Entrepreneurship and the Industry Life Cycle (eBook, PDF)

The Changing Role of Human Capital and Competences
Redaktion: Cubico, Serena; Cantner, Uwe; Leitão, João; Favretto, Giuseppe

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Produktbeschreibung

Studies the complex relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and knowledge competencies, considering industry dynamics

Brings together leading international cases along the industry life cycle

Provides solid theoretical reviews and robust empirical applications on knowledge competencies and human capital

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319893365
• Artikelnr.: 53075595

Autorenporträt

Serena Cubico is Assistant Professor of Management at Department of Business Administration, University of Verona in Italy. She holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology and prior to entering academia she was working as Consultant for small and medium sized business (entrepreneurship, human resources management, training, career guidance), and as Coordinator of the Youth Entrepreneurial Centre - University of Verona. Her main research areas are: Entrepreneurship (youth and female, education, start up); Organizational Behavior in SMEs; Family Business; Entrepreneurial Competencies and Potential (identification, assessment, measurement). Giuseppe Favretto is Full Professor of Management at the Department of Business Administration, University of Verona in Italy. He teaches Management, Entrepreneurship and Organizational Behavior at Verona, Padova and Urbino Universities. Previously, he was Vice-Rector of the University of Verona; founder and director of research centres (Youth Entrepreneurial Centre; Mobbing and Organizational Well-being Research Center; Assessment Centre). He has authored more than 340 publications on Entrepreneurship; Organizational Behavior; Organizational Well-being, Stress, and Mobbing; Family Business.   João Leitão is Assistant Professor (tenured) lecturing economics and entrepreneurship. He holds a Habilitation in Technological Change and Entrepreneurship; and a Ph.D. in Economics.  He is associate researcher of the CEG-IST, University of Lisbon and external research fellow at Instituto Multidisciplinar de Empresa, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. He is author and co-author of scientific books on benchmarking, clusters, cooperation networks, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, innovation, competitiveness and quality of life. He won the National Prize of Innovation, 2017 and the Best Paper Award of the Interdisciplinary European Conference in Entrepreneurial Research - IECER 2012. His research work has been published in several indexed journals. His research interests include: entrepreneurship, innovation and public policies. Uwe Cantner is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Jena, and heads the Chair of Microeconomics. Economics of Innovation, Evolutionary Economics, Industrial Economics. Since 2011 he is also Professor of Economics (part-time) at the University of Southern Denmark, and is the director of "The Jena Graduate School Human Behaviour in Social and Economic Change", and the spokesperson for the DFG Graduate College "The Economics of Innovative Change". Since 2015 he is part of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation - EFI) which advises the German Federal Government.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: Entrepreneurial and knowledge competencies.- Entrepreneurial Competencies: Comparing and Contrasting Models and Taxonomies.- Heterogeneity and the origin of the Founding Team: How the concepts relate and affect Entrepreneurial Behavior.- Entrepreneurial aptitude and gender-related stereotypes. A research on competencies, policies and practices to foster entrepreneurial culture in a less favoured environment.- Co-leadership and performance in technology-based entrepreneurial firms.- Human Capital, Organizational Competencies and Knowledge & Innovation Transfer: A case study applied to the Mining Sector.- Specific practices of Human Resource Management in the creation and development of micro and small firms, case studies in Portuguese firms.- PART II: Innovative networks and entrepreneurial activities.- The selective nature of innovator networks: from the nascent to the early growth phase of the organizational life cycle.- The decline of innovation in the antibiotics industry and the global threat of antibiotic resistance; when entrepreneurial efforts are not enough.- Entrepreneurship success factors in high and low early stage entrepreneurship intensity countries.- Reasons for the almost complete absence of high-growth ambition and innovation activity of early-stage entrepreneurs in Brazil.- Hindering factors to Innovation. A Panel Data Analysis.- PART III: Entrepreneurship for Change.- Women Entrepreneurship in India: A work-Life Balance Perspective.- The pentagonal problem and the offshore energy sector in Portugal. Why does it matter?- Entrepreneurial Urban Revitalization.- Unconventional Entrepreneurship and the Municipality: The Role of Passion and Competencies.- Assessing entrepreneurial profiles: a study of transversal competence gaps in four European countries.