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Entrepreneurship and innovation in a hybrid political order: The case of Lebanon
Stel, Nora - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
Governance is often treated as a 'black box' explanation for unproductive or destructive entrepreneurship. In order to … improve our understanding of how governance structures influence entrepreneurship and innovation it is instructive to consider … game of informal clientelism and formal programmatic competition shapes entrepreneurship. In this paper I provide an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712194
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Developing Innovative Competences in an Emerging Business System: New Private Enterprises in Hangzhou’s Software Industry
Greeven, Greeven, M.J.; Xiaodong, Xiaodong, Z. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009
What kind of innovative competences are credibly developed by private entrepreneurs in China’s transition economy? On the basis of original empirical fieldwork in 45 software enterprises in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, we propose a working theory of innovative competence development in an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731002
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Blue Ocean versus Competitive Strategy: Theory and Evidence
van Stel, André; Thurik, Roy; Burke, Burke, A.E. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009
Blue ocean strategy seeks to turn strategic management on its head by replacing ‘competitive advantage’ with ‘value innovation’ as the primary goal where firms must create consumer demand and exploit untapped markets. Empirical analysis has been focused on case study evidence and so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731010
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Innovation and Microenterprises Growth in Ethiopia
Gebreeyesus, Mulu - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
survey data from Ethiopia that comprise 1000 observations with ten and fewer workers. The analysis shows that firms larger in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712032
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International entrepreneurship and technological capabilities in the Middle East and North Africa
Brach, Juliane; Naudé, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
In this paper we investigate the extent of international entrepreneurship in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Oman and Syria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712037
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Standardisation as a Catalyst for Innovation
Blind, Blind, K. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009
Het traditionele beeld dat standaardisatie gezien wordt als een proces dat niet samengaat met innovatie is de laatste jaren veranderd. In zijn oratie laat prof.dr. Knut Blind zien dat vastgestelde normen wel degelijk kunnen bijdragen aan vernieuwingen. Vanuit economisch perspectief behandelt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011141996
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What Turns Knowledge into Innovative Products? The Role of Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Spillovers
Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy; Zhou, Zhou, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009
The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the fundamentals and consequences of … entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation … outcomes. We hypothesize that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730854
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731467
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Entrepreneurship, stages of development, and industrialization
Ács, Zoltan J.; Naudé, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856410
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Stages Of Discovery And Entrepreneurship
Nooteboom, Bart - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2003
In an attempt at a systematic theory of entrepreneurship, this paper connects various literatures, from economics and … business. In economics, there are many notions of entrepreneurship, some of which seem to contradict each other. For example …, there are notions of entrepreneurship as an equilibrating and as a disequilibrating force. In this paper, these differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837547