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Showing 1 to 20 of 1124 for “"entrepreneurial"”.
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Entrepreneurial Traits and Entrepreneurial Success
… entrepreneurs identified as being important for entrepreneurial success. Different definitions of entrepreneurial success are identified and discussed. The traits most consistently related to success are identified. Connections between the traits and success are identified. Criticism of …
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Constructing entrepreneurial identities: the case of entrepreneurial dyads
… of identity construction and identity work in entrepreneurial dyads. Entrepreneurial dyads are defined as two-person teams, in which members are bound both by a strong social tie and by a common commitment to start and manage a new business venture. The thesis builds on the work of Watson …
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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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An Entrepreneurial Journey
… of Professional Practice thesis, named ‘An Entrepreneurial Journey,’ examines the key success elements that are characteristic of female entrepreneurs in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). It offers useful information for aspiring business owners, those already on their entrepreneurial journey, and …
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Disengagement and Entrepreneurial Exit
… between personal psychological antecedents and entrepreneurial exit and empirically examined this. By doing so, this study demonstrates that broader feelings toward the business can be directed toward the exit. Specifically, the results of my analysis indicate that emotional disengagement is …
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Essays in entrepreneurial finance
… through which the financing environment impacts entrepreneurial activity. The first two essays in the dissertation exploit institutional reforms - one in Denmark and another in the US - that changed the financing environment for new businesses to study how they impacted individuals' entry and …
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Entrepreneurial enactment as social value creation: an exploration of the Aberdeen entrepreneurial ecosystem.
The research explored how entrepreneurial enactment leads to social value creation in the entrepreneurial ecosystem using interpretive qualitative approach. The research and findings are delivered in a structured narrative. This approach is adopted to reveal how entrepreneurial enactment traverses …
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Cultural predictions of entrepreneurial orientation and the moderating role of entrepreneurial competencies on graduate entrepreneurial intentions: A cross-sectional survey of East Africa
… examines a theoretical gap (impact of culture on entrepreneurial orientation EO) to try and mitigate a practical problem (unemployment) among graduates in three East African countries: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Unemployment would be mitigated if only graduates embraced entrepreneurship by …
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The Effect of Cognitive Style on Entrepreneurial Judgment: An Analogical Analysis of Entrepreneurial Opportunities
The results are consistent with the analogical analysis of the opportunity. Similar opportunities and need-driven opportunities are judged more positively than distant opportunities and routine-driven opportunities. However, the hypotheses about cognitive style are not supported. There seems to be …
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A logic for entrepreneurial discovery.
A logic for entrepreneurial discovery.
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Entrepreneurial Heuristics and Serial Entrepreneurs
… separate entrepreneurship papers. Paper 1, "Entrepreneurial Heuristics...", found that being mentored, rather than either having extensive higher education or more work experience, was primarily responsible for entrepreneurs acquiring the simplified decision rules (heuristics) that can be …
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Entrepreneurial marketing in subsistence marketplaces
… domain impact important outcomes in the entrepreneurial domain and vice versa.
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Three essays on entrepreneurial quality
… dissertation introduces a new method to measure entrepreneurial quality and applies it to three questions of theoretical interest in entrepreneurship. The dissertation is presented in five chapters. Chapter 1 is an introductory chapter. It overviews the entrepreneurial quality approach, indicates …
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Entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world
… around the world need to build and grow their entrepreneurial ecosystems to support the economies and foster innovation. Approaches taken to encourage entrepreneurship vary around the world based on cultural norms, market conditions, and economic circumstances. Entrepreneurial ecosystems are …
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Knowledge Problems and Entrepreneurial Strategy
… to tackle different knowledge problems over the entrepreneurial journey. This dissertation systematically disentangled and compared the value of two strategic decision logics that have been tested little in the extant entrepreneurship literature: the strategic decision logic that leverages speed …
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Entrepreneurial networking : a comparative analysis of networking organizations and their participants in an entrepreneurial community
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1989.
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A cross cultural study of entrepreneurial competencies and entrepreneurial success in SMEs in Australia and Malaysia
… present study examined the relationship between entrepreneurial competencies and business success in the context of SMEs in Australia and Malaysia. A “mixed-method” approach was adopted whereby two studies were conducted in a sequential fashion (Study 1 and Study 2). In Study 1, a qualitative …
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The Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Entrepreneurial Event Model as predictive models of entrepreneurial intention
The Theory of Planned Behaviour and The Entrepreneurial Event Model were used as models to predict entrepreneurial intention amongst final year students. The sufficiency of this paradigm was compared with the aim of determining which model predicts entrepreneurial intention the most within a South …
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Entrepreneurial Orientation, Entrepreneurial Intent and New Venture Creation: Test of a Framework in a Chinese Context
… to use a framework involving an individual's entrepreneurial intent, entrepreneurial orientation and four individual difference factors as a means to isolate individual difference determinants of entrepreneurial intent. These are captured in new construct called entrepreneurial orientation. …
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