Showing papers by "Deniz Ucbasaran published in 2009"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the links between entrepreneurs' prior business ownership experience and their opportunity identification behavior and found that experienced entrepreneurs identified more opportunities and exploited more innovative opportunities with greater wealth creation potential.
572 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the key contributions of the papers in this special issue, with a particular focus on how they provide insights into structural and process contingencies, the role of management at multiple levels, and organizational and managerial capabilities.
331 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored whether habitual entrepreneurs with prior business ownership experience reported higher information search intensities and identified more business opportunities than novice entrepreneurs, and found that portfolio entrepreneurs identified more opportunities than serial and novice entrepreneurs.
Abstract: This study explores whether habitual entrepreneurs with prior business ownership experience reported higher information search intensities and identified more business opportunities than novice entrepreneurs. Guided by human capital and cognitive theories, four hypotheses were tested with regard to a sample of 625 entrepreneurs in Great Britain. Habitual entrepreneurs were not found to report lower levels of information search intensity than novice entrepreneurs. Habitual entrepreneurs identified more business opportunities than novice entrepreneurs. Portfolio entrepreneurs identified more opportunities than serial and novice entrepreneurs. Respondents reporting higher entrepreneurial capability and information search intensity identified more opportunities. If the goals of policy are to increase the ‘quantity’ of new business start-ups and maximize investment returns, there is a case to target assistance to habitual entrepreneurs, particularly portfolio entrepreneurs. More customized assistance to entrepreneurs is required to improve the ‘quality’ of the entrepreneurial pool. Both novice and habitual entrepreneurs would benefit from schemes that promote more intensive information search and the leverage of entrepreneurial capabilities.
131 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the benefits of internationalization beyond just financial outcomes and found that having a wider international market scope exposes SMEs to a rich network of information that encourages and enhances future product innovation.
Abstract: Faced with rising competition in their domestic markets and attracted to opportunities in foreign markets, smaller and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly looking towards internationalization as a means of creating and sustaining competitive advantage. This has heightened researchers' interest in examining the benefits of internationalization beyond just financial outcomes. Internationalization can promote learning and the accumulation of the knowledge, skills and capabilities that SMEs need to survive and prosper. Learning and knowledge accumulation can also improve SMEs' product innovations. Using data from 384 US-based SMEs, we find that having a wider international market scope exposes SMEs to a rich network of information that encourages and enhances future product innovation. Similar results are observed when SMEs use high control or high involvement modes of entry in foreign markets. Our analyses also show that social knowledge magnifies and strengthens the effects of international market scope and mode of entry (high control as well as high involvement) on SMEs' product innovation.
76 citations