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Senior women managers’ transition to entrepreneurship: Leveraging embedded career capital
Terjesen, Siri A. - 2005
Purpose – This paper aims to explore the phenomenon of senior women managers leaving corporate organisations to start their own companies. Women's advancement to senior management roles is facilitated by the acquisition of human capital and social capital. Female ex-corporate managers leverage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437507
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The importance of gestation process dynamics
Gordon, Scott R. - 2010
Principal Topic In this paper we seek to highlight the important intermediate role that the gestation process plays in entrepreneurship by examining its key antecedents and its consequences for new venture emergence. In doing so we take a behavioural perspective and argue that it is not only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437616
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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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Impact of embeddedness in co-ethnic & non co-ethnic networks on business performance : evidence from Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs in Australia
Ho, Elly Yi-Hsuan - 2010
immigrant receiving countries, such as Australia, the United States and Canada, experiencing a high growth rate in their …-ethnic and non co-ethnic networks on business performance of Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs in Australia. Chinese immigrant … restaurant entrepreneurs in southeast Queensland, Australia were studied. The result expands on existing research on immigrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437866
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Do board contacts matter? : an analysis of the relationship between boards of directors’ ties and the performance of Australia’s largest companies.
Smith, Kevin John - 2009
research uses publicly available data drawn from Australia’s top-105 listed companies and their directors in 1999. I employ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437975
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Examining the black box between stimulating regions and individual entrepreneurship
Stuetzer, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Brixy, Udo; … - 2011
This paper seeks to investigate the link between the objective regional opportunity structure (captured by regional data) and individuals’ engagement in different stages in the venture creation process (intention to start a business and engagement in nascent entrepreneurship). We further...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438103
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Local or Global? The Role of Local and Cross-locality Links in SME Innovation and Growth
Clifton, Nicholas; Senyard, Julienne M.; Pickernell, David - 2007
Ever since the Bolton Report (1971), academics and policy makers have looked towards the small business sector as a primary source of economic development, innovation and growth. The realisation that fast growing SMEs are major contributors to economic prosperity has also seen these firms being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438131
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Is the sum more than the corporate entrepreneurship parts? the different effects of social capital on innovation, venturing, and renewal processes
Burgers, Henri; Jansen, Justin; Van den Bosch, Frans; … - 2009
Principal Topic Although corporate entrepreneurship is of vital importance for long-term firm survival and growth (Zahra and Covin, 1995), researchers still struggle with understanding how to manage corporate entrepreneurship activities. Corporate entrepreneurship consists of three parts:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438250
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Effect of Social Capital on Performance of Smallholder Producer Organizations: The Case of Groundnut Growers in Western Kenya
Wambugu, Stella N.; Okello, Julius Juma; Nyikal, Rose … - 2009
Development literature has recently promoted the use of producer organization in linking farmers to better-paying commodity markets. However, empirical studies find mixed performance of such organizations. This study examines the producer organization’s internal factors that may explain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444826