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Levels of analysis in entrepreneurship research: Current research practice and suggestions for the future
Davidsson, Per; Wiklund, Johan - 2001
'Introduction' In their path-breaking article, Low & MacMillan (1988) suggest that entrepreneurship be defined as the … 'creation of new enterprise'. The purpose of entrepreneurship research should be to 'explain and facilitate the role of new … micro and macro perspec-tives. They argued that researchers must acknowledge that entrepreneurship studies could and should …
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An operationalization of Stevenson’s conceptualization of entrepreneurship as opportunity-based firm behavior
Brown, Terrence E.; Davidsson, Per; Wiklund, Johan - 2001
empirical instrument for assessing a firm’s degree of entrepreneurship. Our instrument should open up opportunities for … researchers to further evaluate entrepreneurship in existing firms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438041
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Management and Schumpeterian Resource Recombination
Wiklund, Johan; Eliasson, Christian; Davidsson, Per - 2002
H. H. Stevenson suggests that firms’ management practices range along a spectrum from highly entrepreneurial to highly administrative. At the entrepreneurial end are promoter firms with a focus on new opportunities and at the administrative end are trustee firms with an inward focus on...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483455
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Entrepreneurial Management, Corporate Venturing, and Financial Performance
Eliasson, Christian; Davidsson, Per - 2003
Corporate venturing activities can expand a firm’s business by creating new products and entering new markets. The literature suggests that entrepreneurial management should have a positive effect on corporate venturing activities and, as a consequence of this, a positive effect on a company's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437660
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Smallness, newness, and regional development
Davidsson, Per; Lindmark, Leif; Olofsson, Christer - 1998
many results from the project have been presented and discussed before (Davidsson, Lindmark & Olofsson, 1993a; 1993b; 1994a …; 1994b; 1995a; 1995b; Davidsson, 1995a) some analyses were carried out specifically for this paper. …
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Conceptual and Empirical Challenges in the Study of Firm Growth
Davidsson, Per; Wiklund, Johan - 2000
noted that surprisingly few studies had focused on that specific problem (Davidsson 1989a; 1989b). Today, this is no longer … 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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The Antecedents of Workaholism and other Work Behaviors
Douglas, Evan J.; Morris, Robyn J. - 2006
This paper presents a conceptual model of the work effort decision of individuals and thereby advances our understanding of workaholism and other patterns of high or low work involvement and high or low work enjoyment. Researchers have categorized eight main types of work behaviors using the...
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The performance of young firms: patterns of evolution in the growth-profitability space
Steffens, Paul R.; Davidsson, Per; Fitzsimmons, Jason R. - 2006
The aim of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the evolution of small firm performance. We do so by studying performance changes on a two dimensional "growth– profitability performance space". It is well established that both growth and profitability are important dimensions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437585
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Growth and Profitability in Small and Medium Sized Australian Firms
Fitzsimmons, Jason R.; Steffens, Paul R.; Douglas, Evan J. - 2005
This study investigated the longitudinal behaviour of growth rates and profitability for a large sample of Australian firms. Similar to previous studies, growth rates were found to be much more volatile than profitability measures. Using a regression equation with lagged profit and growth...
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