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The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly established as the leading Prize for outstanding research contributions in the area. Thanks to a generous donation from the Swedish entrepreneur Rune Andersson it has been...
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-and-acquisition market and foster entrepreneurship. A creative economy also depends on making SMEs, which account for 87% of employment, more … government funding programmes, which discourage the expansion of SMEs. The growth of small firms also depends on resolving labour …
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This article reviews the academic contributions of the 2011 receiver of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, Professor Steven Klepper, Carnegie Mellon University. The Global Award consists of 100,000 Euro and a statuette of the internationally renowned Swedish sculpture Carl Milles....
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The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly established as the leading Prize for outstanding research contributions in the area. Thanks to a generous donation from the Swedish entrepreneur Rune Andersson it has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213820
medium enterprises (SMEs) in Istanbul, Turkey. This study revealed that entrepreneurial passion and business model innovation …, fostering an entrepreneurial passion is crucial to the growth of new SMEs. Therefore, entrepreneurship education should inspire …
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"Entrepreneurs out of necessity" identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across countries. They tend to have low education, run smaller firms, expect their firms to grow less, but are likely to stay in the market. This evidence is a challenge for existing...
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We explore whether the tendency for smaller firms to have fewer hierarchical layers explains the well-documented inverse correlation between firm size and the rate at which employees become business owners. Our analysis is based on a Swedish matched employer-employee dataset. Conditional on firm...
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This study clarifies the association of entrepreneurial orientation with the diverse characteristics of a firm. Descriptive, cross sectional research design has been adopted in a survey of 457 key informants from Indian organizations. Second order CFA has been used for the measurement of the...
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Purpose: In nowadays economy, the role of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is continually increasing as they …. The SMEs' growth depends mostly upon its internal factors like the entrepreneur related factors and firm related factors …. The main objective of this research is to explore how these internal factors influence SMEs' sales growth. Design …
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The role of individual inventors, small firms and entrepreneurs in the patent courts has become controversial for two, somewhat contradictory reasons. First, there is the view that small parties may be at a serious disadvantage in the courts since they do not have the financial resources to...
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