The past thirty years have witnessed the most powerful emergence of entrepreneurial activity in the world. Entrepreneurs are now described as aggressive catalysts for change in the world of business; individuals who recognize opportunities where others see chaos, contradiction, or confusion. They have been compared to Olympic athletes challenging themselves to break new barriers, to longdistance runners dealing with the agony of the miles, to symphony orchestra conductors who balance the
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See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/229781501 Knowledge Based Resources, Entrepreneurial Orientation, and the Performance of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Strategic Management Journal, Jg. 24, S. 1307-1314 ARTICLE in STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL · DECEMBER 2003 Impact Factor: 3.78 · DOI: 10.1002/smj.360 CITATIONS READS 574 4,455 2 AUTHORS: Johan Wiklund Dean A. Shepherd Syracuse University
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IDENTIFYING ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERS IN TODAY’S DYNAMIC MARKETS Ayman Tarabishy, Doctoral Student, The George Washington University 2115 G St. N.W. Suite 403 Washington DC 20052 USA Tel: +1 (202)-468-3133 Fax: +1 202 994-4930 E-mail: Ayman@gwu.edu Lloyd Fernald, University of Central Florida Abstract Organizations regardless of size and industry now exist in the competitive landscape. This landscape is characterized by 1) increasing business risk, 2) decreasing ability to forecast, 3) fluid organizational
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PART I THEORY, SCHOOLS AND PRACTICE 1 Schools of Thought in Strategic Management: Fragmentation, Integration or Synthesis Tom Elfring and Henk W. Volberda Over the last thirty years, strategic management has become established as a legitimate field of research and managerial practice (Shrivastava, 1986: 363). In the evolution of strategy research, a diversity of partly competitive and partly supplementary paradigms have emerged. To provide an unequivocal definition would mean ignoring
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Entrepreneurial Characteristics, Optimism, Pessimism, and Realism – Correlation or Collision? Liang, Chyi-lyi (Kathleen), Department of Community Development and Applied Economics, The University of Vermont, 103 C Morrill Hall, Burlington, Vermont 05405 Phone (802) 6560754, e-mail: CLIANG@uvm.edu Dunn, Paul, Entrepreneurship Studies Center, The University of Louisiana at Monroe, 700 University Avenue, Monroe, Louisiana 71209 Phone (318) 3421224, e-mail: dunn@ulm.edu Publsihed in the Journal
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and Byers Results Expected Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to 1. Discuss the pressures and demands in the marketplace that are driving opportunities for entrepreneurs with an eye toward sustainability. 2. Explain ways that entrepreneurial companies can gain competitive advantage by orienting products and processes that take environmental issues into account. 3. Describe the role that sustainability plays in building dynamic and profitable ventures. 4. Discuss the five facets of
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Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures, 4e (Barringer/Ireland) Chapter 2 Recognizing Opportunities and Generating Ideas 1) BenchPrep, the company profiled in the opening feature for Chapter 2, sells an iPhone app to help students prepare for the GMAT and other exams. The original idea for the company stemmed from the founders' recognition that if people could use their iPhones to study for the GMAT: A) they wouldn't have to carry heavy study books around and they could maximize
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MGMT 422 Unit 5 individual Project Final Consider the following scenario: You have decided that you would like to formally start an entrepreneurial business. To ensure the success of your business, you will produce a business plan. The plan will assess, compare and contrast alternative schools of thought, cultural and political differences which impact the application of management activities within the broad notion of entrepreneurship. The plan that you submit should contain at least the following
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Cantillon was a pioneer of study entrepreneur and entrepreneurship: he distinguished the entrepreneur with board (Cantillon Richard, 1755). Back to entrepreneurship, the earliest historical study to entrepreneurship was a few years latter. Economists thought that there is an activity to combine creates profits in excess of the rate for labors, capital and land. This activity was advanced from the entrepreneur. However,
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war two periods led to competition among geographical areas to provide tax to attract industrial companies. In the 1990s, the old managerial and industrial economy was replaced by the knowledge and entrepreneurial economy. The rise of companies such as apple, Microsoft and Google exemplified entrepreneurial creation of wealth at the end of twentieth century(Phillips, 2011).The second decade of twenty first century begins virtually with all countries in the world implementing actively the promotion of
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