Special issue published: "Business Development: An Essential Factor in Corporate Growth"

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management 22(1/2) 2018

• It's all about growth - an empirical status report of business development
• Making planning work: insights from business development
• Firm characteristics, financial variables and types of innovation: influence in Spanish firms' survival
• Innovation propensity and international development of small and medium firms: the moderating effects of corporate governance structure
• Initial and further business development: highlights from business model, open innovation, and knowledge management perspectives
• Opportunity recognition by international high-technology start-up and growth photonics firms
• Strategy and professional identity of VSE owner-managers
• The ambivalent influence of a business developer's social ties in a multinational company