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The Antecedents of Workaholism and other Work Behaviors

Douglas, Evan J.; Morris, Robyn J. - 2006

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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Entrepreneurs and funding decisions: evidence from Australian SMEs

Fitzsimmons, Jason R.; Douglas, Evan J. - 2006

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437528

New Venture Survival: Ignorance, External Shocks, and Risk Reduction Strategies

Shepherd, Dean A.; Douglas, Evan J.; Shanley, Mark - 2000

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438038

The Impact of Debt and Equity on the Decision to be Self-employed – an Economics Perspective

Douglas, Evan J.; Shepherd, Dean - 2003

This paper substantially extends recent work on the decision to become a self-employed entrepreneur rather than to be an employee of an organization. To enter self-employment typically requires access to financial capital. This article investigates the costs and benefits of different sources of...

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The performance of young firms: patterns of evolution in the growth-profitability space

Steffens, Paul R.; Davidsson, Per; Fitzsimmons, Jason R. - 2006

The aim of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the evolution of small firm performance. We do so by studying performance changes on a two dimensional "growth– profitability performance space". It is well established that both growth and profitability are important dimensions of...

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Growth and Profitability in Small and Medium Sized Australian Firms

Fitzsimmons, Jason R.; Steffens, Paul R.; Douglas, Evan J. - 2005

This study investigated the longitudinal behaviour of growth rates and profitability for a large sample of Australian firms. Similar to previous studies, growth rates were found to be much more volatile than profitability measures. Using a regression equation with lagged profit and growth...

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Entrepreneurial Intentions towards Individual vs. Corporate Entrepreneurship

Fitzsimmons, Jason R.; Douglas, Evan J. - 2005

engage in individual entrepreneurship or corporate entrepreneurship having different attitudinal antecedents, with one of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437588

Transitions towards an Entrepreneurial Economy: A Case study based investigation of the SME Internationalization Process

Cruz-Carreon, Gilbert - 2007

This study seeks to make a theoretical contribution to the rapidly growing field of International Entrepreneurship by …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437589

What entrepreneurship research can do for business and policy practice

Davidsson, Per - 2002

This article discusses the problem of making practical use of research on entrepreneurship. The introduction deals with … differences can be bridged. Regarding entrepreneurship research specifically it is argued in the following section that there are … side are also to blame. In the next section it is suggested that entrepreneurship research can actually do "A lot of harm …

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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. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438041

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