Three Decades of Enterprise Culture?

This book uses research data from interviews with more than 900 new entrepreneurs to examine how entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship policy has changed over the last thirty years.It provides a new study that examines new businesses over a thirty year period in a low enterprise area. It raises questions about the limits and value of enterprise policy and the development of an enterprise culture. It includes extensive and up-to-date reviews of existing areas of empirical research covering the characteristics of entrepreneurs, finance for new businesses, business advice, strategy and performance.This book provides a unique portrait of the changing nature of entrepreneurship over a thirty year period in a 'low' enterprise area. Using data from interviews with over 900 entrepreneurs, it also compares and contracts new businesses in a 'low' enterprise area, with areas with medium and high entrepreneurship rates.

ISBN 1403941025   Pages 272 ISBN13 9781403941022 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Palgrave USA   Weight (grammes) 476 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Published in Gordonsville Format Hardback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 04 Dec 2007   Width (mm) 138 Library of Congress 2008011808   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY 338.04   Academic level Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22

		List of Tables
		List of Figures
Pt. I		Entrepreneurship, Economic Regeneration and Public Policy: The Context
1		A Study of Three Decades and Three Regions		3
2		Regional Differences in England and the Case of Teesside		15
3		Enterprise Policy in the UK		51
Pt. II		An Introduction to the Empirical Evidence on New Businesses
4		Individual Entrepreneurial Determinants		85
5		The Strategic Orientation of New Businesses		106
6		Business Advice and the New Business		121
7		Finance for New Businesses		146
8		The Impact of Teesside New Businesses in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s		168
9		The Impact of New Businesses: Three Regions in the 1990s		205
10		An Audit of the Three Decades and Three Regions		233
		References		249
		Index		269

 Be the first to write a customer review