International Review of Entrepreneurship: Recent submissions

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    • Special Issue: E-Commerce/Web 2.0 and Entrepreneurship: Where Next? Editorial 

      Laffey, Des (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2009)
      Entrepreneurship is integral to E-Commerce with many dominant Internet firms still relatively young. After the collapse of the dot com bubble e-commerce has become an established aspect of business and many entrepreneurial ...

    • E-Commerce, Web 2.0 and Entrepreneurship: Opportunities in the U-Space 

      Pitt, Leyland; Watson, Richard; Berthon, Pierre R.; Piccoli, Gbariele; Engstrom, Anne (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2009)
      Web 2.0 is not so much about new technologies as it is about new ways of using the internet and its associated technologies. In this article, we briefly describe the technological situation frequently referred to as Web ...

    • Serial Entrepreneurs and Born-Global New Ventures: A Case Study 

      Presutti, M.; Onetti, A.; Odorici , V. (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2008)
      Based on a longitudinal case study, we aim to understand how serial entrepreneurs can foster the development of born-global ventures. We consider a born-global start-up as the final stage of the learning process for a ...

    • Developing Competencies for International Entrepreneurship: The Role of a Global Mindset 

      Muzychenko, Olga; Zalan, Tatiana; Wells, Sam (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2008)
      The focus of this paper is on Entrepreneurial Global Mindset, an important cognitive capability and a source of sustainable competitive advantage for an international new venture. Developing a global mindset means acquiring ...

    • Resisting Corruption: Polyhydron Private Ltd 

      Velamuri, S. Ramakrishna; Sosna, Marc (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2008)
      The case describes the resistance to corruption practised by Suresh Hundre, the founder and CEO of Polyhydron Private Limited (PPL), an SME in the manufacturing sector based in the small Indian city of Belgaum. It documents ...

    • Review of Radical Innovation in Small and Large Firms 

      Audretsch, David; Aldridge, Taylor (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2008)
      There is a surprising dearth of literature discussing radical innovations, yet, a common definition in either quantitative or qualitative terms has yet to emerge. This paper shows the genesis of radical innovation literature ...

    • Note to the Student: How to Study and Discuss Cases 

      Bruner, Robert F. (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2008)
      This note summarizes an introductory approach by which the novice student can approach the process of preparing to discuss-and discussing-teaching case studies. The tips for preparation are centered around : (1) setting ...

    • Organic Apoteke Case Study: Being Spoilt for Choice is Not Always Easy 

      Hussels, Stephanie (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2008)
      The case study tells the story of Organic Apoteke, a UK cosmeceutical start-up founded in 2004. It highlights the steps the founders took to develop and grow their business. In 2006, only two years after the registration ...

    • The Unit of Analysis in Entrepreneurship Research: Opportunities or Investments? 

      Klein, Peter G.; Foss, Nicolai J. (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2008)
      The entrepreneurship literature in management research focuses increasingly on opportunities-their creation or discovery, evaluation, and exploitation-as the unit of analysis. We argue first, that the opportunity perspective ...

    • BioBlood: M&A in the Biotech World 

      Meyer, Marc H.; Friar, John H.; Kursh, Steven R.; Shaughnessy, Dennis (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2008)
      The case focuses on the process of discovery, valuation, and deal structure in the acquisition of a small privately held company by a much larger company, both in the biotechnology industry. The case is written from the ...

    • Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Education in Schools and Colleges: Insights from UK Practice 

      Gibb, Allan (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2008)
      The Paper pragmatically reviews progress in the field of Schools and Colleges Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education in the UK since the 1980s. It utilises a substantial degree of experiential knowledge based largely ...

    • Are users the Next Entrepreneurs? A case Study on the Video Game Industry 

      Burger-Helmchen, Thierry; Guittard, Claude (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2008)
      Knowledge based-entrepreneurial firms struggle to survive because they have to be simultaneously entrepreneurial on several dimensions. Can these firms rely on users to achieve sufficient efficiency in some entrepreneurial ...

    • Entrepreneurship Education and Social Justice: The Unexpected Connection 

      Kourilsky, Marilyn L.; Walstad, William B. (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2008)
      Social justice is a key goal of education in the United States. However, entrepreneurship - and therefore entrepreneurship education - typically are viewed as the antitheses of social justice. It is the purpose of this ...

    • That My Neighbor's Cow Might Live: Effectuation and Entrepreneurship Education in Croatia 

      Harmeling, Susan (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2008)
      Post-war Croatia has been characterized by high unemployment, a damaged infrastructure, stalled foreign investment and few government incentives for new business creation. It is in this context that a prominent local ...

    • SME Management: (What) Can We Learn from Entrepreneurship Theory? 

      Freiling, Jorg (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2008)
      Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are often regarded as entrepreneurshipdriven. There are many reasons for this. For example, the entrepreneur as a person plays a much more vital role than in large firms and ...

    • The Innovation Factory - Start-up Catch 22's 

      Marion, Tucker J. (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)
      The case uses the rise and growing pains of a consumer product based company from 2000 to 2003 to highlight the ever-constant struggles of developing new products and building a consumer products company - juxtaposed with ...

    • Pitching for Finance for a Business Start-Up: a Case Study of IviewCameras 

      Molian, David (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)
      In September 2002 Pete Rankin is leaving his MBA programme to launch a new internet-based venture, IViewCameras. The price of wireless CCTV (closed-circuit TV) has fallen dramatically, creating a new market opportunity. ...

    • The Spot Roller Rink 

      Moffit, Timothy E. (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)
      The Spot Roller Rink is a neglected recreational business that operates in a mature industry with seemingly little upside potential. The principle challenge is for students to serve as a business consultant to a small ...

    • Shareholder's Agreement or Disagreement: A Case Study of Cobalt Telephone Technologies Ltd (Parts I & II) 

      Brown, Robert (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)
      This two part case outlines how this new technology company was founded with minimal financial assets in 1997. Cobalt grew through developing an innovative market penetration strategy for its automated telephone response ...

    • Teaching Entrepreneurial Mindset: Lessons from Dead Poets Society 

      Neck, Heidi M.; W. Gerde, Virginia (Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)
      Film captures the complexity of issues, of possibilities and of interactions among diverse people. It can be very effective in the classroom because it draws students into the situation and provides them with an engaging ...