Small Business in a Global Economy: Creating and Managing Successful Organizations [2 volumes]
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This informative set analyzes the dynamics involved with creating, growing, and managing small businesses amid different geographic, institutional, and political environments.
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Small Business in a Global Economy: Creating and Managing Successful Organizations [2 volumes]
Author(s): Newbert, Scott;Contributors: Newbert, Scott; Newbert, Scott;Abstract:This informative set analyzes the dynamics involved with creating, growing, and managing small businesses amid different geographic, institutional, and political environments.
Editor(s): Newbert, Scott;SortTitle: small business in a global economy: creating and managing successful organizations [2 volumes]Author Info:Scott L. NewberteditorScott L. NewbertauthoreISBN-13: 9781440830167Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440830167.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440830150Imprint: PraegerPages: 736Publication Date: 20150505Table of Contents pages: 1 2
- Cover Cover11
- 9781440830150_V1_web.pdf 12
- Title 34
- Copyright 45
- Contents 56
- Preface 78
- Introduction 910
- 1 Small Businesses’ Share of Employment: Charting the Course over the Last Three Decades 1718
- 2 The Motivations Underlying Small Business Formation: An Overview and Empirical Examination of Self-Efficacy and Commitment 4142
- 3 The Irrational Benefits of Small Business Ownership: Constructing Economic Well-Being in Business-Owning Households 6566
- What Business? What Benefit? What Rationality? 6667
- Self-Employment or Small Business Ownership 6768
- The Financial Benefits of Small Business Ownership 6970
- The Nonfinancial Benefits of Small Business Ownership 7071
- Business Rewards in Family-owned Firms 7374
- Researching the Rewards of Small Business Ownership 7576
- The Relationship between Business and Household 7778
- Economic Well-being in the Entrepreneurial Household 7879
- Conclusions 8182
- Notes 8182
- 4 Effectual Decision Making: Applications for Small Business 8788
- The Basics of Effectuation 8889
- The Dimensions That Differentiate Causation from Effectuation 8990
- Focus on Means 8990
- Alliances and Precommitments 9091
- Clearly Defined Ends or Generalized Aspirations 9091
- Predicting Expected Returns or Affordable Loss 9192
- Existing Knowledge or Environmental Contingencies 9293
- Uncertainty 9394
- Summary 9495
- Causation Decision-making Processes: An Example 9495
- Effectuation Decision-making Processes: An Example 9697
- Effectuation in the Academic Literature 9899
- Teaching Effectuation 111112
- Conclusion 114115
- Notes 114115
- 5 Women- and Ethnic Minority–Owned Businesses: An Overview of Current Research and Future Trends 119120
- Women as Small Business Owners 121122
- Women’s Share of Small Business Ownership, Firm Characteristics, and Performance Profiles 121122
- Gender, Women, and Entrepreneurial Capital 123124
- Entrepreneurship as a Masculinized Discourse 124125
- Summary 125126
- Minority Entrepreneurship 126127
- Defining and Contextualizing Ethnic Minority Status 126127
- Ethnic Minority Business Owners: The Business-Entry Decision, Sectoral Preference, and Resourcing Issues 128129
- Summary 131132
- Conclusion 131132
- Notes 133134
- 6 The A-GES Framework: Understanding the Family Business Difference 139140
- Understanding Differences: A Selection of Theoretical Approaches 141142
- Systems Theory 141142
- Agency Theory 142143
- Stewardship Theory 143144
- Resource-Based View 144145
- Organizational Learning Theory 144145
- Summary Observation 145146
- Understanding Family Business: The A-GES Framework 145146
- Architecture 146147
- Governance 152153
- Entrepreneurship 160161
- Stewardship 162163
- Conclusion 164165
- Acknowledgments 165166
- Notes 165166
- 7 Institutional Influences on Entrepreneurial Orientation in Small Businesses: A Nine-Country Investigation of Political and Economic Risk 171172
- Theoretical Development 174175
- Entrepreneurial Orientation 174175
- Institutional Theory 174175
- Institutional Risk Factors as Predictors of EO within Small Businesses 175176
- Research Design 180181
- Sample 180181
- Criterion Variable—Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) 181182
- Predictor Variables 182183
- Control Variables 182183
- Model Estimator 183184
- Results 183184
- Hypothesis Tests 183184
- Robustness Checks 187188
- Discussion 188189
- Implications 188189
- Limitations and Future Research 191192
- Conclusion 191192
- Appendix: EO Scale Items 192193
- Notes 193194
- 8 Opportunity Unchained: Seeking Success 201202
- Literature Review 203204
- Uncertainty 205206
- Growth Aspirations—Small Business versus Accelerated Growth 206207
- Gender 207208
- Methodology 209210
- Measures 209210
- Dependent Variables 209210
- Independent Variables 211212
- Data Analysis 212213
- Results 212213
- Timing, Genesis, Search Process, and Defining Market Opportunity 212213
- Perception of Environmental Uncertainty 215216
- Discussion 219220
- Implications and Limitations 222223
- Notes 225226
- 9 Entrepreneurial Storytelling: An Institutional Tale 231232
- The Nature and Type of Stories 233234
- Resonant Identity Stories 234235
- Impression Management Stories 236237
- Circulated Identity Stories 236237
- Purely Symbolic Stories 237238
- The Process of Storytelling 238239
- The Proximate and Distant Reasons for a Particular Story 239240
- The Audience(s) for a Story 240241
- Fitting the Story to the Context 241242
- Direct and Indirect Feedback Effects 242243
- Storytelling Tactics 243244
- Applying Tactics 244245
- The Contingencies of Tactics Use 246247
- Conclusion 248249
- Researchers—Where to Go from Here 248249
- Small Business Owners—What Are Some Tactics for Telling Better Stories? 249250
- A Final Note from Our Institutional Tale 251252
- Acknowledgments 252253
- Notes 252253
- 10 Personal Networks and Networking Behavior of Small Business Owner-Managers: How to Make Networks Work for You 259260
- 11 Thinking like MacGyver: Substituting Resourcefulness for Resources in Small Businesses 281282
- Resourcefulness 283284
- Resourcefulness as Bootstrapping 284285
- How Do People Pursue Opportunities? 284285
- Causation 285286
- Effectuation 286287
- Bricolage 286287
- Improvisation 287288
- A Cognitions Explanation for Resourcefulness in Small Businesses 289290
- Counterfactual Thinking 291292
- Planning Fallacy 292293
- Biases in Perceptions of Independent Events 292293
- Overoptimism 293294
- Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy 294295
- Role of Prior Knowledge 295296
- Conclusion 295296
- Notes 296297
- 12 Market Entry Timing Decisions: A Formal Modeling Perspective 303304
- About the Editor and Contributors 327328
- Index 337338
- Title 347348
- Copyright 348349
- Contents 349350
- Preface 351352
- Introduction 353354
- 1 Managing the Small Firm for Growth: Cocreating Stakeholder Value Propositions 361362
- 2 Technology-Driven Innovation: Roles and Implications of Technology Capabilities and the Environment for the Success and Survival of Small Businesses 385386
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