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In an attempt at a systematic theory of entrepreneurship, this paper connects various literatures, from economics and … business. In economics, there are many notions of entrepreneurship, some of which seem to contradict each other. For example …, there are notions of entrepreneurship as an equilibrating and as a disequilibrating force. In this paper, these differences …
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The development of entrepreneurship and a private business sector in China pose various challenges to analysis. On the …
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This paper is part of a broader research project that aims to analyse the emerging private business sector in China by focusing on three topics.
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entrepreneurship with its potential to set the economy on a higher growth path by supplying the products which consumers need and want …
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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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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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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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Learning is a vital issue for small business starters, contributing to short term and long term business performance, as well as to personal development. This study investigates when and how small business starters learn. It specifies the situations that offer learning opportunities, as well as...
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Entrepreneurial activities in transition economies go beyond (technical) entrepreneurship. In an environment of … interaction between individual entrepreneurship and the emergence of market conforming institutions. …
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Entrepreneurial activities in transition economies go beyond (technical) entrepreneurship. In an environment of … interaction between individual entrepreneurship and the emergence of market conforming institutions …
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