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Small Firms and Job Creation during a Recession and Recovery
Davidsson, Per; Lindmark, Leif; Olofsson, Christer - 1998
This paper reports on a comprehensive study of the role of SMEs for job creation and regional economic well-being in Sweden during the 1990-93 recession period as well as the years immediately preceding and following that period. It is found that SMEs were over-represented as job creators across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437732
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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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Entrepreneurship and small business research: how do we get further?
Davidsson, Per - 1991
to start from scratch, I see a number of problems within the field of entrepreneurship and small business research. It … aiming at the core issues: determinants of entrepreneurship and the role of entrepreneurship and small businesses in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437662
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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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Entrepreneurship and Dynamic Capabilities: A Review, Model and Research Agenda
Zahra, Shaker A.; Sapienza, Harry J.; Davidsson, Per - 2006
The emergent literature on dynamic capabilities and their role in value creation is riddled with inconsistencies, overlapping definitions, and outright contradictions. Yet, the theoretical and practical importance of developing and applying dynamic capabilities to sus-tain a firm?s competitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483417
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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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A preliminary analysis of learning processes for innovation in member-serving nonprofit organizations: the role of governance structure and its elements - shared knowledge, decisio...
Kong, Eric; Jenkins, Stacey; Ardagh, David - 2009
Very little research today has investigated the role of governance structure and three of its elements: shared knowledge, decision making and benefit sharing, in learning processes for innovation in member-serving nonprofit organizations (MSNPOs). This research project aims to develop a theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009479881
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Large firms, entrepreneurial marketing and the cycle of competitive advantage
Miles, M; Darroch, J - 2006
entrepreneurship with examples from a long-term case study of firms in New Zealand, Sweden, the UK, and the USA to illustrate how … paper contributes to the work of both academics working at the marketing/entrepreneurship interface and executives seeking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484336
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Effective Project Management for Strategic Innovation and Change in an Organisation
Kenny, JDJ - 2003
Projects ore a means of implementingstrategy; the relationship of project managementto strategic implementation inan orgonization is explored. Some of therecent project management literature isexamined and a case study from theeducation sector is used to consider howto effectively link project...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484354