Collective Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary European Services Industries: A Long Term Approach

Collective entrepreneurship is crucial for European service activities such as tourism, healthcare, leisure, trade, logistics, and transportation. This book provides a historical account and managerial approach to how companies in the service industry have grown, innovated, and internationalized. It combines business history and entrepreneurship theory to understand the long-term dynamics of European companies.

Format: Hardback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 11 July 2023
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited

Collective entrepreneurship holds significant importance in European service sectors, including tourism, healthcare, leisure, trade, logistics, and transportation. This multifaceted domain has witnessed remarkable growth, innovation, and internationalization throughout history, particularly in Western Europe. In their book, Collective Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary European Services Industries, the authors delve into the historical roots and managerial strategies employed by companies in the service industry. By leveraging collective entrepreneurship and fostering collaborative networks within firms and across sectors, the authors contribute to a deeper understanding of the long-term dynamics of European companies. This interdisciplinary approach draws from business history and entrepreneurship theories, offering a fresh perspective on the field. The book adopts a multidisciplinary and inter-territorial approach, combining business history and entrepreneurship theory to address recent calls for a historic turn in entrepreneurship studies. It serves as a platform for rekindling the dialogue between history and theory, providing valuable insights for scholars, researchers, and practitioners alike.

Collective entrepreneurship plays an important role in European service activities such as tourism,health care,leisure,trade,logistics and transportation.

Collective Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary European Services Industries provides a historical account and a managerial approach on how companies in the service industry have grown,innovated,and internationalised along the last centuries in Western Europe.

Using collective entrepreneurship and collaborative networks within firms and between firms and external associations and institutions such as governments,the authors contribute to a better interdisciplinary understanding of the long-term dynamics of European companies.

Collective Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary European Services Industries borrows and applies existing concepts and theories from business history and from entrepreneurship.

A multidisciplinary and inter-territorial approach,this collection combines business history and entrepreneurship theory to respond to recent calls for a historic turn in entrepreneurship studies,offering the opportunity to relaunch the dialogue between history and theory.

Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781801179515