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Creating resilient economies : entrepreneurship, growth and development in uncertain times /

Contributor(s): Williams, Nick, 1977- [editor.] | Vorley, Tim, 1980- [editor.].
Publisher: Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017Description: xi, 274 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781785367632; 9781785367632:; 1785367633.Subject(s): Entrepreneurship | Risk | Economic development | Economics | UncertaintyDDC classification: 330
Contents:
Introduction / Nick Williams and Tim Vorley -- Strategies for resilience in entrepreneurship : building resources for small business survival after a crisis / Rachel Doern -- The resilience of entrepreneurs and small businesses in the depths of a recessionary crisis / Nick Williams and Tim Vorley -- Vulnerability and adaptability : post-crisis resilience of SMEs in Denmark / Christian Kjoer Monsson -- Resilience, adaptation and survival in industry sectors : remaking and remodelling of the automotive sector / Gill Bentley, David Bailey and Daniel Braithwaite -- The evolution of economic resilience in cities : reinvention versus replication / James Simmie -- Path dependency, entrepreneurship and economic resilience in resource-driven economies : lessons from the Newfoundland offshore oil industry, Canada / Cédric Brunelle and Ben Spigel -- Resilient regions and open innovation : the evolution of smart cities and civic entrepreneurship / Jennifer Clark -- Governance, civic leadership and resilience / Chay Brooks -- Entrepreneurship, culture and resilience : the determinants of local development in uncertain times / Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson -- The resilience of growth strategies / Lee Pugalis, Nick Gray and Alan Townsend -- Local economic resilience in Italy / Paolo Di Caro -- evolutionary perspectives on economic resilience in regional development / Emil Evenhuis and Stuart Dawley -- Final thoughts and reflections / Nick Williams and Tim Vorley.
Summary: Economic resilience is an emergent field in the social sciences. In this timely book, key scholars examine how individuals, organisations, regions and nations are affected by internal and external crises, and consider how the ways in which they respond will determine their future growth path.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-262) and index.

Introduction / Nick Williams and Tim Vorley -- Strategies for resilience in entrepreneurship : building resources for small business survival after a crisis / Rachel Doern -- The resilience of entrepreneurs and small businesses in the depths of a recessionary crisis / Nick Williams and Tim Vorley -- Vulnerability and adaptability : post-crisis resilience of SMEs in Denmark / Christian Kjoer Monsson -- Resilience, adaptation and survival in industry sectors : remaking and remodelling of the automotive sector / Gill Bentley, David Bailey and Daniel Braithwaite -- The evolution of economic resilience in cities : reinvention versus replication / James Simmie -- Path dependency, entrepreneurship and economic resilience in resource-driven economies : lessons from the Newfoundland offshore oil industry, Canada / Cédric Brunelle and Ben Spigel -- Resilient regions and open innovation : the evolution of smart cities and civic entrepreneurship / Jennifer Clark -- Governance, civic leadership and resilience / Chay Brooks -- Entrepreneurship, culture and resilience : the determinants of local development in uncertain times / Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson -- The resilience of growth strategies / Lee Pugalis, Nick Gray and Alan Townsend -- Local economic resilience in Italy / Paolo Di Caro -- evolutionary perspectives on economic resilience in regional development / Emil Evenhuis and Stuart Dawley -- Final thoughts and reflections / Nick Williams and Tim Vorley.

Economic resilience is an emergent field in the social sciences. In this timely book, key scholars examine how individuals, organisations, regions and nations are affected by internal and external crises, and consider how the ways in which they respond will determine their future growth path.

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