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Disruptive Innovation: Enabling Practitioners to Tackle the "Innovators Dilemma" With Graphical Techniques - A Focus on Resource Allocation

Thomond, Peter N.; Lettice, Fiona; Herzberg, Torsten - 2004

understanding of disruptive innovation and guidance for practitioners. It was found that funding decisions are mainly constrained by …

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Firm Size Expectations of Nascent Entrepreneurs

Delmar, Frederic; Davidsson, Per; Aronsson, Magnus - 1999

The purpose of this paper was to examine the factors affecting the future firm size expectations of nascent entrepreneurs. This was done by testing a decision model on a unique data set composed of a random sample of nascent entrepreneurs. The proposed model is based on four different components...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438334

Hunting for new employment: the role of high-growth firms

Davidsson, Per; Delmar, Frederic - 2003

This study investigates the role of high growth firms for the creation of new employment in Sweden during the 1987-96 period. Our data set is unique in the sense that it captures both enterprise and company group levels of analysis, and in that organic growth can be separated from growth through...

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Marketing Buzz: Towards a Framework for Entrepreneurs

Fitzsimmons, Jason R.; Douglas, Evan J.; Steffens, Paul R. - 2007

research with the firms marketing strategy. In this paper, we consider the diffusion of innovation literature and recent …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438338

What do they think and feel about growth? An expectancy-value approach to small business managers' attitudes towards growth

Wiklund, Johan; Davidsson, Per; Delmar, Frederic - 2003

In this article we investigate how small business managers? beliefs concerning the con-sequences of growth influence their overall growth attitude. We find this to be an important question. Although previous research has shown that small firm growth is the most important source of new jobs...

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Methodological Approaches to Entrepreneurship: Past research and Suggestions for the Future

Davidsson, Per - 2005

This journal aims at developing and sharing some ideas on methodological development in entrepreneurship research … literature as regards what "entrepreneurship" is, and what entrepreneurship research should study, it may be useful to first set … entrepreneurship as a scholarly domain it is important that the phenomenon called "entrepreneurship" be defined as unambiguously as …

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The business platform : developing an instrument to gauge and assist the development of young firms

Davidsson, Per; Klofsten, Magnus - 2003

The research presented here addresses the following problems that we perceive in research on the development of young firms. First, we feel there is a lack of holistic, yet quantifiable and generalizable ways to assess the state of newly started firms. Quantitative research typically relies on...

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Entrepreneurs and intertemporal decision making

Fitzsimmons, Jason R.; Davidsson, Per - 2006

This paper investigates the decision making behaviour of individuals with respect to attributes considered relevant to the assessment of potential venture opportunities. Using a decision making experiment, we were able to consider the behaviour of individuals taking into account their risk and...

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A Choice Modelling Approach to Predict Entrepreneurial Intentions from Attitudes and Perceived Abilities

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

-choice modeling. The attributes in the model are based on the economic factors as previously identified in the entrepreneurship …

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Valuing technology investments: use real options thinking but forget real options valuation

Steffens, Paul R.; Douglas, Evan J. - 2007

Real options valuation (ROV) has recently been proposed as a promising solution to the deficiencies of traditional valuation methods when facing risky technology investments or ventures. Indeed ?real option thinking? - the managerial flexibility to capitalise on opportunities when they arise...

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