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To what extent is the performance of a small business venture, once started, affected by capital constraints at the … business incomes by 3.9 percent on average. Also, education enhances entrepreneurs' performance both directly - with a rate of ….18 percentage points. The indirect effect of education on entrepreneurs' performance is estimated to be between 3.0 and 4.6 percent. …
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Successful companies are aware of the needs for long-term strategic development, which is based on relationship marketing with customers. That is necessary to touch the customers’ emotion and irrationality of purchase decision. For this touch, companies use marketing communication tools to...
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The performance of the often young and independent businesses studies in entrepreneurship research is not only … that greater care ought to be taken in the selection and interpretation of the dependent variable in entrepreneurship …
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competitive performance. Developing unique products and services to offer in the marketplace is not only important for established … considerable experience and management know-how. That is, these firms differ significantly in their attributes and performance from …
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performance in an empirical study. Since most papers on corporate entrepreneurship and firm performance are based on Covin … management with firm performance. Our argument here is that companies that follow core principals of entrepreneurial management … should outperform other more administrative firms in certain measures of strategic performance. This paper builds on an …
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enhancing uniqueness, which in turn enhances new venture performance. Second is that our results show that changes have limited … affect on uniqueness and performance for entrepreneurs aiming at maximising opportunities, but that changing the business … business idea to gain higher performance and a more unique product offering. …
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This study proposes a multi-dimension, multi-contingent "fit" perspective for examining different practices adapted by entrepreneurial firms in acquiring human resources. We posit that while environmental constraints are important considerations for adapting recruitment practices through...
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Existing approaches at explaining accelerated internationalization of born global firms are incomplete as they do not capture the learning that is undertaken by these firms and their founders prior to the firm's legal establishment. Building on the extant literature and drawing on the dynamic...
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Entrepreneurial actions, such as new product introductions, infuse new information and drive the market process by moving the market either toward or away from existing market conditions. These products cause uncertainty for market participants, who engage in discourse as a sensemaking mechanism...
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examines the relationship between the characteristics of returnees and their firms’performance in comparison with non … development of anew channel for knowledge spillovers. The findings also shed light on the relationshipbetween performance … such as socialcapital and networks on a firm’s performance. The thesis provides a new insight into thefactors determining …
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