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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"entrepreneurial firms"”.
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Innovation and Knowledge: An Explorative Study of Entrepreneurial Firms in Germany
Entrepreneurial firms are considered to be vehicles for employment and growth and as such have become targets for public policy measures in all OECD countries. At the same time there is a lack of micro-level data about these firms, their characteristics, innovation activity, relationships with …
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Commercialization Done Differently: How Swedish university incubators facilitate the formation of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms
… impact the formation of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial (KIE) firms in Sweden, which is interesting due to its unusual institutional regime for commercializing research results. “Commercialization done differently” refers to university incubators in the context of the institutional regime …
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Determinants of growth and profitability in small entrepreneurial firms in the manufacturing sector in Tayside
… of growth and profitability in small firms in the manufacturing sector in Tayside Region. A descriptive analysis of the Tayside manufacturing sector, which includes a components of employment change analysis, establishes the increasing importance of small firms to Tayside manufacturing …
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Workplace Wellbeing and Entrepreneurship: An exploratory study of employee wellbeing in small entrepreneurial organisations.
… This interest complements the separate faith in entrepreneurial organisations as catalysts of economic development. In terms of critical insights into people at work, the wellbeing literature focuses on the larger firm, while entrepreneurship studies tend to concentrate on the human capital of …
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The State of South African Universities with Regards to Corporate Governance and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
… of the transformation reforms involves having entrepreneurial ecosystems that adopt corporate governance. On that note, the paper explores the state of South African universities about available strategies that enable an entrepreneurship ecosystem. Some of the strategies include policies, …
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Managing operational capabilities in startup companies/
Hundreds of papers exist on entrepreneurial marketing and finance, whereas capabilities for operations get far less attention. Furthermore, much of the literature in operations management addresses challenges of companies in stable environments, leaving entrepreneurs with little theoretical or …
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A study of commercialization factors in a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funded company
… of the nation's large, successful and innovative firms started out as small entrepreneurial firms. Microsoft, Intel, AMD, FedEx, Qualcomm, Adobe are examples to these firms. These small entrepreneurial firms with new ideas need to garner fair amount of funding before they can bring their ideas …
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The state and entrepreneurship in China: Essays from institutional and contingency perspectives
… understanding of the mechanisms through which entrepreneurial activities rise or fall. My dissertation takes a contingency approach and test my claims by studying the booming entrepreneurial activities in China where the state has been widely acknowledged as a strong one. In the first study, I …
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The role of educational status in the matching of workers to jobs in emerging high-tech firms
… of technical workers to jobs in high-tech entrepreneurial firms. Distinctively among studies of the role of educational prestige in the firmworker matching process, I consider the supply and demand sides of the matching process separately. On the supply-side, I examine the relationship …
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The Determinants of Success in Venture Capital Finance
… of portfolio size, distance from portfolio firms, location, and to some extent, level of diversification in their investment portfolio, are all significant factors in explaining the success rates of venture capital funds. These results are robust even when controlling for other …
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Resource Deployment Strategies Following Initial Public Offering: Connecting Resource -Based, Upper Echelons, and Agency Perspectives
… has posed two research questions: why do firms differ in resource deployment strategies and what are the performance outcomes of different resource deployment strategies? Using a longitudinal (1990--1998) data set of high-tech, entrepreneurial firms in the medical and surgical instruments …
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The paradox of prosperity in China: the interplay among entrepreneurs, government, and venture capitalists at initial public offering
… includes three essays and focuses on a key entrepreneurial event in a life of a new venture, the initial public offering. Each essay investigates the mechanisms through which three key players, namely founders, government, and venture capitalists, influence governance structure and value …
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Microeconometric Essays on Entrepreneurship
… taken to support the growth of small, young, entrepreneurial firms. It is a collection of three Microeconometric essays. These papers broadly fit within the field of Behavioral Empirical Microeconomics as they analyze the beliefs and biases of entrepreneurs. The first paper: Local Supply …
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Entrepreneurial external resource acquisition and exit via IPO
This dissertation focuses on entrepreneurial finance and exit strategies via IPO. Three quantitative studies have been conducted based on a dataset of entrepreneurial firms listed for the first time in the London Stock Exchange (LSE) between 2002 and 2012. Initial Public Offering (IPO), as a major …
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Dynamic Investment Models, Employment Generation and Productivity – Evidence from Swedish Data
… the long run, in dynamic capital models where firms have incentives not to operate at full capacity. We have modified the real options model with full irreversibility to incorporate variable capacity utilization. After obtaining a numerical solution to the investment function, we analyze the …
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Essays on institutions and pre-founding experience : effects for technology-based entrepreneurs in the US and China
… of two different but critical factors in shaping entrepreneurial outcomes: individual level career history and the institutional context. My work spans two outcomes in particular: individual decisions to choose high-tech entrepreneurial activities and the strategies and outcomes of the …
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Employment system mental models in organisation building : founder’s mental models of employment in New Zealand biotechnology start-ups
The majority of biotechnology firms are founded by scientists and the organisations are characterized by high human capital density. The existing research has focused on these founders and their impact on the human and social capital within their firms (Powell, 1996; Murray, 2004). However, there …
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The role of venture capital in China's technology entrepreneurship development
… cases are chosen because they are the leading firms in their respective categories. Case studies show that the government is not only the regulator but also an active participant in China's venture capital industry. The active involvement of the government has both positive and negative impacts …
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Investigating the Impact of Social Movements on African-American Business Success
… shocks. Challenging this narrative are cases of entrepreneurial achievement that seem to coincide with periods of social change in the United States. This two-part study explored the effects of social movements on the trajectory of entrepreneurial firms. Study one delved into the business …
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