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Flexible Labor and Innovation Performance: Evidence from Longitudinal Firm-Level Data

Zhou, Zhou, H.; Dekker, Dekker, R.; Kleinknecht, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

Firms with high shares of workers on fixed-term contracts have significantly higher sales of imitative new products but perform significantly worse on sales of inno¬va¬tive new products (“first on the market”). High functional flexibility in “insider-outsider” la¬bor markets enhances...

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Knowledge Management as a Strategic Tool to Foster Innovativeness of SMEs

Zhou, Zhou, H.; Uhlaner, Uhlaner, L.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Our empricial results indicate that external acquisition practices play a key role in … fostering SMEs’ innovativeness while internal sharing practices do not appear to have a significant influence. External … opportunities which in turn may lead to new or improved products or processes. We suggest that owners/entrepreneurs of SMEs and …

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Developing Innovative Competences in an Emerging Business System: New Private Enterprises in Hangzhou’s Software Industry

Greeven, Greeven, M.J.; Xiaodong, Xiaodong, Z. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

What kind of innovative competences are credibly developed by private entrepreneurs in China’s transition economy? On the basis of original empirical fieldwork in 45 software enterprises in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, we propose a working theory of innovative competence development in an...

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Why Are Some Entrepreneurs More Innovative Than Others?

Koellinger, Philipp - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007

The study provides theoretical insights and empirical evidence on the emergence of different types and degrees of entrepreneurial innovativeness. The results suggest that entrepreneurial innovativeness depends both on individual factors and on the environment in which the individual lives. In...

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Genome-wide Association Studies and the Genetics of Entrepreneurship

Koellinger, Philipp; Groenen, Patrick; Thurik, Roy; van … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

We are currently investigating genetic influences on self-employment in an international research consortium using genome-wide association studies (GWAS). By meta-analysing results from numerous independent samples we address identification issues arising from multiple testing. To our knowledge,...

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Export Orientation among New Ventures and Economic Growth

van Stel, André; Hessels, Hessels, S.J.A. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007

While it is generally acknowledged that entrepreneurship as well as export activity may both be important strategies for achieving national economic growth, it has remained unclear how export activity among new ventures is related to economic growth. This paper investigates whether the presence...

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Businessman or Host? Individual Differences between Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners in the Hospitality Industry

Wagener, Wagener, S.L.; Gorgievski-Duijvesteijn, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (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 (MANOVA)...

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Climbing the Entrepreneurial Ladder: The Role of Gender

Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid; Grilo, Grilo, I.; van der … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

We investigate whether women and men differ with respect to the steps they take in the entrepreneurial process, distinguishing between five successive steps described by the following positions: (1) "never thought about it"; (2) "thinking about starting up a business"; (3) "taking steps to start...

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I Can’t Get No Satisfaction - Necessity Entrepreneurship and Procedural Utility

Block, Joern H.; Koellinger, Philipp - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

We study a unique sample of 1,547 nascent entrepreneurs in Germany and analyze which factors are associated with their start-up satisfaction. Our results identify a group of nascent entrepreneurs that “cannot get satisfaction” with their start-up because they did not choose to become...

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Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth and Policy in Emerging Economies

Thurik, Roy - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

Entrepreneurship has emerged as an important element in the organization of economies. This emergence did not occur simultaneously in all developed countries. Differences in growth rates are often attributed to differences in the speed with which countries embrace entrepreneurial energy. This...

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