stimulate such behaviour through motivating and informing their employees, and by providing them with the necessary capabilities … capabilities are essential conditions for strategically aligned behaviour to occur; however, this only holds when a company has not … increase efforts to motivate and develop capabilities. …

by stimulating employee motivation and by informing employees, and by stimulating the development of their capabilities … informing employees (both managers and non-managers), and at developing their capabilities, each have an influence on SAB …. Second, among the efforts to stimulate motivation among employees, providing a rationale for the strategy and an open …

between two main groups of determinants (information, motivation) and three types of overoptimism (income, psychological … benefits are closely related to the initial motivation for starting up the business. …

discussing the concept. Subsequently, the implications of applying a competence-based approach in entrepreneurship education are … focussing on competence in entrepreneurship education lies in making the (potential) small business owner aware of the …The concept of competence, as it is brought into play in current research, is a potentially powerful construct for …

entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation … entrepreneurship in the process of the commercialization of knowledge. We discuss the implications for entrepreneurship and innovation …The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the fundamentals and consequences of …

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 … contact provides opportunities furthering eventual success, in the second case, the existing network or the new business …

In an attempt at a systematic theory of entrepreneurship, this paper connects various literatures, from economics and … business. In economics, there are many notions of entrepreneurship, some of which seem to contradict each other. For example …, there are notions of entrepreneurship as an equilibrating and as a disequilibrating force. In this paper, these differences …