Showing papers on "Entrepreneurship published in 1984"

Differentiating Entrepreneurs from Small Business Owners: A Conceptualization

Abstract: The literature of small business and entrepreneurship is explored. It is established that, although there is an overlap between entrepreneurial firms and small business firms, they are different entities. Using the 1934 work of Schumpeter and recognizing the additions to the field of current writers, a conceptual framework is established for the differentiation of entrepreneurs from small business owners.

Designs for Corporate Entrepreneurship in Established Firms

Abstract: This article presents a model which identifies entrepreneurial activity as a natural and integral part of the strategic process in large, established firms and offers a conceptual framework to help top management assess entrepreneurial business proposals. It also examines various organization designs for structuring the relationship between entrepreneurial endeavors and the corporation.

Fundamentals of Management

Abstract: Part 1 Management and the environment: managers and the evolution of management managers and their environments managing in a global environment social and ethical responsibilities of management. Part 2 Managing work and organizations: management decision-making the planning function strategic planning the organizing function organization design the controlling function. Part 3 Managing people in organizations: motivation managing work groups leading people in organizations communication and negotiation human resource management organization change, development and innovation. Part 4 Managing production and operations: production and operations management production and inventory planning and control managing information for decision making. Part 5 Special management topics: entrepreneurship careers in management. Appendix: Internet exercises.

Management for Productivity

Abstract: Partial table of contents: Managers, Diversity, and a Changing Environment International Management and the Global Economy FOUNDATIONS OF MANAGEMENT Historical Views on Management Managerial Decision Making and Problem Solving PLANNING FOR PRODUCTIVITY Fundamentals of Planning Strategic Planning and Strategic Management ORGANIZING FOR PRODUCTIVITY Organizational Culture and Design Job Designs for Individuals and Work Teams LEADING FOR PRODUCTIVITY Leading Through Motivation Leading Through Communication Leading Through Teamwork and Group Dynamics CONTROLLING FOR PRODUCTIVITY Fundamentals of Controlling Information Technology and Control PRODUCTIVITY IN THE DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Organizational Change Workplace 2000: Managing for Quality and Competitive Advantage Supplementary Modules.

The concept of local development: a stages model of endogenous regional growth*

Abstract: The concept of local development is defined as a particular form of regional development, one in which endogenous factors occupy a central position A stages model of local development is proposed: 1) the emergence of local entrepreneurship; 2) the “take off” of local enterprises; 3) the expansion of these enterprises beyond the local region; and 4) the achievement of a regional economic structure that is based upon local initiatives and locally created comparative advantages The theoretical and empirical foundations of this model are examined, with particular emphasis upon the roles of the entrepreneur and of human capital in the process of economic growth, and upon the spatial effects of the expansion of the firm

Entrepreneurship in the Mondragon Cooperatives

Abstract: (1984). Entrepreneurship in the Mondragon Cooperatives. Review of Social Economy: Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 272-294.

Small business management and entrepreneurship

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An economic theorist's book of tales: The market for “lemons”: quality uncertainty and the market mechanism

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Sex Differences in a Simulated Classroom Economy: Children's Beliefs About Entrepreneurship.

Abstract: The purposes of this study were (1) to measure sex differences in children's perceptions of entrepreneurship and occupational sex-stereotyping and (2) to assess sex differences in children's risk taking, persistence, and economic success. For 10 weeks 938 children in grades 3–6 participated in Mini-Society, an experience-based economics education instructional program. Child self-report measures and teacher ratings were utilized. Before Mini-Society children reported entrepreneurship to be primarily a male domain. There was less entrepreneurial stereotyping after Mini-Society, especially in favor of girls. Children's occupational sex stereotyping also decreased following Mini-Society. Finally, there were no sex differences in the children's risk taking, persistence, or economic success during the Mini-Society experience.

Entrepreneurship as a Significant Factor in Successful Adaptation.

Abstract: A major theme in much of the current literature on higher education is that the next decade will be one of the most challenging of the last half of the twentieth century. It will be a period of great uncertainty-uncertainty about finances, enrollments, and the maintenance of quality. The uncertainties facing all of higher education place a special strain on the small colleges, already hard pressed to do long-range planning. One agency, the Council of Independent Colleges, in its efforts to find ways to assist these colleges in anticipating and planning for the future, has learned a great deal about the problems that the colleges find most critical in their day-to-day operations.' The council has observed also that many of the colleges, in spite of the various problems, are not only surviving but seem to be doing remarkably well. An important ingredient in their success seems to be the nature of their leadership. To find out more about the factors that contribute to the well-being of these colleges and to look more carefully into the role of leadership, the council asked me to undertake a study of a sample of the more successful colleges. Beginning with the assumption that leadership was an important element, I made style of leadership a major focus of the study. And one of the principal findings was that leadership does indeed make a difference but in a rather unexpected way. The first step in launching the study was to develop a working defi-

Differentiating Entrepreneurs from Small Business Owners: A Conceptualization

Abstract: Much research about entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial ventures may be misleading in its conclusions because of failure to distinguish entrepreneurs from small business owners and managers (although there is some overlap between them). This analysis exxtends Schumpeter's theory of the entrepreneur and distinguishes entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ventures from small businesses and other business managers in order to better understand the phenomena and improve validity of entrepreneurship research. Possible distinguishing traits are eliminated, including risk-taking, demographic characteristics, attitudinal and behavioral characteristics, and stages of corporate life-cycles. The critical factor is innovation and creating activity. An entrepreneur is defined as "an individual who establishes and manages a business for the principal purposes of profit and growth" and engages in "innovative behavior and will employ strategic management practices in the business." An entrepreneurial venture fits at least one of Schumpeter's categories: the venture's goal are profitability and growth, and the business is characterized by strategic practices. (TNM)

Incentives for entrepreneurship and supporting institutions

Abstract: The term “entrepreneurship” has been used in a variety of somewhat different ways In this essay I follow Schumpeter in defining entrepreneurship relatively narrowly as the carrying out of innovation Thus I shall use the expressions incentives for entrepreneurship, and incentives for innovation, interchangeably

International Economic Relations and the Entrepreneurial State

Abstract: States have long been involved in processes of production. For centuries, governments have sought to regulate prices, wages, and other facets of productive activity. States have manufactured weapons and built fortifications in the interest of "national security." And states have constructed and operated infrastructural facilities as a means of promoting industrialization. But the scope of states' productive activities recently has been extended much beyond market regulation, defense, and provision of infrastructure. States increasingly are engaged directly in the production of capital and consumer goods. Moreover, in many countries, the ownership and operation of state firms conforms, in many respects, to standard business practice. Despite the attention currently being given to the expansion of the public economy in industrialized and industrializing countries, there has been little systematic study of this important form of state intervention. This paper is such an investigation. It examines one explanation for why firms that traditionally have belonged to the private sector are owned as state or parastatal enterprises and operated in accordance with standard business criteria. In addition, the paper evaluates this practice with respect to a particular policy objective, namely, the goal of alleviating dependence on foreign sources of capital and technology. The discussion proceeds in two parts. In part one, we define this increasingly important form of intermediation as state entrepreneurship and explicate the rationale behind its use in Third World countries.' Our account emphasizes the ramifications of prolonged reliance on foreign capital and technology. The role of the state as exten-

Entrepreneurs and scale: interactional and institutional constraints on the growth of small-scale enterprises in brazil'

Abstract: Comparing enterprises in terms of scale helps to reveal the social, economic, and political conditions that brought about their emergence and indicates factors that might impede or enhance entrepreneurial expansion. A focus on scale adds dynamism to the study of entrepreneurship because this conceptual approach requires an integrated analysis of enterprises and entrepreneurial careers to show the interrelation of their innovative strategies and differential developments. This argument is illustrated by a description ofthe successes and failures of small-scale entrepreneurs in two fishing villages in Northeast Brazil. The data demonstrate that the strategies entrepreneurs develop in the initial stage oftheir careers to solve predominantly interactional problems tend to fail beyond the boundaries of the local social environment. In urban centers, expanding enterprises encounter institutional impediments on scale enlargement that have to be overcome with innovative actions.

Teaching Small Business Management in the UK: Part II: How Needs are Being Met

Abstract: This is the second and final part of an article which considers the role of the UK education sector in small firms management, education and training. The first part reviewed the changing pressures on the higher education sector which provide opportunities for its greater involvement with the owner‐managed company. It also looked closely at the needs of the “customers” for small business training and discussed how these might be usefully segmented. We now discuss the contribution of the education sector along with the “supply side” problems. The data is drawn from a survey of 80 ex‐participants of the UK Small Business Management Teachers Programme. The survey was undertaken in 1982. The objectives of this programme and its importance in the field of the small business management were discussed in the first part.

The Minnesota Innovation Research Program.

Abstract: : This paper describes the progress of a major research program of 13 longitudinal studies on the management of innovation being undertaken by 34 investigators at the University of Minnesota. Begun in 1983, the investigators are tracking a wide variety of innovations while they are being developed and until they are implemented or terminated. This report also references the 75 research papers produced by the program for publication and conferences, and these are available upon request. Keywords: Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Organizational innovation; their Organizational change. (Author)

Nordic Female Entrepreneurs

Abstract: Entrepreneurs need both psychological and practical support when starting up their business. These support structures need to be local. This article describes three Nordic examples of such activities designed to help women get started in business. The first case deals with social entrepreneurship undertaken independently of government programmes. In the second case, social entrepreneurship has been undertaken in co‐operation with the government programmes. The last case is one where the activity forms a part of a government programme.

Small-scale production : Strategies for industrial restructuring

Abstract: Part 1 The small-scale industrial sector and development policies - an analytical approach. Part 2 A theoretical perspective on key policy issues: small-scale industrial development - a policy statement, F.Uribe-Echevarria small-scale manufacturing and regional industrialization - the urban and regional development perspective, F.Uribe-Echevarria labour and work in small-scale enterprises, H.Thomas appropriate technology for small industry - a review of issues, H.A.Romijn and T. de Wilde. Part 3 The practice of present policy interventions evaluation of the impact of projects to promote small-scale industrialization, R.C.Young NGDOs and small-scale industrialization, F.Wils world bank experience in the financing of small enterprises, J.Levitsky selected issues in entrepreneurship training for small business in developing countries, H.A.Romijn. Part 4 Country case studies: small-scale industrialization - the Indian experience, J.C.Sandesara industrial growth, employment and the role of the small-scale sector, S.Hasibuan the role fo small-scale industries in the Indonesian economy - an analysis of 1970s and 1980s data, T.Tambunan development of small-scale industry in Ghana - a case study of Kumasi, J.Dawson small-scale industry in Yugoslavia, T.Petrin and A.Vahcic urban employment and the expected role of the small-scale manufacturing sector in Colombia, E.Forero Pardo the political economy of technology diffusion - the bread industry in Kenya, R.Kaplinsky micro-enterprise and development policy - the Colombian case, V.M.Quintero small business organizations in the Hungarian economy, T.Laky.

Brokers as Entrepreneurs in Presocialist China

Abstract: Brokers or middlemen have been called a key element in preindustrial economic development, facilitating the exchange of goods within the domestic economy and opening rural production systems to foreign markets. Though Chinese society historically boasted a vigorous brokerage system, many studies of Chinese brokers have viewed them as obstacles to the development of entrepreneurship and capitalist transformation. China's brokers were limited, it is argued, by larger structural constraints—the bonds of custom and community, a preindustrial mode of production, a particular form of state organization and ideology—that inhibited entrepreneurial activities. This view is best reflected in the writings of Marxist historians who claim that brokers in China's presocialist society were an integral part of a feudal system in which landlords and the state dominated the peasant/worker economy, preventing the flowering of the “capitalist sprouts” shooting forth from China's towns and villages.