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Social Entrepreneurship and Performance: The Role of Perceived Barriers and Risk

Thurik, Roy; Hoogendoorn, Hoogendoorn, B.; van der … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2011

This study investigates if and in what way social entrepreneurs are hampered in turning their efforts into sustainable organizations. Using binary logit regressions and unique data containing approximately 26,000 individual-level data points for 36 countries, this study assesses the influences...

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What do We Know about Social Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of Empirical Research

Pennings, Enrico; Thurik, Roy; Hoogendoorn, Hoogendoorn, B. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

Despite the growing attention to social entrepreneurship as a scholarly field of research, it is still in a stage of infancy. Research in the past two decades has been primarily dedicated to establishing a conceptual foundation, which has resulted in a considerable stream of conceptual papers....

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Reinventing Strategic Philanthropy: the sustainable organization of voluntary action for impact

Meijs, Meijs, L.C.P.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

Philanthropic organizations have recently started to focus on how to invest their resources in a way that will really make a difference to society. Strategic philanthropy is the new concept for voluntary action for the public good to create a valuable sustainable impact! This inaugural address...

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Unraveling Scientific Impact

Stremersch, Stefan; Camacho, Camacho, N.M.A.; Vanneste, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2014

The number of citations a paper receives is the most commonly used measure of scientific impact. In this paper, we study not only the number but also the type of citations that 659 marketing articles generated. We discern five citation types: application, affirmation, negation, review and...

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Competition:an inspirational marketing tool

Waarts, Waarts, E. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

Competition is the engine behind innovation and dynamics in the marketplace. Sectors like public transport …

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What Turns Knowledge into Innovative Products? The Role of Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Spillovers

Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy; Zhou, Zhou, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation …-to-the-market innovation but has no effect on the relationship between knowledge and new-to-the-firm innovation. Our results using European … chances that knowledge will become new-to-the-market innovation. The findings highlight the importance of Schumpeterian …

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Organizing The Innovation System For Reusability: The Case Of Made-To-Order Markets

Van Den Bosch, Frans A J; Oshri, Oshri, I.; Volberda, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

This paper examines the transfer of designs between projects within firm in the context of made-to-order producing companies. This practice is also known as knowledge reuse. Past studies has provided a detailed account of the strategies and processes involved in the reuse of technologies....

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The Management of Innovation in Project Based Firms

Keegan, Keegan, A.; Turner, Turner, J.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2000

Innovation is an important area of management theory, but there is a paucity of research on innovation in project based … current managerial challenges. In this paper we research innovation in twenty project based firms. We identify three key areas … of innovation from the theoretical literature and conduct empirical research, discovering (1) whether project based firms …

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A Matter of Life and Death: Innovation and Firm Survival

Cefis, Cefis, E.; Marsili, Marsili, O. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

This paper examines the effects of innovation on the survival of manufacturing firms in the Netherlands. The … demographics of firms according to their innovative performance and type of innovation are traced by using the Business Register … population of all firms active in the Netherlands and the Community Innovation Survey. Through estimation of a parametric …

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The Relationship between Technology, Innovation, and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence on E-Business in Europe

Koellinger, Philipp - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

This article analyzes the relationship between the usage of Internet-based technologies, different types of innovation … enterprises. The empirical results show that Internet-based technologies were an important enabler of innovation in the year 2003 …. It was found that all studied types of innovation, including Internet-enabled and non-Internet-enabled product or process …

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