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| Nascent Entrepreneurs' Priorities on Growth: The Surprising Similarity of Women and Men | | final.jpg)
Lynnette Claire | |
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| Most extant research shows that female entrepreneurs are less likely to grow large firms and, in fact, don’t want to grow their firms as large as male entrepreneurs do. This study of 191 nascent entrepreneurs finds that neither men nor women entrepreneurs consider firm growth a top priority for their emerging firms. These a priori ideas about growth and firm success are an important contribution to the investigation of gender differences towards entrepreneurial firm growth. Implications of these findings for policy makers and entrepreneurial assistance organizations are explored. |
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| Fostering Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership in Family Firms: Ten Lessons | | final.jpg)
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Ken Moores | |
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| Women’s potential to lead a firm – whether one started by a family member or a new venture of their own – is still not often enough acknowledged. With family firms acknowledged as the seeding grounds for the next generation of entrepreneurs, and with increasing attention in research and public policy to women’s entrepreneurship, it is important to understand the factors in family firms which help and hinder their women members’ leadership and entrepreneurship potential. This article, based on the authors’ book Women in Family Business Leadership Roles: Daughters on the Stage (Edward Elgar, 2009), presents ten lessons for family firms which arise from the experience of women in family firms. |
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| Creativity and the Practical Innovation Process, a Driver of Competitive Advantage | | 
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David Oliver | |
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| This article reviews the relationship between creativity and innovation. It includes practical behaviours and techniques which can support creativity in the workplace.
The need for organisations to become more innovative in the way they develop products and services has never been more important. In competitive and challenging business environments the ability to find new products and better, quicker and smarter ways of working can make the difference between success and failure. Lying at the heart of the innovation process is creativity. Without creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship would not be possible. The problem is, creativity and the workplace often don’t mix, so how do you develop an innovation process that truly harnesses and exploits creative thinking?
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| Network Effects - Managerial Implications and Recent Trends in the Empirical Literature | | final.jpg)
Daniel Birke | |
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| Network effects, the increase in value of consuming a product if many other consumers use the same product, are a feature of many markets and in particular of many markets of high-technology products. This paper discusses managerial implications of network effects. It further introduces some recent insights gained from the analysis of how consumers interact with each other in a social network. The paper argues that a closer analysis of the network structure of consumer interaction promises fruitful future research avenues and advances in our understanding of how network effects operate.
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| Entrepreneurs in Organised Crime | | final.jpg)
Gottschalk, P. | |
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| Organised crime by criminal entrepreneurs is not a new phenomenon. Felsen and Kalaitzidis (2005) describe historical cases such as piracy, slavery and opium smuggling. The most famous and far reaching pirates in medieval Europe were the Vikings - warriors and looters from Scandinavia. They raided the coasts, rivers and inland cities of all Western Europe as far as Seville. While being admired as entrepreneurial heroes at home, they were the most feared enemy abroad. |
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11 March 2010 |
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