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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Entrepreneurial experience"”.
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Toward a Theory of Serial Entrepreneurship: Decomposing Entrepreneurial Experience
… examine the nature of the entrepreneur's prior experience and how it affects entrepreneurs' intentions to reenter entrepreneurship after business exit (i.e. serial entrepreneurship intentions). Drawing on psychology theories, I argue that there is qualitative difference among entrepreneurial …
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Women of Enterprise: A Study of Success and Failure Incidents From Self-Employed Women Using the Perspectives of Bakan's Constructs of Agency and Communion and Attribution Theory
… how self-employed women interpret the entrepreneurial experience. More specifically, success and failure incidents described by self-employed women were examined with regard to two types of meanings, agentic and communal, and with regard to the caus
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Entrepreneurial Intentions of South African university students: an application of the theory of planned behaviour
This study investigated the Entrepreneurial Intentions (EI) of South African students at three universities in the Western Cape, using the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). The research employed a two-phase design, starting with a less dominant qualitative exploration through nine interviews with …
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(Re) Visiting Female Entrepreneurs: An Emancipatory Impulse
… theory. Far from being a true reflection of the entrepreneurial experience, the theory has silenced the innovator entrepreneur in economic theory and replaced him/her with an economic rational manager. Concurrently, a re-analysis of Schumpeter’s theorising suggests that his theories do not …
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An exploratory study of success and failure factors in internal corporate venturing
… pressures, corporate bureaucracy, and lack of entrepreneurial experience can significantly affect the performance of these ventures. By creating an internal venture organization the corporation hopes to protect the new startup ideas from corporate interference. By reviewing past research and …
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Catalyzing entrepreneurship from the ground up : an experiment in small-town India
… wealth in communities. Currently, existing entrepreneurial programs start with self-identified entrepreneurs and provide facilities for their growth. However, these programs fail to tap into a whole community of latent youth entrepreneurs. Can more of such youth, with no prior exposure to …
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Learning and Performance in Serial Crowdfunding
… in serial entrepreneurs who engage in multiple entrepreneurial ventures. The opportunity to learn from experience and find ways to systematize entrepreneurship is intriguing, and new technological developments such as the availability of crowdfunding platforms provides new possibilities in this …
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A study of the correlation between pre-IPO venture funds and founder characteristics with high-tech firm growth
… correlation between founder age and prior entrepreneurial experience of the founder with firm growth was found.
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An Exploratory Study of Entrepreneurial Intention Among Hispanic Entrepreneurs in Toronto
… and education and skills. However, the entrepreneurial experience of Hispanic immigrants in Toronto has yet to be examined. This quantitative study examined the attitudes, norms, and perceptions influencing entrepreneurial intention and the factors that encourage self-employment …
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Expectation vs. Reality in the Field of Entrepreneurship
… most influential features characterizing the “entrepreneurial mind,” yet dominant explanatory frameworks have struggled to clarify how and why entrepreneurs’ behaviors vary so widely from others. Even individuals who come from similar conditions and share the same environment as entrepreneurs …
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A theory and outcome evaluation of the Allan Gray Orbis foundation's association programme
… are often insufficient to foster a supportive entrepreneurial ecosystem. In response, various initiatives have emerged to cultivate entrepreneurship through targeted education, training and support. This research presents a theory- and outcome-based evaluation of the Allan Gray Orbis …
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Entrepreneurship-based factors to foster climate adaptation among Indigenous communities
… They are learning (crop failure, learning, prior entrepreneurial experience), institutions (social networks, institutional support, overcoming the agency-structure paradox), place (resource (un)availability, location, environmental risk factors), capacity (access to information, entrepreneurs' …
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Subjective expectations and individual decisions of future graduate students
… of the determinants of individual migration and entrepreneurial expectations as strategies to allocate human capital, I contribute to the literature on subjective expectations. Chapter 1 investigates the role of subjective expectations and beliefs in the decision of migration of Pakistani college …
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Access to debt finance and its determinants in Uganda: an empirical investigation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
… financial transparency, collateral, education, entrepreneurial experience and gender as determinants of access to debt finance. To achieve the main objective and two subsidiary objectives, a survey was conducted based on a population of 128,000 SMEs, out of which a sample of 384 was considered …
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Lost in translation: Linking technology to market opportunities in technology-based ventures
… and predict the behaviors of technology-based entrepreneurial ventures operating under conditions of high uncertainty. To do this, I take a deep dive into the innovative process of de novo ventures built around university inventions through a series of three related essays. The first essay …
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Kleinhandel unter schwierigen institutionellen Voraussetzungen – Reaktionen, Strategien und Lösungen der Händler auf dem Chisokone-Markt in Kitwe/Sambia
… are supposed to do lobby work, want to impart entrepreneurial skills and represent the small traders’ rights on their behalf are, at least in Kitwe, unsuitable due to their ineffectiveness. This creates conditions which provide economic development opportunities only to those who have an …