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Globalization, Entrepreneurship and the Region
Perhaps one of the less-understood phenomena accompanying the increased globalization during the first decade of the 21st century has been a shift in the comparative advantage of high-wage countries towards knowledge-based economic activity. An important implication of this shift in this comparative advantage is that much of the production and...
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This paper reconstructs and analyses the assumptions - i.e. the policy theory - underlying the development of the SME and Entrepreneurship Policy Program in general and the Establishment Act and the Loan Guarantee (BBMKB) in particular between 1982-2003. The analysis links these assumptions to policy output results and policy effects....
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Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship: Exploring Individual and Organizational Characteristics
This paper extends the authors' current knowledge of the social entrepreneur and the activities the user is involved in and contrasts them with their understanding of commercial entrepreneurs. For the purpose of generating empirically-driven propositions, they bring together insights from current empirical investigations and insights from unique large-scale data from...
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Entrepreneurship and Role Models
In the media role models are increasingly being acknowledged as an influential factor in explaining the reasons for the choice of occupation and career. Various conceptual studies have proposed links between role models and entrepreneurial intentions. However, empirical research aimed at establishing the importance of role models for (nascent) entrepreneurs...
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Current theorizing assumes business models are developed to match firm resources and capabilities to existing market conditions. Consequently, entrepreneurs who successfully introduce new business models that significantly alter existing market preferences and structures are viewed as an anomaly; their success attributed to the strategic failure of incumbents. In contrast, the...
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The Two-Way Relationship Between Entrepreneurship and Economic Performance
In this paper, the authors examine the two-way relationship between entrepreneurship and economic performance, using a harmonized data sets, while the relation between entrepreneurship and economic performance has been investigated extensively, most papers in this research field suffer from one or more methodological flaws, so that the important question: \"Does...
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Measuring Organizational Openness to Strategic Business Networking
Postmodern entrepreneurial organizations are ever more engaged in strategic business networking. It is argued in the paper that openness to strategic networking should be considered a core feature of emerging entrepreneurial companies of the authors' days. The theoretical basis and conceptual framework for the evaluation of an organization's openness to...
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This paper emphasizes the real contribution of innovative start-ups and technology transfer at the business/economy level and the importance of this process for the internationalization phenomenon. Also it is very important here the creation of a link between educational systems (universities spin-off) and economy as a beneficiary of innovation (new...
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Research on the Financing of Small and Medium Enterprises
Small and medium enterprises' financing constraints are an important reason for its development in recent years, national policy and legal aspects are also efforts to promote the development of SMEs, the SME financing is still a lot of the biggest obstacles to entrepreneurs. In this paper, the status of financing...
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Innovation is reshaping the corporate culture of organizations in this present age of competency and service legacy. Innovation in services is getting recognition from the top executives due to its strategic importance and globalizes competition, which has escalated the demand of better change and adoption of best practices through change...
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