Globalization and Entrepreneurship

Edited by Hamid Etemad, Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Canada and the late Richard Wright, formerly E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor of Business, Robins School of Business, University of Richmond, Virginia, US

• Contents: Preface Part I: The Internationalization Process 1. Globalization and Entrepreneurship 2. On the Determinants of Exporting: UK Evidence 3. Integrated Outsourcing: A Tool for the Foreign Expansion of Small-business Suppliers 4. Small Multinationals in Global Competition: An Industry Perspective Part II: Facilitating Small-Firm Internationalization 5. Internationalization of Australian SMEs: Challenges and Opportunities 6. Cluster Development Programmes: Panacea or Placebo for Promoting SME Growth and Internationalization? 7. Social Capital, Networks and Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurs: Transnational Entrepreneurship and Bootstrap Capitalism 8. Small Business in the Czech Republic and Japan: Successes and Challenges for Women Entrepreneurs Part III: Emerging Dimensions of Management Policy 9. Toward a Transnational Techno-culture: An Empirical Investigation of Knowledge Management 10. E-Commerce and the Internationalization of SMEs 11. Managing Relations: The Essence of International Entrepreneurship Index

'The perspectives generated are refreshingly new and highly revealing. The scholars deserve rich compliments. Those interested in entrepreneurship as well as international business will find this collection facilitating and useful for further research as they fill many gaps in the literature.'