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Entrepreneurship and family firms : a case study in growth and survival
Morris, Mervyn J. - 2009
Entrepreneurial marketing has gained popularity in both the entrepreneurship and marketing disciplines in recent times. The success of ventures that have pursued what are considered non-traditional marketing approaches has been attributed to entrepreneurial marketing practices. Despite the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437684
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Organizational resources, industry membership, and firm performance: the role of capability formation and use in value creation for IPO-stage new ventures
Hitt, Michael A. (contributor);  … - 2007
A widely held belief is that resource constraints and industry conditions posesevere threats to the performance of entrepreneurial firms. While previous research linksresources controlled by these firms to different performance outcomes, extant researchon organizational performance often assumes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009464920
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An empirical investigation of the influence of age, gender, and occupational level on stress perceptions, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnover.
Cordas, Jon D. - 2008
commitment, stress perception, and turnover intention. The demographics were hypothesized to moderate the stress-satisfaction and … commitment-turnover relationships. Hypotheses were tested using both parametric and non-parametric bootstrap methods. Subjects … for age on turnover intent. No mediating effects were found. Age-Commitment was the only significant higher order modifier …
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Do organizational climate and competitive strategy moderate the relationship between human resource management and productivity?
Neal, A.; West, M. A.; Patterson, M. G. - 2005
and productivity will be stronger for firms with a poor climate because employees working in these firms should have the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448428
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Clarifying the Business Model Construct
Abd Aziz, Sumaiyah; Fitzsimmons, Jason R.; Douglas, Evan J. - 2008
Principal Topic: Choice of an appropriate business model is essential to the nascent entrepreneurial firm. The term 'business model' describes the collective of the strategies and tactics the firm uses to make money and outlines the underlying economic logic that explains how the firm creates...
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Indirect Internationalization of New Ventures: A Development And Test of Two Theories
Terjesen, Siri A.; Hessels, Jolanda - 2007
This paper develops resource dependency and institutional theory arguments for explaining SME involvement in direct and indirect (via intermediaries) export activity. Based on resource dependency theory, we argue that a desire to leverage resources in a favorable home market may explain SME...
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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...
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Sources of Funding for Australia's Entrepreneurs
Terjesen, Siri A.; Frederick, Howard - 2007
-panies that are already on a high growth track. Beyond this, the growth-oriented entrepreneur will rely heavily on bank loans and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437664
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Shaping Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Managing Uncertainty and Equivocality in the Entrepreneurial Process.
Barton, Michelle A. - 2010
This dissertation develops and tests a theory of how technology entrepreneurs shape their business opportunity and the organizing practices that facilitate that process. I suggest that entrepreneurial opportunities are not predetermined phenomena discovered by vigilant individuals but rather are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477278
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Resources, capabilities, liability of newness and corporate failure: An empirical study
Rongwei, Ren; Zhu, Yunxia; Zhang, John - 2010
of internal resource and capability are likely to induce failure. In order to accelerate firm survival rate, we make some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448397