At least since Schumpeter published his work "The Theory of Economic Development" (1912), a wide body of literature has focused on the evolutionary process behind firm growth and survival. Recently a growing interest is devoted to the variable "location" as a critical factor, shaping firm...

Background: The innovativeness of founders and their heirs and family businesses (FBs) is a relatively unexplored field of research, and its understanding is incomplete and inconsistent. Objectives: The goal is to compare the founders' innovativeness and investigate the relationship of life-long...

This paper aims at exploring the influences of effectuation and causation on opportunity exploitation in high-tech new ventures and the mediating role of entrepreneurial capability by integrating effectuation theory and a perspective of entrepreneurial capability. The data was collected from...

Objective - The study aims to learn effect of Innovation Capability and Customer Relationship Management on young entrepreneur's competency.Methodology/Technique - Questionnaire used for the data collection in this study. The sampling method is probability sampling with simple random sampling...

This study investigates the antecedents of an entrepreneur's day-level innovative behavior. Drawing on 2,420 data points from a 10-day experience sampling study with 121 entrepreneurs, we find that sleep quality is a precursor to an entrepreneur's subsequent innovative behavior, in accordance...

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...

Objective: The objective of this article is to offer arguments for the strategic support of entrepreneurial processes that stimulate value creation. Recent findings show that firms concentrate mostly on outcomes and performance, neglecting the primary sources of value creation. As value is...