This paper aims to contribute to existing knowledge related to the worker cooperative (CTA) creation process by studying the factors that influence the process using an inductive-deductive method: the Grounded Theory. For this reason, a total of 37 in-depth interviews have been carried out with...

Important aspects of leadership behavior can be rendered intelligible through a focus on coordination games. The concept of common knowledge is shown to be particularly important to understanding leadership. Thus, leaders may establish common knowledge conditions and assist the coordination of...

Las pequeñas y medianas empresas –en adelante las pyme– son actores fundamentales de la economía colombiana, tal como ocurre en otros países. El acelerado ritmo de la globalización impone retos para estas compañías a partir de las nuevas oportunidades y amenazas que se gestan en el...

This document, intended to be discuss and criticized, aims for the implementation on the city of Barreiro, Portugal, of a Local Investment Agency. The final objective of such project is to allow entrepreneurs and investors to build in the city new ventures that can create employment, build an...

Entrepreneurship has started to receive attention together with the problems brought by the global financial and economic crisis and tends to be associated with economic development and well-being of society. The objective of this paper is to conduct an analysis of the Romanian entrepreneuria...

The business incubators are entities that provide support to start-up companies, managing the obstacles faced by entrepreneurs and facilitating the hazardous process of business creation. This article aims to identify the existing views on best practices that can contribute to the achieving of...

Recently, innovation and internationalization strategies have explained firm success. Some authors argue that innovation settles internationalization while some others point that internationalization settles the firm’s innovation level. This work unifies these theories, arguing that both...

As in the whole world, in our country, the number of "dream" to create and to run their own business continues to grow. Maybe new growth for potential entrepreneurs to be even higher, given the national economic structure, making it more important to know the fundamentals of entrepreneurship....