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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"entrepreneurial outcomes"”.
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BETTER VETREPRENEURSHIP: IMPROVING ENTREPRENEURIAL OUTCOMES FOR U.S. MILITARY VETERANS
… also known as vetrepreneurs, form a unique entrepreneurial community based in part on their military-related skills and life experiences, the financial endowments derived from their service, and external influences like professional mentors and government-provided training programs. However, …
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The Impact of Human Capital on Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Outcomes
… capital and its impact on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial outcomes. Chapter 2 of the thesis examines the underlying similarities and complementarities of human capital and entrepreneurship by studying the relationship between learning orientation and entrepreneurial orientation. Using a …
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Entrepreneurship education curriculum and entrepreneurial outcomes in the higher education sector: a Nigerian case study
… delivery, as well as the impact thereof on the entrepreneurial outcomes of students and graduates, using a combination of three theoretical bases. To bridge this gap in Nigeria’s EE research involved attempting to achieve the following three research objectives: To examine the nature of EE …
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Entrepreneurship in the Rural Labour Market: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach
… thesis further explores the impact of policy on entrepreneurial outcomes in the rural labour market. Due to their remote rural location, one of the challenges facing rural entrepreneurs is the lack of networking opportunities. Rural entrepreneurs often need a multitude of support in order to …
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Entrepreneurship, Institutions, and the Informal Economy
… between institutions (formal and informal), entrepreneurial outcomes (productive and unproductive), and shadow economy size at the U.S. state-level. Chapter 1 opens with some discussion of the topics explored here and provides an overview of important results from each of the essays. In …
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Emotional Intelligence of Entrepreneurs
… whether emotional intelligence (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 …
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Dynamic Entrepreneurial Networks: An Investigation Of Entrepreneurs, New Ventures And Their Networks
… investigated the dynamic nature and associated outcomes of networks as they change due to different resource requirements as the venture develops. This research examines the dynamic nature of networks, due different resource requirements over time, and how these changes impact entrepreneurial …
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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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Essays on managing innovation
… how choices by managers in research and entrepreneurial settings affect innovation and entrepreneurial outcomes. In the first three chapters, my coauthors and I consider the role of grant-makers in inducing exploitation or exploration among grant recipients at ARPA-E. We use internal data …
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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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Cohering with the Crowd: How Audiences Shape the Quasi-Scientific Process of Entrepreneurship
… is traditionally thought to improve entrepreneurial outcomes because it avoids costly commitment and allows entrepreneurs to pivot to more attractive product markets. I develop and test a theory that recognizes the costs experiments impose on audiences. My theory implies that …
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Essays on Business Partnerships
… to which the small firm effect is explained by entrepreneurial skill accumulation in small firms. To this end, we develop and estimate a dynamic occupational choice model which incorporates a different impact of small and large firm experience on entrepreneurial outcomes. The estimated model …
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Creating the conditions for entrepreneurial learning within an inclusive and scalable African business education ecosystem
… entrepreneurs, creates the conditions where an entrepreneurial culture cannot thrive. Entrepreneurship and education can be South Africa's most significant tools of liberation and unlock exponential growth which can, in turn, address the socio-economic problems that exist. This research aims to …
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Property Inference Decision-Making and Decision Switching of Undergraduate Engineers: Implications for Ideational Diversity & Fluency through Movements in a Cartesian Concept Design Space
… processes that encourage innovation and entrepreneurial outcomes. However, there is a notable lack of collaborative research between psychology, education and engineering design particularly on inductive reasoning of undergraduate engineering students in higher education. The data …