This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional economic and social development. Although family business participation in economic activities has been a common phenomenon since pre-industrial societies,...

Taken together, the thirteen chapters of this book combinethe literature on the role of the entrepreneur with the new economic geographyliterature in order to illuminate the spatial context in which economicdevelopment takes place.The volume consists of four parts.While thefirst part is...

During the last two decades a new growth theory has emerged - often labelled "endogenous economic growth". The contributions in the book develop these advances into a theoretical framework for endogenous regional economic growth and explain the implications for regional economic policies in the...