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The Strawberry Growth Underneath the Nettle : The Emergence of Entrepreneurs in China

Krug, Barbara - 2006

Chinese entrepreneurs innovatively manage organisations in the absence of strong economic institutions, under conditions of high environmental and technological uncertainty. This paper presents the findings of an empirical study designed to investigate how Chinese entrepreneurs can be successful...

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Entrepreneurial Risk-Taking in Crowdfunding Campaigns

Schwienbacher, Armin - 2015

This paper investigates sources of risk-taking in "reward-based" ("pre-purchase") crowdfunding campaigns. While crowdfunding helps entrepreneurs to obtain feedback on market demand (next to raising money), it may lead to project discontinuation if not enough money is raised during the campaign....

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Nanotechnology and business opportunities: scenarios as awareness instrument

Knol, Erik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

For a few years now, nanotechnology has been recognised as a promising new growth innovator. This leads to a shift from the exploration of nanotechnology knowledge towards a phase of exploitation. The coming years this commercialisation of nanotechnology will be extended. Nanotechnology is a...

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Entrepreneurship in China: Institutions, organisational identity and survival: empirical results from two provinces

Hendrischke, Hans; Krug, Krug, B. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002

China therefore entrepreneurship depends crucially on the ability to establish firms, i.e. to find organisational forms for … entrepreneurship depends on mechanisms for co-ordinating individual or organisational behaviour of firms. These mechanisms were lacking … components of (private) entrepreneurship. One is the search for organisational forms conforming to the situational constraints …

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Self-Employment Across 15 European Countries:

Thurik, Roy; van Stel, André; Noorderhaven, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2003

This paper deals with differences in the rate of self-employment (business ownership) in 15 European countries for the period 1978-2000, focusing on the influence of dissatisfaction and using the framework of occupational choice. Using two different measures of dissatisfaction, in addition to...

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New Firm Growth: Exploring Processes and Paths

Garnsey, E.; Stam, Stam, F.C.; Heffernan, P.; Hugo, O. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2003

This paper provides a new methodology for the diachronic study of new firm growth, theoretically grounded in the work of Penrose (1995). We show that a model of firm growth as an unfolding process makes possible draw simple, measurable inferences from firm level to aggregate evidence on growth...

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The evolution of high-technology in China after 1978: Towards technological entrepreneurship

Greeven, Greeven, M.J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

entrepreneurship and identify computer hardware and software as key sectors for NTEs and high-technology development. …

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Unraveling the Shift to the Entrepreneurial Economy

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, A. Roy - 2011

economy. In particular, the empirical evidence provides consistent support that (1) the role of entrepreneurship has … may be that the current approach to entrepreneurship policy is misguided. The priority should not be on entrepreneurship …

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When Do Technology Entrepreneurs Start New Ventures? Discontinuities, Knowledge Resources, and Market Entry

Campo-Rembado, Miguel Angel; Taylor, Alva - 2008

This paper examines the question of whether the initial stock of resources of new ventures that enter an industry differs based on the whether they enter before or after a technological discontinuity occurs. We draw on the theoretical foundations of the resource-based view of the firm, and those...

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Why big data can make creative destruction more creative - but less destructive

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2023

preferable since it stimulates creative entrepreneurship. …

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