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Disruptive Innovation: Enabling Practitioners to Tackle the "Innovators Dilemma" With Graphical Techniques - A Focus on Resource Allocation

Thomond, Peter N.; Lettice, Fiona; Herzberg, Torsten - 2004

This paper presents the findings of part of a 30 month investigation, conducted to better understand the persistent failure of management practitioners to fund potentially disruptive innovations. A Mode 2 case study strategy was employed. The iterative transfer of knowledge, between four...

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Foreign Direst Investment and Indigenous Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Wales and Ireland

Terjesen, Siri A.; Acs, Zoltan - 2007

indigenous entrepreneurship. These knowledge spillovers can lead to the establishment of new indigenous enterprises in the host … studies are concerned with the relationship between human capital and entrepreneurship (Bates, 1990), very few studies explore … the relationship between FDI, human capital and entrepreneurship. Using a combination of case studies and Global …

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Firm Size Expectations of Nascent Entrepreneurs

Delmar, Frederic; Davidsson, Per; Aronsson, Magnus - 1999

The purpose of this paper was to examine the factors affecting the future firm size expectations of nascent entrepreneurs. This was done by testing a decision model on a unique data set composed of a random sample of nascent entrepreneurs. The proposed model is based on four different components...

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Hunting for new employment: the role of high-growth firms

Davidsson, Per; Delmar, Frederic - 2003

This study investigates the role of high growth firms for the creation of new employment in Sweden during the 1987-96 period. Our data set is unique in the sense that it captures both enterprise and company group levels of analysis, and in that organic growth can be separated from growth through...

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Marketing Buzz: Towards a Framework for Entrepreneurs

Fitzsimmons, Jason R.; Douglas, Evan J.; Steffens, Paul R. - 2007

Despite the increasing recognition of the importance of word of mouth as an integral component of a firms’ marketing efforts, there has been little emphasis on developing suitable guidelines for entrepreneurs who wish to leverage scarce resources by pursuing more innovative marketing...

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Paul D. Reynolds : entrepreneurship research innovator, coordinator, and disseminator

Davidsson, Per - 2005

Paul Davidson Reynolds is the 2004 winner of the International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research … areas of his contributions: regional variations in entrepreneurial activity, nascent entrepreneurship and firms in gestation … aspects of the research process he has contributed to: development of new empirical methods to research entrepreneurship …

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What do they think and feel about growth? An expectancy-value approach to small business managers' attitudes towards growth

Wiklund, Johan; Davidsson, Per; Delmar, Frederic - 2003

In this article we investigate how small business managers? beliefs concerning the con-sequences of growth influence their overall growth attitude. We find this to be an important question. Although previous research has shown that small firm growth is the most important source of new jobs...

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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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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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Small business and entrepreneurship in the knowledge economy : a comparison of Australia and Sweden

Parker, Rachel L. - 2006

factors explain a general bias in the Australian economy towards small business and entrepreneurship. However, the paper draws …

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