Entrepreneurship and SME Research

Rik Donckels, Asko Miettinen

Part I. Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship. 1. Are Types of Business Owner-Managers Universal? A Cross Country Study of the UK, New Zealand and Finland. Elizabeth Chell, Nina Hedberg-Jalonen and Asko Miettinen. 2. How to Survive as the Small fish in the Pond: The Case of Danish Independent Lables. Per Darmer and Per V. Freytag. 3. Personal Values and Identity Structures of Entrepreneurs: A Comparative Study of Malay and Chinese Entrepreneurs in Malaysia. Habrizah Hussin. 4. Telling Stories of Entrepreneurial Studies. Chris Steyaert and René Bouwen. Part II. Start-Ups. 5. A Typology of Angels: A Better Way of Examining the Informal Investment Phenomena. Patrick Coveney and Karl Moore. 6. Sector-Related Opportunities and Threats for Small Business Starters in the Ukraine. Nina Isakova. 7. Growth Intentions and Expansion Plans of New Entrepreneurs in the Former Soviet Bloc. David Pistrui, Harold P. Welsch and Joseph Roberts. 8. Portfolio Entrepreneurs: Some Empirical Evidence on the Multiple Ownership or Control of SMEs, and its Implication for our Understanding of Start-Up and Growth Control of SMEs, and its Implication for our Understanding of Start-Up and Growth. Peter J. Rosa and Michael G. Scott. 9. The Urban-Rural Dimension of New Firm Formation. Olav R. Spilling. Part III. Growth and Internationalisation. 10. Entrepreneurial Behaviour in the International Development of Small Firms. Francesco Bifulco. 11. The Impact of Size, Industry, and Nation on Internationalisation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. Håkan Boter and Carin Holmquist. 12. The Internationalisation Process of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: An Evaluation of the Stage Theory. Harold G.J. Gankema, Henoch R. Snuif and Koos A. van Dijken. 13. Measuring Growth: Methodological Considerations and Empirical Results. Frédéric Delmar. 14. Information Use as Counter-Proof for the Stochastic Growth Theories. Nadine Lybaert.