Entrepreneurship, Social Capital and Governance

Edited by Charlie Karlsson (), Börje Johansson and Roger R. Stough

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Abstract: This book highlights the role of entrepreneurship, social capital and governance for regional economic development. In recent decades, many researchers have claimed that entrepreneurship is the most critical factor in sustaining regional economic growth. However, most entrepreneurship research is undertaken without considering the fundamental importance of the regional context. Other research has emphasized the role of social capital but there are substantial problems in empirically relating measures of social capital to regional economic development.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
ISBN: 9781781002834
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Entrepreneurship, social capital, governance and regional economic development: an introduction , pp 1-26

Charlie Karlsson

Ch 2 Entrepreneurship and innovation: Oxfordshire’s high-tech economy–firm survival, growth and innovation , pp 27-52

Helen Lawton Smith and Saverio Romeo

Ch 3 The influence of clustering on MNE location and innovation in Great Britain , pp 53-82

Gary A.S. Cook, Hans Lööf, Naresh R. Pandit and Börje Johansson

Ch 4 Industrial district hetereogeneity and performance: evidence from Italy , pp 83-101

Nunzia Carbonara

Ch 5 Labor mobility and entrepreneurship: who do new firms employ? , pp 102-114

Kristina Nyström

Ch 6 Women, entrepreneurial activity and territory: differences or myths? , pp 115-159

José Luis Crespo-Espert, Antonio García-Tabuenca and Federico Pablo-Martí

Ch 7 Social capital and entrepreneurship: an empirical analysis of the role of social capital in self-employment , pp 160-191

Soogwan Doh and Edmund J. Zolnik

Ch 8 A multidimensional perspective on entrepreneurship , pp 192-220

Hans Westlund

Ch 9 The existence of pent-up demand for rural broadband services: an exploration , pp 221-240

Peter L. Stenberg and Mitchell Morehart

Ch 10 Trust in secure public e-services: translating polices into use , pp 241-262

Iréne Bernhard and Elin Wihlborg

Ch 11 Do different measures of economic growth lead to different conclusions? , pp 263-280

Tobias Arvemo and Urban Gråsjö

Ch 12 Building rural entrepreneurship in Greece: lessons from lifelong learning programmes , pp 281-301

Dimitrios Ierapetritis and Dimitrios Lagos

Ch 13 The location of business support programs: does the knowledge context matter? , pp 302-324

Kingsley E. Haynes, Haifeng Qian and Sidney C. Turner

Ch 14 Technological adjustments in the textile, clothes and leather industries: an alternative pathway for competitiveness , pp 325-357

Marisa Cesário and Teresa de Noronha

Ch 15 Sámi reindeer herders in Finland: pulled to community-based entrepreneurship and pushed to individualistic firms , pp 358-377

Leo Dana and Jan åge Riseth

Ch 16 Local alternative development through a time-spatial lens: a case study of Ydre inspired by Hägerstrand , pp 378-391

Per Assmo and Elin Wihlborg

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