Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has received substantial conceptual and empirical attention, representing one of the few areas in entrepreneurship research where a cumulative body of knowledge i ...

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Entrepreneurial Orientation and Business Performance: An Assessment of Past Research and Suggestions for the Future

In this article we argue that (1) legitimacy is an important resource for gaining other resources, (2) such resources are crucial for new venture growth, and (3) legitimacy can be enhanced by the strategic actions of new ventures. We review the impact of legitimacy on new ventures as well as sources of legitimacy for new ventures, present strategies for new ventures to acquire legitimacy, explore the process of building legitimacy in the new venture, and examine the concept of the legitimacy threshold.

Beyond Survival: Achieving New Venture Growth by Building Legitimacy

Is innovation always beneficial? A meta-analysis of the relationship between innovation and performance in SMEs

Arriving at the high growth firm

The competitiveness of small and medium enterprises - A conceptualization with focus on entrepreneurial competencies

Measuring performance in entrepreneurship research

This provocative book combines theory and practice and is the first of its kind to develop a complete model of the project leader function in modern corporations. It addresses such diverse, but equally important, roles of project leader as visionary, strategic manager and ethical leader. It is a hands-on guide detailing the specific steps you will need to follow in creating a project vision, reaching all project stakeholders and selling that vision. You will also learn about a wide range of leader dutiesmanager, problem solver, facilitator, trainer, communicator, advocateand discover how each duty affects your ability to create a cohesive project team. This book fills an important niche in the managers bookshelf by presenting a practically written discussion of the critical roles that leaders play and the impact they have on successful project implementation.

Project Leadership from Theory to Practice

Chosen from the best of Project Management Journal ® and PM Network®, the articles reprinted in this volume revolve around the nature of the project management challenge, the skills required of effective project management practitioners, and some of the important leadership and management principles. Taken together, they offer a comprehensive and thorough look at the immense leadership challenges and skills necessary for successfully navigating the minefields of project management.

Leadership Skills for Project Managers

The successful strategic management of projects is based on an organization’s understanding that an effective project is only as good as its capacity to satisfy customer requirements. In an increasingly competitive international marketplace, successful firms are typically those that have worked to establish a cooperative relationship with their clients, based on their desire to provide better service. This sense of better service typically refers to the willingness of these companies to evaluate their project management practices in terms of external, client demands along with the more traditional and internally-focused efficiency measures such as schedule and budget adherence. Through this use of Value-Chain Analysis, organizations are able to compete more effectively through understanding how best they can bring value to their customer’s business activity cycle. This chapter reports on the results of a series of efforts by Aker Rauma Offshore Oy to develop a customer-based project success measure to ensure positive long-term relationships with customers. Among their findings is the need to differentiate among various stakeholder constituencies within the same client organization and develop service strategies to address each sub-group’s needs.

Project Success and Customer Satisfaction: Toward a Formalized Linkage Mechanism*

The growth of firms is fundamentally based on selfreinforcing feedback loops, one of the most important of which involves cash flow.When profit margin is positive, sales generate cash, which may then be reinvested to finance the operating cash cycle.We analyze simulations of a sustainable growth model of a generic new venture to assess the importance of taxes, and regulatory costs in determining growth.The results suggest that new ventures are particularly vulnerable to public policy effects, since their working capital resource levels are minimal, and they have few options to raise external funds necessary to fuel their initial operating cash cycles.Clearly, this has potential consequences in terms of gaining competitive advantage from experience effects, word of mouth, scale economies, etc. The results of this work suggest that system dynamics models may provide public policy-makers a cost-effective means to meet the spirit of the U.S. Regulatory Flexibility Act

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Jeffrey Trailer

Papers

Measuring performance in entrepreneurship research

Project Leadership from Theory to Practice

Leadership Skills for Project Managers

Project Success and Customer Satisfaction: Toward a Formalized Linkage Mechanism*

A System Dynamics Approach to Assessing Public Policy Impact on the Sustainable Growth Rate of New Ventures