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United Arab Emirates female entrepreneurs: motivations and frustrations

Itani, Hanifa; Sidani, Yusuf M.; Baalbaki, Imad - In: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 30 (2011) 5, pp. 409-424

Purpose – This paper seeks to summarize the results of a study assessing the status of United Arab Emirates (UAE) female entrepreneurs and attempts to sketch the pattern of the UAE female entrepreneur. It aims to draw a profile of typical UAE women entrepreneurs and their characteristics,...

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Women entrepreneurship in Mongolia: the role of culture on entrepreneurial motivation

Aramand, Majid - In: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 32 (2012) 1, pp. 68-82

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw on motivational and cultural theories in entrepreneurship to study the … motivations and women entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial motivations are closely related to cultural values. Thus, culture … development of strategies and policies for fostering women entrepreneurship as a means for creating jobs and overcoming gender …

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“People like us”: experiencing difference in the working life of immigrant women

Aygören, Huriye; Wilińska, Monika - In: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 32 (2013) 6, pp. 575-591

are interested in the field of working life in the context of entrepreneurship among Turkish women in Sweden. Design …

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Psychological characteristics and process: the role of entrepreneurship in Spanish SMEs

Entrialgo, Montserrat; Fernández, Esteban; Vázquez, … - In: European Journal of Innovation Management 3 (2000) 3, pp. 137-149

This research work uses data from 233 Spanish SMEs in order to test three alternative models regarding how psychological characteristics and strategic process affect organisational success: first, the individual model according to which the manager’s psychological characteristics entirely...

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Innovation as newness: what is new, how new, and new to whom?

Johannessen, Jon‐Arild; Olsen, Bjørn; Lumpkin, G.T. - In: European Journal of Innovation Management 4 (2001) 1, pp. 20-31

Innovation implies newness. To define and measure innovation better, we investigated three dimensions of newness: what is new, how new, and new to whom? Drawing on prior research by Schumpeter and Kirzner, we developed a scale that addresses six areas of innovative activity: new products, new...

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Innovation education programs: toward a conceptual framework

Maritz, Alex; de Waal, Anton; Buse, Stephan; Herstatt, … - In: European Journal of Innovation Management 17 (2014) 2, pp. 166-182

Purpose – Innovation education has been identified as a key contributor to enhancing the innovative behavior of individuals, organizations and economies; yet very little literature exists on the development and assessment of innovation education programs (IEPs). This is particularly so in the...

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How start-ups successfully organize and manage open innovation with large companies

Usman, Muhammad; Vanhaverbeke, Wim - In: European Journal of Innovation Management 20 (2017) 1, pp. 171-186

Purpose Open innovation in start-ups is a relatively unexplored field and studies focusing on collaborative innovation between start-ups with large companies seen from the former’s point of view are virtually inexistent. The authors address this gap in an exploratory study built on in-depth...

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Commentary – The value and importance of the small firm to the world economy

Day, John - In: European Journal of Marketing 34 (2000) 9/10, pp. 1033-1037

able to develop entrepreneurship within the context of marketing, and marketing within the context of entrepreneurship in …. The body of work by colleagues in what could be described as the “marketing entrepreneurship interface” demonstrates both …

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Institutional entrepreneurship ‐ A panacea for universities‐in‐transition?

Liu, Sandra S.; Dubinsky, Alan J. - In: European Journal of Marketing 34 (2000) 11/12, pp. 1315-1337

generating revenues to support their mission. One such approach involves the use of institutional entrepreneurship. This paper … describes how institutional entrepreneurship complements strategic marketing management and strategic management, how it can …

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Exporting as an entrepreneurial act ‐ An empirical study of Nigerian firms

Ibeh, Kevin I.N.; Young, Stephen - In: European Journal of Marketing 35 (2001) 5/6, pp. 566-586

Explores the entrepreneurial underpinning of the low export involvement level of manufacturing firms from Nigeria, a sub‐Sahara African, developing country. Using a pre‐validated export‐entrepreneurial orientation construct (and a 78‐firm representative sample), a high versus low...

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