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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"venture creation"”.
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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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New Venture Creation and Infrastructure in Developed and Developing World Countries
… 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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Innovative Digital Start-Ups and their Venture Creation Process with Enabling Digital Platforms
… are raising, the ways in which these digital ventures are disrupting industries, and their global impact on digital economy. However, digital start-ups, digital venture ideas, and their venture creation process lack a unified venture creation model, as there is a gap in the re-search on …
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The Influences of Institutional Environment on Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation and Venture Creation among Nigerian Youths
Entrepreneurial activities and venture creation among youths represent one of the key drivers of job creation and economic growth (OECD, 2016; Acs, 2006). What influences individual entrepreneur to business start-up remains an enduring issue of interest in academic research on entrepreneurship. …
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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
… viable strategy for studying determinants of new venture creation.
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A Knowledge-Based View of the Venture Creation Process: How Technology Entrepreneurs Mix Knowledge to Create Radical Innovation
… of technology entrepreneurs (n=145) within the venture creation process and the innovativeness of their product or service. Technology entrepreneurs recalled their prior knowledge at the time their opportunity was first recognized and the gained knowledge between opportunity recognition and …
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What is entrepreneurship? A phenomenological enquiry into the venture creation processes of a rapidly growing firm: The archaeology company
This thesis explores the question ‘what is entrepreneurship?’ through a phenomenological enquiry into the entrepreneurial practices involved in setting a firm ‘The Archaeology Company’ that grew rapidly. It does this from three perspectives; the ontological, the epistemological and the empirical. …
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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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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 climate …
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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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No soy conformista: reassessing necessity and opportunity motivations for micro entrepreneurship in Lima, Peru
… in the field of entrepreneurial studies, venture creation is dichotomously conceived as an activity willfully undertaken to seize a business opportunity or reluctantly performed as a last resort in the face of a weak and/or inaccessible labor market. This schema purports that an …
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Influence of Institutional Environment on Social Entrepreneurial Intention: a study in Maldives using Social Cognitive Career Theory
… how much people are interested in social venture creation as a career. The formal part of the study analyzes 205 survey responses from Maldives residents, using structural equation modelling in PLS-SEM4. Results show that the normative institutional environment indirectly influences social …
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Understanding the leadership development experiences of executive church denomination leaders: a phenomenological approach
… executive church leaders should include ministry venture creation, the use of relevant and real cases, and mentoring relationships.
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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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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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Biotechnology : are firms born great or can you build greatness?
… of "star scientists" in new biotechnology venture formation has been studied by many scholars. However, it is not clear to degree to which their involvement leads to a successful venture. This study examines the importance of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), management and venture …
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The emergent process of entrepreneurial innovation: evidence from Fabrication Spaces
… 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, open design and fabrication workshops. …
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Accelerators: Their Fit in the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem and Their Cohort Selection Challenges
… that explains where accelerators fit in the venture creation pipeline and how different types of accelerators create unique value in the respective entrepreneurial ecosystem. Second, given the significant role played by social startups in contributing to the broader society, I will focus on …
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