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Interpreting Performance in Research on Independent Entrepreneurship
Davidsson, Per - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437623
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Intrapreneurship in Australian Firms
Fitsimmons, Jason R.; Douglas, Evan J.; Antoncic, Bostjan; … - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438040
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Firm Size Expectations of Nascent Entrepreneurs
Delmar, Frederic; Davidsson, Per; Aronsson, Magnus - 1999
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438334
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Empirical analysis of growth factors using Swedish data
Davidsson, Per; Kirchhoff, Bruce; Hatemi-J, Abdulnasser; … - 2002
Empirical research conducted on economic sectors in the U.S., Germany, Australia and Scotland has shown that factors such as age, size, location, legal form, and industry are related to business growth rates. Much of this research has focused on manufacturing firms thus providing little...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437729
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Small Firms and Job Creation during a Recession and Recovery
Davidsson, Per; Lindmark, Leif; Olofsson, Christer - 1998
of large firms. With regard to regional economic well-being it is concluded that relatively vivid SME activity has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437732
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Conceptual and Empirical Challenges in the Study of Firm Growth
Davidsson, Per; Wiklund, Johan - 2000
specifically on growth, we also have the observation that longitudinal designs are generally lacking in entrepreneurship research … longitu-dinal studies in entrepreneurship research as a major impediment (Aldrich & Baker, 1997, p. 389; Sex-ton, 1997, p. 407 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438044
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Knowledge Management Processes in Growth-oriented SMEs: An Atlantic Canadian Perspective
MacDonald, Harry Douglas - 2010
ABSTRACTCompetitive pressure and desire for success drive enterprises in general to involve in knowledge acquisition and dissemination activities that are becoming increasingly significant in the rapid changing and globalising economic world. In addition, with the increased mobility of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465993
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Methodological Approaches to Entrepreneurship: Past research and Suggestions for the Future
Davidsson, Per - 2005
This journal aims at developing and sharing some ideas on methodological development in entrepreneurship research … literature as regards what "entrepreneurship" is, and what entrepreneurship research should study, it may be useful to first set … entrepreneurship as a scholarly domain it is important that the phenomenon called "entrepreneurship" be defined as unambiguously as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483418
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The business platform : developing an instrument to gauge and assist the development of young firms
Davidsson, Per; Klofsten, Magnus - 2003
The research presented here addresses the following problems that we perceive in research on the development of young firms. First, we feel there is a lack of holistic, yet quantifiable and generalizable ways to assess the state of newly started firms. Quantitative research typically relies on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483455
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The development of Saudi Arabian Entrepreneurship and Knowledge society
Alessa, Adlah A.; Alajmi, Shayma Hussain - 2017
the entrepreneurship's development in Saudi Arabia and contributes to the attainment of the knowledge society. We used the … analysis. We found that the impact on Saudi Arabia entrepreneurship, project participation and execution are reliant on support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756234