Enterprise Support Systems : An International Perspective

Enterprise Support Systems: An International Perspective focuses on the issues surrounding enterprise support systems, giving a comprehensive understanding of how they influence enterprise creation and growth in various nations. Against the background of a globalized economy, this collection covers issues pertaining to countries at diverse stages of enterprise development and offers valuable insights into the support needed at these stages. The chapters in this compilation present a  comprehensive theoretical perspective on the formative and the facilitative environments of enterprise creation and development, emphasizing the two-way role of learning and education systems in bringing out a change within these systems. They deal with a range of issues that form the core of enterprise support systems, such as availability of finance, sociocultural environment, personality dimensions, education systems, enterprise clusters and technology cluster.

Mathew J. Manimala is Professor of Organization Behaviour at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India, and the Editor of South Asian Journal of Management. Jay Mitra is Founding Professor of Business Enterprise and Innovation, Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Research, Head of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group, and Associate Director (International Development), Essex Business School, at the University of Essex, United Kingdom. Varsha Singh is an Academic Associate at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India.