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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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SME Growth in a Recession
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how a small and medium enterprise (SME) achieved growth in the recession of 2008-09 and found that contextual strategies help SMEs to sustain and grow in a financially turbulent period.
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Growth intentions in family-based new venture teams: The role of the nascent entrepreneur’s R&D behavior
TL;DR: The authors investigated how family ties in new venture teams (NVTs) influence the intended future growth of a nascent entrepreneur's business and found that growth intentions in NVTs with family ties are greater when the nascent entrepreneur shows an R&D behavior, even though the presence of family members in the team is negatively related to the intentions of new venture growth.
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The internationalisation of Chinese transnational entrepreneurial firms : a comparative study with indigenous counterparts in Canada and UK
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the internationalisation characteristics of transnational entrepreneurial firms (TEFs) that are owned by the first-generation, immigrant entrepreneurs maintaining business arrangements at least in their home and host countries.
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Determinants of firm growth with repect to exporting and innovation activities:evidence from Egyptian SMEs
TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of innovation and exporting activities in the growth of SMEs in Egypt was examined by examining two main factors believed to promote firm growth namely "exporting" and "innovation".
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The Sensitivity of High-Tech Entrepreneurial Ventures' Employment to a Sales Contraction in a Negative Growth Scenario: The Moderating Role of Venture Capital Financing
TL;DR: The authors examined the sensitivity of employment to sales contractions in a negative growth scenario for high-tech entrepreneurial ventures using the lens of transaction cost economics and empirically tested the moderating effect of venture capital financing on the employment-sales relationship.
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