Description: The 21st century has brought about new trends in entrepreneurship and development. In this insightful volume, a cast of expert contributors explore how these new trends, along with a variety of political, cultural and social influences, have affected entrepreneurship, in all of its manifestations.
Review Quotes: This volume brings together 10 chapters by management, entrepreneurship, economics, and other researchers from Asia, Europe, the US, and the United Arab Emirates, who examine entrepreneurship and economic development in the 21st century and the impact of various trends and political, cultural, and social influences. They address entrepreneurship in developed and developing countries; entrepreneurial development and business innovation in Korea's financial sector; the role of entrepreneurial education and contextual and environmental factors in developing entrepreneurial intention and behavior among university graduates; indigenous entrepreneurship in the Navajo Nation; value chain integration as an alternative to fair trade for coffee farmers in Chiapas, Mexico; the influence of collectivism on microfinance in Senegal; the evolution of financing entrepreneurship; how new technologies of encryption and cryptocurrencies enable entrepreneurial opportunities outside legality in the dark net; how data can identify and shape consumer behavior in ecommerce; and metrics to understand how people choose to trust reviews, focusing on Amazon reviews. Many of the chapters were developed at the Lab for Entrepreneurship and Development and presented at its 2018 Entrepreneurship and Development Conference.--Annotation (c)2019 "(protoview.com)"