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Entrepreneurs, institutional entrepreneurship and institutional change
Koene, Koene, B.A.S.; Ansari, Ansari, S.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2013
reshaping institutions, we observed distributed institutional entrepreneurship – entrepreneurs seeking change in concert and in … conflict with other interdependent actors simultaneously creating, disrupting and maintaining institutions. By examining how an … evolving context influences the role of "actor configurations", whose actions, interactions and counteractions can collectively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011067461
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Why Do European Venture Capital Companies Syndicate?
Manigart, Manigart, S.; Bruining, Bruining, J.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002
Financial theory, resource-based theory and access to deal flow are used to explain syndication practices among European venture capital (VC) firms. The desire to share risk and increase portfolio diversification is a more important motive for syndication than the desire to access additional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242168
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The Impact of Business Ownership Change on Employee Relations: Buy-outs in the UK and the Netherlands
wright, mike; Bruining, Bruining, J.; Boselie, Boselie, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004
A buy-out is a fundamental change in the structure of ownership that may affect the way employee relations develop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242169
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Management Control Systems and Strategy Change in Buyouts
wright, mike; Bruining, Bruining, J.; Bonnet, M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002
The impact of management buy-outs (MBO) on strategy and management control systems (MCS) is little understood. Previous research by Jones (1992) focused on efficiency-enhancing buy-outs that were a feature of the early development of the market. However, MBOs are heterogeneous and more recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242171
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Internationalization Of Management Buyouts
wright, mike; Lockett, Lockett, A.; Westhead, Westhead, P. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002
Multivariate statistical analysis is utilized to explore the association between firm strategies, contributions made by venture capitalists and incentives for owners and employees and three exporting variables in a stratified random sample of 147 management buyouts and buyins. Firms focusing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242172
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Entrepreneurial Orientation In Management Buy-Outs And The Contribution Of Venture Capital
wright, mike; Bruining, Bruining, J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002
role played by venture capital firms in enhancing EO. It presents results of two exploratory case studies of divisional buy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242173
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Entrepreneurship by Alliance
Krug, Krug, B.; Mehta, J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001
Recent years have seen the introduction of markets and a system of private property rights in China with a view to changing the composition of production and demand and enhancing welfare. Central to the success of these reforms is the rise of entrepreneurship with its potential to set the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730860
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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 firms. Project based firms are simultaneously becoming a more vital and important organisational context, exemplifying many current managerial challenges. In this paper we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730869
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Project Contract Management and a Theory of Organization
Turner, Turner, J.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001
This paper attempts to develop concepts of project and contract organization to predict the selection of contract type on infrastructure projects. Conventional wisdom is that at low risk fixed price contracts are best, moving to remeasurement and then cost plus as risk increases. We started...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730871
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Employee Perceptions of HRM and TQM and the Effects on Satisfaction and INtention to Leave
van der Wiele, Ton; Boselie, Boselie, J.P.P.E.F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001
There is a growing interest in theory and in practice with regard to the relationship between human resource management [HRM] and total quality management [TQM] as well as the relationship between these two perspectives and business performances. Empirical research suggests significant effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730872