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The study tests whether strong rather than weak ties account for small business growth in Turkey. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire filled out by the owners of small firms operating in four cities. Growth is comprised of two main areas, production expansion and knowledge...
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We study a model of network formation and start-up financing with endogenous entrepreneurial type distribution. A hub firm admits members to its network based on signals about entrepreneurs' types. Network membership is observable, which allows lenders to offer different interest rates to...
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Recent research acknowledges that networking constitutes an important aspect of entrepreneurial efforts for any organization. This aspect takes up an even bigger role in case of high technology firms that are in their growth phases. This exploratory study is an attempt to understand as to how...
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Decision-making, incentives, environmental frameworks and support mechanism are often subject to entrepreneurship … alternative network based view of academic entrepreneurship drawing concepts from interdisciplinary theories. Entrepreneurship is … entrepreneurial activities transform into innovations in the market place. Academic entrepreneurship therefore naturally combines the …
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Extensive prior literature has studied how young organizations are impacted by and often benefit from embeddedness in key industry networks. Indeed, some research advises that entrepreneurs “don't go it alone” (Baum, Calabrese, and Silverman, 2000). This literature has also highlighted a...
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Can large-scale peer interaction foster entrepreneurship and innovation? We conducted an RCT involving almost 5 …
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This paper distinguishes entrepreneurial network effects from the firm effects and industry effects that have been the focus of much of the literature about the economics of technological change and the economics of industrial organization. A method of identifying entrepreneurial networks is...
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