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small and medium-sized companies are being taken into account. The transaction cost theory serves as the theoretical …
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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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This paper reports on the nature and extent of intrapreneurship (or corporate entrepreneurship) practiced by Australian … businesses. We examined the relationship between measures of corporate entrepreneurship and firm growth and profitability, and … utilized measures devised by earlier 3 researchers attempting to assess corporate entrepreneurship, viz: new business venturing …
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The purpose of this paper was to examine the factors affecting the future firm size expectations of nascent entrepreneurs. This was done by testing a decision model on a unique data set composed of a random sample of nascent entrepreneurs. The proposed model is based on four different components...
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Strategic entrepreneurship can be described as simultaneous opportunity seeking and advantage seeking. Younger firms …
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organizational performance for new ventures following an initial publicoffering (IPO). Building from resource-based theory and … contingency theory, I examinethe indirect (through capability formation and use) effects that occur within the ‘blackbox’ between … resources and performance for a sample of entrepreneurial firmsundertaking an IPO. New theory is offered to explain the …
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This study investigates the impacts of regional characteristics on the early-stage performance of New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs) in catch-up regions where a mature industrial cluster has yet to be formed. It hypothesized that the average NTBF performance in a region is a function of its...
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existing theoretical literature on innovation and entrepreneurship. It summarizes some of the main findings of the effect of … various means of protecting intellectual property on the innovation incentives and the level of entrepreneurship activity. A …
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Critics of the trait approach to the study of entrepreneurship have called for adaptation of theory from other … entrepreneurial career preference is developed. Social Learning Theory was used to investigate the link between a parent role model …
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