دانلود رایگان مقاله کارآفرینی جهانی و نوآوری در مدیریت

ABSTRACT

The special issue discusses the global entrepreneurship and innovation with original perspectives and advanced knowledge. Entrepreneurship plays a critical role in creating value and in generating wealth and jobs. Firm entrepreneurship is a growing field of study under increasing attention over the decades. Innovation is important in that global economy seeks to maintain and improve competitive advantage. Both entrepreneurs and innovators introduce new inventions into productive activities. 2014 Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Management (2014 GEIM) Conference, on May 14–15, at the National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, aims to attract papers working on both fields in management. 2014 GEIM cooperates with Journal of Business Research to publish the best papers in a special issue on global entrepreneurship and innovation in management. After double-blind reviews and revisions, this special issue includes 28 papers and the editorial. These papers contribute to various perspectives of global entrepreneurship and innovation in different countries and industries.

3. Summary and future directions

Some papers in this special issue present new theories on global entrepreneurship and innovation on the basis of empirical analyses. Others focus on innovation models such as fsQCA to develop advanced empirical analyses. The others report different empirical studies in global entrepreneurship and innovation. This special issue represents an important contribution to the state-of-the-art research results. The 2014 GEIM conference turns out to be a large success in that it features excellent papers from many different countries and international institutions and offers business leaders and academics opportunities to share their insights and learn from others. Much of the high quality work benefits from the in-depth discussions during the conference and will find its way to other leading journals. Accordingly, these papers improve the understanding of the research on global entrepreneurship and innovation in management. The range of authors' nationalities and the scope of topics and methodologies give evidence of a vibrant research culture on global entrepreneurship and innovation at the GEIM conference. This special issue and the forthcoming one will stimulate more research in this area and lead to a better understanding and modeling of global entrepreneurship and innovation in management.