Managing Complexity and Change in SMEs

Edited by Poul Rind Christensen, Department of Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management, SDU Design and Flemming Poulfelt, Professor Emeritus, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

• Contents:IntroductionPoul Rind Christensen and Flemming Poulfelt1. One Decade Later: Following up the ‘Gröna Kvisten’ Prize-winning Growth Firms Leona Achtenhagen, Jenny Helin, Leif Melin and Lucia Naldi2. New Business Early Performance: Differences between Firms Started by Novice, Serial and Portfolio EntrepreneursGry Agnete Alsos, Lars Kolvereid and Espen John Isaksen3. Small Firms’ Relationships and Knowledge Acquisition: An Empirical Investigation Mariachiara Colucci and Manuela Presutti4. The Evolution of Firms Created by the Swedish Science and Technology Labor Force, 1990–2000Frédéric Delmar, Karin Hellerstedt and Karl Wennberg5. Innovation and the Characteristics of Cooperating and Non-cooperating Small Firms Mark Freel6. Complex Explanations of Order Creation, Emergence and Sustainability as Situated Entrepreneurship Ted Fuller and Lorraine Warren7. Extreme Entrepreneurs: Challenging the Institutional Framework Bengt Johannisson and Caroline Wigren8. Debriefing and Motivating Knowledge Workers in Small IT Firms: Challenges to Leadership Mette Mønsted9. Business Angels Investing at Early Stages: Are They Different? Nils Månsson and Hans Landström10. Internationalization of New Ventures: Mediating Role of Entrepreneur and Top Management Team Experience Johanna PulkkinenIndex