Special issue: Contemporary issues in entrepreneurship studies

Journal for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development 3(1/2) 2006 is a special issue: Contemporary issues in entrepreneurship studies. Papers integrate diverse issues such as competitiveness to marketable innovations that address central problems in entrepreneurship. These papers provide perspectives from diverse countries with different economic and social structures, for example, Saudi Arabia's place in the global petrochemical industry; customer relationship management use by Malaysian automobile distributors; demographic comparisons between graduate and non-graduate entrepreneurs in urban Malaysia; sales-forecasting strategies for small businesses across Lebanon; linkages between business practices and performance in the small business sector in the Arab region; entrepreneurship development across Sub-Saharan Africa.