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Based on research and conceptualizations of cognition, we propose a model that provides a process explanation for habitual entrepreneurship. The model includes three paths that illustrate how distinct push and pull factors may influence an owner-manager to engage in habitual entrepreneurship. We...
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This study examines the influence of intra- and extra-industry networks on firm performance by using data on 1264 UK venture capital (VC) backed start-up companies. The ventures' network was operationalized by connecting together the various portfolio companies sharing the same investor....
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Despite burgeoning research in international entrepreneurship (IE), very little is known about the processes of how entrepreneurs recognize and pursue opportunities in international markets. To provide an answer to this “opportunity process gap,” we drew on the idea sets framework from the...
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This paper examines the capability antecedents of firm entry into nascent industries. Because a firm's technological … investments in nascent industries typically take place at a time before market entry, this study makes a distinction between … capability requirements at the time of market entry versus initial investment. At the time of market entry, core technical …
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Acquiring talent is a central decision for new ventures. Yet recruiting decisions are made under demand uncertainty, making the optimal hiring strategy unclear. We argue that such strategy depends on the type of entrepreneurship pursued: whether entrepreneurship entails founding a standalone...
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Startups partnering with corporations compete with one another for the latter’s attention. Based on an inductive study of concurrent partnerships between startups and one established firm as part of a programmatic initiative of the latter, we explore how startups differ in terms of (i)...
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This paper analyses the links between advances in financial technology, investors’ sophistication, and the composition and returns of their financial portfolios. We develop a simple portfolio choice model under asymmetric information and derive some theoretical predictions. Using detailed...
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This paper analyses the links between advances in financial technology, investors' sophistication, and their financial portfolios' composition and returns. We develop a simple portfolio choice model under asymmetric information and derive some theoretical predictions. Using detailed micro data...
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To keep up with the rather fast-growing interest in the discipline of Behavioral Finance and Economics caused in part by the new realities of the post-200S world, and the realities prevailing over three decades before and leading up to that year- there is a discernible need for the production of...
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Effective risk management is a core competency of successful entrepreneurs and investors. The entrepreneur should determine what the most important uncertainties are and how to test and mitigate those uncertainties at the lowest cost. Getting Funded develops frameworks and tools for...
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