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The Focus of Entrepreneurial Research: Contextual and Process Issues:
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Low and MacMillan (1988) suggested that research into entrepreneurial behavior should consider contextual issues and identify the processes that explain rather than merely describe the entrepreneur, and as discussed by the authors suggested that the process that explains the entrepreneur should be contextualized.Abstract:
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Contextualizing Entrepreneurship—Conceptual Challenges and Ways Forward:
TL;DR: The authors explored the multiplicity of contexts and their impact on entrepreneurship, identifying challenges researchers face in contextualizing entrepreneurship theory and offers possible ways forward, arguing that context is important for understanding when, how, and why entrepreneurship happens and who becomes involved.
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Internationalisation: conceptualising an entrepreneurial process of behaviour in time
Marian V. Jones,Nicole Coviello +1 more
TL;DR: This article presented a three-stage process of conceptual development in response to the call for a unifying direction for research in the emergent field of international entrepreneurship, drawing on classic approaches to internationalisation, and importing insight from entrepreneurship as a separate and distinct field of study.
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Customer Value Creation: A Practical Framework
J. Smith,Mark Colgate +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework for marketers to consider when exploring ways to distinguish themselves, in the eyes of the customer, from others in the marketplace is presented, based on the strengths of existing frameworks.
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Entrepreneurship education and training - can entrepreneurship be taught? Part I
TL;DR: In this paper, a two-part paper aims to address the question of whether or not entrepreneurship can be taught, which has led to an ongoing debate in the entrepreneurship academy about whether we can actually teach individuals to be entrepreneurs.
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Reflections on the 2010 AMR Decade Award: Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship As a Field of Research
TL;DR: This article examined the impact of the 2010 AMR Decade Award article on the entrepreneurship field over the past ten years, identifying aspects of "The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research" that have been largely accepted by the field, those that the field has challenged, and those that were found to be unclear.
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Dynamic capabilities and strategic management
TL;DR: The dynamic capabilities framework as mentioned in this paper analyzes the sources and methods of wealth creation and capture by private enterprise firms operating in environments of rapid technological change, and suggests that private wealth creation in regimes of rapid technology change depends in large measure on honing intemal technological, organizational, and managerial processes inside the firm.
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Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow, Corporate Finance, and Takeovers
TL;DR: In this paper, the benefits of debt in reducing agency costs of free cash flows, how debt can substitute for dividends, why diversification programs are more likely to generate losses than takeovers or expansion in the same line of business or liquidationmotivated takeovers, and why the factors generating takeover activity in such diverse activities as broadcasting and tobacco are similar to those in oil.
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The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective
TL;DR: The External Control of Organizations as discussed by the authors explores how external constraints affect organizations and provides insights for designing and managing organizations to mitigate these constraints, and it is the fact of the organization's dependence on the environment that makes the external constraint and control of organizational behavior both possible and almost inevitable.
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The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective.
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The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw upon previous research conducted in the different social science disciplines and applied fields of business to create a conceptual framework for the field of entrepreneurship, and predict a set of outcomes not explained or predicted by conceptual frameworks already in existence in other fields.