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Creativity and Entrepreneurship: Potential Partners or Distant Cousins?

Matthews, Judy H. - 2007

Creativity and entrepreneurship, like innovation, have been recognized as important contributors to a nation’s economic … venturing processes, but the relationship between creativity and entrepreneurship to a large extent has not explicitly been … examined. This exploratory conceptual paper briefly reviews the separate bodies of research on creativity and entrepreneurship …

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Resource constraints in innovation : the role of bricolage in new venture creation and firm development

Senyard, Julienne M.; Davidsson, Per; Baker, Ted; … - 2011

entrepreneurship research problem of making systematic sense of entrepreneurs that sometimes manage to create significant new economic …

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Why Reinvent the Wheel? The Efficacy of the Systematic Problem Solving Method 'TRIZ' and it Value for Innovation in Engineering and Implications for Engineering Management

Thomond, Peter N.; Filmore, Paul R. - 2005

The engineering industry needs to be more innovative. A case study of a recent breakthrough innovative development by Michelin is discussed. The influence of prior training with systematic problem solving method TRIZ, on the innovation team, is assessed using a questionnaire. The questionnaire...

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Is the sum more than the corporate entrepreneurship parts? the different effects of social capital on innovation, venturing, and renewal processes

Burgers, Henri; Jansen, Justin; Van den Bosch, Frans; … - 2009

Principal Topic Although corporate entrepreneurship is of vital importance for long-term firm survival and growth … (Zahra and Covin, 1995), researchers still struggle with understanding how to manage corporate entrepreneurship activities …. Corporate entrepreneurship consists of three parts: innovation, venturing, and renewal processes (Guth and Ginsberg, 1990 …

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The differential effects of organizational antecedents on dimensions of corporate entrepreneurship

Burgers, Henri - 2009

corporate entrepreneurship: innovation, venturing or strategic renewal. We argue that structural differentiation may help … components of corporate entrepreneurship, yet the effect is moderated by integration mechanisms. Interunit connectedness has a …

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Not quite up to scratch: An examination of failure, persistence, and 'living dead' outcomes for wireless start-ups

Ghosh, Anindya - 2011

This dissertation analyzes why some VC-funded high-tech firms do not generate harvesting events for investors through a lucrative sale, either to another company or on the stock exchange. In other words, I seek to understand two performance outcomes: failure and persistence. Building on the...

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Familiness Qualities, Entrepreneurial Orientation and Long-term Performance Advantage

Irava, Wayne Jeremy - 2009

Familiness has become widely accepted as the appropriate construct representing the unique bundle of resources arising out of family involvement in business. However as yet we do not fully understand the types of familiness or the conditions that give rise to them and as such familiness remains...

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The use of networks in human resource acquisition for entrepreneurial firms: Multiple "fit" considerations

Leung, Aegean; Zhang, Jing; Wong, Poh Kam; Foo, Maw Der - 2006

This study proposes a multi-dimension, multi-contingent "fit" perspective for examining different practices adapted by entrepreneurial firms in acquiring human resources. We posit that while environmental constraints are important considerations for adapting recruitment practices through...

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Conceptualizing accelerated internationalization in the born global firm: A dynamic capabilities perspective

Weerawardena, J.; Sullivan Mort, Gillian; Liesch, P; … - 2007

Existing approaches at explaining accelerated internationalization of born global firms are incomplete as they do not capture the learning that is undertaken by these firms and their founders prior to the firm's legal establishment. Building on the extant literature and drawing on the dynamic...

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Exploring the characteristics of the market-driven firms and antecedents to sustained competitive advantage

Weerawardena, Jay; OCass, Aron - 2004

-based competitive strategy on sustainable competitive advantage. The findings indicate that entrepreneurship is an important factor in …

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