Entrepreneurship In Emerging Regions Around The World

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, favorable geography, institutional infrastructures, and so on) predicted in extant development models.

This book takes an important step forward in our knowledge of entrepreneurship and will be of great interest to 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.

Contents:

Introduction
Phillip H. Phan, Sankaran Venkataraman and S. Ramakrishna Velamuri

PART I: INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN EMERGING REGIONS
1. The Dynamics of an Emerging Entrepreneurial Region in Ireland
Frank Roche, Rory O’Shea, Thomas J. Allen and Dan Breznitz

2. The Entrepreneurial Drivers of Regional Economic Transformation in Brazil
José Cezar Castanhar, João Ferreira Dias and José Paulo Esperança

3. Institutional Transformation During the Emergence of New York’s Silicon Valley
Andaç T. Arikan

PART II: GOVERNMENT AND NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION INFLUENCES ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN EMERGING REGIONS
4. Institutional Entrepreneurship in the Emerging Regional Economies of the Western Balkans
Denise Fletcher, Robert Huggins and Lenny Koh

5. The Role of Government in the Formation of Late Emerging Entrepreneurial Clusters of India
Kavil Ramachandran and Sougata Ray

PART III: EMERGENCE OF VENTURE CAPITAL IN ENTREPRENEURIAL ECONOMIES IN EMERGING REGIONS
6. A Comparative Analysis of the Development of Venture Capital in the Irish Software Cluster
Frank Barry and Beata Topa

7. Policy Intervention in the Development of the Korean Venture Capital Industry
Seungwha (Andy) Chung, Young Keun Choi, Jiman Lee, Sunju Park and Hyun-Han Shin

PART 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
Atipol Bhanich Supapol, Eileen Fischer and Yigang Pan

9. The Entrepreneurial Role of Border Traders in Laos and Thailand
Edward Rubesch

10. The Value of Social Capital to Family Enterprises in Indonesia
Michael Carney, Marleen Dieleman and Wladimir Sachs

Conclusion
Phillip H. Phan, Sankaran Venkataraman and S. Ramakrishna Velamuri

Index