Browsing International Review of Entrepreneurship: Complete Collection, 2003 – by Title
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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 ... -
Resisting Corruption: Polyhydron Private Ltd
(Senate HallDublin, 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 ... -
Returnee Entrepreneurs: Do They All Boost Emerging Economies?
(Senate HallDublin, 2018)Returnee entrepreneurs are argued to be important contributors to innovation and economic development in emerging economies by transferring advanced knowledge and skills to their home countries. To date the literature has ... -
Review of Empirical Studies on Self-Employment out of Unemployment: Do Self-Employment Policies Make a Positive Impact?
(Senate HallDublin, 2016)The role of self-employment policies as a way out of unemployment has been challenged. Shane (2009) stated that incentives for starting low growth companies should be eliminated as they attract the worst entrepreneurs. ... -
Review of Radical Innovation in Small and Large Firms
(Senate HallDublin, 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 ... -
Schumpeter, Sweezy, the Financial System, and Innovation: Small versus Big Business
(Senate HallDublin, 2020)Joseph Schumpeter's writings on entrepreneurship and innovation have had a profound impact on economic theory and economic thought. Schumpeter initially saw the small entrepreneur as the source of innovation and economic ... -
Schumpeterian Entrepreneurship in Europe Compared to Other Industrialized Regions. (Note: This Paper is an Open Access Free Download)
(Senate HallDublin, 2018)Cross-country comparisons of entrepreneurship are difficult due to the lack of standard empirical definitions of entrepreneurship. Measures focusing on small business activity and self-employment suggest that Europe has ... -
Scientist Entrepreneurship: The Role of Policy
(Senate HallDublin, 2009)This paper identifies the role that scientist entrepreneurship from universities can play in generating innovation and economic growth. An important role for policy to promote scientist entrepreneurship is developed. -
Segmentation of the Population of the Solo Self-employed
(Senate HallDublin, 2019)The solo self-employed, i.e. those entrepreneurs operating without employees, are a very diverse group of individuals: from artisans, shopkeepers, independent contractors, artists, entertainers, to highly-skilled professionals. ... -
Self-Employed Individuals With and Without Employees: Individual, Social and Economic Level Differences
(Senate HallDublin, 2016)This paper focuses on the differences between solo self-employed individuals and self-employed persons that hire employees, in terms of individual, social and economic variables. The study is based on Dyer's (1994) model ... -
Self-Employment and its Relationship to Subjective Well-Being
(Senate HallDublin, 2018)The subjective well-being of self-employed people has not received adequate attention. Our analysis focuses on how individuals' universal needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness affect the happiness of self-employed ... -
Self-enhancement or Self-transcendence? Enriching Baumol's Concept of Productive Entrepreneurship Using the Biblical Narrative
(Senate HallDublin, 2021)Policy makers and entrepreneurs increasingly use storytelling to nurture cultures inside and outside organizations. In this article, we explore how the biblical narrative in which God is characterized by a lasting ... -
Serial Entrepreneurs and Born-Global New Ventures: A Case Study
(Senate HallDublin, 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 ... -
Shareholder's Agreement or Disagreement: A Case Study of Cobalt Telephone Technologies Ltd (Parts I & II)
(Senate HallDublin, 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 ... -
Skill Variety in Entrepreneurship: A Literature Review and Research Directions
(Senate HallDublin, 2018)Lazear's concept of skill variety has been established in entrepreneurship research and is considered an important extension to human capital theory. The literature on skill variety, its determinants and its effects on ... -
Skills Variety and Self-Employment: The Case of Spain
(Senate HallDublin, 2017)This paper analyses empirically the impact on occupational choice of so called balanced skills, as advanced by Lazear (2004). For this purpose we resort to the contextually rich data collected within the REFLEX survey and ...