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Entrepreneurship in technological systems : the development of mobile telephony in Sweden

This dissertation relates and analysis the development of the Swedish mobile telephone industry from 1950-98. Based on a research of entrepreneurial theories three forms of entrepreneurship are formulated, the individual as entrepreneur, the company as entrepreneur, and the network as entrepreneur. The mobile telephone industry is seen as a technological system incorporating a broad spectrum of participants, and the account analysis how the entrepreneurs carry out different types of innovations. It starts out as a technical project, with market related innovations becoming a greater force in the final phase. The source of entrepreneurship varies over time and the individual plays a significant role early on while the network becomes of a greater importance as the system develops. / Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögsk.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hhs-633
Date January 1999
CreatorsMölleryd, Bengt G.
PublisherHandelshögskolan i Stockholm, Marknadsföring, Distributionsekonomi och Industriell Dynamik (D), Stockholm : Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics (EFI)
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDoctoral thesis, monograph, info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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