The contributors to this original volume of theoretically grounded case studies of the entrepreneurial phenomenon look at the process of entrepreneurship in the emerging regions of India, China, Ireland, Eastern Europe, North and South America, and North and South-East Asia. The book's organization is designed to take the reader from a general framework for understanding the relationship between economic development and entrepreneurship to more specific examples of how entrepreneurs and their firms respond to the opportunity and threats that are dynamically evolving in such places.The case studies provide scholars with the opportunity to develop theoretically grounded research questions that will advance the field beyond what we already know from previous work in the contexts of the US and developed economies. The book represents the first serious attempt to suggest new theoretical frameworks for understanding the emergence of entrepreneurship in regions that do not have all of the classical prerequisites (such as financial and human capital, favourable geography, institutional infrastructures, and so on) predicted in extant development models. Scholars and graduate students in business, economic development, and regional studies; policymakers in economic development, technology transfer, and financial markets; and journalists following business and development issues in emerging regions will all find this book an important step forward in our knowledge of entrepreneurship.
Institutional Determinants of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Regions
1 The Dynamics of an Emerging Entrepreneurial Region in Ireland by Frank Roche and Rory O'Shea and Thomas J. Allen and Dan Breznitz
2 The Entrepreneurial Drivers of Regional Economic Transformation in Brazil by Jose Cezar Castanhar and J. F. Dias and Jose Paulo Esperanca
3 Institutional Transformation During the Emergence of New York's Silicon Alley by Andac T. Arikan
Pt. II Government and Non Governmental Organization Influences on Entrepreneurship in Emerging Regions
4 Institutional Entrepreneurship in the Emerging Regional Economies of the Western Balkans by Denise Fletcher and Robert Huggins and Lenny Koh
5 The Role of Government in the Formation of Late Emerging Entrepreneurial Clusters of India by K. Ramachandran and Sougata Ray
Pt. III Emergence of Venture Capital in Entrepreneurial Economies
6 A Comparative Analysis of the Development of Venture Capital in the Irish Software Cluster by Frank Barry and Beata Topa
7 Policy Intervention in the Development of the Korean Venture Capital Industry by Seungwha (Andy) Chung and Young Keun Choi and Jiman Lee and Sunju Park and Hyun-Han Shin
Pt. IV Firm Level Responses to Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Emerging Regions
8 The Founding Conditions of Entrepreneurial Firms as a Function of Emerging Institutional Arrangements in China by Atipol Bhanich Supapol and Eileen Fischer and Yigang Pan
9 The Entrepreneurial Role of Border Traders in Laos and Thailand by Edward Rubesch
10 The Value of Social Capital to Family Enterprises in Indonesia by Michael Carney and Marleen Dieleman and Wladimir Sachs
