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Strategies, Uncertainty and Performance of Small Business Startups
Thurik, Roy; van Gelderen, van Gelderen, A.M.; Frese, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2000
Personal strategies of owners/founders of small business startups are related to performance and to environmental uncertainty. This is done using a longitudinal data set of some 50 Dutch startups. The results suggest a dynamic process between strategy and performance. A discrimination is made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837512
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Agglomeration Economies and Entrepreneurship in the ICT Industry
Oort, Frank van; Stam, Stam, F.C. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006
In this study indicators of agglomeration economies and their effect on entrepreneurship in the ICT industry are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731356
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New Firm Growth: Exploring Processes and Paths
Garnsey, E.; Stam, Stam, F.C.; Heffernan, P.; Hugo, O. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2003
This paper provides a new methodology for the diachronic study of new firm growth, theoretically grounded in the work of Penrose (1995). We show that a model of firm growth as an unfolding process makes possible draw simple, measurable inferences from firm level to aggregate evidence on growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731398
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Learning Opportunities And Learning Behaviours Of Small Business Starters: Relations With Goal Achievement, Skill Development, And Satisfaction
van Gelderen, van Gelderen, A.M.; van der Sluis, L.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004
Learning is a vital issue for small business starters, contributing to short term and long term business performance, as well as to personal development. This study investigates when and how small business starters learn. It specifies the situations that offer learning opportunities, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731429
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Entrepreneurship Education and Training in a Small Business Context: Insights from the Competence-based Approach
Lans, Lans, T.; Hulsink, Hulsink, W.; Baert, Baert, H.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008
entrepreneurship education research and practice. Although the concept has been the subject of strong debate in educational research in … general, critical analysis of how it has been used, applied and experienced in entrepreneurship education practice is scarce … discussing the concept. Subsequently, the implications of applying a competence-based approach in entrepreneurship education are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731446
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The Locus of Innovation in Small and Medium-sized Firms: The Importance of Social Capital and Networking in Innovative Entrepreneurship
Hulsink, Hulsink, W.; Elfring, Elfring, T.; Stam, Stam, W. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008
Social networks matter in the innovation processes of young and small firms, since ‘innovation does not exist in a vacuum (Van De Ven, 1986: 601).’ The contacts a firm has could both generate advantages for further innovation and growth, and disadvantages leading to inertia and stagnation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731467