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ary Entrepreneurship Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Innovation and Growth

Contemporary Entrepreneurship

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€genhold • Jean Bonnet • Dieter Bo Marcus Dejardin • Domingo Garcia Pe´rez de Lema Editors

Contemporary Entrepreneurship Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Innovation and Growth

Editors Dieter B€ogenhold Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt Klagenfurt, Austria

Jean Bonnet University of Caen Lower Normandie Caen, France

Marcus Dejardin University of Namur Namur, Belgium

Domingo Garcia Pe´rez de Lema Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT) Cartagena, Spain

ISBN 978-3-319-28132-2 ISBN 978-3-319-28134-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-28134-6

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Contents

Part I

Contemporary Entrepreneurship and Field of Research

Contemporary Entrepreneurship: An Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dieter B€ ogenhold, Jean Bonnet, Marcus Dejardin, and Domingo Garcia Pe´rez de Lema The Field of Entrepreneurship Research: Some Significant Developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Per Davidsson Part II

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Entrepreneurial Performance and Growth

Linking Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in Sweden, 1850–2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marcus Box, Xiang Lin, and Karl Gratzer

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Investigating the Impact of Small Versus Large Firms on Economic Performance of Countries and Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Judit Albiol-Sanchez and Andre´ van Stel

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Competitive Strategies, Perceived Competition and Firm Performance of Micro Firms: The Case of Trento . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Svetlana Ko