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entrepreneurs are embedded in co-ethnic and non co-ethnic networks and the affect of embeddedness on business performance, such as … of embeddedness on entrepreneurial business performance. This research seeks to identify the impact of embeddedness in co … empirical testing to a research area with little empirical testing. The results indicated that embeddedness in the co …
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their own companies. Women's advancement to senior management roles is facilitated by the acquisition of human capital and … leverage "embedded career capital", human capital and social capital accumulated from past experiences, when founding and … the first to examine how women account for the use of human capital and social capital in the transition from corporate …
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that venture resource attributes such as human capital, and specifically prior entrepreneurial experience (Alsos … by firstly, examining that nature of the influence that venture attributes such as human and social capital have on the … gestation process antecedents, we examine specific human capital measured as successful prior experience in entrepreneurship …
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perspective, we found that mentoring relationships with structural, relational and cognitive embeddedness were most likely to …
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Boards of directors are thought to provide access to a wealth of knowledge and resources for the companies they serve, and are considered important to corporate governance. Under the Resource Based View (RBV) of the firm (Wernerfelt, 1984) boards are viewed as a strategic resource available to...
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This paper seeks to investigate the link between the objective regional opportunity structure (captured by regional data) and individuals’ engagement in different stages in the venture creation process (intention to start a business and engagement in nascent entrepreneurship). We further...
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Ever since the Bolton Report (1971), academics and policy makers have looked towards the small business sector as a primary source of economic development, innovation and growth. The realisation that fast growing SMEs are major contributors to economic prosperity has also seen these firms being...
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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:...
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Development literature has recently promoted the use of producer organization in linking farmers to better-paying commodity markets. However, empirical studies find mixed performance of such organizations. This study examines the producer organization’s internal factors that may explain the...
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