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Entrepreneurship and growth
Mike Wright,Ileana Stigliani +1 more
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The authors of as discussed by the authors suggest that there is a greater need to understand the processes that underlie entrepreneurial growth and how the entrepreneur's cognitive processes shape growth, how they access and configure resources to achieve growth, and whether these are influenced by a wider variety of contextual dimensions than previously recognised.Abstract:
The entrepreneurial growth literature is extensive, but research focusing on questions such as how firms grow, why they grow according to different patterns, how the decisions about growing or not growing are made, and the contextual dimensions within which growth takes place, has been neglected. This annual review article explores such issues: it suggests that there is a greater need to understand the processes that underlie entrepreneurial growth. In particular, we need to know more about how the entrepreneur’s cognitive processes shape growth (i.e. microfoundations of growth), how they access and configure resources to achieve growth (i.e. the resource orchestration underpinning growth), whether these are influenced by a wider variety of contextual dimensions than previously recognised, and how these influence different patterns and types of growth.read more
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Identification of growth factors for small firms: evidence from hotel companies on an island
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Entrepreneurial Creativity and Growth
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Metodología para el análisis de problemas y limitaciones en emprendimientos universitarios
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TL;DR: A structured methodology for contextualizing and analyzing a university entrepreneurship, bearing in mind the real available resources of the entrepreneur is introduced based on the Theory of Inventive Problem-solving (TRIZ).
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Expectations and achievements in new firms
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the antecedents of business growth expectations and subsequent accumulated sales revenues and employment costs and found that the entrepreneurs need for social cohesion, subjective norm with regard to business growth and perceived self-efficacy with regards to opportunity recognition are positively and significantly associated with business growth expectation.
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