Small Business in a Global Economy : Creating and Managing Successful Organizations [2 Volumes].

Cover -- 9781440830150_V1_web.pdf -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 Small Businesses' Share of Employment: Charting the Course over the Last Three Decades -- Small Businesses' Role in the Economy -- What Is Driving the Decline in Small Businesses' Share of Employment? -- Rules of the Game -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Notes -- 2 The Motivations Underlying Small Business Formation: An Overview and Empirical Examination of Self-Efficacy and Commitment -- Motivation -- Review of Theory and Empirical Evidence -- Method -- Sample -- Measurement -- Analysis and Results -- Discussion -- Notes -- 3 The Irrational Benefits of Small Business Ownership: Constructing Economic Well-Being in Business-Owning Households -- What Business? What Benefit? What Rationality? -- Self-Employment or Small Business Ownership -- The Financial Benefits of Small Business Ownership -- The Nonfinancial Benefits of Small Business Ownership -- Business Rewards in Family-owned Firms -- Researching the Rewards of Small Business Ownership -- The Relationship between Business and Household -- Economic Well-being in the Entrepreneurial Household -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 4 Effectual Decision Making: Applications for Small Business -- The Basics of Effectuation -- The Dimensions That Differentiate Causation from Effectuation -- Focus on Means -- Alliances and Precommitments -- Clearly Defined Ends or Generalized Aspirations -- Predicting Expected Returns or Affordable Loss -- Existing Knowledge or Environmental Contingencies -- Uncertainty -- Summary -- Causation Decision-making Processes: An Example -- Effectuation Decision-making Processes: An Example -- Effectuation in the Academic Literature -- Teaching Effectuation -- Conclusion -- Notes.

5 Women- and Ethnic Minority-Owned Businesses: An Overview of Current Research and Future Trends -- Women as Small Business Owners -- Women's Share of Small Business Ownership, Firm Characteristics, and Performance Profiles -- Gender, Women, and Entrepreneurial Capital -- Entrepreneurship as a Masculinized Discourse -- Summary -- Minority Entrepreneurship -- Defining and Contextualizing Ethnic Minority Status -- Ethnic Minority Business Owners: The Business-Entry Decision, Sectoral Preference, and Resourcing Issues -- Summary -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 The A-GES Framework: Understanding the Family Business Difference -- Understanding Differences: A Selection of Theoretical Approaches -- Systems Theory -- Agency Theory -- Stewardship Theory -- Resource-Based View -- Organizational Learning Theory -- Summary Observation -- Understanding Family Business: The A-GES Framework -- Architecture -- Governance -- Entrepreneurship -- Stewardship -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- 7 Institutional Influences on Entrepreneurial Orientation in Small Businesses: A Nine-Country Investigation of Political and Economic Risk -- Theoretical Development -- Entrepreneurial Orientation -- Institutional Theory -- Institutional Risk Factors as Predictors of EO within Small Businesses -- Research Design -- Sample -- Criterion Variable-Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) -- Predictor Variables -- Control Variables -- Model Estimator -- Results -- Hypothesis Tests -- Robustness Checks -- Discussion -- Implications -- Limitations and Future Research -- Conclusion -- Appendix: EO Scale Items -- Notes -- 8 Opportunity Unchained: Seeking Success -- Literature Review -- Uncertainty -- Growth Aspirations-Small Business versus Accelerated Growth -- Gender -- Methodology -- Measures -- Dependent Variables -- Independent Variables -- Data Analysis -- Results.

Timing, Genesis, Search Process, and Defining Market Opportunity -- Perception of Environmental Uncertainty -- Discussion -- Implications and Limitations -- Notes -- 9 Entrepreneurial Storytelling: An Institutional Tale -- The Nature and Type of Stories -- Resonant Identity Stories -- Impression Management Stories -- Circulated Identity Stories -- Purely Symbolic Stories -- The Process of Storytelling -- The Proximate and Distant Reasons for a Particular Story -- The Audience(s) for a Story -- Fitting the Story to the Context -- Direct and Indirect Feedback Effects -- Storytelling Tactics -- Applying Tactics -- The Contingencies of Tactics Use -- Conclusion -- Researchers-Where to Go from Here -- Small Business Owners-What Are Some Tactics for Telling Better Stories? -- A Final Note from Our Institutional Tale -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- 10 Personal Networks and Networking Behavior of Small Business Owner-Managers: How to Make Networks Work for You -- The Resources in Your Networks -- Your Ability to Access/Use Your Personal Network -- Strength of Ties -- Both Types of Ties Are Crucial, but in Different Ways -- The Balance between Strong and Weak Ties -- Challenges in the Use of Personal Networks -- Notes -- 11 Thinking like MacGyver: Substituting Resourcefulness for Resources in Small Businesses -- Resourcefulness -- Resourcefulness as Bootstrapping -- How Do People Pursue Opportunities? -- Causation -- Effectuation -- Bricolage -- Improvisation -- A Cognitions Explanation for Resourcefulness in Small Businesses -- Counterfactual Thinking -- Planning Fallacy -- Biases in Perceptions of Independent Events -- Overoptimism -- Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy -- Role of Prior Knowledge -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 12 Market Entry Timing Decisions: A Formal Modeling Perspective -- Why Formal Modeling? -- Learning and the Entry Timing Decision -- Example 1.

Example 2 -- Example 3 -- Competition and the Entry Timing Decision -- Example 4 -- Example 5 -- Example 6 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- About the Editor and Contributors -- The Editor -- The Contributors -- Index -- 9781440830150_V2_web.pdf -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 Managing the Small Firm for Growth: Cocreating Stakeholder Value Propositions -- Transaction Cost Economics -- Stakeholder Theory -- Where Do Value-creation Opportunities Come From? -- Creating Value Endogenously with Customers -- Extending Cocreation to Other Stakeholders -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Technology-Driven Innovation: Roles and Implications of Technology Capabilities and the Environment for the Success and Survival of Small Businesses -- Small Businesses and Innovation -- Technology: Evolving, Purposeful, and Process Oriented -- Information Technology and Small Business -- Technology and Organizational Capabilities -- Technology, Innovation, and Value in the Small Business Context -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 The Effect of Top Management Team Networks on Innovation: A Comparison of Large and Small Organizations -- Networks and Innovativeness -- Network Structure -- Network Content -- The Contingent Effect of Organization Size -- Method -- Analysis and Results -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 4 Balancing Institutional Forces and Strategic Demands in Adopting HPWS Practices in Small Innovative Firms: An Overview and Empirical Analysis -- HPWS Practices and Small Firm Performance -- Enhancing the Effectiveness of HPWS Adoption -- Role of Strategy -- Role of Cultural Institutions in Affecting HPWS Practice and Strategy Fit -- Data -- Measures -- Analytical Approach and Results -- Discussion and Implications -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Family Businesses and How They Internationalize: A Review.

Significance of Family Businesses and Definitional Challenges -- Methodology -- Findings -- Practical Implications -- Future Research Pathways -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Strategizing by Social Entrepreneurs: A Longitudinal Analysis -- Social and Commercial Enterprise Strategies -- Dialectical Theory -- The Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis of Social Enterprises -- Research Design and Methodology -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Small Business Exit: Review of Past Research, Theoretical Considerations, and Suggestions for Future Research -- Theoretical Perspectives on Exit -- Major Themes and Future Research -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 8 Geographic Cluster Region Influences on Innovation: Outcomes for Small Businesses -- Why Cluster Regions Matter -- Predictions of Clustering Effects for Small Technology Firm Innovations -- Predictions of Regional Knowledge Spillover Effects for Small Technology Firm Innovation -- Testing the Predictions -- Collecting Data and Constructing Variables -- Analyzing the Data -- What the Data Suggest -- What the Findings Mean -- Avoiding the Trap -- Building Deeper Understanding of Industry Clustering and Small Firm Innovation -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- 9 Institutional Impact on Small Venture Exporting: Differences between Developed and Emerging Market Economies -- Institutional Environments -- Why Institutions Affect Small Companies in Different Ways Than Large Companies -- Institutional Differences between Developed and Emerging Economies: An Empirical Analysis -- Empirical Analysis Results -- Institutional Environmental Effects on Small Companies: Comparing Developed versus Emerging Economies -- Managerial Implications -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 10 Regional Banking Development and Small Business Growth: Evidence from China -- Literature Review -- Data and Method -- Empirical Findings.

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