The main goal of this paper is to present current research findings in three fields - business environment as a source of innovations, education needs and dynamics of SMEs units. The conclusion is made as some recommendations and useful strategies to support this very important part of national...

This paper constructs a model where entrepreneurial innovations are sold into oligopolistic industries and where adverse selection problems between entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and incumbents are present. We first show that aggressive development of a basic innovation by better informed...

This paper aims to contribute to existing knowledge related to the worker cooperative (CTA) creation process by studying the factors that influence the process using an inductive-deductive method: the Grounded Theory. For this reason, a total of 37 in-depth interviews have been carried out with...

CRM has noted the dizzying career in last years, though it happens, that it is often connected only with the computer program. The management of customer relationship is the something more important in reality. It is the philosophy of new marketing conception. That is the reason too, why many...

Small and medium size enterprises in the Moravia-Silesian Region and issues associated with their development can be examined from various points of view. These aspects have to be synthetically linked, since we can state that individual factors are mutually interconnected. Development of small...

Mit unserer Studie: Existenzgründung – Wie werde ich selbständig, wie werde ich Freiberufler? wollen wir nach kurzer empirischer Darstellung der Entwicklung der Selbständigen und der Freien Berufe in Deutschland einen Leitfaden für den Weg in die Selbständigkeit als Freiberufler oder als...

The new trend, which should help solve some incertitudes which are caused by permanently changed enviroment, is founded on building of economy that is based on the knowledge managament. It is a challenge either for single countries and also for companies. Accomplishments of research performed in...

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), we analyze whether necessity and opportunity entrepreneurs differ in terms of self-employment duration. We find that the two types of entrepreneurs differ regarding their duration in self-employment. Once controlled for educational...

One of the structural problems in Latin-American has been the lower innovative capacity and lower generation of economically exploitable knowledge. This phenomenon has been produced by the absence of government’s incentives and strategies in order to be competitive inside the Knowledge Based...

This research provides a useful framework for identifying a small firms’ propensity to engage in entrepreneurial orientation. We examine the impact of the Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) as a main resource and capability on small firm' growth. The growth seems to come out as an important...