The purpose of this research is to develop a conceptual model dealing the relationship between EO and sales growth performance by proposing the Pareto sales network asset as a reliable bridge for mediating EO and sales growth performance in SMEs in Indonesia. Lending the network theory and the...

The multi-leveled processes taking place in crowdfunding, when tapping a large heterogeneous crowd for resources, and the often fundamentally different intentions of individual crowd members in the case of highly desirable social ventures with little prospect for economic gains, may lead to a...

The emergence of social entrepreneurship has been explained at the macro-level (socioeconomic drivers), at the meso-level (concepts such as opportunity), and at the micro-level (motivations and intentions of social entrepreneurs). In this conceptual article, it is argued that the sociology of...

The present work addresses how and to what extent the personal and professional relationship networks of small-scale local entrepreneurs help improve their scarce resource endowments. Adopting a mechanistic and functioning oriented view of social capital, the paper suggests the existence of two...

Die Nutzung von sozialen Netzwerken wie Facebook ist auf dem Vormarsch. Aber kann Facebook für Unternehmen ein entscheidendes Marketing- und Networking-Tool sein, das den Unternehmenserfolg unterstützt? Unser Auswertungen von 1.971 Firmen zeigen, dass die Aktivität auf Facebook durch den...