Overview
- Provides a multidimensional approach on building ecosystems enhancing citizens’ quality of life
- Presents international benchmarking case studies on good practices promoting the EIC ecosystems
- Presents state of the art and relevant literature on entrepreneurial, innovative and sustainable practices in the context of ecosystems
Part of the book series: Applying Quality of Life Research (BEPR)
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Keywords
- Public Innovation and Collaborative Governance
- Impact of Global Warming on Businesses
- Sustainable Practices in Small and Medium Businesses
- Social Process of Constructive Sustainable Business Models
- State of the Art on EIS Ecosystems
- Ecosystems and Impact on Citizen's Quality of Life
- Employment and People with Disabilities
- Sustainability-Driven Entrepreneurs
- Ecosystem using Social Network Analysis
Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Ecosystems’ Entrepreneurial, Innovative and Sustainable Dimensions (EISE)
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Benchmarking Cases
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Helena Alves is associate professor atUBI, Portugal. She has a Ph.D. in Management and she has been doing research in the area of public and nonprofit marketing. Her areas of expertise include Customer Satisfaction, Services marketing, Tourism marketing and public and nonprofit marketing having authored and co-authored several articles and book chapters on this topics. Currently she is editor of the International Review on Public and nonprofit marketing. She is member of several editorial boards, namely, the Service Industries Journal, the International Journal of Business Excellence, Service Business, Contemporary Research on Organization Management and Administration, Journal of Service Science and Management, Portuguese Marketing Review among others. She has published some articles in The Service Industries Journal, Total Quality Management, International Review on Public and non-Profit Marketing, Management Decision, Journal of Educational Management, and Services Business, among others. She is president for Portugal of the International Association on Public and Nonprofit Marketing.
Norris Krueger is passionately interested in how we grow entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial communities. He was a pioneer in researching entrepreneurial ecosystems and has been an invited expert on the topic for the OCED and EU and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He has organized and led high level academic symposia and high-impact practitioner workshops. Norris is also known for his research into the entrepreneurial mindset, the most-cited author on entrepreneurial intentions (see Google Scholar) which has led him to studying neuroentrepreneurship and its implications for entrepreneurial learning and education. He is a passionate, award-winning educator. He is also a past officer of ICSB and a current officer on the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management. He is Associate Editor and reviewer for multiple journals, most notably Journal of Small Business Management.
Jacob Park is Professor of Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship at Green Mountain College in Vermont (USA) specializing in social and environmental innovation, entrepreneurship, and management with a special expertise/interest in emerging economies in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and Caribbean regions. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship and South Asia Global Business Research Journal and serves on the editorial boards of and Business Strategy and the Environment and Journal of Corporate Citizenship. His book, “Crisis of Global Environmental Governance: Towards a New Political Economy of Sustainability”, was published in 2008 by Routledge and “Ecology of the New Economy: Sustainable Transformation of Global Information Technology, Communication, and Electronics Industries” was published in 2002 by Greenleaf Publishing. He serves on and contributes to a wide range of international scientific, environmental, and market development efforts, including as theUNEP Global Environment Outlook 6 Regional Coordinating Lead Author (North America) and as the Renewable Energy and Adaptation to Climate Technologies Investment Committee member of Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund, Nairobi, Kenya-based $150 million sustainable investment fund.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Entrepreneurial, Innovative and Sustainable Ecosystems
Book Subtitle: Best Practices and Implications for Quality of Life
Editors: João Leitão, Helena Alves, Norris Krueger, Jacob Park
Series Title: Applying Quality of Life Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71014-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71013-6Published: 24 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89029-6Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71014-3Published: 12 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2213-994X
Series E-ISSN: 2213-9958
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 321
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Entrepreneurship, Public Policy, Marketing