Small Firms and Local Economic Development: Entrepreneurship in Southern Europe and Turkey
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Abstract
Part 1 Small firms in Southern Europe: the emergence of SMEs in the world economy theoretical approaches to SMEs understanding locality and small business entrepreneurship politics and the economy of Southern Europe small firms and regional development in Southern Europe. Part 2 The economic geography of Turkey: the Turkish economy SMEs in the modern Turkish economy SMEs in Turkish society and the class system geography of the Turkish economy three illustrative regions - Denizli, Kayseri and Gaziantep. Part 3 The anthropology of entrpreneurship: the anthropology of small business gender relations and the position of women entrepreneurship and management practices the family and professional backgrounds of entrepreneurship. Part 4 Survival and growth of small firms: sectoral dynamics business start-ups and failures growth and survival innovation, imitation and quasi-networks. Part 5 A new approach to understanding small firms: understanding the dynamism of small firms new perspectives SME policies and institutional support.