international coverage and rigorous selection procedures, the IBSS provides researchers and librarians with the most comprehensive and scholarly bibliographic service available in the social sciences. The IBSS is compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics, one of the world's leading social science institutions. Published annually, the IBSS is available in four subject areas: anthropology, economics, political science and sociology.

The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Modern Entrepreneurship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Modern Entrepreneurship

Once relegated to the dusty shelves of ancient muses, research and scholarship on entrepreneurship has exploded as a field of research, with impactful additions from a range of disciplines rendering the field a tricky one to traverse. The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Modern Entrepreneurship offers a comprehensive guide to entrepreneurship, providing an authoritative exploration of the key people and their ideas. This book tells the stories of the scholars who have set the standard and tone for thinking and analysing entrepreneurship. Edited by two of the world’s leading entrepreneurship scholars, this comprehensive volume offers a platform for understanding and future research that...

Unternehmensgründungen
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 291

Unternehmensgründungen

Verschiedenste Facetten von Unternehmensgründungen werden in dem vorliegenden Band, der die Ergebnisse der ersten Projektrunde des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms "Interdisziplinäre Gründungsforschung" zusammenfasst, untersucht. Die aus insgesamt sieben Disziplinen stammenden Autoren widmen sich u.a. der räumlichen Quantifizierung des Gründungsgeschehens, den Einflussfaktoren auf dem Weg in die Selbständigkeit, dem Gründungserfolg und den unterschiedlichen Wirkungen von Unternehmensgründungen. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Darstellung der empirischen Ergebnisse, methodische Erläuterungen sind hingegen auf ein Minimum beschränkt. Der innovative Charakter dieses Überblicksbuches zur deutschen Entrepreneurship-Forschung liegt in der interdisziplinären Bearbeitung der Thematik.