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Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice articles from January 2009
This scholarly journal publishes original papers and conceptual and empirical articles in the field of entrepreneurship, including national and international studies of enterprise creation, small business management, minority issues in entrepreneurship, and more.
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Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice archives from January 2009
Strategic entrepreneurship: exploring different perspectives of an emerging concept.(Report)
January 1, 2009... Within the entrepreneurship and strategic management domains there has been a movement by scholars to combine certain aspects of both areas to create a new concept of strategic entrepreneurship. To date, however, there remains much to know...
Conceptualizing corporate entrepreneurship strategy.
January 1, 2009... Our knowledge of corporate entrepreneurship (CE) continues to expand. However, this knowledge remains quite fragmented and non-cumulative. Herein, we conceptualize CE strategy as a useful focal point for integrating and synthesizing key...
Understanding and measuring autonomy: an entrepreneurial orientation perspective.(Report)
January 1, 2009... Autonomy is an important component of an entrepreneurial orientation (EO), but most studies that assess the EO construct do not include autonomy measures. This article first addresses the theoretical relevance of autonomy as an element of...
The impact of strategic entrepreneurship inside the organization: examining job stress and employee retention.(Report)
January 1, 2009... How do managers and staff react to strategic entrepreneurship? How can we minimize resulting job stress and maximize employee retention? We surveyed 1,975 managers and staff in 110 departments of a diversified healthcare organization on...
Are we comparing apples with apples or apples with oranges? Appropriateness of knowledge accumulation across growth studies.(Report)
January 1, 2009... Although knowledge accumulation is dependent upon relationships among constructs being robust across different measurement and sampling decisions, scholars have not sufficiently established such robustness for the construct of firm growth....
Performance configurations over time: implications for growth- and profit-oriented strategies.(Report)
January 1, 2009... Strategic entrepreneurship can be described as simultaneous opportunity seeking and advantage seeking. Younger firms are generally more flexible and therefore enjoy "discovery advantages," whereas established firms tend to be resource rich and...
Agency and governance in strategic entrepreneurship.
January 1, 2009... This paper aims to highlight the opportunity to contribute to our understanding of strategic entrepreneurship by exploring the construct through the lens of agency theory. In particular, we claim a fundamental link between a new venture's...
Architecture of entrepreneurial learning: exploring the link among heuristics, knowledge, and action.(Report)
January 1, 2009... We extend existing theories of entrepreneurial learning and highlight the effects of heuristics under two different learning contexts: experiential learning and vicarious learning. Specifically, we argue that heuristics are consequential in...
The effectiveness of alliances and acquisitions: the role of resource combination activities.(Report)
January 1, 2009... Resource complementarity increases the potential value of alliances and acquisitions, but the extent to which the value potential of an alliance or an acquisition becomes realized depends on the ability of the firm to discover and conduct...
Agency, strategic entrepreneurship, and the performance of private equity-backed buyouts.(Report)
January 1, 2009... Agency theory has focused on buyouts as a governance and control device to increase profitability, organizational efficiency, and limited attention to growth. A strategic entrepreneurship view of buyouts incorporates upside incentives for value...
Advancing strategic entrepreneurship research: the role of complexity science in shifting the paradigm.(Report)
January 1, 2009... Five areas are identified wherein more development might enhance the current model of strategic entrepreneurship (SE): exploration-exploitation, opportunity, newness, micro-macro interaction, and dynamics. Complexity science is presented as an...
Venture capitalists as catalysts to new venture internationalization: the impact of their knowledge and reputation resources.(Report)
January 1, 2009... Venture Capitalists (VC) play an important role in influencing the strategic direction of the firms in which they invest. The findings of this study reveal that VCs can serve as a catalyst to new venture internationalization through the...
Genetically engineered: why some venture capital firms are more successful than others.(Report)
January 1, 2009... While venture capital has received a tremendous amount of attention, prior research has predominantly looked at venture capital firms (VCFs) post raising their first fund. In this paper, we move the point of analysis back further and ask what...
Strategic entrepreneurship at universities: academic entrepreneurs' assessment of policy programs.(Report)
January 1, 2009... In this article we draw on goal-setting theory to analyze how and why entrepreneurs perceive the usefulness of policy programs aimed at facilitating the development of academic ventures. Using a conjoint study and data on 3,136 assessments...
Commentary: on the integration of strategic management and entrepreneurship: views of a contrarian.
January 1, 2009... "Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Quid enim est aetas hominis, nisi ea memoria rerum veterum cum superiorum aetate contexitur? (To be ingorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always...