Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice articles from May 2008

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice archives from May 2008

The influence of top management team heterogeneity on the capital raised through an initial public offering.
May 1, 2008... A significant body of research exists on the top management teams (TMTs) of established firms and specifically on the heterogeneity of TMTs of established firms. Little research exists, however, on the heterogeneity of TMTs of firms in the...

Governing by managing identity boundaries: the case of family businesses.
May 1, 2008... In this paper we illustrate how boundary theory can be a useful perspective to understand the dynamics of family businesses. We integrate insights from the family business literature with the work--family and identity boundary literatures to...

The effect of small business managers' growth motivation on firm growth: a longitudinal study.
May 1, 2008... This study addresses the role of small business managers' growth motivation for business growth, taking into account the important effects of previous motives and feedback from earlier performance. We hypothesize that small business managers'...

Venture capitalists' evaluations of start-up teams: trade-offs, knock-out criteria, and the impact of VC experience.
May 1, 2008... The start-up team plays a key role in venture capitalists' evaluations of venture proposals. Our findings go beyond existing research, first by providing a detailed exploration of VCs' team evaluation criteria, and second by investigating the...

The role of human capital in loan officers' decision policies.
May 1, 2008... Using a human-capital perspective and the similarity-attraction paradigm, we examine the role of general and specific human capital in the decision policies of 114 Swedish loan officers in their assessments of small-business loan requests. We...

Entrepreneurial orientation and growth of SMEs: a causal model.(Small and medium enterprises )
May 1, 2008... The literature existing on entrepreneurship implicitly assumes that entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and growth orientation are positively related with each other. However, few studies, whether theoretical or empirical, analyze such relation in...

Internal resources, external network, and competitiveness during the growth stage: a study of Taiwanese high-tech ventures (1).
May 1, 2008... This study explores the performance implications of internal resources and external networks for entrepreneurial firms. A relationship of trust among network members is essential because of the high risk during the initial start-up stage....

How international is entrepreneurship?
May 1, 2008... Nine major entrepreneurship, international business (IB), and management journals used by the Financial Times to rank business schools were examined to see if the amount of international entrepreneurship (IE) research published in major...

Regional economy as a determinant of the prevalence of family firms in the united states: a preliminary report.
May 1, 2008... The formation of family firms, as well as their scale and scope, is likely to be influenced by the characteristics of the environment. This study presents preliminary findings on the relationship between economic development and the prevalence...

Creative entrepreneurship at iconstruye: a pan Andean e-procurement market maker.
May 1, 2008... Juan Correa looked out of his nineteenth floor window and noted the growing number of construction cranes visible against the backdrop of the Andes. This was a good sign and predicted that the construction business would be good during spring,...

Note to instructors: creative entrepreneurship at iconstruye: a pan Andean e-procurement market maker.
May 1, 2008... Introduction Iconstruye describes the entrepreneurial processes that surround the founding of a business-to-business procurement portal within the Chilean construction industry. The case aims to illustrate the role of creativity within the...