A focused issue on understanding growth : entrepreneurship, innovation, and diversification / edited by Ron Sanchez, Aimé Heene.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to understanding growth: entrepreneurship, innovation, and diversification / Ron Sanchez and Aimé Heene -- Entrepreneurial drives and dynamic capabilities in situations of encompassing change / Maria Bengtsson and Carin Holmquist -- Entrepreneurial volition to take action and the United States markets of the 1990s / Janice A. Black and Gerard Farias -- Corporate venture capital: leveraging competences, hedging uncertainty, or creating an ecosystem? / James Henderson and Benoit Leleux -- Corporate entrepreneurship from a competence-based management perspective / Tino Michalski -- Innovation strategies in small firms: a competence-based model for empirical research / Emilio Bellini -- Building new competences for new business creation based on breakthrough technological innovations / wim Vanhaverbeke and Robert Kirschbaum -- Competence at work: empirical evidence for competence-based diversification in the world automotive supplier industry / Michael Stephan and Eric Pfaffmann -- Technology-based diversification: decision-making process characteristics / Marika Osterloff and Tomi Laamanen -- Building the passive innovator: a framework for performance architectures / Norbert Hoelzl and Ursula Schneider -- A study into the alliance capability development process / Koen Heimeriks and Geert Duysters.