TY  - BOOK
AU  - Özcan,Gül Berna
TI  - Small firms and local economic development: entrepreneurship in Southern Europe and Turkey 
SN  - 1859721176
AV  - HD2346.T8 O93 1995
PY  - 1995///]
CY  - Aldershot, England, Brookfield, Vt., USA
PB  - Avebury
KW  - Small business
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Europe, Southern
KW  - Entrepreneurship
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Southern Europe
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-227) and index; Figures and tables	;  	Acknowledgements	; 1	Introduction	; 2	The emergence of SMEs in the world economy	; 3	Theoretical approaches to SMEs	; 4	Understanding locality and small business entrepreneurship	; 5	Politics and the economy of Southern Europe	; 6	Small firms and regional development in Southern Europe	; 7	The Turkish economy	; 8	SMEs in the modern Turkish economy	; 9	SMEs in Turkish society and the class system	; 10	Geography of the Turkish economy	; 11	Three illustrative regions: Denizli, Kayseri and Gaziantep	; 12	The anthropology of small business	; 13	Gender relations and the position of women	; 14	Entrepreneurship and management practices	; 15	The family and professional backgrounds of entrepreneurs	; 16	Prospects for local entrepreneurship	; 17	Sectoral dynamics	; 18	Business start-ups and failures	; 19	Growth and survival	; 20	Innovation, imitation and quasi-networks	; 21	Understanding the dynamism of small firms	; 22	New perspectives	; 23	SME policies and institutional support	;  	Bibliography	;  	Index
ER  -