Final Assignment (Term Paper) : Research Focus and Methodologies for Understanding Innovation in Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Course : Qualitative Case Study Research Faculty : Prof. Rajen Gupta, MDI Submitted by : Davinder Singh, EFPM (2011) Research Focus and Methodologies for Understanding Innovation in Small - Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Introduction Innovation is a product, service, or process that is new or perceived as new by its developers and provides increased value to
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Of Strategies, Deliberate and Emergent Author(s): Henry Mintzberg and James A. Waters Source: Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1985), pp. 257-272 Published by: John Wiley & Sons Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2486186 Accessed: 04/09/2009 11:09 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that
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friends, Maricel, Owen, Jellous, Majo, James, Benicer and April for the time they spent together which makes things easier. To his loving mother, Josie and father…….who greatly contributed emotional and financial support, without them, this narrative paper would not
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Introduction This paper aim at analyzing the concept of entrepreneurial leadership .Before starting our analysis, two important concepts need to be addressed: Leadership and Entrepreneurship. Leadership is directing or inspiring people to attain organizational goals (Boone and Kurtz, 2011). An entrepreneur is a person who seeks a profitable opportunity and takes the necessary risks to set up and operate a business (Boone and Kurtz, 2011). In the past 15 years researchers have tried to merge
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a constructivist stance, and is at the service of a research project— that of understanding or forecasting the entrepreneurial act and its success or failure, and defining more accurately the environmental conditions favourable to that act. Here, the scientific object studied in the field of entrepreneurship is the dialogic between individual and new value creation, within an ongoing process and within an environment that has specific characteristics. This definition emphasizes the fact that we will not
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SHIFTS IN ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP Continual Paradigm Shifts in Entrepreneurial Leadership Barbara Gilley Professor Daniel Frost BUS508013VA016-1116-00: Strayer University July 17, 2011 CONTINUAL PARADIGM SHIFTS IN ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP Pg.2 ABSTRACT This paper will focus on Creating a hybrid theory/philosophy which combines the common elements found in the thinking of Case, Kouzes, and Drucker, including the new definition of entrepreneurial leadership
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Erasmus University of Rotterdam Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship The Impact of entrepreneurship education programs on entrepreneurial intentions: An application of the theory of planned behavior Master Thesis Sofia Karali 357726 Supervisor: Pr. Dr. Roy Thurik Erasmus School of Economics Co-reader: Hendrik Halbe MSc Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship Erasmus School of Economics Rotterdam 2013 Abstract Though many researchers have focused on entrepreneurship education, little research
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Scale It: Summary. The Nail It Then Scale It process is a systematic way to add value to, and organize an individual’s experience with innovation and entrepreneurship. The authors have identified the fallacies associated with the traditional entrepreneurship process which leads entrepreneurs down a dangerous path of trusting their assumptions without validating. The Nail It Then Scale It Process challenges this archaic, risky model. Each step of the process dares the innovator to “get out of the building
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Small businesses have a significant role to play in all economies around the world. Research [Schumpeter, 1942] has suggested that small businesses contribute to the economy in two ways: they are an important element of the overall renewal process; and it is one mechanism by which millions of people enter the economic and social mechanism [Robbins et al., 2000:293]. These small business performances are linked to customer needs. Those businesses that adopt this marketing concept are more
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Paper 6: Business Mindset What is your mindset? Do you think like an employee or an entrepreneur? As I was watching the videos for chapter one on business mindset, I started thinking about all the people I know that are business owners vs. those who are employees. How do their mindsets and thinking differ? I started thinking about that and realized that there is a huge difference in the way both groups think. Throughout this paper I will go thru some of the characteristics and examples of both
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