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Creativity and Entrepreneurship: Potential Partners or Distant Cousins?

Matthews, Judy H. - 2007

Creativity and entrepreneurship, like innovation, have been recognized as important contributors to a nation’s economic … growth. Creativity plays an important role in the fuzzy front end of a firm’s innovation process and also in corporate …

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Market Access for Local Food through the Conventional Food Supply Chain

Abatekassa, Getachew; Peterson, Christopher H. - 2011

The paper examines relationships and linkages between the conventional supply chain actors (wholesalers and retailers) and local food producers based on a study conducted in Southeast Michigan. A case study approach was employed to examine chain actors’ operations and to explore their roles,...

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Environmental aspects in local food promotion

Pícha, Kamil; Bartošovská, Lucie - 2012

The article aims to analyze environmental claims as a possible promotion element to support sales of local food. The article analyses some results of a questionnaire survey among customers of selected smaller food stores standing out of supranational retail chains.

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Technological entrepreneurship and small business innovation programs

Kropp, Fredric; Zolin, Roxanne - 2008

in the American economy, enhancing global competitiveness through innovation. These firms are integral to a number of … technology adopters, they use new technologies for product and process innovation; as technology developers, they initiate the … entrepreneurship, especially through technological research and devel-opment programs, such as the Small Business and Innovation …

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Enlightening, balancing and transcending entrepreneurial orientation : the 4th annual EO3 research PDW

Zolin, Roxanne - 2011

Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) has a 30 year history as one of the most used concepts in entrepreneurship research. “Recent attention in formal sessions at the Academy of Management conference programs confirm Entrepreneurial Orientation as a primary construct with a majority of...

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An operationalization of Stevenson’s conceptualization of entrepreneurship as opportunity-based firm behavior

Brown, Terrence E.; Davidsson, Per; Wiklund, Johan - 2001

Stevenson (1983) holds that entrepreneurial management, defined as a set of opportunity-based man-agement practices, can help firms remain vital and contribute to firm and societal level value creation. While his conceptualization has received much attention, little progress has been made...

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Resources supporting entrepreneurial orientation in multigenerational family firms

Irava, Wayne; Moores, Ken - 2010

We examine entrepreneurship in multigenerational family firms. Specifically, we employ theoretical lenses drawn from both entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial orientation) and strategy (resource-based view) to develop an integrated model of transgenerational entrepreneurship. Following a review of...

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Goal Orientation as Shaping the Firm's Entrepreneurial Orientation and Performance

Hitt, Michael A. (contributor); … - 2009

Firms’ top decision makers cannot possibly know what decisions to make. Rather, decision makers must interpret their situations and make the best possible decision based upon their interpretation of their situations. In this dissertation, I examine decision-makers’ goal orientations as...

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The contextual determinants behind the entrepreneurial behaviour within 3D of EO : evidence from the SMEs in China

Jun, Zhan; Deschoolmeester, Dirk - 2008

China’s recent economic success is remarkable. However, this comparative research – conducted at a firm level – presents empirical evidence showing that the entrepreneurship contextual conditions in China are still not comparable to those in Belgium, if the entrepreneurial behaviours...

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Coping with complexity and turbulence: An entrepreneurial solution

Mason, Roger B. - 2006

This paper considers the adoption of an entrepreneurial orientation as a paradigm for companies operating in a complex and turbulent environment, viewing the environment as a complex and turbulent system in terms of chaos theory. Approaches suggested by chaos theory are compared with the...

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