02895nam a2200397 a 4500 eep9781781000588 DLC 20120626195521.0 m o d cr un||||||||| 090911s2010 enka ob 001 0 eng d 2009936745 9781781000588 (e-book) UKM UKM BWK GBVCP C#P YDXCP NLE CDX GEBAY IOJ UWO VRC NLGGC DEBBG UKMGB DLC e-sw--- HB615 .E582 2010 338.04 22 Entrepreneurship and the creation of small firms [electronic resource] : empirical studies of new ventures / edited by Carin Holmquist, Johan Wiklund. Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2010. 1 online resource (xi, 214 p.) : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction / Carin Holmquist, Johan Wiklund -- New start up firms among Swedish patent holders / Roger Svensson -- Entrepreneurial human capital : a real options perspective / Karl Wennberg -- New ventures' entry strategies : a comparison of academic and non academic business startups / Sari Roininen, Håkan Ylinenpää -- How human capital affects self employment among the science and technology labor force / Johan Wiklund, Frédéric Delmar, Karin Hellerstedt -- Framing of new business concepts in established corporations : an explanatory investigation / Christian Czernich, Ivo Zander -- Refueling or running dry : entrepreneurs' energetic resources and the start up process / Anders Landberg -- International entrepreneurship and the theory of effectuation / Svante Andersson -- Learning from Swedish entrepreneurship research / Carin Holmquist, Johan Wiklund. This timely study focuses on the important issue of new venture creation. Using a variety of data sources, methods and theories, the authors demonstrate the factors that aid or hinder new venture creation in a number of settings. The empirical context for this research is Sweden- a small open economy with a renowned quality of data that allows important research questions to be addressed in unique ways. This book presents extensive and high quality work, and considers issues that are of great importance to scholars and policy makers alike. Entrepreneurship. New business enterprises. Small business. Entrepreneurship Sweden. New business enterprises Sweden. Small business Sweden. Electronic books. lcsh Holmquist, Carin, 1948- Wiklund, Johan. Edward Elgar Publishing. 1848440413 (hbk.) 9781848440418 (hardback) https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781848440418.xml 2010_and_before_Business 2010_and_before Business