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Informationen zum Autor D. Hugh Whittaker is Professor and Associate Dean (International) of the University of Auckland Business School. He has written extensively on Japanese and comparative management and innovation, most recently The New Community Firm: Employment, Governance and Management Reform in Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2005, with T. Inagami) and Recovering From Success: Innovation and Technology Management in Japan (Oxford University Press, 2006, co-edited with R. E. Cole). Klappentext Are entrepreneurs essentially the same everywhere? Are the processes of entrepreneurship similar? Or are they shaped by their environments? If so, how? This study brings insights from entrepreneurship to comparative institutions and varieties of capitalism, and vice versa, and draws on two surveys and 25 case interviews in both the UK and Japan. Zusammenfassung Are entrepreneurs essentially the same everywhere? Are the processes of entrepreneurship similar? Or are they shaped by their environments? If so, how? This study brings insights from entrepreneurship to comparative institutions and varieties of capitalism, and vice versa, and draws on two surveys and 25 case interviews in both the UK and Japan. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Comparative Entrepreneurship 2: Opportunity and Business Creation 3: Ties and Teams in Startup 4: Entrepreneurial Orientations and Business Objectives 5: Competitive Orientations and Growth Limitations 6: HRM, Leadership, and Culture 7: Inter-firm Collaboration 8: Entrepreneurship and Markets 9: Entrepreneurship and Time Appendix 1: Design, Methods, Analysis, and Interpretation Appendix 2: Factor Analysis Tables
