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The Dynamics and Performance of Female‐owned Entrepreneurial Firms in London, Glasgow and Nottingham

Carter, Sara - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 2 (1989) 3, pp. 54-64

The dynamics and performance of female‐owned companies in the United Kingdom are focused on. Women can be differentiated by behavioural and motivational factors in their desire to start up in business, although these groupings are fluid and women are capable of changing into different modes of...

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Outsider Contributions to the Development and Change of Business Ventures

Chrisman, James J.; Carsrud, Alan L. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 2 (1989) 3, pp. 75-87

How pre‐venture and established business clients perceived the value of the strategic, administrative and operating assistance provided by the Small Business Development Centre (SBDC) is investigated. For both groups the results suggest that clients who received strategic assistance perceived...

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Changing Entrepreneurship Education: Finding the Right Entrepreneur for the Job

Hopkins, Thomas; Feldman, Howard - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 2 (1989) 3, pp. 28-40

As entrepreneurship courses become more popular, an increasing umber of institutions are turning to practising …

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Bridging the Gap between Organization Theory and the Practice of Managing Growth: The Dynamic System Planning Model

Hendrickson, Lorraine U. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 5 (1992) 3, pp. 18-37

For several decades researchers have attempted to explain the process of organization growth and development. The various models devised can be divided into roughly two categories: those which emphasize nature, and those emphasizing nurture as the cause for change. The Dynamic System Planning...

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From a “Grand Story” to Multiple Narratives? Studying an Organizational Change Project

Aaltio‐Marjosola, Iiris - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 7 (1994) 5, pp. 56-67

The study has origins in paradoxical foundations: although the trends in the theory of organizational change emphasize organizational uniqueness, in a case study it was found that metacultural ideals about the rules, order, hierarchy and predictability were privileged and had a remarkable effect...

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Dynamic management of the environmental enterprise: a qualitative analysis

Uhlaner Hendrickson, Lorraine; Tuttle, Dale B. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 10 (1997) 4, pp. 363-382

Defines environmental entrepreneurship as entrepreneurial activity that benefits the environment. Building on this … definition, presents two related conceptual schema that may be used to study environmental enterprises. Presents an environmental … premiss of environmental entrepreneurship: Is it healthy for a business to focus the entire business on the environmental …

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Encouraging the identification of environmental opportunities

Krueger, Norris - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 11 (1998) 2, pp. 174-183

States that an organization that seeks to survive must keep identifying viable new opportunities. An organization that wishes to grow must do an even better job of identifying viable new opportunities. However, opportunities are in the eye of the beholder. Identifying opportunities does not mean...

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Pollution prevention as corporate entrepreneurship

Lober, Douglas J. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 11 (1998) 1, pp. 26-37

Environmental entrepreneurship is usually thought of as the creation of new products or services to meet environmental … market opportunities. Pollution prevention is a new concept of the idea of environmental entrepreneurship as it is process … entrepreneurship as a new venture and as a self‐renewal of the whole organization. The central research question this study seeks to …

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Environmental commitment: a basis for environmental entrepreneurship?

Keogh, Paul Douglas; Polonsky, Michael Jay - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 11 (1998) 1, pp. 38-49

various dimensions of commitment. We posit a model of environmental entrepreneurship and discuss the organisational …

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Collective entrepreneurship: the mobilization of college and university recycling coordinators

Lounsbury, Michael - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 11 (1998) 1, pp. 50-69

Most theories of entrepreneurship have focused on explaining individual actions, neglecting the extent to which … recycling coordinators and programs is drawn on to extend the concept of “collective entrepreneurship” to account for broader …

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