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The Locus of Innovation in Small and Medium-Sized Firms : The Importance of Social Capital and Networking in Innovative Entrepreneurship
Hulsink, Willem - 2013
Social networks matter in the innovation processes of young and small firms, since lsquo;innovation does not exist in a … vacuum (Van De Ven, 1986: 601).' The contacts a firm has could both generate advantages for further innovation and growth … to either the internal sources or the external contacts to trigger innovation. And when a conclusive study has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753524
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The selective nature of innovator networks: From the nascent to the early growth phase of the organizational life cycle
Cantner, Uwe; Wolf, Tina - 2016
Earlier studies have shown that entrepreneurs play a key role in shaping regional development. Innovator networks where these entrepreneurs are members of have been identified as one among many critical factors for their firms' success. This paper intents to go one step further and analyses in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580462
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Too Talented to Innovate? Dynamic Entrepreneurial Reputation, Project Selection and Welfare
Shamir, Noam - 2017
This paper integrates entrepreneurial reputation into a multi-period model which explores the financing and execution of heterogeneous projects under asymmetric information. We study a model where reputation can be acquired following a history of successful execution but may also be inferred...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968406
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The selective nature of innovator networks : from the nascent to the early growth phase of the organizational life cycle
Cantner, Uwe; Wolf, Tina - 2016
Earlier studies have shown that entrepreneurs play a key role in shaping regional development. Innovator networks where these entrepreneurs are members of have been identified as one among many critical factors for their firms' success. This paper intents to go one step further and analyses in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572658
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Entrepreneurial Choice : Restoring a Relevant Antitrust Policy
Grimes, Warren S. - 2018
Current antitrust orthodoxy focuses on short term price/output factors. This increasingly criticized model does not adequately protect competition in industries in which individuals and small firms thrive. Small entrepreneurs may be efficient for a variety of reasons, including the incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012933993
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How Digital Are Albanian Enterprises: A Microeconomic Analyses
Kalaj, Ermira; Merko, Flora - 2021
This paper focuses on the analyses of the digitalization of enterprises and its performance impact in Albania. Using data from 2019 Enterprise Surveys (ES) we try to give answer questions related to digitalization that characterize Albanian enterprises. The survey was a shared project of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170513
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Global Recession to Global Recovery : Epoch Strategies for Marketing, Family Business and Entrepreneurship
Chugan, Pawan K.; Pingle, Sameer S. - 2012
Global Recession to Global Recovery: It is well known fact that all good things, as also bad things, come to an end and business cycles pass through good and bad economic times. Economically 2010 was a year of transition from economic recession to recovery. Economies were improving in some...
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Trademarks in Entrepreneurial Finance
Chemmanur, Thomas J. - 2020
We analyze the role of trademarks in entrepreneurial finance, hypothesizing that trademarks play two important roles: a “protective” role, leading to better product market performance; and an “informational” role, signaling higher firm quality to investors. We develop testable hypotheses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852244
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Targeting credit through community members
Vera Cossio, Diego Alejandro - 2019
Limited borrower information may create targeting distortions in credit markets. Community-based lending programs may reduce these distortions by exploiting information transmitted in local networks, but connections may create asymmetries in power. This paper analyzes how local leaders balance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534408
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The practice of social entrepreneurship: Theory and the Swedish experience
Stryjan, Yohanan - Hochschule <Wismar> / Fachbereich Wirtschaft - 2005
The notion of social entrepreneurship has gained increasing recognition in thelast years, both as an increasingly visible mode of economic action, and as animportant policy tool. The paper outlines a typology that departs from aSchumpeterian view of entrepreneurship, that centers on the creation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863514