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Terjesen, Siri A.; Hatcher, Caroline A.; Wysocki, Tatiana; … - 2007

Bruin, Brush & Welter 2006), particularly to highly successful "gazelle" entrepreneurs. Extant female entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship that take into account the role of culture (Hayton, George & Zahra, 2002) and are of a qualitative nature (Gartner … entrepreneurship in Thailand. Next, we describe relational theory in the context of female entrepreneurship, paying particular …

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Determinants of the prevalence of start-ups and high-growth firms

Davidsson, Per; Henrekson, Magnus - 2002

include: missing arenas for entrepreneurship in the care sectors and for household-related services, taxation of … data, we provide evidence of a low prevalence of nascent entrepreneurs and a small net employment contribution by high …

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Smallness, newness, and regional development

Davidsson, Per - 2006

increasing GNP, rapid employment growth in the private service sector, and very low levels of unemployment in most regions. While …

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Small Firms and Job Creation during a Recession and Recovery

Davidsson, Per; Lindmark, Leif; Olofsson, Christer - 1998

This paper reports on a comprehensive study of the role of SMEs for job creation and regional economic well-being in Sweden during the 1990-93 recession period as well as the years immediately preceding and following that period. It is found that SMEs were over-represented as job creators across...

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An operationalization of Stevenson’s conceptualization of entrepreneurship as opportunity-based firm behavior

Brown, Terrence E.; Davidsson, Per; Wiklund, Johan - 2001

empirical instrument for assessing a firm’s degree of entrepreneurship. Our instrument should open up opportunities for … researchers to further evaluate entrepreneurship in existing firms. …

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Management and Schumpeterian Resource Recombination

Wiklund, Johan; Eliasson, Christian; Davidsson, Per - 2002

H. H. Stevenson suggests that firms’ management practices range along a spectrum from highly entrepreneurial to highly administrative. At the entrepreneurial end are promoter firms with a focus on new opportunities and at the administrative end are trustee firms with an inward focus on...

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Levels of analysis in entrepreneurship research: Current research practice and suggestions for the future

Davidsson, Per; Wiklund, Johan - 2001

'Introduction' In their path-breaking article, Low & MacMillan (1988) suggest that entrepreneurship be defined as the … 'creation of new enterprise'. The purpose of entrepreneurship research should be to 'explain and facilitate the role of new … micro and macro perspec-tives. They argued that researchers must acknowledge that entrepreneurship studies could and should …

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Conceptual and Empirical Challenges in the Study of Firm Growth

Davidsson, Per; Wiklund, Johan - 2000

specifically on growth, we also have the observation that longitudinal designs are generally lacking in entrepreneurship research … longitu-dinal studies in entrepreneurship research as a major impediment (Aldrich & Baker, 1997, p. 389; Sex-ton, 1997, p. 407 …

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A resource-based view on organic and acquired growth

McKelvie, Alexander; Wiklund, Johan; Davidsson, Per - 2006

Understanding the sources of business growth is central to both the fields of entrepreneurship and strategy. This is a …

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Entrepreneurship as Growth; Growth as Entrepreneurship

Davidsson, Per; Delmar, Frederic; Wiklund, Johan - 2002

Business growth has become a major theme in the rapidly expanding field of entrepreneurship research. Entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship, and which are at the same time given only cursory treatment within other lines of research. On the basis of … empirically informed conceptual reasoning, we argue that setting the term ‘entrepreneurship’ equal to ‘start-up of a new …

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