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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
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An unconventional approach to intellectual property protection: The case of an Australian firm transferring shipbuilding technologies to China
McGaughey, SL; Liesch, PW; Poulson, D - 2000
Risks associated with the dissipation of intellectual property rights of foreign firms transferring technology to China have received some attention in the academic and professional, trade-based literature. An innovative Australian manufacturer and designer of large, high-speed catamaran ferries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448238
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How Firm Resources and Behavior Impact Firm Performance: An examination of firm resources, competitive actions, and performance
Major, David Lanier - 2009
In this dissertation, I considered how firm resources, actions and performance may be interrelated. I tested the notion that resources both enable and interact with firm actions to impact performance. Drawing from resource-based and actions-based theory and empirical research, testable...
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The struggle for competitive advantage in the airline industry
Cuccaro, Gianfranco - 2002
The aim of this thesis is to examine the way in which civil airlines exploit theirresources in order to gain and sustain competitive advantage. This is done within theframework of the resource-basedv iew, rather than using the market basedv iew, thoughtwithout of cause presuming to test that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461285
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A resource-based view of small export firms' social capital in a Southeast Asian country
Roxas, Hernan Banjo; Chadee, Doren - 2011
This study empirically examines the social capital that facilitates the flow of export knowledge, thereby supporting the entrepreneurial stance of small export firms. By applying the VRIO (value, rarity, inimitability and organisation of firm resources) framework to the resource-based view (RBV)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484006
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New Venture Survival: Ignorance, External Shocks, and Risk Reduction Strategies
Shepherd, Dean A.; Douglas, Evan J.; Shanley, Mark - 2000
order to make progress in explaining new venture survival, a theoretical model is required that uses a more micro …-level perspective to explain new venture failure (and the flip side, new venture survival). In this paper we develop such a model. We … of the dimensions of mortality risk in order to increase the firm’s chances of survival. A series of risk reduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438038
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437619
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Sources of Funding for Australia's Entrepreneurs
Terjesen, Siri A.; Frederick, Howard - 2007
(from Introduction): It is often said that if entrepreneurs are the engines that drive new companies, then financing is the fuel that propels them. The best sources of funding for the newest firms in Australia are bootstrapping (creative ways of launching a business), informal investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437664