The authors examine the causes and consequences of complexity among the broadly economic phenomena of firms, industries and socio-economic policy. The book makes a valuable contribution to the increasingly prominent subject of complexity, especially for those whose interests include...

A sizable gap exists between the growing demand for entrepreneurship education and our understanding of how best to approach the teaching and learning of entrepreneurship. Based on papers, presentations and workshops that have appeared at the annual United States Association for Small Business...

1. Public choice and the Virginia tradition of political economy -- 2. Alternative paths for a theory of political economy -- 3. Systems theory and parts-to-whole relationships -- 4. The logic of economizing action : universal form and particular practice -- 5. Reason, sentiment, and electoral...

1. Diagnostics of the present and second-order observation -- 2. Adapting to adaptability : the machine of transience -- 3. From membership to self-enrollment : the production of the employee who creates herself in the organizational image -- 4. Management of authentic feelings : the trembling...

This book applies ideas and methods from the complexity perspective to key concerns in the social sciences, exploring co-evolutionary processes that have not yet been addressed in the technical or popular literature on complexity. Authorities in a variety of fields--including evolutionary...

pt. I. Trends and prospects in international business research. -- pt. II. Case study research. -- pt. III. Interviewing in international business research. -- pt. IV. Alternative methods and methodologies -- pt. V. Researching outside the triad -- pt. VI. From analysis to publication

11 Towards more synergy in entrepreneurial competence research in entrepreneurship education12 Learning fictions or facts? Moving from case studies to the impact-based method; 13 The personal dimension of an entrepreneurial competence: an approach from the Spanish basic education context; 14...

Management Education and Humanities argues that management teachers and researchers seem to be increasingly dissatisfied with the way managers are usually educated in western countries. It claims that educational practices and methods would greatly benefit from reflection on the implicit...

Probably no region's economists have had greater public visibility or greater impact on regional and national public policy than Latin America's and no region has been more directly affected by the spread of US economics. Economists in the Americas joins a small but important comparative...

Research can be a lonely path and there are myriad challenges and problems to face with any research project. In this research methods book, novice and experienced researchers tell stories of when things went wrong in their research projects. Drawing on real life experiences, researchers from...