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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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Entrepreneurial ecosystems in cities: establishing the framework conditions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on regional entrepreneurial ecosystems and offer a complex model of start-ups, Regional Entrepreneurship and Development Index (REDI) and six domains of the entrepreneurial ecosystem (culture, formal institutions, infrastructure and amenities, IT, Melting Pot and demand).
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Understanding the Social Role of Entrepreneurship
Shaker A. Zahra,Mike Wright +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop five pillars on which the evolving social role of entrepreneurship can rest and have its impact: connecting entrepreneurial activities to other societal efforts aimed at improving the quality of life, achieving progress, and enriching human existence, identifying ways to reduce the dysfunctional effects of entrepreneurial activities on stakeholders, redefining the scope of entrepreneurship activities as a scholarly arena, recognizing entrepreneurship's social multiplier, and pursuing blended value at the organizational level, centring on balancing the creation of financial, social and environmental wealth.
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What do we know about entrepreneurial finance and its relationship with growth
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore what we do and do not know about entrepreneurial finance and its relationship with growth, and propose that the relationship between funding gaps and business performance as a direct and nuanced approach to identifying financial constraints in different entrepreneurial finance markets requires scrutiny.
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Entrepreneurial leadership, capabilities and firm growth
Oksana Koryak,Kevin F. Mole,Andy Lockett,James C. Hayton,Deniz Ucbasaran,Gerard P. Hodgkinson +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review and synthesize extant research on entrepreneurial leadership, capabilities and their influence on the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and explore the interrelationships between substantial capabilities, leadership and dynamic capabilities.
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What really happens to small and medium-sized enterprises in a global economic recession? UK evidence on sales and job dynamics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used UK data to consider how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) coped during the recent financial crisis and found that 4 in 10 SMEs experienced a fall in employment during the recession, and 5 in 10 experienced a falling in sales.
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Growing beyond smallness: How do small, closely controlled firms survive?
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore a corporate incident that threatened the survival of a family-controlled firm in Singapore and present an analysis of the manner in which the firm's managers responded to this threat by developing and launching a new core business, without external intervention.
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