Developmental entrepreneurship [electronic resource] : adversity, risk, and isolation / edited by Craig S. Galbraith, Curt H. Stiles.

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Introduction / Craig S. Galbraith, Curt H. Stiles -- Trust, institutions and entrepreneurship / Hernando de Soto -- Poor peoples' knowledge: helping poor people to earn from their own intellectual property / J. Michael Finger -- Institutional development and entrepreneurship in a transition context / David Smallbone, Friederike Welter -- Entrepreneurial environment and the life-cycle growth and development approach to analyzing family businesses in the transitional Polish economy / Alina M. Zapalska, Dallas Brozik -- Transition in the Polish economy / Richard J. Hunter, Leo V. Ryan -- New venture performance in the transition economies: a conceptual model / Erich J. Schwarz, Malgorzata A. Wdowiak -- Disasters, vulnerability and the global economy: implications for less-developed countries and poor populations / Charlotte Benson, Edward J. Clay -- Disasters and entrepreneurship: a short review / Craig S. Galbraith, Curt H. Stiles -- HIV/AIDS, crime and small business in South Africa / Eslyn Isaacs, Christian Friedrich -- Poverty, developing entrepreneurship and aid economics in Mozambique: a review of empirical research / Leo Paul Dana, Craig S. Galbraith -- The dilemma of small business in Mozambique: a research note / Friedrich Kaufmann, Wilhelm Parlmeyer -- Isolation as a source of entrepreneurial opportunities: overcoming the limitations of isolated micro-states / �rn D. J�nsson, R�gnvaldur J. Saemundsson -- Portrait of an entrepreneurial trade mission: Iceland goes to China / Porl�kur Karlsson, Michael R. Luthy, Katr�n �lafsd�ttir -- Indigenous entrepreneurship research: themes and variations / Ana Mar�a Peredo, Robert B. Anderson -- Gender differences in minority small business hiring practices and customer patronage: an exploratory study / Pat Roberson-Saunders, Raymond D. Smith -- Immigrants and Entrepreneurs in S�o Paulo, Brazil: economic development in the Brazilian 'melting pot' / Jos� Renato de Campos Ara�jo, Odair da Cruz Paiva, Carlos L. Rodriguez -- Acquiring the skills and legitimacy to better manage local economic development: the case of Jalisco, Mexico / Nichola Lowe -- Building human capital in difficult environments: an empirical study of entrepreneurship education, self-esteem, and achievement in South Africa / Christian Friedrich, Kobus Visser -- Educational curricula and self-efficacy: entrepreneurial orientation and new venture intentions among university students in Mexico / Ricardo D. Alvarez, Alex F. DeNoble, Don Jung -- Entrepreneurship education: a cautious ray of hope in instructional reform for disadvantaged youth / Howard S. Rasheed, Michelle Howard-Vital.

This series is an outlet for unique, often cutting edge, business research with an international flavour. Articles that appear in each volume are original, peer-reviewed manuscripts, selected to support both the volume's theme and to provide a cross-section of high-quality knowledge concerning the selected topic.

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