Collective Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary European Services Industries

Paloma Fernández Pérez is Professor of Economic History and Institutions at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.Elena San Román is Associate Professor of Economic History and Institutions at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, and Associate Fellow of the Royal Academy of History, Spain.

• Chapter 1. The Role of Business Services in the Development of European Commodity Trading Companies in the 20th Century; Espen StorliChapter 2. Collective Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Hotel Industry: The Internationalization of a Domestic Cluster; Jorge Hernández-Barahona, Teresa Mateo, Águeda Gil-López, and Elena San RománChapter 3. Collective Entrepreneurship and the Development of Private Clinics in Geneva, 1860-2020; Pierre-Yves DonzéChapter 4. The Transfer of the North American Ideas of Hospital Management to Europe in the 20th Century: The Case of Spain; Paloma Fernández PérezChapter 5. Evolution of Public Services: The Case of UK Leisure Centres in the Late 20th Century; Alex Gillett and Kevin TennentChapter 6. Alliances as a Coopetitive Strategy of the Airlines: The Case of Iberia (1980-2020); Javier Vidal OlivaresChapter 7. Building an Enterprise for the Future Through Network Bricolage and Memories of the Past; Águeda Gil, Elena San Román, Sarah Jack, and Ricardo ZózimoChapter 8. The Asymmetry of Expectations on the Outcomes of Strategic Alliances Between Biotechnology Start-ups and Pharmaceutical Corporations; Félix Barahona Márquez, Susana Domingo Pérez, and Ernest Solé UdinaChapter 9. Effects of the Subsidiaries’ Networks on the Service Multinationals Innovation Activity; Paloma Miravitlles, Fariza Achcaoucaou, and Tim Laurin SpiethChapter 10. The Collective Entrepreneurial Process: From Public Entrepreneurship to Collective Action for the Common Good; Lizbeth Arroyo and Jaume Valls-Pasola