Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship: The Birth, Growth and Demise of Entrepreneurial Firms - Hardcover

Delmar, Frédéric; Wennberg, Karl

 
9781848449909: Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship: The Birth, Growth and Demise of Entrepreneurial Firms
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1848449909 ISBN 13: 9781848449909
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

How and why are firms created, expanded and terminated by entrepreneurs in the knowledge intensive economy? The authors show these entrepreneurship processes are firmly embedded in a given social and economic context, that shapes the process by which some individuals discover entrepreneurial opportunities, creating new firms that sometimes grow to remarkable size, but more often stay mundane or eventually exit.



The authors expertly provide a theoretical and empirical examination of new knowledge intensive firms over their whole life cycle using a unique set of matched employee–employer data containing over three million individuals and over 200,000 firms. With theoretical pillars anchored in industrial organization economics, evolutionary organization theory, and entrepreneurship research, this book presents a detailed investigation of the entrepreneurial processes of firm entry, growth, and their eventual demise.



This insightful book will prove to be invaluable for business policymakers as well as postgraduate students and researchers in management, economics, and entrepreneurship.

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About the Author

Frédéric Delmar, Professor, EMLYON Business School, France and Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Sweden and Karl Wennberg, Stockholm School of Economics and Institute of Analytical Sociology, Linköping University, Sweden

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Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1848449909
ISBN 13 
9781848449909
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
208