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Explaining SME performance with fsQCA : the role of entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneur motivation, and opportunity perception
Kusa, Rafał; Duda, Joanna; Suder, Marcin - In: Journal of innovation & knowledge : JIK 6 (2021) 4, pp. 234-245
performance. This study's findings contribute to the entrepreneurship and SME literature by explaining the role of different … motivation, and opportunity perception that lead to an increase in a firm's performance. This study focuses on the small and … medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector, wherein the entrepreneurial spirit is dominant. It is based on a sample of 61 SMEs …
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University research alliances, absorptive capacity, and the contribution of startups to employment growths
Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - 2014
This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that “scientific absorptive capacity” at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits from university research alliances, but not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428152
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The impact of entrepreneurship education in high school on long-term entrepreneurial performance
Elert, Niklas; Andersson, Fredrik; Wennberg, Karl - 2015
entry, performance, and survival. Using propensity score matching, we compare three Swedish cohorts from Junior Achievement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500769
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When less is more : why limited entrepreneurship education may result in better entrepreneurial outcomes
Elert, Niklas; Sjöö, Katarina; Wennberg, Karl - 2020
Entrepreneurship research suggests that entrepreneurship education and training can bridge the gender gap in entrepreneurship, but little empirical research exists assessing the validity and impact of such initiatives. We examine a large government-sponsored entrepreneurship education program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012176117
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Social media as a strategic capability for startups and the mediating role of social capital
Atthaphon Mumi - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 23 (2022) 2, pp. 302-312
significant influence of social media as firm's strategic capability toward performance. In addition, social capital consisting of … strategic capability toward the startup performance. This study advances the social media research on entrepreneurship as well … as the dynamic capabilities perspective to enhance the startup's sustainability through enhanced performance. Especially …
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The mediating role of competitive and collaborative orientations in boosting entrepreneurial orientation’s impact on firm performance
Kusa, Rafał - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 11 (2023) 4, pp. 25-42
performance. In particular, I tested the mediating role of inter-organizational cooperation and competition in the relationship … between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance. Research Design & Methods: This quantitative study used structural …) and firm performance. In both cases mediation was partial. Thus, collaborative behaviours may be as important as …
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Employment growth in newly established firms : is there evidence for academic entrepreneur's human capital depreciation?
Müller, Kathrin - 2009
Human capital is known to be one of the most important predictors of a person's earnings. With regard to entrepreneurial success, founders' human capital is an important determinant of firm's employment growth as well. This paper investigates if the depreciation of a founder's academic knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003881345
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The Growth and Human Capital Structure of New Firms Over the Business Cycle
Brixy, Udo - 2016
Recent research suggests that employment in young firms is more negatively impacted during economic downturns than employment in incumbent firms. This questions the effectiveness of policies that promote entrepreneurship to fight crises. We complement prior research that is mostly based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977873
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The Imprinting of Founders’ Human Capital on Entrepreneurial Venture Growth : Evidence from New Technology-Based Firms
Grilli, Luca - 2016
ventures' sales growth performance. More specifically, we disentangle the effect of the stock of human capital possessed at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006285
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Entrepreneurial Teams : Diversity of Skills and Early-Stage Growth
D'Acunto, Francesco; Tate, Geoffrey A.; Yang, Liu - 2021
We use employer-employee linked data to track the employment histories of team members prior to startup formation for a full cohort of new firms in the U.S. Using pre-startup industry experience to measure skillsets, we find that startups that have founding teams with more diverse collective...
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