Dabic / Dabic / Kraus De Gruyter Handbook of SME Entrepreneurship

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-11-074772-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 714 Seiten

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"A small business is not a little big business."

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are considered the engines of worldwide economies and the main sources of job creation. Management in these companies is different from management in larger/older enterprises with their already established concepts and instruments. In view of the high importance of SMEs in emerging, developing and developed economies worldwide, the investigates the underlying mechanisms and practices of management within these companies with a focus on growth and innovation.

It argues that it is time for a dedicated theory of "SME Entrepreneurship" to emerge. Entrepreneurial thinking and behavior in SMEs must be differentiated from that of start-ups and large companies. On the other hand, it also explores the different entrepreneurship manifestations that exist within a widely heterogeneous group of SMEs.

The handbook provides a theoretical framework in which to understand, compare and contrast the complexity of SMEs in both domestic and international processes and addresses the strengths, achievements, and challenges of entrepreneurship in SMEs.

Zielgruppe

Academic scholars (researchers, teachers and students) in the fie

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dabic, Marina

Kraus, Sascha

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensgründung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Kleine und Mittlere Unternehmen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Section 1: Theories of SME Entrepreneurship Section 2: Levels of analysis (micro, meso and macro)

Policy action on national or regional level

Risk and challenges in SMEs

SMEs and regional development

Entrepreneurial ecosystems

Governance of SMEs

Innovation in SMEs

Marketing/branding in SMEs Section 3: Education

Responsible forms of entrepreneurial education

Developing responsible SME competencies

Entrepreneurial education

Ethical research questions in SME entrepreneurship Section 4: Processes in SMEs

Value chain in SMEs

Decision processes in SMEs

Digitilization of SMEs/Technology and AI in SMEs

Growth of SMEs/start-ups

Internationalization of SMEs/Entry modes

Business models in SMEs Section 5: Entrepreneurial capital of SMEs

Intellectual capital in SMEs

Professional bodies/leadership

Social capital in SMEs

Knowledge sharing/knowledge management in SMEs

Talent development in SMEs

Intellectual property in SMEs Section 6: SMEs and stakeholders

SMESs and university U-I interactions

Business angels and financial support for SMEs

Social SMEs

Ethnic groups and minorities in SMEs

Leseproben

List of Contributors
Lise Aaboen is Professor of technology-based entrepreneurship at Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. Her research interests include incubators, new technology-based firms, entrepreneurship education and early customer relationships. She is co-editor of International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research and has published in a range of journals, including Technovation, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, and Entrepreneurship Education & Pedagogy. Sunday Abayomi Adebisi holds dual professorship in the Department of Business Administration, University of Lagos (UNILAG), Nigeria. He is the first occupier-professor of the Dr. Mike Adenuga (Jnr) Professorial Chair of Entrepreneurial Studies and also a professor of Entrepreneurship Hub and Strategic Management. He also serves as the Director of the Entrepreneurship and Skills Development Centre, UNILAG. He won the hosting right of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Centre of Excellence for Unemployment and Skills Development (ARUA, CoE-USD) to make UNILAG a leader and hub in Africa for research in sustainable entrepreneurship. He is also the Director of the Centre of Excellence (ARUA, CoE-USD). His research interests include entrepreneurship hub management, innovation, start-up enablement, sustainable strategic management, and comparative strategy as well as international entrepreneurship. He has led several innovative projects and research at the local and global stage, and has authored more than 50 journal articles. Manuel Bäuml is a global advisor in supply chains, transportation, and logistics at Amazon Web Services based in Singapore. He was previously Head of Transformation at Luxasia and a Senior Project Manager with McKinsey & Company. He obtained his Ph.D. in Management from the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. John H. Batchelor, Dr., is an associate professor of management at the University of West Florida. He currently teaches undergraduate and MBA classes related to management, human resources, and entrepreneurship. His research interests include entrepreneurship, meta-analysis, experiential learning, and emotions. Dr. Batchelor’s work has appeared in almost 30 peer-reviewed journal articles which include top journals such as the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Dynamics, and Intelligence. He also serves as the chair of the UWF Business Administration Department and is a former president and fellow of the Small Business Institute. Tatiana Beliaeva, D.Sc. (Econ. & Bus. Adm.) from LUT University (Finland), Candidate of Economic Sciences from St. Petersburg University (Russia), is Senior Entrepreneurship Researcher at Skopai, a Deep Tech and AI start-up, in partnership with KEDGE Business School (France). Previously, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Université Paris-Sud/Université Paris-Saclay. Her primary research interests are in the areas of entrepreneurship, strategic orientations, big data and AI in management and entrepreneurship, and small business research. Her research has been published in journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Global Strategy Journal, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Business Strategy and the Environment, and Journal of Business Research. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0527-2745 Ramchandra Bhusal, Dr., is Lecturer in Finance and Accounting at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. Ramchandra has been working in academia for over seven years. His core areas of research include entrepreneurial finance and access to finance for small businesses, particularly owned by a marginalized group of entrepreneurs. He is currently working on a number of projects that examine demand-side issues in small business financing. Ramchandra is an Associate Fellow of Advance HE. He is available for collaboration in interdisciplinary research. ORCID: 0000-0002-5684-5112 Dieter Bögenhold is a (full) professor in the Faculty of Management and Economics at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, and Head of the Department of Sociology and the doctoral program “Entrepreneurship and Economic Development.” He completed his Ph.D. and Habilitation at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany, with academic works on self-employment and decentral production. His previous appointments were in Germany, Sweden, Italy, and Finland. His research areas include inequalities and global studies, consumption and lifestyles, interdisciplinary studies, political economy and sociology of economics, and history of economic thought. Dieter serves currently on the board of the European Academy of Management (EURAM), and the board of the VHB Committee Science Theory and Business Ethics. His most recent books are Consumption and Life-styles (Palgrave Publishers, 2018, with Farah Naz), Unheard Voices: Women, Work and Political Economy of Global Production (Palgrave Publishers, 2019, 2021, with Farah Naz), and Neglected Links in Economics and Society: Inequality, Organization, Work and Economic Methodology (Palgrave, 2021). ORCID: 0000-0003-2893-3534 Britta Boyd, Dr., has been senior researcher at the Witten/Herdecke University since November 2020. She is also an adjunct professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology. From 2007 to 2020 she researched and taught at the Syddansk Universitet in the subjects of international marketing, business marketing, corporate social responsibility, and entrepreneurship. Alexander Brem is Endowed Chaired Professor and Institute Head at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. In addition, he is Honorary Professor at the University of Southern Denmark. His research focus is on technological innovation and entrepreneurship. Wee Ching Pok, Ph.D., has been a Senior Lecturer in Finance at Flinders since May 2013. Prior to joining Flinders University, she served in a public university in Malaysia. Her research interests include financial derivatives (risk management, volatility, and prediction), stock and bond markets (volatility and determinants of bond yield spread), financial reporting (sustainability and risk reporting), corporate finance (debt and dividend policies, mergers and acquisitions, risk management strategies), and corporate governance. ORCID: 0000-0002-4792-8792 Susanna Chui is currently Assistant Professor at the School of Business of the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. She teaches leadership, social entrepreneurship, sustainability, mentoring internship, and management modules. She is also the Associate Director of MSc in the Entrepreneurship Management programme. Susanna’s research interests include leadership and identity, social entrepreneurship, and social impact measurement. While pursuing her academic research, her research experience also extends to examining social impact measurement, CSR, stakeholder management and human resources issues in organizational contexts. The current collaborative research project she is steering is the workplace happiness index which is a collaboration with the Chief Happiness Officer (CHO) Association founders in Hong Kong. This research project aims at informing small and medium-sized enterprises and the business sector at large on organizational culture that promotes employee wellbeing beyond COVID-19. She completed her Ph.D. in Leadership in 2018 from Durham University Business School, UK. She has published in peer-reviewed academic journals and presented her work at international conferences. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship and a peer reviewer for several leading management and interdisciplinary journals. ORCID: 0000-0002-1112-8865 Marina Dabic is Full Professor of Entrepreneurship and International Business at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, Croatia. She prepared a background report for OECD/EC HEinnovate for Croatia. Her papers have appeared in a wide variety of international journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of World Business, the Journal of Business Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Small Business Economics, the Small Business Management Journal, the International Journal of Human Resource Management, IEEE- Transactions on Engineering Management, Organizational Dynamics, and many others. Prof. Dabic is Associate Editor of Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Department Editor for IEEE – Transactions on Engineering Management, and Associate Editor for Technology in Society. She is also Member of the IEEE-TEMS Board of governors. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8374-9719 Léo-Paul Dana is a professor at Dalhousie University. He is also a member of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Chair, which is part of LabEx Entreprendre at the Universite de Montpellier. A graduate of McGill University and HEC-Montreal, he has served as Marie Curie Fellow at Princeton University and Visiting Professor at INSEAD. He has published extensively in a variety of journals, including Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, International Business Review, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of...

Über Autor(innen)

Marina Dabic is Full Professor of Entrepreneurship and International Business at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, Croatia. She prepared a background report for OECD/EC HEinnovate for Croatia. Her papers have appeared in a wide variety of international journals, including the , the , the , , the , the , , , and many others. Prof. Dabic is Associate Editor of , Department Editor for , and Associate Editor for . She is also Member of the IEEE-TEMS Board of governors.

Sascha Kraus is Full Professor of Management at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. He holds a doctorate in Social and Economic Sciences from Klagenfurt University, Austria, a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management from Helsinki University of Technology and a Habilitation (Venia Docendi) from Lappeenranta University of Technology, both in Finland. Previously, he held Full Professor positions at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, the University of Liechtenstein, École Supérieure du Commerce Extérieur Paris, France, and at Durham University, United Kingdom. He also held Visiting Professor positions at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, and was EECPCL Participating Professor at Harvard University. His main research areas are strategy, internationalization, entrepreneurship and innovation. He is the author of more than 100 academic articles, his research being published in journals such as: , , , , , and . He is Associate Editor of the journals , , and editorial board member of a number of general management and entrepreneurship/small business journals.