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Can street entrepreneurs be Schumpeterian entrepreneurs? The case of food trucks as family firms in an emerging country
Matzembacher, Daniele Eckert; Leite Gonzales, Rogério; … - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 9 (2019) 6, pp. 1-24
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 Global Award for Entreprenurship Research
Henrekson, Magnus; Lindström, Anders - 2008
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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The role of supply chain integration in the relationship between market orientation and performance in SMEs
Didonet, Simone Regina; Frega, José Roberto; Toaldo, … - In: International Journal of Business Science & Applied … 9 (2014) 2, pp. 16-29
The purpose of this paper is to verify the alignment between market orientation and supply chain integration practices for improving performance in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). A model of the relationships between variables was derived from the literature. Data from 327 SMEs were...
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The impact of information and communication technology and internal market orientation blending on organisational performance in small and medium enterprises
Kazakov, Sergey; Ruiz-Alba, José L.; Muñoz, María M. - In: European Journal of Management and Business Economics … 30 (2021) 2, pp. 129-151
Purpose - The present study examines the concept of internal market orientation (IMO) and its effects on organisational performance comprising job satisfaction and employees' loyalty in the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) research context. Rooted in administrative theory, human relations...
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Internationalization of SMEs and market orientation: A study of customer knowledge, networks and cultural knowledge
Billore, Soniya; Billore, Gautam - In: European Business Review 32 (2018) 1, pp. 69-85
This paper studies the context of market orientation and the contribution of customer knowledge, networking, and cultural knowledge to market orientation particularly to the internationalization of firms in developing economies. A multiple case approach is adopted with four Swedish firms...
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Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants' Cultures of Innovation
Kohnert, Dirk - 2010
The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from established African entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive sociocultural traits or whether the Chinese's supposed...
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Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa: Patterns and Determinants
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014
We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural enterprises tend to be small, informal household...
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The effect of personal financing disruptions on entrepreneurship
Hanspal, Tobin - 2016
I show that disruptions to personal sources of financing, aside from commercial lending supply shocks, impair the survival and growth of small businesses. Entrepreneurs holding deposit accounts at retail banking institutions that defaulted following the financial crisis reduce personal borrowing...
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The role of networks in technological capability: A technology-based companies perspective
Tumelero, Cleonir; Sbragia, Roberto; Borini, Felipe Mendes - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 8 (2018) 7, pp. 1-19
demonstrates that the innovation ecosystem presents advancements in the well-known challenge of financial support for technology …'s innovation capability. Results demonstrate that this change in planning focus, from inside to outside of the company, could …
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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies
Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - 1999
This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable ?quasi-experiment? for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
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