Palgrave Studies in Global Entrepreneurship – serie

This book explores cultural and creative processes as they occur in a heritage setting, and how they can be applied to business projects. More specifically, the chapters take a detailed look at the importance of culture in entrepreneurial pursuits regarding heritage matters. This involves focusing on how culture is embedded within heritage entrepreneurship and the distinctive comparative advantages of taking a cultural approach to business. The role of entrepreneurial environments in terms of accepting creativity is highlighted, thereby making a new contribution to the study of heritage entrepreneurship. The book also elaborates on how heritage entrepreneurs are embedded in an entrepreneurial ecosystem that consists of a number of different stakeholders.In doing so, the book provides an interdisciplinary perspective about the ways culture, creativity and heritage combine in order to produce novel entrepreneurial contributions. It speaks to researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in heritage entrepreneurship, enabling them to gain ideas for their work, and to move the field forward with a better understanding of heritage entrepreneurship.

This book explores cultural and creative processes as they occur in a heritage setting, and how they can be applied to business projects. More specifically, the chapters take a detailed look at the importance of culture in entrepreneurial pursuits regarding heritage matters. This involves focusing on how culture is embedded within heritage entrepreneurship and the distinctive comparative advantages of taking a cultural approach to business. The role of entrepreneurial environments in terms of accepting creativity is highlighted, thereby making a new contribution to the study of heritage entrepreneurship. The book also elaborates on how heritage entrepreneurs are embedded in an entrepreneurial ecosystem that consists of a number of different stakeholders.In doing so, the book provides an interdisciplinary perspective about the ways culture, creativity and heritage combine in order to produce novel entrepreneurial contributions. It speaks to researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in heritage entrepreneurship, enabling them to gain ideas for their work, and to move the field forward with a better understanding of heritage entrepreneurship.

This book explores the transformative impact of emerging technologies such as AI, blockchain, and IoT on global startup ecosystems. It focuses on building, scaling, and sustaining tech ventures while addressing ethical and social considerations.The book covers topics ranging from tech startups, building and scaling strategies, funding challenges, global case studies, and the future of technology entrepreneurship. It emphasizes ethical innovation and social impact of technology entrepreneurship, areas of growing interest among academics and practitioners.Readers will gain a holistic understanding of the evolving trends in technology entrepreneurship. The book equips researchers, educators, entrepreneurs, and policymakers with the tools to harness emerging technologies for innovation, addressing both opportunities and challenges in tech-driven ventures.

This book focuses on entrepreneurship and brand-building processes of businesses in India. It does so by highlighting seven regional entrepreneurs in the country as case studies, and how they have created an ecosystem around them with regard to efficiency in supply chain, excellence in marketing, creating a sustainable environment of doing business, providing gainful employment, working with limited resources and credit, and finally showcasing resilience in their work. Case studies in the book include Hosiery cluster of West Bengal, Tiluram and Sons, Balaji Wafers, Biskfarm (SAJ Foods), Annapurna Group, Shri Krishna Paper Mills Limited, Chitale Bandhu, Phool.co (Kanpur Flower Cycling Private Limited), Walkaroo and Aachi Masale. With these case studies, the book maps out their respective business journeys, elaborates on issues and challenges, to create templates for breakthrough branding, which are can be relevant to other emerging economies and the medium-sized enterprises (SME) sector.

This book focuses on entrepreneurship and brand-building processes of businesses in India. It does so by highlighting seven regional entrepreneurs in the country as case studies, and how they have created an ecosystem around them with regard to efficiency in supply chain, excellence in marketing, creating a sustainable environment of doing business, providing gainful employment, working with limited resources and credit, and finally showcasing resilience in their work. Case studies in the book include Hosiery cluster of West Bengal, Tiluram and Sons, Balaji Wafers, Biskfarm (SAJ Foods), Annapurna Group, Shri Krishna Paper Mills Limited, Chitale Bandhu, Phool.co (Kanpur Flower Cycling Private Limited), Walkaroo and Aachi Masale. With these case studies, the book maps out their respective business journeys, elaborates on issues and challenges, to create templates for breakthrough branding, which are can be relevant to other emerging economies and the medium-sized enterprises (SME) sector.

This book focuses on the experiences of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in Australia, exploring the challenges they face and the strategies they use to succeed in the business sector. Using interviews and in-depth case studies, and personal reflections, the book provides a rich narrative of personal and business experiences of these entrepreneurs. By exploring the real-life experiences of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in Australia, the authors offer a deep dive into their daily lives and business operations and thereby providing detailed insights into their challenges and strategies. Whilst highlighting the main challenges such as cultural differences, language barriers, and difficulties in accessing resources, the book identifies the strategies Chinese migrant entrepreneurs use to overcome these challenges, including leveraging social networks and community support. Readers will find the discussion on how cultural differences affect business operations particularly interesting, as it provides a nuanced understanding of cross-cultural entrepreneurship. They would also be interested in the research into how Chinese business migrants contribute to Australia's innovation ecosystem through introducing new ideas and technologies, which is a key topic for understanding the broader economic impact of Chinese business migrants to Australia.

This book focuses on the experiences of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in Australia, exploring the challenges they face and the strategies they use to succeed in the business sector. Using interviews and in-depth case studies, and personal reflections, the book provides a rich narrative of personal and business experiences of these entrepreneurs. By exploring the real-life experiences of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in Australia, the authors offer a deep dive into their daily lives and business operations and thereby providing detailed insights into their challenges and strategies. Whilst highlighting the main challenges such as cultural differences, language barriers, and difficulties in accessing resources, the book identifies the strategies Chinese migrant entrepreneurs use to overcome these challenges, including leveraging social networks and community support. Readers will find the discussion on how cultural differences affect business operations particularly interesting, as it provides a nuanced understanding of cross-cultural entrepreneurship. They would also be interested in the research into how Chinese business migrants contribute to Australia's innovation ecosystem through introducing new ideas and technologies, which is a key topic for understanding the broader economic impact of Chinese business migrants to Australia.

This textbook focuses on entrepreneurship with special reference to value, venture, and wealth creation. In doing so, it elaborates on creation of consumer surplus and producer surplus through value creation, creation of ventures through different avenues and methods, and finally, creation of wealth of nations through enhancing supply of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship talents.To achieve this, the book covers the following topics: entrepreneurship history and theory, entrepreneur types, responsibilities and roles, entrepreneurial process, business modelling, venture creation and growth management, intellectual property rights protection, service and production ventures, international entrepreneurship, political economy of entrepreneurship, neo-entrepreneurship, and comparative entrepreneurship cultures. Along with nearly 150 illustrations including tables, figures and pictures, and extensive real-world examples, readers will also find useful the hypotheses and matrices such as venture classification matrix, entrepreneurial opportunity diagnostic matrix, i-10 hypothesis, risk-return matrix, business model matrix, venture growth management scheme, intervention process, opportunity identification methods, innovation path, 5-C growth model, social entrepreneurship model, and risk-return-matrix that are newly introduced in the book.

This book investigates the innovative trajectories of sports companies in different cultural and geographical contexts and analyzes how they manage the knowledge obtained from collaboration with end users, suppliers, and their own experiences. In doing so, it presents an empirical analysis with in-depth interviews with experts in the innovative field of the following companies involved in sports equipment: Keyena, Sherco, Francus, Picture Organic Clothing, Macron, Dainese, Mondo, La Sportiva, BasicNet, and Pirelli.With this, the book focuses on how companies that produce goods and services for sport implement innovative processes, and is aimed at offering a tool for scholars, managers, and entrepreneurs involved in the sports industry. To achieve this, different types of analysis were conducted, i.e. both literature and empirical analysis. A theoretical model and its validation through the study of practical cases is the added value of this book in this field.

Research in this book enhances the understanding of small and medium-sized businesses as a result of unprecedented challenges presented to them. It elaborates on how some small and medium-sized businesses not only survive, but also thrive amidst uncertainties, by embracing digital solutions or transformations. To achieve this, the book adopts mixed research methods, with a combination of case studies, secondary data analysis and primary data analysis (survey information and/or interviews). Tables and illustrations are also included to provide the reader with a holistic understanding of small and medium-sized businesses from different cultural contexts.