Browsing International Review of Entrepreneurship: Complete Collection, 2003 – by Title
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A Comparative Overview of Venture Capital in Europe and the United States
(Senate HallDublin, 2003)This paper gives a comparative overview of venture capital in Europe and in the United States. A comparison of aggregated data, which is afflicted with several difficulties, and a comparison of studies using micro data ... -
A Comparative Perspective of the National Innovation Systems in Europe
(Senate HallDublin, 2020)This paper provides empirical evidence on the innovation performance in European countries in the period 2012-2014 based on a micro level analysis. We provide a comparative perspective among three different institutional ... -
A General Framework for Classifying Spin-offs
(Senate HallDublin, 2013)Spin-offs without resources or a strong relational structure to support their activity and those that lack developmental support because they are created outside of high-tech clusters tend to remain small and do not become ... -
A Model of the Entrepreneurial Economy
(Senate HallDublin, 2004)The present paper deals with the distinction between the models of the managed and entrepreneurial economies. It explains why the model of the entrepreneurial economy may be a better frame of reference than the model of ... -
A Review and Analysis of the Thematic Structure of Social Entrepreneurship Research: 1990-2018
(Senate HallDublin, 2019)This article explores the dominant themes in social entrepreneurship (SE) research and whether the themes changed over a 28-year period (1990-2018). A text mining analysis, using Leximancer 4.5 software, of the most ... -
Academic Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Technology Transfer Ventures
(Senate HallDublin, 2009)This paper draws on literature relating to a series of studies at university, spin-out, and individual academic scientist level to examine key issues in the creation and development of academic entrepreneurship. Different ... -
Access to Informal Venture Capital and Ambitious Entrepreneurship - Cross Country Evidence
(Senate HallDublin, 2016)Many empirical studies have emphasized the importance of institutional venture capital for enabling high growth entrepreneurship and innovation. Yet, there are reasons to believe that provision of informal venture capital ... -
Advantages of Hybrid Organising in Social Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Norway
(Senate HallDublin, 2017)Hybrid organising within the context of social entrepreneurship has been on the rise. At the same time, social entrepreneurial ventures that adopt hybrid organising are often criticized. The literature on hybridity points ... -
Against the Odds? A Case Study of Betfair.com
(Senate HallDublin, 2005)Betfair can claim to be Britain's greatest dot com success story. Launched in 2000 its radical innovation was that it enabled people to bet (wager) directly against each other thus cutting out the dominant bookmakers. ... -
Alliance for Social Enterprise: A Framework to Develop Social Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies
(Senate HallDublin, 2013)This research proposes a novel framework, an alliance for social enterprise, as a model for developing social entrepreneurial initiatives in emerging economies. The alliance for social enterprise levrages the alliance ... -
An Appraisal of the SEED University Technology Small Firms Project in Industrial South Wales
(Senate HallDublin, 2004)The main purpose of the investigation is to focus on the specific needs of university-based technology small firms (UTSFs) making a case for UTSFs' particular contribution to the Welsh economy and why their needs are not ... -
An Emotionally Risky Business: A Study of the Artistic Profession in Two Norwegian Arts Organisations
(Senate HallDublin, 2011)The article addresses two issues: what are the main challenges facing an artist in an arts organisation and what are the leadership needs these challenges create? By studying two Norwegian arts organisations: The Norwegian ... -
Are Hybrids the New Normal? A Labour Market Perspective on Hybrid Self-employment
(Senate HallDublin, 2019)In hybrid self-employment people combine a wage job with self-employment. During the last years a growing number of studies and references related to the topic of hybrid self-employment have emerged. This article discusses ... -
Are users the Next Entrepreneurs? A case Study on the Video Game Industry
(Senate HallDublin, 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 ... -
Article Strategic Organizational Development and Growing Pains: Empirical Evidence from Europe
(Senate HallDublin, 2016)Previous work by Flamholtz et. al. empirically assesses the validity of a model of organizational success and failure. However with the exception of one study in China, previous research was only conducted on individual ... -
Backing the Horse or the Jockey? Due Diligence, Agency Costs, Information and the Evaluation of Risk by Business Angel Investors
(Senate HallDublin, 2017)This paper explores the argument that business angel investors are more concerned with managing and minimising agency risk than market risk. Based on data on the due diligence process from a survey of business angels in ... -
Bank Loan Application Success of Innovative and Non-Innovative SMEs
(Senate HallDublin, 2016)The investigation of the determinants of access to finance is relevant because restricted loan accessibility could hinder firm growth. This paper focuses on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and whether their ... -
Bankruptcy Settlement: Causes and Consequences for Entrepreneurs According to Liquidators
(Senate HallDublin, 2014)This study addresses entrepreneurial bankruptcy settlement from an attitudinal perspective by exploring how liquidators perceive their interactions with entrepreneurs during bankruptcy settlement. We explore what personal ... -
Being Able and Willing to Innovate: A Study of Family Firm Identity and New Product Output among Dutch Private Businesses
(Senate HallDublin, 2018)We investigate the influence of family firm identity on new product output and whether this relationship is mediated by the ability and willingness of firms to innovate. Research on innovation in the context of family firms ... -
Beyond Emerson and the "Field of Dreams": Another Look at Innovation and Marketing
(Senate HallDublin, 2007)This note explores a new paradigm for thinking of innovation and innovating behavior, claiming that the Emerson/Field of Dreams paradigm so often used as justification for producing new highly-engineered products is a cause ...