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Learning Opportunities And Learning Behaviours Of Small Business Starters: Relations With Goal Achievement, Skill Development, And Satisfaction

van Gelderen, van Gelderen, A.M.; van der Sluis, L.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

Learning is a vital issue for small business starters, contributing to short term and long term business performance, as well as to personal development. This study investigates when and how small business starters learn. It specifies the situations that offer learning opportunities, as well as...

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Entrepreneurship Education and Training in a Small Business Context: Insights from the Competence-based Approach

Lans, Lans, T.; Hulsink, Hulsink, W.; Baert, Baert, H.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

entrepreneurship education research and practice. Although the concept has been the subject of strong debate in educational research in … general, critical analysis of how it has been used, applied and experienced in entrepreneurship education practice is scarce … discussing the concept. Subsequently, the implications of applying a competence-based approach in entrepreneurship education are …

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The Locus of Innovation in Small and Medium-sized Firms: The Importance of Social Capital and Networking in Innovative Entrepreneurship

Hulsink, Hulsink, W.; Elfring, Elfring, T.; Stam, Stam, W. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

Social networks matter in the innovation processes of young and small firms, since ‘innovation does not exist in a vacuum (Van De Ven, 1986: 601).’ The contacts a firm has could both generate advantages for further innovation and growth, and disadvantages leading to inertia and stagnation....

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Strategies, Uncertainty and Performance of Small Business Startups

Thurik, Roy; van Gelderen, van Gelderen, A.M.; Frese, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2000

Personal strategies of owners/founders of small business startups are related to performance and to environmental uncertainty. This is done using a longitudinal data set of some 50 Dutch startups. The results suggest a dynamic process between strategy and performance. A discrimination is made...

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