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Showing 1 to 20 of 318 for “"entrepreneur"”.
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Understanding the entrepreneur as socially constructed.
… two levels of analysis, is to explore the entrepreneur as a social construct and the socially constructed nature of entrepreneurship. It builds upon a limited number of extant studies considering the socially constructed nature of entrepreneurship by focusing upon achieving a Verstehen' of …
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Thomas Swann: political acrobat and entrepreneur
Thomas Swann (1805-1883), son of a prominent lawyer in the District of Columbia and educated at the University of Virginia, began his career in 1833 as the Secretary to the Neapolitan Claims Commission in Washington. His marriage to Elizabeth Gilmor Sherlock a year later marked his entrance into …
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Bootstrap financing applied by South African entrepreneur
… application of creative techniques utilised by entrepreneurs in a South African context in order to gain access to the financial and other resources required to start up new businesses. These techniques are defined as bootstrap financing techniques. Further to this the research then set out to …
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An Empirical Microeconomic Study of the Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurs are an important segment of the economy, particularly in terms of economic development (Baumol, et al. 2007). However, the study of entrepreneurs and how they create firms is still an open question (Venkataraman 1998). In part, this question remains open as a result of the academic …
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Nature and the Victorian entrepreneur : soap, sunlight and subjectivity
… century.The life and work of one Victorian Entrepreneur - William Hesketh Lever, First Viscount Leverhulme of the Western Isles - is explored to reveal a cultural dynamic behind entrepreneurial activity. His personal philosophies, his legacy including Port Sunlight village, the Leverhulme …
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Entrepreneurial success factor : a systematic approach to entrepreneur evaluation
… every day, barriers to entry to become an entrepreneur keep decreasing. However total investment funds raised by venture capital firms every year stays at the same level, and therefore it is now more critical to use this money wisely and invest in entrepreneurs that are bound to success. …
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Imperial Entrepreneur: Masculinity, Race, and the Memory of Frederick Funston
… for his chosen profession. Funston became an entrepreneur of imperialism. He promoted the idea of expansionism and with it he sold himself and his story. His early writings reflect the use of racial and gendered language to pit the “civilized” against the “savage.” Funston used the language of …
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Entrepreneur-Venture Fit and Burnout: Moderating Effects of Entrepreneurial Passion
<p>Entrepreneurial burnout is a worrying problem because it is related to reduced performance and venture failures. Existing models do not adequately explain the causes of burnout among entrepreneurs. Exploring the antecedents and mechanisms leading to this significant issue can thus enhance our …
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The creative entrepreneur: a study of the entrepreneur's creative processes
… was to increase the understanding of how the entrepreneur’s process of creativity began and evolved by determining how ideas and opportunities were discovered, recognised and harnessed prior to the advent of entrepreneurship.<br/>There appeared to be a shortage of appropriate research studies …
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Canadian province-building : the state as educator and entrepreneur in Alberta
This study provides an account and analysis of the development of systems of educational provision In capitalist democracies, especially in connection with the social origin and relative autonony of those systems. Using the case study of Athabasca University, a Canadian distance-education …
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Iceland as Norm Entrepreneur : Implementing Innovation in the Measurement of Economic Progress
… and the possibility of Iceland acting as a norm entrepreneur in the implementation of much called for innovation in measuring economic progress. Nordic countries have been known to effect greater social and political change on an international platform than their size would suggest. The findings …
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Business Exits and Reentry: Demand and Supply Explanations of Entrepreneur Career Choices
… and personal expectations that influence entrepreneurial engagement subsequent to business exits. Collectively, the three studies provide insights into how and when variances between performance expectations and actual business outcomes shift the demand and supply of different groups of …
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The Storytelling Entrepreneur Has No Clothes: Risks and Rewards of Narrative Pitching
… study the practice of storytelling by entrepreneurs and responses by angel investors. By coding a representative sample of 330 pitches on the reality show Shark Tank, I produce the first catalogue of startup stories in pitches, focusing on character, tropes, temporalities, and shapes. …
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A study of the moral development, beliefs and relationships of the criminal entrepreneur
The thesis focuses on ‘criminal entrepreneurs,’ i.e. those individuals who behave in an entrepreneurial manner who have chosen a life of crime to obtain an income or create wealth rather than setting up and running their own legitimate businesses. The research is based on male prisoners, …
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The Community College As Entrepreneur: Developing and Sustaining Effective Noncredit Workforce Training Partnerships
… business and industry counterparts examines the entrepreneurial orientation of noncredit workforce training partnerships, analyzes the methods by which partnerships are built and sustained, and examines the levels to which partnerships are evaluated. A sequential multi-method approach to data …
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