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Corporate Social Capital and Firm Performance in the Global Information Technology Services Sector
Lock Lee, Laurence - 2008
The confluence of a number of marketplace phenomena has provided the impetus for the selection and conduct of this research. The first is the so called value relevance of intangibles in determining share market performance of publicly listed companies. The growing gap between market and book...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480077
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The importance of gestation process dynamics
Gordon, Scott R. - 2010
entrepreneurship by examining its key antecedents and its consequences for new venture emergence. In doing so we take a behavioural … nascent entrepreneurship we conduct an empirical study of ventures start-ups. Data is drawn from a screened random sample of … gestation process antecedents, we examine specific human capital measured as successful prior experience in entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437616
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Leaving Corporate Boundaries: Leveraging Mentors in Career Transitions to Entrepreneurship
Terjesen, Siri A.; Sullivan, Sherry - 2007
This study explores the under-researched subject of the role of mentoring within and outside of organizational boundaries, as individuals make the transition from corporate careers to starting their own businesses. Answering calls for more qualitative, inductive research on entrepreneurial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437619
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Examining the black box between stimulating regions and individual entrepreneurship
Stuetzer, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Brixy, Udo; … - 2011
engagement in nascent entrepreneurship). We further investigate pathways through which a favourable regional environment could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438103
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438250
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Policy environments and institutional factors that shape the role of technology in entrepreneurial culture: an exploratory study in Mexico and Canada
Arechavala Vargas, Ricardo; Holbrook, J. Adam; Díaz … - 2008
Entrepreneurship is, by necessity, a function of opportunities and constraints that a given environment presents … we present a comparative study of entrepreneurship in Mexico and Canada, based on the study of the role of technology and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475855
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Thesis of returnee entrepreneurs in a high-tech cluster: Zhongguancun Science Park in China
Dai, Ou - 2010
This thesis focuses on returnee entrepreneurs in a large industrial cluster, ZhongguancunScience Park in Beijing, based on a combined quantitative and qualitative method. Usinga hand-collected dataset of returnee entrepreneur-owned 353 SMEs (small and mediumenterprises) and local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461309
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Pure Entertainment or Social Harmony? Understanding Private Returns to Social Spending on Household Ceremonies in China
Chen, Xi - 2011
Recent social spending inflation in China has led to its growth rate far exceeding that of income and other consumption. In this paper, we estimate private returns to social spending, such as higher social status and larger social network that serve as certain functions. In almost all...
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