Browsing International Review of Entrepreneurship: Complete Collection, 2003 – by Title
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Paradoxes of the Sharing Economy: A pandemic perspective
(Senate HallDublin, 2021)The sharing economy was expected to bring sustainable transformations towards social welfare, economic growth and environmental preservation. Yet it has not always lived up to these expectations. After the COVID-19 pandemic, ... -
Patent and Non Patent Strategies in R&D Based Entrepreneurship: A 4 Step Test
(Senate HallDublin, 2009)In this paper we challenge a common view that patenting is always a 'good thing' for R&D based entrepreneurs to do. We note that in an attempt to provide some simple generic advice to all entrepreneurs that government ... -
Peer-to-Peer Lenders' Motivations and Risk Perceptions in Cross-Border Investments in Europe
(Senate HallDublin, 2020)This paper examines lenders' perceptions of motivations and risks in p2p lending and how these are related to cross-border activity. We use survey methodology to collect responses to a detailed questionnaire sent to p2p ... -
Performance Determinants in Immigrant Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Study
(Senate HallDublin, 2017)The purpose of this paper is to analyse the determinants of performance of businesses created by immigrants. An empirical study is carried out in the Spanish context, based on information obtained from 182 immigrant ... -
Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship: Causes, Effects, and Directions for Future Research
(Senate HallDublin, 2017)This paper reviews the empirical evidence of persistent levels of regional self-employment and new business formation and the effect this persistence has on development. It is argued that a regional culture of entrepreneurship ... -
Photonica: Growing a Spin-Out
(Senate HallDublin, 2004)This case invites students to consider the challenges associated with establishing and growing an entrepreneurial, technology-driven, university 'spin-out' firm. Drawing heavily, though by no means exclusively, on the ... -
Pitching for Finance for a Business Start-Up: a Case Study of IviewCameras
(Senate HallDublin, 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. ... -
Post-privatisation Governance and Corporate Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies
(Senate HallDublin, 2016)Although the former communist countries that have been transitioning to market-oriented reforms share various common features (Peng 2000, World Bank 2002), they follow different paths and pursue the transition at different ... -
Potential of For-Profit Schools for Educational Reform
(Senate HallDublin, 2004)The rise of a for-profit industry in elementary and secondary schools is a relatively recent phenomenon in American education. In the past, a small number of independent schools - probably 2 percent or less - were for-profit ... -
Potentially Disruptive Innovations and Business Models: (How) do established SMEs respond?
(Senate HallDublin, 2019)This study analyses how established SMEs respond to potentially disruptive innovations and business models in the course of increasing digitization. Drawing on the strategic entrepreneurship approach we argue that SMEs ... -
Precision and Paradox - How Creative Teams Work
(Senate HallDublin, 2011)Inroduction Summary by Daniel Hjorth and Robert Austin (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) With this piece, we initiate in the International Review of Entrepreneurship (IRE) what we intend as co-editors of Senate Hall's ... -
Prior Experience and Export Performance: The Missing Link of Global Vision
(Senate HallDublin, 2020)Despite the scholarly interest in the prior experience of entrepreneurs expressed by the field of International Entrepreneurship, empirical investigation linking prior experience with international performance leads to ... -
Prior Knowledge and Entrepreneurial Discovery: A Classroom Methodology for Idea Generation
(Senate HallDublin, 2006)The consideration-set search method used assumes that the value of wealth-generating opportunities is directly related to expertise in specific areas of an individual's prior knowledge. This paper pursues two objectives. ... -
Product Differentiation at the Base of the Pyramid: Individual-Level Antecedents and Performance Outcomes
(Senate HallDublin, 2018)Entrepreneurs at the base of the economic pyramid often follow an imitation strategy, whereby the products and services they offer are similar or identical to those of their competitors. Although mimicry is not unique to ... -
Psychological Needs, Goal Orientations and the Cultural Preferences of Individuals with Start-up Aspirations
(Senate HallDublin, 2018)The present study examined individuals with start-up aspirations. The study objective was to test relationships between basic psychological needs and achievement goal orientation(s). The second objective was to test ... -
Re-Estimating the Returns to Education by Employment Status: Paid Employed vs. Own-Account Workers vs. Employers
(Senate HallDublin, 2016)This article is devoted to the exploration of the differences in the returns to education among wage earners and self-employed workers, while distinguishing between own-account workers and employers. Using a data base of ... -
Reading Experience Economy Entrepreneurship Cases Using a Resource Based Perspective
(Senate HallDublin, 2011)The resource based perspective (RBP) has provided fertile ground for theory development on the sustained competitive advantages of the firm. The question that propelled already the seminal work by Penrose (1959: "Theories ... -
Ready seafood: business model innovation and venturing in a mature industry
(Senate HallDublin, 2010)This case describes how two brothers transform their small business from lobster harvesting, to lobster distribution: to gifting centred around fish seafood. One of the brothers, John Ready, was an entrepreneurship student ... -
Recruiting for Small Business Growth: Micro-Level Evidence
(Senate HallDublin, 2017)We examine the link between new employees in leading positions and subsequent productivity in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Managers and professionals are likely to possess important tacit knowledge. They are ... -
Religious Entrepreneurs' Motives and Practices in the Different Phases of the Entrepreneurial Process
(Senate HallDublin, 2020)Religion is argued to contribute to entrepreneurship; however, there is scant research that explores its role in the different phases of the entrepreneurial process. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore the ...