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Small Firms and Job Creation during a Recession and Recovery

Davidsson, Per; Lindmark, Leif; Olofsson, Christer - 1998

This paper reports on a comprehensive study of the role of SMEs for job creation and regional economic well-being in Sweden during the 1990-93 recession period as well as the years immediately preceding and following that period. It is found that SMEs were over-represented as job creators across...

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Methodological Approaches to Entrepreneurship: Past research and Suggestions for the Future

Davidsson, Per - 2005

This journal aims at developing and sharing some ideas on methodological development in entrepreneurship research … literature as regards what "entrepreneurship" is, and what entrepreneurship research should study, it may be useful to first set … entrepreneurship as a scholarly domain it is important that the phenomenon called "entrepreneurship" be defined as unambiguously as …

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Moving from a web presence to e-commerce: the importance of a business-web strategy for small-business owners

Fisher, Julie; Craig, Annemieke; Bentley, John - 2007

More than half of small businesses in Australia (57%) use a website to promote their business. Having an effective website is an important step for small business owners moving towards e-commerce. The research suggests that once a business has a clear online strategy through a website they are...

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Conceptual and Empirical Challenges in the Study of Firm Growth

Davidsson, Per; Wiklund, Johan - 2000

specifically on growth, we also have the observation that longitudinal designs are generally lacking in entrepreneurship research … longitu-dinal studies in entrepreneurship research as a major impediment (Aldrich & Baker, 1997, p. 389; Sex-ton, 1997, p. 407 …

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Knowledge Management Processes in Growth-oriented SMEs: An Atlantic Canadian Perspective

MacDonald, Harry Douglas - 2010

ABSTRACTCompetitive pressure and desire for success drive enterprises in general to involve in knowledge acquisition and dissemination activities that are becoming increasingly significant in the rapid changing and globalising economic world. In addition, with the increased mobility of...

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The business platform : developing an instrument to gauge and assist the development of young firms

Davidsson, Per; Klofsten, Magnus - 2003

The research presented here addresses the following problems that we perceive in research on the development of young firms. First, we feel there is a lack of holistic, yet quantifiable and generalizable ways to assess the state of newly started firms. Quantitative research typically relies on...

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The development of Saudi Arabian Entrepreneurship and Knowledge society

Alessa, Adlah A.; Alajmi, Shayma Hussain - 2017

the entrepreneurship's development in Saudi Arabia and contributes to the attainment of the knowledge society. We used the … analysis. We found that the impact on Saudi Arabia entrepreneurship, project participation and execution are reliant on support …

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Current stance of entrepreneurship and SME development in Georgia: perspectives and challenges

Guruli, Irine - 2018

The paper analyzes external and internal factors impeding and determining entrepreneurship and Small and Medium … entrepreneurship and SME development, describes factors affecting entrepreneurial outcome in the advanced transition countries. …

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