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Spatial Dimensions of Small Entrepreneurship |
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Authors: |
Skordili, Sophia Kalogeresis, Athanasios |
Subject: | NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > EARTH SCIENCES > GEOGRAPHY > HUMAN GEOGRAPHY > URBAN GEOGRAPHY NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > EARTH SCIENCES > GEOGRAPHY > HUMAN GEOGRAPHY > APPLIED GEOGRAPHY NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > EARTH SCIENCES > GEOGRAPHY > HUMAN GEOGRAPHY > ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > EARTH SCIENCES > GEOGRAPHY > REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY > TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING > REGIONAL AND URBAN PLANNING > REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > DEMOGRAPHY > HUMAN GEOGRAPHY > ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ECONOMIC SCIENCES > ECONOMIC HISTORY > MICRO-BUSINESS HISTORY LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ECONOMIC SCIENCES > ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, AND GROWTH |
Keywords: |
SMEs - Small and medium Enterprises
Economic Geography Micro firm Small entrepreneurship Start-up Local production system Entrepreneurial ecosystem Small business clusters Innovative entrepreneurship Youth entrepreneurship Senior entrepreneurship Silver economy Female entrepreneurship Social entrepreneurship Social economy Small entrepreneurship in Greece Microbrewery Independent local food stores |
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Abstract: |
This textbook intends to fill a significant gap in the domestic literature on the topic of small entrepreneurship. It critically examines core issues on the dynamics and limits of action of small entrepreneurship with emphasis on its spatial dimensions. During the recent forty years, the small enterprise, and more specifically the start-ups, have been the subject of systematic study by complementary social sciences. A common feature of most approaches is that they move away from the study of the business as a closed system with emphasis on the characteristics of the entrepreneur and the performance of economic indicators, towards a broader approach that pays particular attention to the interaction of the firm with its local environment. It is, now, obvious that the success or failure of a small business is firmly affected by its wider economic, institutional, social, and cultural environments. Hence, Economic Geography is an appropriate field to study small entrepreneurship. The textbook is mainly addressed to postgraduate students in the fields of Geography, Spatial Planning and Regional Development and intends to familiarise them with a cutting-edge topic. The individual chapters explore issues that are found at the center of theoretical debates and present the international and domestic experience on the dynamics of small entrepreneurship and its impact on people and places. The first part presents the contemporary morphology of small firms and proposes a framework for the study of small entrepreneurship. The second part studies four types of inclusive entrepreneurship that have gained particular significance in the context of the prolonged crisis. Finally, the two chapters of the third part focus on the small entrepreneurship in Greece.
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Linguistic Editors: |
Mavridi, Emona - Angeliki |
Graphic Editors: |
Avgoustiniatou, Anna |
Type: |
Postgraduate textbook |
Creation Date: | 26-08-2024 |
Item Details: | |
ISBN |
978-618-228-280-9 |
License: |
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-1027 |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/13856 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Skordili, S., & Kalogeresis, A. (2024). Spatial Dimensions of Small Entrepreneurship [Postgraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-1027 |
Language: |
Greek |
Consists of: |
1. Milestones in the evolution of the debate up to the 1980s 2. The modern perspective of Economic Geography 3. Small entrepreneurship and Spatial Development 4. The morphology of small and medium enterprises 5. Youth Entrepreneurship 6. Senior Entrepreneurship 7. Female Entrepreneurship 8. Social Entrepreneurship 9. Small Entrepreneurship in Greece 10. Case Studies: Newfound small business initiatives |
Number of pages |
316 |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |
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