The present paper deals with the perceptions about market conditions and public policies related to enhance entrepreneurial activities at regional levels. This is the first academic research at regional level in Chile and one of the few in Latin America to study this issue. The main results seem...

Business angels (BAs) and venture capitalists (VCs) are important sources of finance for entrepreneurs in emerging markets for raising start-up and growth capital. Recognising that entrepreneurial investment evaluation decision-making is a highly complex process, and that there are limited...

This paper provides a short overview of corporate governance mechanisms in newly listed companies. Although such firms differ in large from the archetypical Berle-Means-Corporation in the corporate governance literature, our overview is also aligned to some extend to the framework provided by...

This study clarifies the association of entrepreneurial orientation with the diverse characteristics of a firm. Descriptive, cross sectional research design has been adopted in a survey of 457 key informants from Indian organizations. Second order CFA has been used for the measurement of the...

Lean startup and the idea of a business model have become popular in the context of startup experimentation, innovation and strategy. In this paper we discuss and critique the assumptions behind lean startup, specifically how the approach conceives of hypothesis development and startup...

There is a small but theoretically important literature on ‘born-globals’ or international new venture firms that positions itself in contrast to the more established sequential international entry literature. In this paper, we examine the pattern of entry into international markets for a...

Rapid changes in technology and growing competition in consumer as well as business customer markets are forcing industry to explore new ways to foster innovation. This is also true in times of economic crises, where innovation can lead to the competitive advantage needed for success and...

This paper examines the question of whether the initial stock of resources of new ventures that enter an industry differs based on the whether they enter before or after a technological discontinuity occurs. We draw on the theoretical foundations of the resource-based view of the firm, and those...

Richard Rumelt, Dan Schendel, and David Teece are clear: "The foundation of strategic management as a field may very well be traced to the 1962 publication of Chandler's Strategy and Structure" For these three doyens of strategy, Alfred Chandler was a fundamental influence on the shape of the...

Today we can observe an increasing proliferation of new academic spin-off initiatives aimed to transfer knowledge from the university to the market. Due to their strategic role in enhancing the development of technological innovation, academic spin-offs can attain high levels of social...