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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"venture performance"”.
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Division Of Control, Relationship Dynamics And Joint Venture Performance
The control exercised by parent firms over joint ventures (JVs) has been suggested to be a critical element for the effective management and the performance of these organizations. In this context, this study addressed the following questions: (1) How is control divided in JVs? (2) How does the …
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The Influence of Institutional Environment on New Venture Performance in Egypt: The Mediating Role of Social ties
… environment presents various challenges to new ventures. A dynamic analysis of the extant literature shows that the effectiveness of the institutional environment in contributing to business performance is contingent on the entrepreneur’s social ties. Despite the importance of social ties, …
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The Impact of Structure on Cooperation and Performance in Joint Ventures: An Empirical Investigation of International Joint Ventures
… through a survey of 49 international joint ventures, I tested the impact of structure on cooperation and performance in joint ventures. The use of mutual hostages and protection mechanisms enhances partner cooperation, while performance ambiguity and organizational differences between …
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Toward a search perspective on entrepreneurship
… the learning and searching processes in new ventures. This dissertation includes three essays, each focusing on one specific aspect of a search perspective on entrepreneurship. The first essay focuses on how new ventures learn from performance feedback in their pursuit of survival and growth, …
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Capturing the strategic pivot: Identifying the performance outcomes of new venture pivots
… establish the causal impact that it has on new venture performance. This is likely due to the methodological challenges that arise when approaching the subject, which include the difficulty of identifying when a pivot has taken place (in real-time, and for a sufficiently large number of ventures …
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Institutional forces and the written business plan: the case of technology entrepreneurs in South Africa
… absence of a business plan should lead to poor performance of the young enterprise. Given the ubiquity of business plans, the de facto accepted hypothesis holds that among a sample of entrepreneurs, those with business plans should outperform (e.g. survival, profit, sales, growth etc.) those …
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Coaches’ use of directive and non-directive conversational approaches and implications for entrepreneurs’ development
… and professional development and to improve venture performance. While there is a wealth of literature around entrepreneurial development, there is very little that explores what happens during a dyadic coaching session. In previous decades, entrepreneurship research has focused on forming …
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An exploration of women entrepreneurs' competency development process in pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities in the manufacturing sector in Ghana
… in capabilities to manage entrepreneurial ventures. The role of owner competencies is known to be crucial for venture performance. Consequently, academic and state institutions and development agencies have embraced the notion and signal from the government to provide entrepreneurial …
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Designing Successful Social Ventures: Hands-on Feedback-Seeking Engagement with Stakeholders to Unravel What To Do Next
… organizations (also called social ventures) has to do with their ambidextrous orientation: the imperatives of both social change and marketplace competition are operative.The canvas for social venture research is broad and, for the most part, wide open: little is known through …