Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice articles from January 1993

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice archives from January 1993

A network model of organization formation.
January 1, 1993... This paper presents a network model of organization formation. It is a stage model that describes the processes by which the essential relationships between an entrepreneur and resource providers evolve to create an organization. The model builds...

The stages of team venture formation: a decision-making model.
January 1, 1993... Organizations emerge from the coalescence of individuals with a "specific conscious joint purpose" (Bernard, 1962, p. 114). While some organizations are formally founded and owned by one person, many others are team ventures. That is, two or more...

An interactive model of the corporate entrepreneurship process.
January 1, 1993... Recently there has been a growing interest in the use of corporate entrepreneurship as a means for corporations to enhance the innovative abilities of their employees and, at the same time, increase corporate success through the creation of new...

A model of venture creation in new industries.
January 1, 1993... Newly released products vary in the degree to which they differ from existing products. But when the degree of differentness is high we label them "new products," and we label the collection of organizations that provide them "new industries." At...

Determinants of new-firm formations in manufacturing industries: industry dynamics, entry barriers, and organizational inertia.
January 1, 1993... Research examining the determinants of venture creation has recently been termed the rates approach (Aldrich & Wiedenmayer, 1991; Aldrich, 1990). The central purpose of rates research is to investigate the social, economic, and political...

Financial factors which stimulate innovation.
January 1, 1993... Financial factors generally define innovation feasibility and attractiveness and often determine the survival of the innovating entity.(1) Our model of financial factors, described below, provides a general foundation which, we believe,...

Munificence and carrying capacity of the environment and organization formation.
January 1, 1993... Theory development and research on the relationship between the environment and the rate of organization formation are in their early stages. The majority of studies on the relationship have been conducted in the last decade. (For a thorough...

The expectancies in public sector venture assistance.
January 1, 1993... For the last two decades, expectancy theory has been the dominant theoretical framework for explaining human motivation in work environments (Katzell & Thompson, 1990; Locke & Latham, 1990). The basic premise of expectancy theory is that...

The dynamics of organizational emergence: a contemporary group formation perspective.
January 1, 1993... The specialty of group dynamics in the field of social psychology remains a potential source of ideas for entrepreneurship research. The core work in group dynamics has focused on the development and operation of groups dating from the classic of...

Organizing the voluntary association.
January 1, 1993... Parallel to the entrepreneurship literature on the formation of "for-profit" organizations is a significant body of literature on the development of "not-for-profit," or voluntary associations. Knoke and Wood (1991) define voluntary associations...