Stevenson (1983) holds that entrepreneurial management, defined as a set of opportunity-based man-agement practices, can help firms remain vital and contribute to firm and societal level value creation. While his conceptualization has received much attention, little progress has been made...

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...

'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 enterprise in furthering economic progress' (p. 141)....

When the first author reviewed the literature on small firm growth in the mid 1980’s for his disserta-tion work, he noted that surprisingly few studies had focused on that specific problem (Davidsson 1989a; 1989b). Today, this is no longer true. In recent years ever more comprehensive lists of...

This paper examines the potential impact of interconnectivity of supply chain partnerships through electronic means (e-business practices) on the governance and management of Public Sector Agriculture R&D in Australia. We review the global forces driving the move towards supply chain...

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...

There are high expectations for growth and performance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the current economic environment. SMEs are expected to play a significant role in the development plans for Asia Pacific, Canada, British Columbia and the Okanagan region (Asia Pacific Economic...

This paper illustrates an evolutionary process that is consistent with the primary domains of evolutionary theorising, namely ecology and biology. In doing so, this paper presents an alternative explanation of how certain type of regional start-ups have managed to survive where others have...

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...

At a broad level, it has been shown that different institutional contexts, policy regimes and business systems affect the kinds of activities in which a nation specialises. This paper is concerned with the way in which different national business systems affect the nature of participation of a...