Eric Gedajlovic

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define social entrepreneurship and discuss its contributions to creating social wealth; offer a typology of entrepreneurs' search processes that lead to the discovery of opportunities for creating social ventures; and articulate the major ethical concerns social entrepreneurs might encounter.

TL;DR: It is found that over and above their independent effects, concurrent high levels of BD and CD yield synergistic benefits, and managers in resource-constrained contexts may benefit from a focus on managing trade-offs between exploration and exploitation demands, but for firms that have access to sufficient resources, the simultaneous pursuit of Exploration and exploitation is both possible and desirable.

TL;DR: The authors empirically examined the ownership concentration-performance relationship across the nations of Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States and found that important and statistically significant differences do in fact exist across the countries studied.

TL;DR: In this article, the ownership strategies of 128 retail franchising systems were examined in the light of existing agency and resource scarcity explanations of this organizational form, finding that franchiser ownership strategies are more heterogeneous than previously recognized, and that neither explanation alone accounts for observed ownership patterns.

TL;DR: In this paper, meta-analytical techniques employed on a database of 141 studies covering 28 different countries were used to find that affiliation diminishes firm performance in general, but also that affiliates are comparatively better off in contexts with underdeveloped financial and labor market institutions.