The rapid increase in the globalization of businessesin recent yearscan be attributed to two events:the downfall of thenation-state as the main macroeconomic unit of international economic activityand the departure of the stand-alone firm as the essential unit ofcompetition.The decreased...

The contributors to this collection provide a wealth of new analyses of both traditional and emerging aspects of entrepreneurship, from a variety of national perspectives and from a variety of disciplines. Globalization has begun to dismantle the barriers that traditionally segregated local...

We explore the impact of an entrepreneur’s cultural capital on the performance of new ventures in both mature and transition economies. Results show that individualistic values of the founder influence early performance of new ventures, irrespective of the country context; and that in less...