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The present paper deals with the perceptions about market conditions and public policies related to enhance entrepreneurial activities at regional levels. This is the first academic research at regional level in Chile and one of the few in Latin America to study this issue. The main results seem...
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Employees' different levels of entrepreneurial work are likely to be asso- ciated with varying levels of knowledge and intentions in a country. This leads the current paper to argue how entrepreneurial work by employ- ees influences employees' approach to running their businesses in India and...
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The purpose of this contribution is to analyse the reasons why family portfolio entrepreneurs (Westhead & Wright 1998; Carter & Ram 2003) develop international activities instead of focusing on the national market after the financial crisis. The author claims that the market orientation is a...
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Despite the fact that many firms in a wide range of industries in various countries internationalize at or near inception, research on factors leading to the formation of born-globals has been limited to firms from advanced, open economies. In order to give a voice to the phenomenon of...
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Massively Multiplayer Online Games, also known as virtual worlds, have become increasingly popular sites for branded advertising campaigns. While most in-game advertising efforts involve established corporations working with game administrators to deliver targeted ad campaigns or the development...
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Subjective uncertainty helps explain features of entrepreneurial activity that fall outside the scope of models that focus on information asymmetries and misaligned incentives. Uncertainty, construed simply as missing information, can lead to unintended misjudgments. Efforts to control...
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We document the presence of multiple and varied constraints to small and medium firm growth. This presents both a practical problem for business training programs and a challenge to academic economists trying to identify mechanisms though which these programs may affect outcomes. External...
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This paper analyzes effectiveness of coping strategies that entrepreneurs use to daily manage work related stress. Coping is the process of expending efforts to solve personal and interpersonal problems and reducing stress induced by unpleasant and stressful situations. Two broad strategies of...
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The terms innovation and entrepreneurship are commonly used - but not always with the same understanding. There is an obvious strong relationship of both areas, however, barely articulated. Moreover, so far there is few consensus among researchers regarding innovative and entrepreneurial...
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This article views social entrepreneurship as a relatively new model for achieving sustainable development. It also identifies development narratives that social entrepreneurs (SEs) construct to represent and promote their work as an important research gap in development studies. Drawing on the...
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