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The specific domain of market orientation has been the subject of much scrutiny this decade. Both conceptual and empirical advances have been made to establish the marketing orientation construct as central to marketing decisions, business activities and organizational culture. However, a lacuna...
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The present study fills some of the void in the literature on the concept and phenomenon of innovation and imitation …. Basing our arguments on features that the literature indicates are characteristics of innovation, we delimit the concepts of … innovation and imitation. Using these features and considering a company’s degree of entrepreneurial and market orientation, we …
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characterize entrepreneurship, its motivations, knowledge and capacity for innovation. A participant observation was carried out … Schumpeterian condition. This paper advances in theoretical knowledge by identifying that the Schumpeterian innovation of this … in places in which knowledge is disseminated as innovation. …
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The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly established as the leading Prize for outstanding research contributions in the area. Thanks to a generous donation from the Swedish entrepreneur Rune Andersson it has been...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the author's view of the role of entrepreneurial marketing (EM) as a strategy to address the dynamic marketing environment of recent times. Design/methodology/approach – The author reflects on some significant marketing changes and provides...
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Internet use among small businesses has recently become a popular topic for researchers in the fields of marketing, information systems and entrepreneurship. In view of the media hype this topic has received over recent months, it is important for small businesses to learn from the experiences...
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It is argued that one of the keys to successful management is the harvesting of change. The implications of change on Australian organisations in the 1990s, a period which the author believes will be one of flat growth, are presented.
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Reports on the introduction of marketing concepts into the Queensland Department of Primary Industries, in 1988‐89, using workshops, luncheon seminars, newsletters and the establishment of an entrepreneur′s network. Two years later, interviews were conducted within two branches of the...
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This paper presents findings from an investigation of intellectual capital measurement, reporting and management in the South African mining industry. The research methodology employs a combination of content analysis of annual reports for the 20 largest listed companies in South Africa,...
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's study to determine whether their findings can be generalized to another geographical location, Australia. Design …
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