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We use data from global entrepreneurship monitor to examine the act of entrepreneurial reentry by entrepreneurs who … sanctions that are associated with stigma markings speak only to one side of the entrepreneurship phenomenon. On the other side …
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empirical instrument for assessing a firm’s degree of entrepreneurship. Our instrument should open up opportunities for … researchers to further evaluate entrepreneurship in existing firms. …
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H. H. Stevenson suggests that firms’ management practices range along a spectrum from highly entrepreneurial to highly administrative. At the entrepreneurial end are promoter firms with a focus on new opportunities and at the administrative end are trustee firms with an inward focus on...
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'Introduction' In their path-breaking article, Low & MacMillan (1988) suggest that entrepreneurship be defined as the … 'creation of new enterprise'. The purpose of entrepreneurship research should be to 'explain and facilitate the role of new … micro and macro perspec-tives. They argued that researchers must acknowledge that entrepreneurship studies could and should …
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specifically on growth, we also have the observation that longitudinal designs are generally lacking in entrepreneurship research … longitu-dinal studies in entrepreneurship research as a major impediment (Aldrich & Baker, 1997, p. 389; Sex-ton, 1997, p. 407 …
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Understanding the sources of business growth is central to both the fields of entrepreneurship and strategy. This is a …
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Business growth has become a major theme in the rapidly expanding field of entrepreneurship research. Entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship, and which are at the same time given only cursory treatment within other lines of research. On the basis of … empirically informed conceptual reasoning, we argue that setting the term ‘entrepreneurship’ equal to ‘start-up of a new …
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Edith Penrose’s theory of firm growth postulates that a firm’s current growth rate will be influenced by the adjustment costs of, and changes to a firm’s productive opportunity set arising from, previous growth. Although she explicitly considered the impact of previous organic growth on...
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In this article we investigate how small business managers? beliefs concerning the con-sequences of growth influence their overall growth attitude. We find this to be an important question. Although previous research has shown that small firm growth is the most important source of new jobs...
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