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Businessman or Host? Individual Differences between Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners in the Hospitality Industry
Wagener, S.L.; Gorgievski-Duijvesteijn, M.J.; Rijsdijk, S.A. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2008
Prior research has identified individual characteristics that distinguish business owners from non-business owners. We tested our contention that not every successful business owner can be characterized by such typical “entrepreneurial†characteristics. Multiple Analysis of Variance...
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Can the Office Environment Stimulate a Manager’s Creativity?
Ceylan, C.; Dul, J.; Aytac, S. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2008
This paper explores whether the manager’s physical office work environment can stimulate the manager’s creativity …. A total of 60 managers from a large manufacturing company participated in the study. They rated the creativity potential … creativity potential. Compared to offices with low creativity potential, offices with high creativity potential have lower …
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Organising Innovation
Ende, J.C.M. van den - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2008
Innovation offers many opportunities for corporations. That is beyond dispute. The only question is how to make the most of them. In this lecture, I show what the process of innovation entails; I give examples of successful and failed innovations and I discuss the current issues and trends in...
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The Adaptive Consequences of Pride in Personal Selling
Verbeke, W.J.M.I.; Belschak, F.D.; Bagozzi, R.P. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2004
Study 1 investigates the beneficial effects of experiencing pride. Pride was found to have two different effects. First, it increases salespersons’ performance-related motivations. Specifically, it promotes adaptive selling strategies, greater effort, and self-efficacy. Secondly, it...
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