The aim of this article is to understand the theoretical framework of the social capital concept, based on different approaches identified in the literature and highlight the direct influence social capital has on the entrepreneurial personality characteristics of individuals and organizations....

How are Asian countries preparing children to have skills—including creativity, innovation, and technical capability—to compete in the 21st Century global economy? Countries including China, Korea, Japan and Singapore have begun to integrate education policy and practice into a key component...

The study analyses the impact of different ethnic compositions of start-ups in Germany on the innovativeness of the new businesses. We are able to distinguish between the ethnicity of the founders and that of the early employees following new results that demonstrate the importance of including...

This paper uses a cognitive theory of firms and organizations, with a focus on learning and innovation.Here, cognition is a wide notion, including value judgments and corresponding feelings and emotions.This paper focuses on the relation between that cognitive theory and Penrose's theory of the...

In that work we explore the ability to learning-by-learning of the SME-network as relational capital of sustainable advantage. The nature of the most of those abilities connect resources and competences useful to realize successful of the firm in the long run in the form of intangibles and...

The work presented explore the impact of cultural resources on productivity of the firm, in particular a network firm. Culture resources is considered a primary attractor of competences and generator of new knowledges. Our main aim is to compare formal organization with informal one oriented to...

The main aim of that paper is to rethinking the connections between complexity and management provoking questions among managers and entrepreneurs, moreover between specialists about consolidated practices of control, governance and predictability. Which compatibility of those practices with...

Modern organizations need to have a built-in management system in function of monitoring the employees' potentials and outputs, and mechanisms that will influence their initiative for entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to elaborate entrepreneurship in teaching, focusing on...

This paper is an action research conducted in order to prove the connection of introducing intrapreneurial management concept with the motivation and productivity of employees and thus the organization's efficiency and profitability. Each employee, as individual, possess potential degree of...

Substantial elements of innovation have been observable during recent years in rig supply, in particular regarding contracts and organisation. This trend has been driven by the fact that rising costs over many years have put profitability under pressure. On the basis of theory and available...