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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"New Venture Creation"”.
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New Venture Creation and Infrastructure in Developed and Developing World Countries
… of the relationships between infrastructure and new venture creation in DDWC in order to achieve the following objectives: i) Further understanding, and develop extant knowledge about infrastructure; its definition, its classification and its importance. ii) Highlight different infrastructure …
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Exploring Challenges Influencing the Development of Entrepreneurial New Venture Creation in An Emerging Economy, Myanmar
… investigates the key barriers that influence the creation of new entrepreneurial ventures in Myanmar and examines the challenges entrepreneurs face in this context. Amidst the global economic shift, Myanmar urgently needs a more comprehensive policy framework to support small and medium …
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Entrepreneurial Orientation, Entrepreneurial Intent and New Venture Creation: Test of a Framework in a Chinese Context
… of entrepreneurial intent. These are captured in new construct called entrepreneurial orientation. Samples of entrepreneurs and college students from the United States and China were used to test the relationships. The empirical results show that entrepreneurial orientation is positively related …
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TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING ENTREPRENEURSHIP’S ROLE IN OUR COMMON FUTURE: ESSAYS FROM THE SUSTAINABILITY-ENTREPRENEURSHIP NEXUS
… – planned and autonomous – affected individual new venture creation. The study also accounts for the role of corruption as a moderator to the posited climate change adaptation-new venture creation relationship. Results based on multi-level analyses suggest that both planned and autonomous …
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Intention, economic opportunity and their impact on venture creation
… pursuit between first taking an action to form a venture and either getting the venture operational or abandoning the venture pursuit. The dissertation addresses three different aspects of drivers that influence the outcome of the nascent entrepreneur phase. Two of the three essays address …
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Business start-up dilemma: support nascent entrepreneurs or deliver contracts?
… the Business Link Start-up Service (BLSS) in the creation of new ventures in the East Midlands. The BLSS was part of the region’s £70m annual investment in business support (2007-10). THE BLSS was delivered in the five counties of the East Midlands region and included the four Business Link …
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Risk perception: how previous experiences influence the assessment of risk by immigrants in South Africa
Opportunity recognition and evaluation, or indeed creation, have been identified as critical for new venture creation. Studies have shown that they are mediated by risk perception, with some scholars arguing that the difference between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs lies in how they perceive …
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Entrepreneurship inside and out: Three essays exploring the interplay between hybrid entrepreneurs and their organizational employee roles
A growing body of research focuses on undertaking new venture creation while remaining employed in existing organizations. Known as hybrid/part-time entrepreneurship, scholars suggest most entrepreneurs engage in entrepreneurship in a part-time capacity. As such, there exists an interesting space …
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Unpacking Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Health: An Entrepreneurial Process Approach
… benefit regional context in order to sustain the new venture creation activities over time. On the other hand, although entrepreneurial ecosystem literature provides a new perspective to understand regional entrepreneurship in context by shedding light on the structures and building blocks of an …
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Emotional Intelligence of Entrepreneurs
… (EI) predicts entrepreneurial outcomes. New ventures fail at a high rate. A possible factor in the success or failure of small business could be the emotional intelligence (EI) level of the entrepreneur, defined as the ability to perceive, use, understand, and manage emotions. However, …
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POPULATION LEVEL CONDITIONS AS SIGNALS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITIES: A COGNITVE SYNTHESIS OF THE ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAITS AND POPULATION RATES PERSPECTIVES
… the likelihood that entrepreneurs will launch new ventures within a given population domain. The central idea is that population rates and densities may act as signals to entrepreneurs regarding the viability of a new venture within a given population. Interestingly, whether or not population …
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A Narrative Inquiry of Student Engagement and Learning in a University-Based Social Venture Plan Competition
<p>Social Venture Plan Competitions (SVPC) are increasing in higher education because of the belief that more and better social ventures can help address “wicked” social problems. Students have been offered guidance and cash awards to launch or expand social ventures, resulting in a few highly …
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Going into Business with the One that You Love : Using a Dramaturgical Framework to Explore Couples' Experience of Copreneurial Micro-business.
This thesis offers a new conceptualisation of copreneurship by developing a dramaturgical framework. Whilst this theatrical concept of the social construction of entrepreneurship forms a small part of the debate in the extant literature, to date there has been no specific focus on the copreneurial …
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Entrepreneurial self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation, and entrepreneurial intention as antecedents of nascent necessity-entrepreneur business start-up behaviour in South Africa: a longitudinal study.
… as a means of assisting them in the new venture creation process.
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The impact of entrepreneurship education on the relationships between institutional and individual factors and entrepreneurial intention of university graduates: evidence from Zambia
University education is no longer a passport to secure employment for graduates. This requires young graduates to consider entrepreneurship and self-employment as a viable career option. Understanding the determinants of entrepreneurial intention (EI), therefore, becomes important. In exploring the …
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The emergent process of entrepreneurial innovation: evidence from Fabrication Spaces
… emergence. It studies the co-evolution of new product development (NPD) and new venture creation (NVC) activities for nascent entrepreneurs in the process of commercialising their idea. The empirical context selected for studying this process is that of entrepreneurs in Fabrication Spaces, …
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How Spirituality Shapes the Formation of Entrepreneurial Venture: The Case of Malay Muslim Entrepreneurs
… the current literature has focused on wealth creation as the entrepreneur’s driving force. Hence, researchers have turned to various approaches such as economics, personality psychology, and strategy in attempt to understand the relationship between entrepreneurs and new venture creation, …
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Essays on Social Venture Antecedents, Consequences, and Strategies
Social ventures are organizations created to exploit opportunities for social value creation (Lumpkin et al., 2011; Zahra et al., 2009). In fact, scholars argue that the main distinction between commercial and social entrepreneurship lies in the relative priority given to social wealth creation …
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Designing Successful Social Ventures: Hands-on Feedback-Seeking Engagement with Stakeholders to Unravel What To Do Next
… from those which focus largely on economic value creation to others which focus primarily on social value creation; somewhere in the middle there is a more balanced blend of the two. A unique aspect of double-bottom-line organizations (also called social ventures) has to do with their ambidextrous …