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