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Entrepreneurial Management, Corporate Venturing, and Financial Performance

Eliasson, Christian; Davidsson, Per - 2003

Corporate venturing activities can expand a firm’s business by creating new products and entering new markets. The literature suggests that entrepreneurial management should have a positive effect on corporate venturing activities and, as a consequence of this, a positive effect on a company's...

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What entrepreneurship research can do for business and policy practice

Davidsson, Per - 2002

This article discusses the problem of making practical use of research on entrepreneurship. The introduction deals with … differences can be bridged. Regarding entrepreneurship research specifically it is argued in the following section that there are … side are also to blame. In the next section it is suggested that entrepreneurship research can actually do "A lot of harm …

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Smallness, newness, and regional development

Davidsson, Per; Lindmark, Leif; Olofsson, Christer - 1998

The purpose of this paper is to present empirical findings and interpretations concerning the role of small and new firms for job creation and economic well-being from a regional perspective. More specifically, we will deal with the following questions: • Are small firms over-represented as...

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An operationalization of Stevenson’s conceptualization of entrepreneurship as opportunity-based firm behavior

Brown, Terrence E.; Davidsson, Per; Wiklund, Johan - 2001

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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Management and Schumpeterian Resource Recombination

Wiklund, Johan; Eliasson, Christian; Davidsson, Per - 2002

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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Levels of analysis in entrepreneurship research: Current research practice and suggestions for the future

Davidsson, Per; Wiklund, Johan - 2001

'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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Conceptual and Empirical Challenges in the Study of Firm Growth

Davidsson, Per; Wiklund, Johan - 2000

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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The business platform : developing an instrument to gauge and assist the development of young firms

Davidsson, Per; Klofsten, Magnus - 2003

The research presented here addresses the following problems that we perceive in research on the development of young firms. First, we feel there is a lack of holistic, yet quantifiable and generalizable ways to assess the state of newly started firms. Quantitative research typically relies on...

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Continued entrepreneurship and small firm growth

Davidsson, Per - 1989

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Entrepreneurship as growth, growth as entrepreneurship

Davidsson, Per; Delmar, Frédéric; Wiklund, Johan - In: Entrepreneurship and the growth of firms, (pp. 21-38). 2006

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