Industries serve an important function in strategic entrepreneurship. By placing the industrial structure at the focal point of analysis, Porter's five forces model explains why some industries are more profitable than others. Yet, despite their importance in strategic entrepreneurship, studies...

Entrepreneurs, opportunities, and entrepreneurial behaviors play an important role within the theory of entrepreneurship. However, we have limited knowledge about possible associations among these factors. Therefore, this study investigates these interactions. The study aims to identify the...

Even though smalland mediumsized firms (SMEs) were believed not to proceed beyond exporting in their internationalization routes, we can observe new types of cooperation intensive entrepreneurial firms, so-called "micromultinational enterprises" (mMNEs), entering the global landscape. These...

It was the title chosen in January 2004 for the 12 pages of the "Agreste" restitution of the primary results obtained through this second investigation, to the partners and interviewed firms, which was intended to question the evolutions of the regional agro-food sphere over 5 years (1998-2003)....

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the scope for international private standards to play a role in reducing business risk. Business risk is measured as variability in revenue, customer base, informal payments, and temporary firm closure. The results show lower levels of business risk...

Each organization faces the challenge of operating in an environment that is unpredictable and turbulent. Emergence of business era caused that change had become a key feature that determines the economic environment of an enterprise. Market environment forces companies to seek strategic...

Für westeuropäische Unternehmen im Allgemeinen und für westeuropäische kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) im Besonderen bildete die politische und wirtschaftliche Marktöffnung in Mittel- und Osteuropa (MOE) zu Beginn der 1990er Jahre und die Integration vieler dieser...

Poverty rates on Native American Indian reservations are triple the US average. Small business incubation programs, available elsewhere in the US, are sparse on the reservations. Small businesses are potent drivers of US economic growth. Some 25.5 million entrepreneurs generate more than 50% of...

Small firms are seen as important drivers of dynamics and innovation. They need to be particularly flexible and be able to react quickly to new challenges. This paper uses the latest change in dismissal protection legislation in Germany as a natural experiment and tries to find causal effects on...

The paper investigates the survival of newly created small and medium enterprises in Brazilian manufacturing taking as reference the 1996-2005 period. The econometric analysis relies on time-varying version of the proportional hazard rate model that controls for unobserved heterogeneity. The...