Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship in Professional Services (Research Handbooks in Business and Management series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848446268 ISBN 13: 9781848446267

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Professional services are increasingly seen as an important foundation for future economic growth and prosperity. Yet research on innovative and entrepreneurial processes in professional services has been surprisingly scarce. This Handbook provides a collection of original contributions from leading scholars outlining the current stock of knowledge in the area as well as providing directions for further research.

The expert contributors discuss entrepreneurship and innovation from a number of different perspectives, including the entrepreneurial professional team, the entrepreneurial firm and the institutional environment. The first part of the book looks at the challenges of entrepreneurship specific to the professional service firm while the second explores the creation and exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities in the professional service team. Part III turns to the organization and Part IV to the management and growth of the entrepreneurial professional service firm. The final part discusses the interplay between professions, firms and the institutional environment.

Researchers, scholars and PhD students in the areas of entrepreneurship and professional service firms along with advanced students of management will find this volume of great value.

Contributors: J. Benders, D.M. Brock, T. Clark, L. Empson, R. Fincham, J. Flood, J. Glückler, H. Gruber, A. Halinen, K. Handley, S. Heusinkveld, E. Jaakkola, K. Laursen, L. Lefsrud, B.R. Lowendahl, V. Mahnke, N. Malhotra, M. Mohe, M. Mone, T. Morris, D. Muzio, N. Nikolova, M. Reihlen, S. Segal-Horn, J. Sieweke, M. Smets, M. Stollfub, L. Strannegard, A. Sturdy, R. Suddaby, R.-J. van den Berg, P. Vejrup-Hansen, A. Werr, M. Woywode

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About the Author

Edited by Markus Reihlen, Otto Group Professor of Strategic Management, Leuphana University of Luneburg, Germany and Associate Fellow, The Novak Druce Centre for Professional Service Firms, Said Business School, University of Oxford, UK and Andreas Werr, Professor of Management, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

Review

For too long, both researchers and practitioners have presumed that professional service firms follow the status quo when they should better understand how these professionals set the rules for globalization. This handbook reminds us that professionals are as much the shock-troops of capitalism as the multinational corporations that they serve. As this Handbook shows, the leading firms successfully compete with each other by fostering entrepreneurship and innovation in order to service an institutional system that undergirds the international economy. --Christopher McKenna, University of Oxford, UK

Professional service firms are critical agents of contemporary economies and understanding them has become a central focus of recent scholarship. This very timely and well organized Handbook brings together several leading scholars who explore how we might think and theorize about professional service firms and their entrepreneurial behaviours. The Handbook will become a key source for the growing community of researchers in this area. --Royston Greenwood, University of Alberta, Canada

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1848446268
• ISBN 13: 9781848446267
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Reihlen Markus, Werr Andreas