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This paper investigates the decision by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to raise funding via the sale of equity. Prior theoretical and empirical work on the ‘pecking order’ of funding has indicated that we should not expect SMEs to prefer equity funding over internal funding and external...
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This paper presents a conceptual model of the work effort decision of individuals and thereby advances our understanding of workaholism and other patterns of high or low work involvement and high or low work enjoyment. Researchers have categorized eight main types of work behaviors using the...
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Corporate venturing activities can expand a firm’s business by creating new products and entering new markets. The literature suggests that entrepreneurial management should have a positive effect on corporate venturing activities and, as a consequence of this, a positive effect on a company's...
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Although scholars have long recognized the increased mortality risk that new ventures face in terms of a "liability of newness," most of the discussion around this risk has been in terms of the contextual constraints that new ventures face and the difficulties that managers have in overcoming...
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This paper reports on the nature and extent of intrapreneurship (or corporate entrepreneurship) practiced by Australian … businesses. We examined the relationship between measures of corporate entrepreneurship and firm growth and profitability, and … utilized measures devised by earlier 3 researchers attempting to assess corporate entrepreneurship, viz: new business venturing …
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outcomes associated with the choice items. Since the outcomes of self-employment and employment as an intrapreneur typically … also expect self-efficacy to moderate the effect of attitudes on intentions, since self-employment involves considerable …An individual’s intention to behave entrepreneurially will have attitudinal and self-efficacy antecedents. Nascent …
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Methodology/Approach: There is a lack of theoretical development on the question of why people work long hours and the nature of ‘workaholism’. This paper uses the economist’s utility-maximization model to build a conceptual model of voluntary work effort that explains the work effort...
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Research on entrepreneurship has investigated what entrepreneurs do, what happens when they act as entrepreneurs, and … coherent theory of entrepreneurship and calling for a rigorous examination of the decision to become an entrepreneur, this … (or psychic satisfaction). We assume that the individual’s utility from any particular occupation, whether self …
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This study investigates the role of high growth firms for the creation of new employment in Sweden during the 1987 … elite of high growth firms accounts for a majority share of employment creation. They rather strengthen the belief that …
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factors explain a general bias in the Australian economy towards small business and entrepreneurship. However, the paper draws …
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