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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Entrepreneurial Process"”.
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Unpacking Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Health: An Entrepreneurial Process Approach
What makes an entrepreneurial region stand out among the crowds? On the one hand, regional entrepreneurship literature highlights the impacts of regional context and structures on regional entrepreneurship, but fails to reveal the reciprocity between them, i.e., how regional entrepreneurship could …
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The entrepreneurial process in construction and real estate ventures
… pattern defined by Timmons' model with the entrepreneurial process of two successful ventures. One is Northland Investment, a real estate venture, and the other is Collaborative Structures, a construction-related Internet venture. The results show a strong fit between the model and the two …
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Understanding the International Entrepreneurial Process of Emerging Economy Firms: Evidence from Nigerian SMEs
… divergent institutional conditions influence the processes of IE from emerging economies to developed economies. The findings of the study depict how entrepreneurial activity from emerging economies to developed economies can involve many sub-activities and processes to achieve opportunity …
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The entrepreneurial process and the role of gender: a comparative study of entrepreneurs in the business services and technology sectors in Scotland.
… explanations. This thesis seeks to explore the entrepreneurial process and the lived experiences of male and female entrepreneurs in Scotland to help shed further light on the situation. Utilising a phenomenological approach and deliberately avoiding leading participants on the issue of gender, …
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Discontentment and knowledge spillovers in an emerging high-tech industry: a study of the emergence of the RFID industry
… intensive industry. Drawing on theories of the entrepreneurial process, innovation during industry emergence, and knowledge spillovers, this thesis seeks to explain the process by which entrepreneurs, facing market, organizational and technological uncertainty, use their existing knowledge to …
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The identification and exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities on family-owned estates in the north-east of Scotland.
… perpetuating family ownership. To enable this, entrepreneurial diversification is advocated by both landowner associations and rural consultancies. However, upper-class estate owners have historically been perceived to be reluctant to engage in entrepreneurial activities and some remain so. With …
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The role of founder identity in the evaluation of entrepreneurial opportunities
… role of founder identity in the evaluation of entrepreneurial opportunities. It was argued that a social identity lens can be central in improving our understanding of founders' heterogeneous behaviours and actions in new firm creation and development. Using the lens of identity and social …
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Entrepreneurship in Russia: patterns and problems of its development in the post-Soviet period
… sector has been out of line with the patterns of entrepreneurial development on the ground. Entrepreneurs continue to face a host of obstacles in the spheres of legislation, tax, accessing credit, as well as administrative barriers; all of which have complicated the development of small and medium …
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Understanding the entrepreneur as socially constructed.
… an increasing body of research into aspects entrepreneurial, our basic understanding of the many social facets which influence our perception of the entrepreneur remains unclear. Clarity of definition often eludes us, although we can describe and explain it in context. Consequentially, such …
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VOCE - Valuable Observations on Critical Elements in Entrepreneurial Coaching
… years of dedicated research. It focuses on the entrepreneurial support ecosystem, with the overall research aim of deepening the understanding of how entrepreneurial coaching demonstrates its effectiveness. Entrepreneurial coaching is defined as a developmental intervention aimed at …
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An investigation of everyday entrepreneurship in a resource-constrained context.
… Recent entrepreneurship discourse has focused on entrepreneurial behaviour and motivation; this includes what entrepreneurs do, why and how they do it, and their decision-making logic, particularly at the start of a venture. Beyond conventional job and wealth creation arguments, the purpose for …
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Toward a process view of entrepreneurial action : an empirical investigation of activities, mechanisms and outcomes.
Entrepreneurial action is of keen interest to entrepreneurship scholars, and research on the topic centers on studying the different dynamics of entrepreneurial action as the underlying mechanism for engagement in the entrepreneurial process. This dissertation seeks to understand the underlying …
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Three essays on social networks and entrepreneurship
… relationships have a bearing on outcomes in the entrepreneurial process. The first essay attempts to determine which mechanism drives the children of business owners to expect to become and actually enter business ownership themselves. Results are inconsistent with arguments asserting that the …
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Entrepreneurship in the Knowledge Based Economy: A Spatial Analysis of Great Britain 2008-2010
… of economic growth and development. However, entrepreneurial activity varies significantly across space within countries. This thesis makes an original contribution by examining the determinants of spatial variations in entrepreneurship across sub-regions of Great Britain from 2008-2010. …
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THE ROLE OF SPIRITUAL CAPITAL IN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN NIGERIA
… is a framework or model that promotes using entrepreneurial means to address social challenges and create a positive social impact that benefits the common good. On the other hand, Spiritual capital embodies a transcendental resource, augmenting an individual's ability to cultivate personal, …
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Entrepreneurship and environments: start-ups, growth aspirations, and exit
… way to measure entrepreneurship was to focus on entrepreneurial start-up rates. Shane (2009) suggested that achieving job creation and economic growth from entrepreneurship is not a numbers game and entrepreneurship policy should encourage the formation of high quality, high growth companies. …
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Grounding the theory of virtue.
… challenges of our time is the need to channel entrepreneurial energies in ways that benefit, rather than harm, society. This research contributes to the development of a conceptual framework that addresses the practical issues at the intersection of business and society. The tension between the …
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A Narrative Inquiry of Student Engagement and Learning in a University-Based Social Venture Plan Competition
… that a social venture plan is central to the entrepreneurial process. The value of SVPCs in stimulating social venture creation has, therefore, been questioned. Missing in the debate is the voice of students as key actors in their own education and development.</p> <p>This study sought to …
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Female entrepreneurship and access to finance in Nigeria through a gendered lens.
… the society presents additional obstacles to the entrepreneurial process of women entrepreneurs. A feminist analytical approach serves as a blueprint to begin to uncover these differences and their implications. Women are expected by society, because of their ascribed gender, to perform domestic …
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An Examination of Students' Entrepreneurial Learning through Extracurricular Enterprise Activities
… (Rae et al., 2012), as has the domain of entrepreneurial learning research (Wang and Chugh, 2014) yet limited empirical research examines links between the two phenomena. This thesis connects educational theory, entrepreneurial learning theory and entrepreneurial education research to …
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