Enterprise Support Systems

An International Perspective
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-93-5280-986-8
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Enterprise Support Systems: An International Perspective focuses on the issues surrounding enterprise support systems, giving a comprehensive understanding of how they influence enterprise creation and growth in various nations. Against the background of globalized economy, this collection covers issues pertaining to countries at diverse stages of enterprise development and offers valuable insights into the support needed at these stages.

The chapters in this compilation present a comprehensive theoretical perspective on the formative and the facilitative environments of enterprise creation and development, emphasizing the two-way role of learning and education systems in bringing out a change within these systems. They deal with a range of issues that form the core of enterprise support systems, such as availability of finance, socio-cultural environment, personality dimensions, education systems, enterprise clusters and technology transfer.

The theoretical debates raised by the issues discussed in this book will provide value-addition and solution-oriented tools for researchers, entrepreneurs, financiers, venture capitalists, trainers and educators.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Manimala, Mathew J

Mitra, Jay

Singh, Varsha

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Enterprise Support Systems: Nature and Relevance - Mathew J Manimala, Jay Mitra and Varsha Singh
I: FORMATIVE ENVIRONMENT ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, SOCIO-CULTURAL AND INFRASTRUCTURAL INFLUENCES
Social Power Bases of Low Country Sinhala Entrepreneurs and their Innovative Patterns - Travis Perera

Entrepreneurial Intention and Personal Characteristics in Hong Kong Start-ups - K F Chan, Theresa Lau and K Y Liu
Regional Cluster Formation: A Case Study of the Software Cluster in Birmingham, UK - Jun Li and Jay Mitra
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Indian IT Industry: Contextual Impediments - Abhoy K Ojha
SME Growth in Networked Ventures: The European Experience - Colin Gray
Sustainable Development through ICT: The Need for Entrepreneurial Action - Mathew J Manimala
II: LEARNING AND EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT: LINKING THE FORMATIVE AND FACILITATIVE ENVIRONMENTS
Entrepreneurial Role Models in the Scottish Economy - John Anderson, Colin Bottomley and Sarah Cooper

Comparative Evaluation of the Entrepreneurship Education in Australia and India - Shahid Yamin and Raveendra Nayak
An Experiential Learning Approach to Entrepreneurship Education: A British Initiative - Sarah Cooper, Colin Bottomley and Jillian Gordon
Managerial Competence of Small Business Owners and Managers in Hong Kong - Theresa Lau and K F Chan
An Assessment of Business Incubation in Bangalore - K Kumar
III: FACILITATIVE ENVIRONMENT: TASK FACILITATION FOR INNOVATION, INTRAPRENEURSHIP AND ENTERPRISE CREATION

Technology Transfer from R&D Centres in India and Development of Industrial Clusters - Santanu Roy
Demand and Supply of Finance to SMEs within the Cape Metropolitan Area - Christopher May, Andre Stotlz, Sulaiman Gool, Thabit Gool and Abubakar Abdullatief

Failure in NRI Ventures: An Ethical Dilemma - D V R Seshadri

Survival and Growth of High-tech SMEs: Some Uncommon Strategies - Vijay Vyas
Strategic and Policy Options in Commercialization of Traditional Knowledge-based Technology - Dheeraj Awasthy, Rakesh Basant and Vivek Gupta
Corporate Venturing Models and Absorptive Capability: A Conceptual Framework - M Akbar

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mitra, Jay
Jay Mitra is Professor of Business Enterprise and Innovation and Director of The Venture Academy at Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK. He has acted as a Scientific Adviser to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and is a Visiting Professor at Leuphana University in Germany and Bayero University in Nigeria. He has held similar positions at the Institute of Management Technology in India School of Management, Fudan and Jilin Universities in China, and at Bologna University, Italy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK. Jay Mitra also leads the International Entrepreneurship Forum (IEF) a unique network and forum for researchers, policy makers and business practitioners working on entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development.

Manimala, Mathew J
Mathew J. Manimala (MBA, Cochin; MBSc., Manchester; and Fellow IIMA) has had an illustrious academic career spanning over three decades. His last position was as the Director of Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship (XIME), Bangalore. Prior to joining XIME in July 2015, he was Professor of Organization Behaviour and Chairperson of OB-HRM area at IIMB, where he has also served as the Jamuna Raghavan Chair Professor of Entrepreneurship and as the Chairperson of N. S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL). His earlier academic positions were at the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI)—he was a Senior Faculty and Chairperson of the HRM area—and Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT). He is a recipient of the Heizer Award of the Academy of Management for Outstanding Research in the field of new enterprise development as well as of research fellowships from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and the Shastri Indo- Canadian Institute (SICI). He has carried out several research projects with the support of national and international agencies, such as the National Petroleum Management Programme (NPMP), the National Foundation for Corporate Governance (NFCG), the Conference Board of Canada, the European Commission, International Finance Corporation and Fondazione Cariplo (Italy), and was the leader of the India team (for two years) of the multi-country research project, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). He has published over 50 research papers, mostly in refereed international journals, and about 10 books (through reputed international publishers) in the areas of entrepreneurship and organizational behaviour. He is a member of the editorial board of a few journals and the Editor of South Asian Journal of Management (SAJM).