Entrepreneurship, Growth and Economic Development

Edited by Mário Raposo, Full Professor of Marketing and Strategy, University of Beira Interior and NECE – Research Unit, Portugal, the late David Smallbone, formerly Professor of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Small Business Research Centre, Kingston University, UK, Károly Balaton, Full Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary and Lilla Hortoványi, Assistant Professor of Management, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

• Contents: ForewordThomas M. Cooney1. Introduction: Entrepreneurship, Growth and Economic DevelopmentMário Raposo, David Smallbone, Károly Balaton and Lilla Hortoványi2. Are Firm Growth and Performance the Same or Different Concepts in Empirical Entrepreneurship Studies? An Analysis of the Dependent and Independent VariablesNiklas Kiviluoto, Malin Brännback and Alan Carsrud3. Developing and Testing a Typology of Growth Strategies of Entrepreneurial IT Service FirmsOlivier Witmeur and Alain Fayolle4. Understanding the Start-up Funding Process in Venture Capital-backed and Non-venture Capital-backed FirmsTeresa Hogan and Elaine Hutson5. A New Approach to Testing the Effects of Entrepreneurship Education Among Secondary School PupilsJan Lepoutre, Wouter Van den Berghe, Olivier Tilleuil and Hans Crijns6. Effects of Regional Human Capital Structure on Business Entry: A Comparison of Independent Start-ups and New Subsidiaries in Different IndustriesKenta Ikeuchi and Hiroyuki Okamuro7. Cross-border Cooperation between Enterprises as a Form of International EntrepreneurshipDavid Smallbone, Mirela Xheneti and Friederike Welter8. The Entrepreneurship Potential within Swiss Regions: A Comparison Based on Cluster AnalysisKatharina Becker, Franz Kronthaler and Kerstin Wagner9. A Theoretical Model of Competitiveness and its Application in the Hungarian SME SectorLászló Szerb and József Ulbert10. The Emergence of a Knowledge-intensive Industry: A Study of the RFID IndustryDavid Finn and Colm O’Gorman11. Toward a Hermeneutical Methodology for Entrepreneurship Research in a Radical Subjectivist ParadigmChristoph Streb and Vishal GuptaIndex