Managing Complexity and Change in SMEs

Poul Rind Christensen

ISBN 10: 1845429087 / ISBN 13: 9781845429089

Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, GB, 2006

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The process of founding new enterprises and making them grow and prosper is a far more convoluted undertaking than it was just a few decades ago. This book explores the complexity faced by today's entrepreneurs. Institutional boundaries, evolutionary perspectives and the intricacies of management are the central themes in this study of entrepreneurs and SMEs in a world marked by major transitions.While mainstream research enhances our understanding of the dynamics of the entrepreneurial process, this book progresses the research yet further. It examines another fundamental role of research in entrepreneurship: our understanding of future organizational and managerial forms evolving from the globalization process. Issues addressed include:growth patterns among enterprises initiated by science-and-technology-based entrepreneursthe actions and motives driving radical entrepreneursthe role of experience versus formal education in entrepreneurshipthe role of endogenous growth processesmanagerial complexity in new knowledge-based enterprisesthe role of collaboration for innovation in new business ventures.The contributors aim to further encourage dialogue and reflections triggered by the growing emphasis on entrepreneurship in policy agendas and business communities all over Europe. As such, this book will prove stimulating reading for researchers, students, academics, consultants and advisers involved in entrepreneurship, business and management.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Managing Complexity and Change in SMEs
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, GB
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845429087
• ISBN 13: 9781845429089
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.88W x 3.18H x 24.13D centimeters 15.88 centimeters width by 3.18 centimeters height by 24.13 centimeters depth

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Synopsis

The process of founding new enterprises and making them grow and prosper is a far more convoluted undertaking than it was just a few decades ago. This book explores the complexity faced by today's entrepreneurs. Institutional boundaries, evolutionary perspectives and the intricacies of management are the central themes in this study of entrepreneurs and SMEs in a world marked by major transitions.

While mainstream research enhances our understanding of the dynamics of the entrepreneurial process, this book progresses the research yet further. It examines another fundamental role of research in entrepreneurship: our understanding of future organizational and managerial forms evolving from the globalization process. Issues addressed include:

• growth patterns among enterprises initiated by science-and-technology-based entrepreneurs
• the actions and motives driving radical entrepreneurs
• the role of experience versus formal education in entrepreneurship
• the role of endogenous growth processes
• managerial complexity in new knowledge-based enterprises
• the role of collaboration for innovation in new business ventures.

  The contributors aim to further encourage dialogue and reflections triggered by the growing emphasis on entrepreneurship in policy agendas and business communities all over Europe. As such, this book will prove stimulating reading for researchers, students, academics, consultants and advisers involved in entrepreneurship, business and management.

About the Author

Edited by Poul Rind Christensen, Department of Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management, SDU Design and Flemming Poulfelt, Professor Emeritus, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark