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genuine capitalism and the demands of modern business. Yet contemporary African business cultures reveal that a capitalist … African big business reveals that business and profit are culturally acceptable. Existing theories of African capitalism are … ill-equipped to explain changes in African business cultures, which increasingly are as diverse as any across the globe …
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of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship can be taken as a study of the entrepreneur and new business creation. However …
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reveal distinct patterns of relational space that structure business ecosystems at the enterprise, growth, and startup levels … business ecosystems. …
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This exegesis examines the proposition that playwriting is an entrepreneurial activity when combined with the role of producer. The thesis demonstrates that, when a playwright combines the two roles and considers the development of a network of relationships in the process, positive steps can be...
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Internationalisation occurs when the firm expands its selling, production, or other business activities into …
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Over the last decade, the international business literature has placed ever-greater emphasis on the role that learning …
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For most complex emergent technologies, product-market success depends on efficient linkages between changing lead innovators within the R&D process. In this paper, our unit of analysis is a complex high technology product and the system of alliance linkages formed to progress a product through...
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This study proposes a multi-dimension, multi-contingent "fit" perspective for examining different practices adapted by entrepreneurial firms in acquiring human resources. We posit that while environmental constraints are important considerations for adapting recruitment practices through...
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) measurement: (1) Do HR practices impact business results? (2) How can HR practices add value to business performance? (3) What HR … measures can drive business performance? Using Eastman Kodak as a case study, this article identifies three paths through which … HR practices contribute to business performance: (1) by building organizational capabilities; (2) by improving employee …
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Current business conditions mandate greater competitive advantage from HR agendas and processes. To add greater … value either reactively or proactively. In its strategically reactive mode, HR assumes the existence of a business strategy … and adds value by linking HR practices to the business strategy and by managing change. In its strategically proactive …
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