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The performance of young firms: patterns of evolution in the growth-profitability space
Steffens, Paul R.; Davidsson, Per; Fitzsimmons, Jason R. - 2006
The aim of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the evolution of small firm performance. We do so by studying performance changes on a two dimensional "growth– profitability performance space". It is well established that both growth and profitability are important dimensions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437585
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Why, how, what for? : motivations, actions and expectations in habitual entrepreneurship
Gordon, Scott R.; Steffens, Paul R. - 2009
Principal topic: Is habitual entrepreneurship different? Answering this is important to the field, however there is … entrepreneurship may be motivated by a desire for growth. While idea driven motivations might not delineate a distinction during … finding informs practitioners considering entrepreneurship for the first time. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437615
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The importance of gestation process dynamics
Gordon, Scott R. - 2010
entrepreneurship by examining its key antecedents and its consequences for new venture emergence. In doing so we take a behavioural … nascent entrepreneurship we conduct an empirical study of ventures start-ups. Data is drawn from a screened random sample of … gestation process antecedents, we examine specific human capital measured as successful prior experience in entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437616
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Novice vs habitual entrepreneurship : differences in motivations, actions and expectations
Gordon, Scott R.; Davidsson, Per; Steffens, Paul R. - 2009
This research examines habitual entrepreneurship as undertaken by those currently creating a new firm and those who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437641
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Nascent entrepreneur(ship) research : a review
Davidsson, Per; Gordon, Scott R. - 2009
better dealt with through the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) research (Bosma & Harding, 2007; Reynolds et al., 2005 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437783
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Innovation Strategies and Firm Performance
Karlsson, Charlie; Tavassoli, Sam - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015
This paper analyzes the effect of various innovation strategies of firms on their future performance, captured by labour productivity. Using five waves of the Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behaviour of firms over a decade, i.e. from 2002 to 2012. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201802