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Coralic, Alen, and Eldar Secic. "The Entrepreneurial Process Revisited : Immigrant entrepreneurship and cultural perceptions." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-16940.
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The purpose of this thesis is to explore how culture influences the perception of entrepreneurship, in the context of immigrant entrepreneurs in a non-core region in Sweden. Our theoretical framework consists of previous research about the entrepreneurial process, and cultural differences on national, local and business level. A conceptualization of the entrepreneurial process is combined with a three-layer theoretical framework of culture. Namely a national, a local and a business culture. The source for this empirical research are Balkan immigrants that came to Sweden during the 1990s because of the Balkan war, and are now entrepreneurs in Karlskrona, Sweden. The research method used in this thesis is interpretivistic with an abductive research approach. The empirical data was gathered through in-depth interviews. The empirical results have helped us understand that the perception of the entrepreneurial process distinguishes itself depending on culture. The main findings in our research imply that the Balkan entrepreneurs in Karlskrona, Sweden, feel that they became entrepreneurs because of non-satisfaction within social conditions. And that the Balkan entrepreneurs have adapted more to the Swedish culture in their way of working as entrepreneurs. They believe that adaption is the key to entrepreneurial success when creating value and developing a firm. However, the Balkan entrepreneurs feel that they are still under influence by the Balkan culture as well. This thesis contributes with an insight on how the entrepreneurial process is influenced by culture.
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Fischer, Manfred M., and Peter Nijkamp. "The Nexus of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2018. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6362/1/2018%2D06%2D17__Fischer_Nijkamp_Entrepreneurship%2DWord3574_1.pdf.
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This chapter offers a review on modern entrepreneurship analysis, against the background of regional development. Regions with an entrepreneurial culture tend to be forerunners in a competitive economic process. After a conceptual discussion on the importance and the measurement of entrepreneurship, the contribution discusses critical success factors and key determinants of entrepreneurship. Next, much focus is laid on the geography of entrepreneurship as well as on industrial agglomeration, while also due attention is paid to the relevance of networks for modern entrepreneurship. The chapter concludes with some retrospective and prospective remarks.Series: Working Papers in Regional Science
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Shilcof, Daniel. "Entrepreneurship in the knowledge based economy : a spatial analysis of Great Britain 2008-2010." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3768.
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Entrepreneurship is increasingly recognised as an important component of the contemporary knowledge based economy and crucial to the attainment of economic growth and development. However, entrepreneurial activity varies significantly across space within countries. This thesis makes an original contribution by examining the determinants of spatial variations in entrepreneurship across sub-regions of Great Britain from 2008-2010. Through utilising newly available data on firm births and applying exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial econometric techniques, two prominent theories of entrepreneurship are examined. First, the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship posits that underutilised knowledge by incumbent firms creates entrepreneurial opportunities. The appropriation of these opportunities through entrepreneurial activity, in the form of a new firm, leads to dynamic knowledge spillovers, which generate economic growth. The empirical analysis presented in this thesis concludes that more knowledge intensive regions exhibit significantly higher firm birth rates; however the composition of the regional knowledge stock is critical, as a diverse knowledge stock generates more entrepreneurial opportunities. Second, several theories emphasise the importance of idiosyncratic knowledge and human capital, in the form of entrepreneurial ability, on the discovery and exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities. The results of this thesis suggest that human capital is vital to the entrepreneurial process, and that university education is a greater source of entrepreneurial ability than labour market experience. Furthermore, the results also suggest that the regulatory burden of the public sector, financial constraints, regional unemployment, and the absence of a local entrepreneurial culture can significantly detract from regional entrepreneurial activity. In light of these results, there are several implications for policy which include: emphasising the importance of effective policy towards intellectual property rights, targeting entrepreneurial education initiatives towards university students and graduates, and reducing unnecessary public sector regulation that can act as a ‘barrier’ to entrepreneurship.
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Ainsworth, Rodney Phillip. "The entrepreneurial playwright : a relational approach to marketing plays in the regions." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/19241/.
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This exegesis examines the proposition that playwriting is an entrepreneurial activity when combined with the role of producer. The thesis demonstrates that, when a playwright combines the two roles and considers the development of a network of relationships in the process, positive steps can be made towards the marketing of a work and the career progression of the playwright. The issues of marketing and career progression are considered in a regional context.
The thesis comprises the creation of a full-length theatrical work through the MA (Research) Program at Queensland University of Technology and an analysis of that journey in the context of regional theatre practice in Queensland. Nicolas Bourriaud’s theory of the Relational Aesthetic is used as a way of charting my practice and of examining how this approach might be appropriate to theatre-making in regional Australia. The paper establishes strategies by which the playwright, when also undertaking the role of producer, might manage the complex set of circumstances and interactions between the work, the community and the industry.
Using practice-led research methodologies, the exegesis examines the process of the creation of a new play, Sinking, and explores, through the use of an autobiographical case study, what the process has meant to the author’s development as a playwright over a fifteen month period. The paper uses a network map to explore the interactions created through a rehearsed reading of the first draft of the play in October 2006 and, in doing so, demonstrates how a close engagement with the community formed the basis of the entrepreneurial strategy.
The exegesis demonstrates that Bourriaud’s work connects very closely with the author’s practice and examines how the approach might be useful for other regional arts practitioners, particularly those in the early stages of their careers. The research aims to identify how the creation of the play, and the subsequent interactions generated within a regional community, can lead to opportunities to create connections both within the author’s place of residence and in broader theatre industry contexts, nationally and internationally, in order to provide commercial and professional outcomes.
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Monsen, Erik Willard. "Employees do matter: Autonomy, teamwork and corporate entrepreneurial culture." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3178339.
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Zhang, Xianguang Peter. "Entrepreneurial culture in transition-period China a rhetorical critique /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3337556.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Communication and Culture, 2008.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 24, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-11, Section: A, page: 4187. Adviser: Robert L. Ivie.
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Brooks, George Benjamin 1955. "The potential for Macrobrachium rosenbergii culture in arid regions." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288876.
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Recent declines in the availability of large marine shrimp reinvigorated the market for the freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii. Simultaneously, pressures to find more lucrative and water efficient crops are increasing in arid regions. The integration of a highly valuable crop such as Macrobrachium with irrigated agriculture could be of benefit to arid land farmers. Using a specific farming region in Arizona as a model of arid land systems, the objectives of my research were to: (1) Determine if the physical conditions for prawn culture occur in Arizona. (2) Investigate the feasibility of inland larvae culture. (3) Raise to maturity and spawn M. rosenbergii. (4) Assess the utility of a new species evaluation protocol. To meet these objectives, I reviewed physical conditions in Central Arizona and compared them to known requirements for culture of M. rosenbergii, developed a model larvae culture method and stocked postlarvae from the larvae culture experiments into ponds where they could grow to maturity and spawn. After spawning, the larvae were collected and the fecundity of the adult females determined. My results suggest M. rosenbergii likely can be cultured seasonally in ponds filled with surface water within the representative region. Constraints to culture include high source water pH, hardness, alkalinity, contaminants and low winter water temperatures. Larvae culture is possible within the representative region. However, successful mass culture will require refinement of techniques used in my study. Constraints to culture include high ambient pH of surface waters, periodic high hardness and alkalinity levels and low winter temperatures. Improved filtration techniques in the incubator and a consistent availability of Artemia for food are also issues of concern. Prawns hatched and grown in Arizona spawned readily, were as fecund as other cultured stocks and produced viable larvae up through stage 2. The protocol I used was appropriate for evaluating a species for aquaculture at a new location. Overall, M. rosenbergii shows potential as a candidate for integration with irrigated agriculture systems within arid farming regions.
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Lee, G. Aubrey. "Institution Building for Sustainability| A Multi-Case Analysis of Entrepreneurial Networks in Distressed Rural Regions." Thesis, University of Maryland University College, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10000686.
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Distressed rural regions exist throughout the United States and the world. Various economic and social interventions have been made by governments, non-profit agencies, and other institutions to provide relief, often with limited results that were not sustainable. The support of entrepreneurs who start businesses that are locally owned and do not engage in business practices that create environmental and social hazards are seen as a central component in the revitalization distressed regions. However, local businesses often lack the resources that are available to large corporations. This study examined three rural organizations and their social networks in distressed regions of Central Appalachia. A series of interviews was conducted to identify the extent that these organizations provide social capital, marketing assistance, and other essential skills and resources otherwise unavailable to small, local businesses started by entrepreneurs. The results of this study show that networks do increase the number of sustainable enterprises and improve the triple bottom line in distressed regions as well as increase the availability of capital in those regions. Future study is recommended to examine alternative financial strategies for non-profit networks, methods to deepen network relationships, and innovative strategies to develop infrastructure that reduces dependency on outside capital and absentee ownership.
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SI, ENZHE. "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE : A NEW VERSION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION." Thesis, KTH, Entreprenörskap och Innovation, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-148951.
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The purpose of this thesis is to present an empirical finding in the area of culture and entrepreneurial intention. The author developed an entrepreneurial culture measure regard to values of proudness and prejudice based on the data from the World Values Survey. Entrepreneurial intention as the dependent variable was draw from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Consortium (GEM) ’s 2006 dataset. The data sample contains 27 countries. The result shows the newly developed culture measure is negatively correlated with entrepreneurial intention, which means countries have high level of prejudice towards certain social groups such as women or immigrants could lead to lower level of entrepreneurial intention. A series of robustness tests were conducted to test the fitness of the model. In general these tests do support the robustness of the finding. However as for the shortage of the small sample size, future research is still needed to confirm this finding.
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Sandell-Gandara, Alejandro. "Entrepreneurial Spirit and Immigrant Self-employment." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2055.
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This paper investigates the effect of entrepreneurial spirit on immigrant entrepreneurship in the United States. Entrepreneurial spirit refers to attitudes and perceptions towards entrepreneurship, or general self-employment. I address the home country self-employment hypothesis and examine the effect of home country self-employment rates on immigrant self-employment outcomes. I find a negative effect of home country self-employment rates on immigrant self-employment rates and thus, reject the home country self-employment hypothesis. I argue that home country self-employment rates over-estimate entrepreneurial spirit because they are largely driven by the world’s poorest people who are less likely emigrate to the U.S. I address this issue by using immigrants’ home country’s Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI) as a measure of immigrant entrepreneurial spirit. I find that the GEI has a positive effect on immigrant self-employment rates, and provide evidence that entrepreneurial spirit has a positive effect on immigrant entrepreneurship in the U.S.
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Dallaire, Géraldine. "Le projet pour aborder le processus entrepreneurial dans le secteur culturel." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019GREAG012.
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La figure de l’entrepreneur culturel est présente depuis que l’art existe. Cependant, certains auteurs comme Ellmeier (2003) expliquent que le passage d’une économie post-industrielle à une économie du savoir a favorisé l’économisation de la culture ainsi que la culturalisation de l’économie. Néanmoins, si l’entrepreneur dans la culture se trouve sous les projecteurs des politiques et des acteurs économiques, les contributions à la production scientifique restent encore modestes. Pourtant, si nous souhaitons favoriser son développement, il importe d’affiner notre connaissance de cet acteur. Aussi, ce projet de thèse souhaite contribuer à combler le fossé entre une surexposition politique, économique, médiatique, et une sous-exposition au sein de la recherche. Plus précisément, il fournit des éléments de repère favorisant la construction d’un écosystème et d’outils d’accompagnement aidant les entrepreneurs à croître avec succès. À cette fin, ce travail cherche à saisir la façon dont leurs acteurs inscrivent les projets entrepreneuriaux dans leurs trajectoires professionnelles. Il s’agit de comprendre ce qui les guide lors de leur prise de décisions et de leurs actions quant à la création ou au développement d’une organisation, ainsi que la façon dont celle-ci s’articule avec leurs projets de vie. Cette thèse donne ainsi des éléments de réponses à la question de recherche suivante : comment le couple acteur/projet évolue-t-il au cours du processus entrepreneurial? En termes méthodologiques, je m’inscris dans les approches narratives, dont l’objet d’étude est le récit de vie (Bertaux, 2005). Cette approche implique d’analyser et de comprendre les situations à partir du vécu des individus (Sanséau, 2005). Le processus entrepreneurial est ainsi abordé au travers de narrations, afin de comprendre les interprétations des participants d’eux-mêmes, du projet entrepreneurial et de leur environnementArt entrepreneurs have always existed. However, some auteurs highlight the recent attention this figure received from politics and economics actors. Ellmeier (2003), by example, explains that the shift from post-industrial to knowledge society promoted the emergence of this figure. However, if art and cultural entrepreneurs interest economics and politics actors, contributions to scientific research are still modest.Nevertheless, if we want to encourage its development, it’s important to refine our knowledge on this figure. This is why, this thesis aims to bridge the gap between an over-exposure in society and an under-exposure in the scientific work. The main purpose is to produce a better understanding of this figure. Which would give us elements contributing to build an ecosystem and create support programs, that would help cultural entrepreneurs to develop their business with success.To this end, this project seeks to capture the way entrepreneurs projects fit into their professional trajectories. More specifically, it is about understanding what guides these actors in their decisions and actions, when they create and develop an organization and how they relate to their life projects. More specifically, I focus on this research question : How does the actor-project couple evolves during the entrepreneurial process?To answer, I use narrative methodology. This approach implies to observe situations from the individuals lives experiences. Namely, entrepreneurial process is viewed through actors representations of themselves, of the entrepreneurial project and of their environment
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Daley, KaRyn Elizabeth. "The Role of Documentary Film in the Emerging Social Entrepreneurial Culture." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5663.
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Considering the current skepticism surrounding the impact and efficacy of nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations, some believe that a unique category of innovator known as the social entrepreneur may be society’s best hope for bringing innovative, scalable, and systemic solutions to bear on the world’s most intractable problems. Social entrepreneurs, as defined by Ashoka, have a unique set of characteristics that determine not only how they move within the world of social change-making but also how they communicate their ideas and mission to the public.
This exploratory study reviewed how social entrepreneurs currently use documentary film and visual media in their communications strategy and public relations practice, what that tells us about the emerging culture of social entrepreneurs, and whether documentary, as defined by John Grierson, is an appropriate tool for these organizations. The author interviewed three founders, three communications professionals, and three filmmakers associated with social entrepreneurial organizations and observed a course for student filmmakers learning to make documentaries for social entrepreneurs. The findings of this study suggested that social entrepreneurs used documentary film as a communications tool when it aligned with their stated missions and goals but that cost, time, and control were significant barriers to implementation. Additionally, social entrepreneurs in all phases of development exhibited a unique set of cultural characteristics that interacted with the intent, content, and effect of their films in both positive and negative ways. The author also noted three distinct levels of filmmaker involvement with social entrepreneurial organizations that impacted the intent, content, and effect of their respective films. These levels of involvement are described as collaborative, independent, and interdependent.
While the author offers some provocative observations about the role of documentary in social entrepreneurial organizations, this study remains exploratory in nature. She suggests several additional avenues of research that may further the scholarly conversation and continue to shed light on documentary film as communication for and by social entrepreneurs.
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Urban, Boris. "Understanding the moderating effect of culture and self-efficacy on entrepreneurial intentions." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08262004-142029.
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Fossas, Enric. "Regions i sector cultural a Europa : estudi comparat : Bèlgica, França, Itàlia. Rfa i Espanya /." Barcelona : Generalitat de Catalunya, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb376102124.
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Mosenogi, Kenetswe Norah. "The cooperative as a model to foster an entrepreneurial culture in South Africa / Mosenogi K.N." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/7349.
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One of the great challenges facing the South African economy is to increase the number and variety of viable and sustainable economic enterprises. We have a history that has brought about many interruptions in the development of enterprises in particular. This has been particularly associated with our racial history and the destruction of wealth in black hands in both the rural and urban areas. It has adverse effects on income distribution, entrepreneurship and employment creation. The recent history of South Africa cannot ignore the role of cooperatives in developing its economic foundation. Cooperatives in the financial, service and agricultural sectors were backbones of the apartheid economy, hence we see the cooperative idea resonates on numerous platforms in the democratic Government as part of its empowerment discourse and addressing the national objective of economic growth, poverty and unemployment reduction. A number of studies have identified that the culture of entrepreneurship is one of the prerequisites for the prosperity and the high rate of economic development registered by most of the developed countries. However in terms of South Africa, the low level of entrepreneurship activity compared to its peers has been identified as one of the key factors responsible for the low rate of economic growth experienced by South Africa over the past 10 years, and cooperatives as model can be a solution to foster entrepreneurial culture and as a result maximise economic growth, reduce poverty and unemployment.Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012.
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Buccieri, Dominic. "International New Venture Performance: Role of International Entrepreneurial Culture, Marketing and Positional Advantage." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1525445562087805.
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Raza-Ullah, Tatbeeq, and Rizwan Mir. "The “Go-Global” Notion of Entrepreneurs from Non-Metropolitan Regions : Evidence from SMEs located in North Region of Sweden." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet (USBE), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-53485.
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Owing to their gigantic participation in global economic growth, the phenomenon of SMEs internationalization has become the centre of attention for numerous researchers. Starting from Uppsala model (1977) to born-global approaches today, scholars have been coming up with several theories and models time to time. An in-depth study of literature concerning SMEs internationalization, however, reveals that extant literature has primarily focused on firms that are operating from metropolitan or core regions of the world. It has largely ignored the vast peripheral and non-metropolitan regions of the world from where a great number of SMEs are operating in foreign markets. Particularly increasing number of small high-tech firms with ‘low to no demand’ in domestic market coupled with higher returns available in global markets are induced to internationalize despite intimidating challenges of periphery. Consequently, internationalization phenomenon from said locations, even in face of daunting challenges that hinder SMEs growth, turns out to be an attention-grabbing area – hence worth-investigating! The purpose of this study is to investigate the phenomenon of internationalization that is being pursued by SMEs located in non-metropolitan regions that offer unique constraints and challenges. More specifically, the objective is to explore the kind of entrepreneurial skills and talent that is required to develop networking relations with key players and to eventually internationalize from a peripheral location. To carry out this research, eight semi-structured interviews were conducted informally with key individuals from five small high-tech international firms located in North region of Sweden – a non-metropolitan region. Based on the findings, a conceptual model is developed which underlines that an entrepreneur in non-metropolitan regions should: possess global mind-set, social and team formation skills, and, industry experience; develop social, business and incessant snowball networks by efficiently utilizing his social skills; understand the peripheral challenges like: lack of financial resources, scarcity of non-tech professionals, being far away from core markets, absence of agglomeration advantage and travelling time and cost; and on the same time exploit the peripheral advantages which include loyal, hardworking, less salaried and easily retained employees, and, easy life and exotic climate that exclusively prevail in non-metropolitan regions. Having possessed skills, developed networks, and exploited the opportunities, the entrepreneur is now able to build a pool of potential and strength which minimizes the effect of constraints that he has already understood . As a result he can successfully pursue internationalization from a non-metropolitan region. We believe that this study has contributed both theoretically and practically and will inspire future empirical or conceptual research regarding this important topic.CiiR(Centre for Interorganizational Innovation Research)
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Dodd, Derek. "Lost in translation? : non-STEM academics in the 'entrepreneurial' university." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/11831.
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This study set out to explore the ways in which non-STEM academics, working within UK universities that had positioned themselves publicly as ‘entrepreneurial’ institutions, interpret and negotiate the related concepts of the entrepreneurial academic and university. The entrepreneurial university concept has become a ubiquitous theme in higher education and policy literatures in recent decades, having been described variously as an ‘idea for its time’ (Shattock, 2010) and the ‘end-point of the evolution of the idea of the university’ (Barnett, 2010, p.i). This research set out to interrogate some of the key ways in which this institutional form, and the corresponding concept of the entrepreneurial academic, have been discursively constructed by advocates in the UK and beyond. Further to this, the study aimed to collect narratives of experience from non-STEM academics employed by self-described ‘entrepreneurial’ universities, both to enquire into how they interpreted the ‘entrepreneurial paradigm’, and to invite them to report on how they felt that their university’s assumption of an enterprise mission had, or had not, influenced its organisational ‘culture’ and their subjectively experienced academic work-lives. The researcher’s interest in the relationship between enterprise discourse and the organisational ‘culture’ of universities stemmed from the apparent consensus within the scholarly and policy literature about the need for universities to develop an integrated ‘entrepreneurial culture’ (Clark, 1998, p.7)(Gibb, 2006b, p.2)(Rae, Gee and Moon, 2009) by pursuing a policy of ‘organisational culture change’, with culture here denoting ‘the realm of ideas, beliefs, and asserted values’ (Kwiek, 2008, p.115) which inhere within institutions. To this end, a series of semi-structured, interpretive interviews were carried out with participants from a range of non-STEM disciplines, working in a variety of university types in the UK. The researcher then employed a discourse-analytic method to delineate some of the ‘discursive repertoires’ that participants used to account for their professional practices, and report on their experiences in - and understandings of - the entrepreneurial university. What emerged from this analysis was a complex picture of ‘enterprise discourse’ within the contemporary university setting, as well as a general tendency amongst participants to adopt a position of ontological scepticism where the issue of ‘university culture’ was concerned. Further to this, it was determined that the ‘inclusive’ interpretation of entrepreneurialism typically employed by advocates for the paradigm had not generally been taken up by participants, for whom it was, for the most part, a phenomenon associated variously with ‘managerialism’, ‘market values’, ‘the business agenda’, ‘income generation’, ‘money making’, and the figure of the ‘individual, lone, romantic, heroic capitalist’. Additionally, where subjects were conversant in broader, more ‘social’ conceptions of academic entrepreneurialism, they typically reported that it was rarely articulated in the internal communications of their respective universities.
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Shapiro, Jane A. (Jane Ann) 1953. "A culture in transition : a case study of Eastern Arctic students' creative work." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61808.
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Suarez-Romero, Armando. "Retractable roof greenhouse: Potential for Solanaceae production in semi-arid regions." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292089.
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Retractable Roof Greenhouses are a new trend in the greenhouse industry. They allow the improvement of many nursery and crop production practices in semi-arid regions. Hydroponically grown peppers and tomatoes were tested to evaluate possible year-round cultivation in this kind of structure that permits high radiation exposure. Control systems based on radiant surfaces temperatures were developed to integrate, cost effectively, the environmental factors that influence the plants' development and yield, including: air temperature, solar radiation and wind speed. Yields of 7.4 kg m⁻² and 33.0 kg m⁻² were obtained respectively for top quality pepper and tomatoes. These yields were similar or slightly lower than conventional greenhouses in the similar price range and design complexity. This makes the retractable roof greenhouse a mediocre structure for pepper and tomato production in southern Arizona. Radiant surface temperature was found to be a useful parameter for the control of the retractable roof greenhouse climate.
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de, Nobrega Mischa. "Characteristics of subsidiary entrepreneurial culture in a post-acquisition environment : the case of Libstar." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97004.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The research set out to prove that subsidiary entrepreneurial culture in a postacquisition environment is different from entrepreneurial culture in an independently owned company. Whereas independently owned companies focus on their own successes and failures, acquired companies are constantly required to take into consideration the parameters and objectives set by headquarters. Little is known about what occurs within the subsidiary post-acquisition, and how managerial structures and processes either stimulate or hinder the entrepreneurial culture, which is an aspect often neglected during the acquisition process. This study aims to address the uncertainty regarding which key characteristics constitute subsidiary entrepreneurial culture in a post-acquisition environment, and aims to expand the currently inadequate body of knowledge on subsidiary entrepreneurial culture. Based on the theoretical frameworks of intrapreneurship, multinational subsidiary entrepreneurship and international entrepreneurship, an interview guide was developed and used as the primary research instrument. Data was collected by means of semistructured interviews and data analysis was conducted using ATLAS.ti. The qualitative, exploratory nature of the study necessitated a case study research design, which was based on a non-probability sample of five subsidiaries competing in the private-label food and beverage industry. Findings suggest that the components of subsidiary entrepreneurial culture in a postacquisition environment are: new businesses and ventures, product innovativeness, process innovativeness, self-renewal, risk-taking, proactiveness, competitive aggressiveness and subsidiary autonomy. Furthermore, entrepreneurial culture is enhanced by a subsidiary-driven locus of control and through headquarters’ support in the form of financial stability, structure and a future-oriented approach for long-term success. A framework of subsidiary entrepreneurial culture was developed with the aim of providing managers with an outline of the relevant determinants that can enhance subsidiary entrepreneurship. Managers should take note that although the locus of control may vary within each subsidiary, granting the subsidiary decision-making autonomy and the autonomy to manipulate its entrepreneurial orientation are key to nurturing the pre-established entrepreneurial culture. Future research agendas could incorporate perspectives from both the subsidiary and the headquarters. Analysis can also be done regarding the extent to which disruptive entrepreneurial culture may be diminished before it impacts negatively on business performance.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie navorsing was om te bewys dat filiaal-entrepreneurskultuur in ’n na-verkrygingsomgewing verskil van entrepreneurskultuur in ’n maatskappy in onafhanklike besit. Terwyl maatskappye in onafhanklike besit op hulle eie suksesse en mislukkings fokus, word daar gedurig van verkrygde maatskappye vereis om die parameters en doelwitte wat deur die hoofkantoor gestel word, in ag te neem. Min is bekend oor wat ná verkryging binne die filiaal plaasvind, en oor hoe bestuurstrukture en -prosesse die entrepreneurskultuur daar óf stimuleer óf verhinder. Dít is ’n aspek wat dikwels tydens die verkrygingsproses verwaarloos word. Hierdie studie is daarop gemik om die onsekerheid aan te spreek oor wat ’n doeltreffende filiaal-entrepreneurskultuur in ’n na-verkrygingsomgewing behels, asook om die ontoereikende bestaande kennis oor filiaal-entrepreneurskultuur uit te brei. Deur gebruik te maak van die teoretiese raamwerke van intrapreneurskap, multinasionale filiaal-entrepreneurskap en internasionale entrepreneurskap is ’n onderhoudsgids ontwikkel en as die primêre navorsingsinstrument gebruik. Die data is met behulp van semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude ingesamel, en die data-ontleding is met ATLAS.ti gedoen. Die kwalitatiewe, verkennende aard van die studie het ’n gevallestudie-navorsingsontwerp genoodsaak, wat gebaseer was op ’n niewaarskynlikheidsteekproef van vyf filiale wat meeding in die voedsel-en-drankbedryf vir privaat handelsmerke. Die bevindinge dui daarop dat die komponente van filiaal-entrepreneurskultuur in ’n na-verkrygingsomgewing die volgende is: nuwe besighede en ondernemings, produkinnovering, proses-innovering, selfvernuwing, risiko’s, proaktiwiteit, mededingende aggressie en filiaal-outonomie. Verder word entrepreneurskultuur versterk deur ’n filiaalgedrewe beheerlokus en deur die hoofkantoor se ondersteuning in die vorm van besigheidstelsels, -strukture en finansiële hulp. ’n Raamwerk vir filiaalentrepreneurskultuur is ontwikkel met die doel om bestuurders van ’n oorsig van die relevante determinante wat filiaal-entrepreneurskultuur kan versterk, te voorsien. Bestuurders behoort daarop te let dat alhoewel die beheerlokus binne elke filiaal mag wissel, die outonomie van ’n filiaal om besluite te neem en om hulle entrepreneursoriëntering te manipuleer van kardinale belang is om ’n voorafgevestigde entrepreneurskultuur te koester. Toekomstige navorsingsagendas sou sowel die filiaal as die hoofkantoor se perspektiewe kon inkorporeer. Daar is ook ruimte vir ’n ontleding van die mate waartoe ontwrigtende entrepreneurskultuur verminder kan word voordat dit die maatskappy se prestasie negatief beïnvloed.
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Olsson, Henric, and Anders Eriksson. "Instilling an entrepreneurial culture in a small growth-oriented firm : An explorative study using a shadowing approach." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-28659.
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Good working conditions have become one of the most important factors in today’s Swedish workplaces. The impact that culture has on companies and their atmosphere is of great importance for overall productivity. Existing research has mainly focused on large established businesses. As a consequence, the work that has been conducted on small entrepreneurial companies is limited. There are studies highlighting the difficulty of transitioning from a small firm to a large entrepreneurial firm. Still, there is a lack of studies investigating this process in depth. Gaining insight into this process is highly relevant for practitioners, policy makers and researchers alike. Therefore, we have chosen to study this field closer. In order to explore this field and to dive deeper within the concept of organizational culture, a shadowing method has been used on a newly started growth oriented company. The company is founded by two opportunity driven leaders who strongly believe in a happy workplace where the focus lies on the individual and where problems are met with a “how hard can it be” attitude. We followed the firm for 8 weeks. During that time we were present full time in their facilities, conducted formal interviews, informal interviews, interacted with employees and the entrepreneurs during lunches and small gatherings. In order to develop an entrepreneurial culture they follow an ideology that is based on a few cornerstones; they strive to have short decision paths, a familial atmosphere, individual focus, strong commitment mixed with a fun factor. When investigating how the culture expresses itself we have found four different forums of particular interest; the office where the decision process takes place, the group meetings where beliefs and values are shared, the individual meetings where feedback is provided and the recruitment process where the cultural marketing takes place. Our conclusion is that these forums work together in a circular motion that expresses – shapes - shares - aligns the organizational culture of this small and young company.
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Mwelase, Mfanufikile Khethabahle. "Critical success factors affecting an entrepreneurial culture within black African communities in South Africa." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/11659.
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South Africa is faced with many mutually reinforcing societal challenges which include, amongst others, a high rate of unemployment, poverty and inequality. The community that is mostly affected by these challenges is the black African community. In order to deal with the challenge of poverty and inequality which causes other societal problems, entrepreneurship and enterprise development becomes the answer. This view is supported by the body of knowledge available on the subject of entrepreneurship and enterprise development. This paper undertakes to understand critical success factors affecting entrepreneurial culture within black African communities in South Africa. In addition, this paper undertakes to investigate the perceived influence of education and training, access to funding, government policies (i.e. regulatory environment), government programmes, commercial and financial infrastructure, physical infrastructure, crime, corruption and social and cultural norms on the success of entrepreneurial culture development within black African communities. Propositions are made and tested through conducting in-depth interviews with individuals involved with the dynamics presented by this subject on a day to day basis. Evidence collected is interpreted into knowledge and finally recommendations are made.
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Kyser, Diana. "THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: COMPANY CULTURE AS A REFLECTION OF FOUNDER PERSONALITY IN ENTREPRENEURIAL ORGANIZATIONS." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/436065.
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Business Administration/EntrepreneurshipPh.D.
This dissertation explores the connection between founder personality and organizational culture in founder-led entrepreneurial companies. With a focus on how founder personality affects culture, it draws from the literature in upper echelon/top management teams, family business and organizational psychology – notably the Attraction-Selection-Attrition (ASA: Schneider, 1987) and Person-Organization fit (P-O: O'Reilly, Chatman, & Caldwell, 1991) theories. Using a combination of ethnographic, psychological and organizational data from the founders and employees of four small firms from multiple industries, and a broader survey study of 336 respondents from 23 firms, it finds support for O’Reilly et al., (2014)’s CEO Personality-Culture link in the small-company setting. It also validates two new findings: 1) that employee personality traits can trump founder personality as an influence on culture, and 2) that founder involvement can moderate the impact of founder personality on culture. The dissertation concludes with plans for further research into the personality-organizational culture effects and thoughts about the applicability of these results for founders and consultants.
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Salimath, Manjula S. "Social institutions and culture as drivers of cross-national entrepreneurial activity application and extensions of Institutional Anomie Theory of Entrepreneurship /." Online access for everyone, 2006. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2006/m%5Fsalimath%5F122605.pdf.
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Castro, MaurÃcio Mendes Boavista de. "Factors for the formation of culture entrepreneurial university student Piauà from business games: experience design challenge sebrae." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2009. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=3827.
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nÃo hÃThe purpose of this work is to observe and gather information, so the research can evaluate the variables and how these variables contribute to the development of the entrepreneurial capacity of the college students from PiauÃ, for that the research used more than a thousand students from twenty-two different colleges. The research sample was formed by two observation groups, one group was considered as successful and the other one as unsuccessful, according to their performance on the DESAFIO SEBRAE, 2008 phases. All the questions and attributes that were analyzed have some connection with the measurement of the degree and impact of the development of the entrepreneurial capacity on college students. In order to get the answers, the researcher used the 5.0 E-view econometric model. The results were showed in tables, graphics and statistical analysis that were built from the essential crossing in order to attend the studyâs goals. This study intend to stimulate a review and re-evaluation of some currently strategies that concerns to public politics about graduating college students that are the future market professional and provide information for new and future research in this area.
O presente trabalho apresenta como finalidade pesquisar, observar, colher informaÃÃes no sentido de avaliar as variÃveis e descobrir de que forma essas variÃveis contribuem para a formaÃÃo da capacidade empreendedora dos estudantes universitÃrios piauienses. Para tanto, foi utilizado um universo de mais de um mil alunos, de vinte e duas instituiÃÃes de ensino superior. A amostra da pesquisa buscou a representatividade, em igualdade de nÃmero, distribuÃdos em dois grupos de observaÃÃo, considerando um como sendo o grupo de sucesso e o outro como o grupo de sucesso, a partir das suas participaÃÃes nas diversas etapas do jogo DESAFIO SEBRAE, versÃo 2008. Todos os quesitos e atributos avaliados estÃo relacionados com a mensuraÃÃo do grau e impacto sobre a capacidade de formaÃÃo da capacidade empreendedora do aluno universitÃrio. Para a obtenÃÃo das respostas pretendidas, foi utilizado o modelo economÃtrico E-views 5.0, que apresentou os resultados em tabelas, grÃficos e avaliaÃÃes estatÃsticas, com os cruzamentos essenciais para o atendimento e desenvolvimento dos objetivos propostos pelo estudo. Com esse estudo, pretende-se possibilitar a revisÃo e reavaliaÃÃo de algumas estratÃgias atualmente implementadas e outras a serem estabelecidas, sobretudo no que concerne Ãs polÃticas pÃblicas voltadas para a formaÃÃo do nosso aluno universitÃrio, futuro profissional de mercado, proporcionando ainda, um novo patamar de novas e futuras pesquisas realizadas por estudiosos da Ãrea.
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Chung, Ka Wai. "Leadership, innovation capability, and SME's product innovation performance :the moderating roles of reward philosophy and entrepreneurial culture." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2019. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/727.
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Innovation is vital to the survival and prosperity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Such firms have the inherent liability of limited resources, which creates a barrier to their pursuit of innovative activities. To compete with larger incumbents and sustain competitive advantages, leaders, the principal decision-makers, play a key role in devising innovation strategies and have overall responsibility for firms' ultimate performance. This study draws on the resource-based view (RBV) and dynamic capabilities perspective (DC) to develop a model linking leadership (resource) to innovation (dynamic capability) and product innovation performance (sustainable competitive advantage). In addition, it suggests that reward philosophy and entrepreneurial culture can enhance or hinder the effect of transformational and transactional leadership on exploratory and exploitative innovation in the context of SMEs. Using a quantitative research method, 151 valid pairs of questionnaires (i.e. 302 respondents) were collected from the top management of small and medium-sized manufacturing firms in China. The empirical findings showed that transformational leadership behaviors could foster both exploratory and exploitative innovations. Transactional leaders, consistent with the literature, could facilitate exploitative activities, but not exploratory innovation. The data analysis also indicated that different types of innovation delivered different benefits to firms. In addition, reward philosophy and entrepreneurial culture had divergent moderating effects on the relationship between leadership style and innovative outcome.
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Alves, Larissa da Silva Ferreira. "Planning culture of tourism in Fortaleza-CE, Natal-RN, Recife-PE and Salvador-BA metropolitan regions." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2013. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=11288.
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nÃo hÃThis study aims to analyze the different planning cultures of tourism metropolitan areas of Fortaleza-CE, Natal-RN, Recife-PE, and Salvador-BA. We started from the hypothesis that, while tourism in these Metropolitan Regions (MRs) have been developed from the same process of structuring the activity in the northeastern territory of Brazil, mainly by structuring programs, as PRODETUR I, believed that there were influential local factors that defined, over time, different orderings of tourism in these MRs. Therefore, the theoretical-conceptual analysis of geographical space was based on the definition of Estaba (1999) on the concept of spatial planning. The methodological procedures were an adaptation of the Knieling; Othengrafen (2009a, 2009b) proposal, which states that, for the understanding of different planning cultures, it is necessary to characterize the "local culture", in the case related to the tourism sector. The working hypothesis was confirmed, as it was found that tourism was inserted in MRs from different ideological conceptions about that, according to actors, political and economic realities and local interests, planned and institutionalized the activity in their respective territories from different perspectives.
O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar as diferentes culturas de ordenamento territorial do turismo das RegiÃes Metropolitanas de Fortaleza-CE, Natal-RN, Recife-PE e Salvador-BA. Partiu-se da hipÃtese de que, embora o turismo nas referidas RegiÃes Metropolitanas (RMs) tenha se desenvolvido a partir de um mesmo processo de estruturaÃÃo da atividade no territÃrio nordestino, principalmente pelo viÃs de programas estruturantes, como o PRODETUR I, acredita-se que existiram fatores intervenientes locais que definiram, ao longo do tempo, ordenamentos diferenciados da atividade turÃstica nas referidas RMs. Para tanto, a anÃlise teÃrico-conceitual de espaÃo geogrÃfico foi embasada na definiÃÃo de Estaba (1999) sobre o conceito de ordenamento territorial. Os procedimentos metodolÃgicos foram uma adaptaÃÃo da proposta de Knieling; Othengrafen (2009a, 2009b), afirmando que, para a compreensÃo das diferentes culturas de ordenamento territorial, faz-se necessÃria a caracterizaÃÃo das âculturas locais de territÃrioâ ou âculturas de territÃrioâ, neste caso Ãquelas relacionadas ao setor turÃstico. A hipÃtese do trabalho confirmou-se na medida em que se verificou que o turismo foi inserido nas RMs a partir de diferentes concepÃÃes ideolÃgicas sobre o setor que, de acordo com atores, realidades polÃtico-econÃmicas e interesses locais, planejaram, institucionalizaram e espacializaram a atividade em seus respectivos territÃrios sob diferentes perspectivas.
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Osowska, Renata. "The meaning and development of entrepreneurial culture and its relationship to start-up behaviour : the case of Poland." Thesis, University of the West of Scotland, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.739950.
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Neff, John E. "Cultural Factors: Entrepreneurial Orientation or Not-Here Comes Innovation in Small to Medium Sized Enterprises." Case Western Reserve University Doctor of Management / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casedm1568628518748942.
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Mahamoud, Rayaleh Abdourahman. "Contribution à l'identification des potentialités entrepreneuriales des femmes entrepreneures : Analyse des antécédents et des facteurs contextuels des créatrices d'entreprise Djiboutienne." Thesis, Littoral, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017DUNK0508.
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L’objectif principal de notre thèse consiste, dans un premier temps, à inventorier et à classer les caractéristiques entrepreneuriales pour pouvoir ensuite typer les enquêtées selon la perception qu’elles ont de leurs potentialités entrepreneuriales. Outre cet objectif central, le présent travail tente d’analyser les facteurs personnels et contextuels susceptibles de contribuer à l’acquisition et au développement des potentialités entrepreneuriales des créatrices d’entreprise en contexte djiboutien et africain. Aussi, nous avons cherché à comparer les typologies entrepreneuriales des entrepreneures et des non entrepreneures. Afin de répondre plus adéquatement aux objectifs de la thèse, nous avons d’abord effectué une synthèse des principaux travaux relatifs aux paradigmes des traits et des faits de l’entrepreneur pour mieux resituer le modèle conceptuel de Gasse (Gasse et D’Amours, 2000). Dans un second temps, le travail de terrain se focalise sur l’exploitation d’une enquête réalisée auprès de 208 entrepreneures et 100 femmes non entrepreneures djiboutiennes. Dans cette enquête, on a utilisé un questionnaire de 125 items hors facteurs d’identification et articulé autour de 17 dimensions réparties entre 5 axes (motivations, aptitudes, attitudes, intérêts et comportements). Le traitement des données s’est appuyé sur les techniques statistiques descriptives (tris à plat et tris croisés) et multidimensionnelles (analyse des corrélations, analyse en composantes principales, la classification hiérarchique et l’analyse discriminante). Cette étude a été enrichie par des entretiens semi-directifs avec 10 femmes entrepreneures. Les analyses confirment que, comparées aux non entrepreneures, les entrepreneures disposent plus des capacités et des compétences entrepreneuriales. De même, nos résultats indiquent que les potentialités entrepreneuriales sont associées essentiellement au niveau d’instruction et à l’expérience antérieure chez les entrepreneures plus jeunes, et à un ensemble de facteurs environnementaux (cercle familial ou amical, croyance divine, contexte culturel) chez les entrepreneures plus âgées. Ainsi, notre étude tend à montrer l’importance de l’appartenance à un entourage familial et/ou amical de tradition entrepreneurial dans le processus de création d’entreprise. Les résultats issus de ces différentes méthodes d’analyse de données consolident le modèle conceptuel initial et ouvrent des perspectives en termes de pédagogie d’accompagnement de l’entrepreneure africaine souvent soumise aux pesanteurs contextuellesThe primary aim of this thesis is to first identify and classify entrepreneurial traits so as to distinguish those surveyed on the basis of the perception they have of their entrepreneurial potentialities. Aside from this primary aim, the following work seeks to analyse personal and contextual factors likely to contribute to the acquisition and development of entrepreneurial traits of women entrepreneurs both within Djibouti and Africa at large. We have tried to compare entrepreneurial typologies of those who are entrepreneurs and those who are not. In view of achieving adequately the aims of this thesis, we first establish a synthesis of the main works regarding the paradigms of traits and facts of the entrepreneur so as to better reproduce Gasse’s conceptual model. In the second part of the work, the field work is focused on the exploitation of the findings of a survey conducted among 208 female entrepreneurs and 10 others who were not entrepreneurs. In this survey, a questionnaire, of 125 items excluding identifying factors and based on 17 dimensions distributed among 5 axes (motivations, aptitudes, attitudes, interests and behaviors), was used. Data processing is conducted according to the descriptive statistics techniques (basic sorting and cross sorting) and multi-dimensional ones (correlation analysis, principal component analysis, hierarchal classification, discriminative analysis). The study was strengthened by semi-structured interviews conducted among 10 female entrepreneurs. The results of the analysis confirmed that, unlike non-entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs have more capabilities and entrepreneurial skills. Moreover, results also indicate that entrepreneurial potentialities are mainly linked to the level of education and prior experience among young entrepreneurs and to a host of environmental factors (family circle, circle of friends, religious beliefs, and cultural context) as far as older entrepreneurs are concerned. Therefore, our study tends to show the importance of belonging to a family environment or having a circle of friends with a long-standing entrepreneurial tradition in the process of business creation. The results of these various methods of data processing reinforces the initial conceptual model and open perspectives on ways of assisting Africa’s women entrepreneurship often subjected to contextual burdens
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Thorwid, Hanna, and Niklas Vinge. "Organizational culture and its implications on post-acquisition integration : A case study of a merger between two entrepreneurial firms." Thesis, KTH, Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-276843.
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Abstract Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is an important economic phenomenon, utilized by companies to expand their market share and achieve rapid growth. However, studies imply that a majority of M&As fail to deliver anticipated value, which has led to a vast amount of research investigating why. Failing to integrate the cultures of the merging firms has been identified as a common cause to unsuccessful deals. Achieving scalability, namely adding revenue exponentially while only increasing costs incrementally, places high demands on an organization, including the culture. Achieving scale is a commonly sought synergy effect of horizontal merger integrations. There is however a lack of research-based advice on how to overcome cultural challenges when pursuing cross-border merger integrations, with the objective to scale. This study was conducted with a Swedish SaaS firm as the commissioning body. The firm was, at the time of the initiation of this thesis project, about to commence the post-acquisition integration with an acquired German competitor, which invited to an interesting research setting. While organizational culture is an area covered by vast research, the combination of scalability and M&A integration is not. This thesis aims to explore the intersection between M&A integration, business scalability and organizational culture. Using a mixed methods approach by combining semi-structured interviews and surveys, the Competing Values Framework (CVF) was applied to diagnose the two firms’ corporate cultures. Additional data was gathered from external subject-matter experts in the field of M&A to increase reliability and validity of the results. The results showed discrepancies between the organizational cultures of the studied companies, as well as between management and employees. What also became evident was the employees’ different opinions of the ongoing merger, with acquired firm being noticeably more negative towards it. One key finding from the study was the importance of employee buy-in when integrating two companies, both to keep momentum and to avoid employee churn. When integrating two cultures, different motivational approaches might be needed to achieve commitment from different culture types. The study further showed positive signs towards the CVF being fruitfully applied on an ongoing integration, making it a possible management tool to assess and approach cultural discrepancies in an efficient and timely manner.Expansion genom fusioner och förvärv (eng. Mergers and Acquisitions, M&A) är ett vanligt förekommande komplement till organisk tillväxt. Förvärvsprocesser leder till omedelbar tillväxt, varför M&A blivit en naturlig del i många bolags tillväxt- och expansionsstrategi. Många bolagsfusioner misslyckas dock med att uppnå förväntad värdeökning, vilket har lett till ett starkt intresse för att utreda varför så många fusioner misslyckas. En vanlig orsak till varför förväntade synergier inte lyckas realiseras är kulturella skillnader mellan parterna. En bolagssammanslagning innebär även en sammanslagning av kulturer, och en lyckad integrering av företagskulturerna har visat sig kritiskt för att fusionen ska ta hem uppsatta mål. Företagskultur och dess påverkan på fusionsprocessen är därför ett väl utforskat område. Skalbarhet, en exponentiell ökning av intäkter men endast en inkrementell ökning av kostnader, är en ofta sökt synergieffekt till M&A-processer, då bolagens värde och värdegenererandekapacitet anses öka efter en sammanslagning än var för sig. Det verkar dock saknas riktlinjer grundade i forskning om hur bolag ska övervinna kulturella utmaningar under fusionsprocessen, när målet är att nå skalbarhet. Denna uppsats syftar till att utforska skärningspunkten mellan fusionsprocessen, skalbarhet och företagskultur. Studien är på en fallstudie av två entreprenöriella, mindre bolag under en pågående internationell fusionsprocess. Ramverket Competing Values Framework (CVF) applicerades som ett medel för att identifiera likheter och diskrepanser mellan bolagen. En kombination av forskningsmetoder användes; semistrukturerade intervjuer och enkäter i enighet med CVF, intervjuer med experter inom M&A samt workshops och observationer på plats hos köpande bolag under integrationsprocessen. Resultaten visar på stora kulturella skillnader företagen sinsemellan, och en viss diskrepans mellan de anställda och ledningsgruppens uppfattning om kulturen. Det visade sig också att de anställda hade väldigt olika uppfattning om den pågående bolagsintegrationen, där anställda från det ena företaget var märkbart mer negativt inställda. En viktig slutsats är att företagsledare måste ta sig an rollen som kulturbärare under förändringsprocessen och att företagskulturen måste gå i linje med såväl strategi som extern miljö för att främja framgång. Vidare visar resultaten på vikten av att anpassa kommunikation och budskap efter rådande kultur och att det påverkar de anställdas villighet att stödja förändring. Studien presenterar förslag på hur företagsledare, ledningsgrupper, styrelser och investerare bör adressera kulturella aspekter i en pågående bolagssammanslagning när skalbarhet också ska beaktas. Dessutom kunde troliga bevis presenteras på att ramverket CVF kan appliceras som verktyg för att adressera kultur under en pågående bolagsintegration.
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Tasheva, Marina, and Patchara Thaisrivichai. "Organizational innovation processes and network relationships development -." Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-877.
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Date: 06/10/2008
Level: Master Thesis in International Business and Entrepreneurship
Title: Organizational innovation processes and network relationship development-“The case study of Athera Biotechnologies and AstraZeneca R&D”
Authors: Marina Tasheva and Patchara Thaisrivichai
Advisor: Bengt Olsson
Research Problem: It has been known that developing a novel drug in pharmaceutical companies is a complex and expensive process. A company within these industries is forced to increase its innovativeness in order to compete with others. In this case study we will examine Athera Biotechnologies AB and AstraZeneca R&D respectively and how both companies promote, develop, sustain and enhance organizational innovation. At the same time we will also examine what is the two companies’ business strategy when it comes to networks relationship development.
Aim of thesis: The main purpose of our thesis is to compare two Swedish pharmaceutical companies and to see what are the differences and similarities in the way they foster organizational innovation processes.
Method: The method used for analyzing the collected data and information in our research is qualitative. We decided to use this method to examine the two companies’ organizational innovation processes and networks development. Further on we have collected both primary and secondary data. Primary data was collected through two semi-structured interviews with open questions. Secondary data was gathered from companies’ official web sites, annual reports and different publications and articles.
Conclusion: Our findings indicate that organizational innovation is crucial for pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies to sustain their competitive advantage in the rapid changing environment within this industry. Further more, entrepreneurial culture, corporate culture and networks and partnerships are the main factors that help AstraZeneca R&D and Athera to develop, maintain and enhance their organizational innovation. This in turn leads to the ability of the firms to successfully propose, adopt, develop and implement any new idea in relation to certain product or process.
Key words: Organizational Innovation, Entrepreneurial Culture, Corporate Culture, Networks and Partnership, Entrepreneurship
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Tesse, Ernest. "Culture entrepreneuriale, performance socio-économique et modélisation empirique des comportements socioculturels sur les intentions d’entreprendre en Haïti." Thesis, Antilles, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018ANTI0263/document.
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L’entrepreneuriat a été très longtemps reposé sur les seuls facteurs économiques, comme la recherche et le développement (R&D), les innovations, les infrastructures adéquates, les nouvelles technologies appliquées, un système bancaire efficace, etc. Pourtant, d’autres facteurs s’avèrent encore plus importants lorsqu’il s’agit surtout de chercher à comprendre les dimensions qui sont intrinsèquement pertinentes dans les prises de décisions entrepreneuriales. Parmi ces facteurs, la culture occupe une place centrale qu’on ne peut en aucun cas occulter. En effet, grâce à certains traits culturels qui caractérisent positivement le comportement de leurs peuples, beaucoup de pays ont vu développer leurs économies. Alors que d’autres traits culturels, au lieu d’être prometteurs, constituent plutôt des handicaps au développement économique des pays dits sous-développés. Ceux qui ont une culture négro-africaine semblent les plus touchés. Haïti est l’un des pays de l’hémisphère occidental, plus précisément du bassin caribéen, qui semblent aussi faire partie de cette catégorie, par l’intermédiaire de certains traits culturels négro-africains qui lui sont légués en héritage pendant toute la période coloniale. Tout ceci a été antérieurement prouvé par un ensemble de travaux de recherche théoriques et empiriques. Cependant, dans le but d’apporter quelques éclairages nécessaires aux résultats de ces travaux et surtout d’approfondir notre champ de recherche sous les prismes de la performance globale et du développement socio-économique durable d’Haïti, cette présente thèse se donne plutôt pour objectif principal de tenter de modéliser empiriquement les comportements socioculturels de l’entrepreneuriat haïtien. Dans ce sens, elle cherche à construire un modèle conceptuel théorique de référence qui peut nous permettre de vérifier statistiquement et économétriquement l’influence de certains facteurs socioculturels sur les intentions des actifs entrepreneurs et non-entrepreneurs haïtiens de créer à court terme une entreprise ou de se lancer sur le moyen terme ou sur le long terme dans un projet à caractère entrepreneurial dans leur propre département de naissanceDuring a very long time Entrepreneurship was based solely on economic factors such as research and development (R&D), innovations, appropriate infrastructures, new applied technologies, an efficient banking system, and so on. Yet other factors are even more important when it comes to understanding the dimensions which are intrinsically relevant to entrepreneurial decision-making. And among them culture occupies a central place which cannot be overshadowed. Indeed, while some populations’cultural traits positively characterize their behavior and thus would play a role in their countries’ economic development, other cultural traits, instead of being promising, rather consist in handicaps to the economic growth of so-called underdeveloped countries. In this category, those with Black African culture seem to be the most affected. Haiti is one of the countries of the Western Hemisphere, more precisely of the Caribbean basin, which seem to be part of this category, from the black-African cultural traits which are bequeathed to it during the whole colonial period. All this was previously proved by a set of theoretical and empirical research works. However, in order to bring some necessary insights to the results of this work and especially to broaden our field of research in terms of performance and sustainable socio-economic development of Haiti, this thesis aims rather to try to empirically model the sociocutural behaviors of Haitian entrepreneuriat. In this sense, she’s looking to build an theorical reference model which can enable us to statistically and econometrically verify the influence of sociocultural behaviors on he intentions of entrepreneurial and non-entrepreneurial Haitian assets to create a company in the short term or to embark on a medium-term or long-term project in an entrepreneurial project in their own birth region
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Brownson, Christable Divine. "The impact of government entrepreneurship promotion policy measures in fostering entrepreneurial culture in Akwa Ibom State Nigeria from 2004 to 2009." Thesis, University of Essex, 2011. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.548584.
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Oncu, Feier Monica Elena. "How culture and education influence students’ entrepreneurial intentions : -A qualitative study between students from Babes-Bolyai University, Romania and Umeå University, Sweden, enrolled in Business programs-." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-37108.
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Entrepreneurship has become a much discussed subject in the past years when the business world together with universities discovered that one of the factors that will help the national economy, level of innovation are the entrepreneurs. And even though there are different attitudes towards whether entrepreneurs are born or made, everyone agreed that the role of academic education is important in the creation of new entrepreneurs and developing them. Now the question is whether the universities in the way that they are conducting studies are able to offer the appropriate environment for an entrepreneur to develop or national culture has a more powerful impact on the young graduates’ entrepreneurial initiatives. The study attempts to understand how culture and education influence students to go towards an entrepreneurial career rather than preferring the security of a job. A qualitative research was conducted with groups of students from two different countries in order to better see the effects culture has, as it is an abstract concept. First, a literature review was conducted in order to clarify different concepts and to create the basis for the analysis and interpretation. Next, gathering the data- focus groups and interviews conducted with students- was an important step in being able to understand how culture and entrepreneurial education interact to each other. Afterwards, the analysis was made and the data gathered was examined through the theory previously chosen. The results lead to a framework, developed by the author, which explains the relationships between entrepreneurial education, culture and new venture creation- entrepreneurial intentions. Further research and recommendations were added at the end of the study to guide the future studies.
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Rouatbi, Amina. "Entrepreneuriat féminin et performance : essai de comparaison France - Tunisie." Thesis, Reims, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018REIME001.
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Le rôle de l’entrepreneuriat en tant que levier pour les économies a été beaucoup mis en évidence et depuis longtemps (cf. Schumpeter). Dans ce sens, selon l’OCDE (2016) « L’entrepreneuriat est une source importante de création d’emplois et d’innovation ». De plus, « l’entrepreneuriat est considéré comme un moteur essentiel de la reprise économique et de la croissance de l’emploi » (OCDE, 2012Toutefois, l’aspect « économique » de l’entrepreneuriat semble moins évident pour les cas des femmes entrepreneures. En effet, en 2013, les femmes qui travaillaient à leur compte gagnaient entre 13 % et 60 % de moins que les hommes dans la zone OCDE (OCDE, 2016). Ce constat concernant l’écart en matière de performance économique et de caractéristiques des entreprises créées et gérées par des entrepreneures femmes rejoint les résultats de recherches académiques qui ont noté que celles-ci créent des entreprises de très petites tailles et à faible croissance.Dans le cadre de cette thèse nous optons pour une recherche focalisée exclusivement sur les femmes. Nous mettons ainsi l’accent sur la notion de la performance des entreprises telle qu'elle est vue et définie par ces femmes entrepreneures.L’objectif de ce travail de recherche est de mettre en évidence une définition de la performance donnée par les femmes entrepreneures. Répondre à cette problématique permettrait de contribuer à la littérature en apportant de nouvelles connaissances sur la performance et sur les femmes entrepreneures. En effet, le phénomène dit de « sous-performance » est remis en question, et la performance des entreprises est vue sous un autre angle. En suite, sur un plan plus pratique, comprendre certains phénomènes et comportements permet de mettre en place les dispositifs nécessaires pour mieux les orienter et surtout les encouragerThe role of entrepreneurship has been highlighted as leverage for many economies (see Schumpeter). In this sense, according to the OECD (2016) "Entrepreneurship is an important source of job creation and innovation". In addition, "entrepreneurship is seen as a key driver of economic recovery and employment growth" (OECD, 2012)However, the "economic" aspect of entrepreneurship seems to be less obvious for the case of women entrepreneurs. In 2013, self-employed women earned between 13% and 60% less than men in the OECD area (OECD, 2016). This finding concerning the gap in economic performance and the characteristics of firms created and managed by women entrepreners is consistent with academic research results. Reserchers concluded that women entrepreneurs create smaller and with lower-growth rate firms.In this thesis we opt for a research focused exclusively on women. Thus we emphasize the notion of corporate performance as seen and defined by those women entrepreneurs.The purpose of this research is to highlight a definition of performance given by women entrepreneurs. We aim to contribute to the literature by bringing new knowledge on performance and on women entrepreneurs. Indeed, the phenomenon called "underperformance" is questioned, and the performance of small firms is seen from another angle. Then, on a practical level, politics need to understand certain phenomena and behaviors. That would help them to put in place the necessary devices to better guide women enrepreneurs and especially to encourage them
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Arz, Christopher [Verfasser], and Andreas [Akademischer Betreuer] Kuckertz. "A software for corporate entrepreneurship? The role of organizational culture for stimulating entrepreneurial orientation in family firms / Christopher Arz ; Betreuer: Andreas Kuckertz." Hohenheim : Kommunikations-, Informations- und Medienzentrum der Universität Hohenheim, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1197125582/34.
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Sousa, António Nogueira de. "Caracterização do perfil dos empreendedores no contexto dos valores da cultura organizacional das micro e pequenas empresas da zona amazónica no Brasil." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/22384.
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O objetivo desta dissertação é caraterizar o perfil dos empreendedores no contexto dos valores da cultura organizacional das micro e pequenas empresas da zona Amazónica no Brasil. A metodologia utilizada baseou-se na realização de uma sondagem com recurso a um questionário aplicado a uma amostra de 370 micro e pequenos empreendedores de Macapá, capital do Estado do Amapá. Dadas as dificuldades no acesso cognitivo aos dados desta amostra, esta teve de ser definida por conveniência. Os resultados evidenciaram atitudes positivas em relação ao empreendedorismo, dificuldades a superar e também a necessidade de reforçar as capacidades e as possibilidades dos empreendedores através de aprendizagem, formação e apoios. Este estudo pretende contribuir com informação útil que possa conduzir à implementação bem-sucedida de políticas dirigidas ao desenvolvimento das micro e pequenas empresas da zona Amazónica no Brasil; ABSTRACT: The aim of this dissertation is to characterize the entrepreneurs’ profile of micro and small enterprises in Brazilian Amazonia within the context of organizational culture and values. The methodology adopted was based on a survey and the instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire applied to a sample of 370 micro and small entrepreneurs from Macapá, capital of the State of Amapá. A convenience sampling was used due to difficulties in cognitive access to the data from this sample. The results showed positive attitudes towards entrepreneurship, difficulties to overcome and also the need to reinforce entrepreneurs’ knowledge, capabilities and possibilities by means of learning, training and financial support. This dissertation hopes to contribute with effective information for the successful implementation of policies driven to the development of the micro and small firms in Brazilian Amazonia.
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Kim, Jung Hoon. "The Effect of Institutional Dimensions and Cultural Dimensions on the Level of Entrepreneurial Activity Across Countries." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3820.
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Entrepreneurship research is becoming more critical to policymakers and scholars around the world. However, few scholars have explored the effect of national culture or institutions on the entrepreneurial activity using cross-national data. Furthermore, most previous scholars have been limited to formal institutions as a theoretical structure to explore the entrepreneurial activity across countries. It is crucial to include formal, informal institutions and culture to better understand about how much or why entrepreneurial activity differs across countries.
To fill this gap, this study investigates how national culture and institutions impact the level of entrepreneurial activity across 30 countries using cross-national dataset from the World Bank Dataset, the GEM report, and Hofstede’s cultural dimensions during the 5-year period from 2009 to 2013. Moreover, this study used two distinct measures of the level of entrepreneurial activity as dependent variables (i.e., the rate of new start-up companies and Total Entrepreneurial Activity).
The results showed that individualism, uncertainty avoidance, power distance, and long-term orientation are essential for explaining the level of entrepreneurial activity across countries. However, the results indicated that only one of the regulative dimensions (i.e., the number of start-up procedures) was significantly related to the level of entrepreneurial activity. Therefore, the finding of this study concludes that national culture may play more important roles than institutions regarding the level of entrepreneurial activity across countries.
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Siomy, Mory. "Développement des compétences des leaders en promotion de la culture entrepreneuriale et de l'entrepreneurship : le cas du Rendez-vous entrepreneurial de la Francophonie." Thesis, Université Laval, 2008. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2008/25186/25186.pdf.
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Elzeiny, Hanane. "The Influence of Culture on the Relationship between the Entrepreneurial Orientation and the Potential of Franchising in Emerging Countries : the Case of Egypt." Rennes 1, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009REN1G008.
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Malgré l'augmentation fantastique dans notre connaissance de la franchise, seulement une quantité relativement limitée de recherche a été dirigée sur le sujet hors des Etat-unis et de l'Europe. Le lieu où se déroule notre recherche rapportée ici, l'Egpte, compte orienter certaines caractéristiques des propriétaires de PME vers le contexte de la franchise. Cette étude vise à trouver des réponses à plusieurs questions ; quel est le potentiel d'adoption du concept de la franchise comme moyen de croissance dans les pays émergents ? Y a-t-il une relation entre l'orientation entrepreneuriale des propriétaires d'entreprises et leur potentiel de franchisage ? Les éléments de culture jouent-ils un rôle significatif pour modérer la relation entre l'orientation entrepreneuriale et le potentiel de franchisage ? Y a-t-il des différences significatives entre les fondateurs d'entreprises et les non-fondateurs en ce qui concerne leur potentiel de franchisage et leur orientation entrepreneuriale ? Pour obtenir des réponses aux problèmes de recherche, un modèle reliant les variables principales de la recherche (le potentiel de franchisage, l'orientation entrepreneuriale et la culture) a été développé. Fondé sur la littérature, les hypothèses sont développées et testées. Les résultats montrent que l'individualisme modère négativement la relation entre le potentiel de franchisage et l'orientation entrepreneuriale, ainsi que l'existence de différences significatives entre les fondateurs d'entreprises et les non-fondateursWhile there has been tremendous increase in our knowledge of franchising, only a relatively limited amount of research has been conducted on the subject outside the USA and Europe. The location of the research reported here in Egypt is expected to give rise to certain characteristics and orientations of SMEs business owners that are specific to the context of franchising. This study has tried to answer to several questions : what is the potential of adopting the franchising concept as a means of growing used by business owners in emerging countries ? Is there a relationship between the business owners entrepreneurial orientation and their potential to franchise ? Do the elements of culture play a significant role in moderating the relationship between the entrepreneurial orientation and the potential of franchising ? Are there significant differences between the business founders and the non-business founders in respect to their potential to franchise and entrepreneurial orientation ? In order to get answers, a model linking the main variables of the research (franchising potential, entrepreneurial orientation and culture) is developed. Hypothesis are developed and tested. The results showed that individualism moderates negatively the relationship between the entrepreneurial orientation and the franchising potential, and that significant differences exist between the business founders and the non-business founders
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Siomy, Mory. "Développement des compétences des leaders en promotion de la culture entrepreneuriale et de l'entrepreneurship : le cas du Rendez-vous entrepreneurial de la francophonie." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/19831.
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Cherchem, Naïma. "Contribution à la compréhension de l’effet de la culture d’entreprise et du profil psychologique du dirigeant sur l’orientation entrepreneuriale des PME françaises." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LYO30086.
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Notre projet de thèse de doctorat a pour objet de présenter une meilleure compréhension du rôle de la culture d’entreprise et du profil psychologique du dirigeant dans l’orientation entrepreneuriale (OE) des PME françaises. La nature de la problématique de recherche reste original dans la littérature francophone. En effet, les travaux de recherches sur l’OE ont eu tendance à se concentrer essentiellement dans la littérature anglo-saxonne. Les principaux intérêts de notre thèse tiennent : 1) à faire ressortir des actions spécifiques qui permettraient de développer une culture favorable à l’entrepreneuriat ; 2) de susciter la vocation des dirigeants dans leur démarche entrepreneuriale ; 3) de mieux percevoir les déterminants de la performance économique et financière des entreprises entrepreneuriales ;4) de spécifier les caractéristiques des PME françaises à travers l’approche des configurations.Pour répondre à ces objectifs, nous avons construit une question principale spécifique : Dans quelle mesure la culture d’entreprise et le profil psychologique du dirigeant affectent-ils l’orientation entrepreneuriale des PME françaises et leur performance ? Pour réaliser cette recherche, nous avons opté pour une étude empirique quantitative à travers un questionnaire administré auprès des dirigeants de PME de deux chambres de commerce : la Chambre Régionale de Commerce et d’Industrie du Nord- Pas- de Calais et la Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie du Beaujolais. Nous avons pu recueillir 123 réponses complètes. Pour réaliser les traitements d’analyse, nous avons utilisé l’approche des régressions linéaires avec le logiciel STATA.11 pour tester la nature des relations entre les variables clés de notre étude. Dans une deuxième partie d’analyse, nous avons utilisé l’approche des configurations avec la méthode des composantes ascendantes hiérarchiques. Concernant la première hypothèse, les résultats de l’étude empirique quantitative montrent que la culture entrepreneuriale et la culture de groupe sont associées à la capacité d’innovation, de proactivité et de prise de risque de l’entreprise. Inversement, la culture hiérarchique est associée négativement à cette triple capacité. La deuxième hypothèse concernant le profil psychologique du dirigeant donne des résultats plutôt inattendus, quant à l’effet du champ de contrôle externe du dirigeant sur l’OE. Les dirigeants qui ont un champ de contrôle externe semblent contribuer positivement au processus de l’OE. Nous avons pu montrer également que ces dirigeants conduisent leurs entreprises à réaliser de meilleures performances. Le besoin d’accomplissement du dirigeant est également lié à l’orientation de l’entreprise vers les activités entrepreneuriales. Quant à la troisième hypothèse, nous avons pu montrer dans notre recherche que les activités entrepreneuriales de l’entreprise contribuent à l’amélioration de ses performances économiques et financières. Dans un deuxième volet de cette étude, nous avons testé notre modèle conceptuel avec l’approche des configurations. Notre objectif était de proposer une classification d’entreprises selon le degré d’intensité de l’OE. L’analyse des composantes ascendantes hiérarchiques, nous a permis de faire apparaître trois formes de configuration d’entreprises : 1) entreprises entrepreneuriales, 2) entreprises traditionnelles et 3) entreprises émergentesOur proposed PhD thesis aims to provide a better understanding of the role of corporate culture and the psychological profile of the leader in Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) of French SMEs. The nature of the research remains in the original french literature. Indeed, the research work on the EO have tended to focus mainly in the Anglo-Saxon literature.The main interest of our thesis are:1) to highlight specific actions that would develop a culture conducive to entrepreneurship;2) to encourage the vocation of the leaders in their entrepreneurial approach ;3) to gain insight into the determinants of economic and financial performance of entrepreneurial firms;4) to specify the characteristics of french SMEs through the approach of configurations.To meet these goals, we built a specific key question: How corporate culture and psychological profile of the leader affect the entrepreneurial orientation of french SMEs and their performance?To conduct this research, we opted for a quantitative empirical study through a questionnaire administered to managers of SMEs of Chambre Régionale de Commerce et d’Industrie of Nord-Pas-de Calais and Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie of Beaujolais. We have collected 123 complete responses. To achieve the treatment analysis, we used the approach of linear regression with the software STATA.11 to test the nature of the relationship between key variables in our study. In the second part of analysis, we used the approach of the configurations with hierarchical ascendant components method, in order to specify the caracteristics of french SMEs.Regarding the first hypothesis, the results of the quantitative empirical study shows that entrepreneurial culture and the group culture are associated with innovation, proactive and risk-taking activities. Conversely, the hierarchical culture is negatively associated with the entrepreneurial activities. The second hypothesis about the psychological profile, the leaders who have a locus of external control appear to contribute positively to the process of OE. We have shown that these leaders lead their firms to achieve better performance. The need for achievement of the leader is also related to the orientation of the firms to entrepreneurial activities.Regarding the third hypothesis, we have shown that the entrepreneurial activities of the SMEs contribute to the improvement of its economic and financial performance.In the second part of this study, we tested our conceptual model with the approach of configurations. Our objective is to propose a taxonomy of SMEs according to the intensity of the EO. The analysis of hierarchical ascendant components have shown three types of SMEs: 1) entrepreneurial SMEs, 2) conservative SMEs and 3) emerging SMEs
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Borgefors, Simon, and Mehdi Lahlou. "How Founding Teams and External Investors Drive Success : Entrepreneurial Guidance for Swedish Technology Startups and Their Investors." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-209225.
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Human capital assessment is an integral part of the in-depth evaluation conducted by Venture Capitalists (VCs) before an investment decision. Furthermore, an effective collaboration between external investors and the founding team can be vital for the success of a startup venture. This thesis aims to improve this assessment and collaboration by providing an empirical account of historically successful Swedish tech startups and their founding teams (FT). We employ semi-structured interviews with 13 entrepreneurs who in total have founded over 50 ventures in order to deduce patterns to the characteristics, compositions and views of successful founding management teams. We compile and discuss their views concerning aspects such as organizational culture, team performance and their relationships with external financiers. The focus of this thesis was in part guided by our commissioner, Almi Invest. Based on our interviews and literature review, we present several findings which may be of interest to both investors and entrepreneurs. Some of our key findings are that successful Swedish tech startups are generally composed of diverse teams where the founders share some previous association and complement each other with regards to both competencies and personalities. They view culture and vision as important aspects, with values acting as the uniting factor that drives cohesion and performance. We also find that their views are largely influenced by previous experiences. Finally, we highlight some perceived inefficiencies in the collaboration between investors and entrepreneurs, mainly with regards to post-investment activities and the process of raising capital. Our findings suggest a lack of transparency between entrepreneurs and financiers regarding the investor activity levels, where entrepreneurs generally feel that VCs fall short on their promises. We suggest some areas of improvement where VCs might tune their practices to better suit the needs of their portfolio companies and improve overall performance.
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Visser, Arold, and Daniella Lu. "Incumbent leaders and their effect on the successor generation in family business SME's." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-44018.
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Thaller, Mark. "Corruption, Culture, Context & Killing: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Effects of Corruption upon Lethality and Feelings of Insecurity in Regions of Extreme Conflict." Diss., NSUWorks, 2017. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/77.
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Like an elephant, while it may be difficult to describe, corruption is generally not difficult to recognize when observed (Tanzi, 1998, p. 564). Many countries have been, or are currently typified by both lethal conflict and massive corruption. Historically, post-conflict development programs have imposed policies of zero corruption, yet they routinely fail. Initial research into “corruption” also identified significant ambiguities and self-contradiction with the definition of corruption, itself. This study used an Existential Phenomenological methodology with 8 participants from Iraq, Afghanistan, Uganda, South Sudan and Sudan to: 1) redefine and model corruption within a global construct, 2) examine the current doctrine mandating zero tolerance for corruption, and 3) examine the potential for tolerating moderate levels of corruption in favor of reduced lethal violence. Corrupt behavior is alleged by this research to include financial as well as non-financial mechanisms, and is motivated by Human, Institutional and Cultural Factors of Corruption. This research robustly redefines corruption, and develops new theories/models to better explain corrupt behavior. These include the Corruption Hierarchy, the Corruption Pyramid and the Universal Corruption Model. The research was inconclusive with respect to the tolerance of corruption mitigating lethal conflict, but confirmed strong support for policies of zero tolerance. In redefining corruption, many political, social and cultural norms currently exhibited by nation states, including the United States, are corrupt if/when properly classified. I’m desperate about my country. You’ve got to be strong in my country. If you are weak, they will take you. (Jeremy from Iraq).
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Hammad, Khawla Ahmed. "The Culture of entrepreneurship: a study of the entrepreneurial motivation and attitudes towards business creation in the UAE in comparison to the US and Brazil." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/15050.
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Thaller, Mark. "Corruption, Culture, Context & Killing| A Phenomenological Analysis of the Effects of Corruption upon Lethality and Feelings of Insecurity in Regions of Extreme Conflict." Thesis, Nova Southeastern University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10688261.
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Like an elephant, while it may be difficult to describe, corruption is generally not difficult to recognize when observed (Tanzi, 1998, p. 564). Many countries have been, or are currently typified by both lethal conflict and massive corruption. Historically, post-conflict development programs have imposed policies of zero corruption, yet they routinely fail. Initial research into “corruption” also identified significant ambiguities and self-contradiction with the definition of corruption, itself. This study used an Existential Phenomenological methodology with 8 participants from Iraq, Afghanistan, Uganda, South Sudan and Sudan to: 1) redefine and model corruption within a global construct, 2) examine the current doctrine mandating zero tolerance for corruption, and 3) examine the potential for tolerating moderate levels of corruption in favor of reduced lethal violence. Corrupt behavior is alleged by this research to include financial as well as non-financial mechanisms, and is motivated by Human, Institutional and Cultural Factors of Corruption. This research robustly redefines corruption, and develops new theories/models to better explain corrupt behavior. These include the Corruption Hierarchy, the Corruption Pyramid and the Universal Corruption Model. The research was inconclusive with respect to the tolerance of corruption mitigating lethal conflict, but confirmed strong support for policies of zero tolerance. In redefining corruption, many political, social and cultural norms currently exhibited by nation states, including the United States, are corrupt if/when properly classified. I’m desperate about my country. You’ve got to be strong in my country. If you are weak, they will take you. (Jeremy from Iraq)
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Mesquita, Rita de Cássia Cunha Caldeira. "Liderança e cultura organizacional: um estudo de caso na CETREL." Escola de Administração da Universidade Federal da Bahia, 2008. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/17266.
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Este trabalho apresenta um estudo de caso, realizado na Cetrel – Empresa de Proteção Ambiental, localizada no Pólo Industrial de Camaçari, e teve como objetivo investigar a percepção dos integrantes sobre a cultura organizacional baseada nas concepções filosóficas da Tecnologia Empresarial Odebrecht - TEO, a atuação dos líderes na disseminação dos princípios, conceitos e critérios da TEO e a sua prática na Empresa. A fundamentação teórica se refere aos temas liderança, cultura organizacional e a Tecnologia Empresarial Odebrecht - TEO, com uma abordagem sobre a importância da liderança, alguns conceitos, principais teorias e características da liderança eficaz. É destacado o modelo da liderança transformacional, de Burns, que é referência no modelo de análise do trabalho. No tema cultura organizacional, é abordado alguns conceitos, modelos e a importância dos líderes nesse tema. É destacado o modelo de Schein, também referência do modelo de análise do trabalho. A metodologia de pesquisa foi survey, através de questionário auto-aplicável, que foi respondido pelos empregados da Organização estudada. O resultado indicou que na percepção dos integrantes, há aceitação do modelo de cultura organizacional adotado, porém a prática das concepções filosóficas e a atuação dos líderes na disseminação dessa cultura, ainda não é visualizada por uma significativa parte dos integrantes. This paper consists of a case study, carried out at Cetrel (Empresa de Proteção Ambiental), located in the Industrial Complex of Camaçari, a town close to the capital of the state of Bahia, Brazil. It aimed to investigate the participants’ perception of organizational culture based on the philosophical conceptions of Odebrecht Entrepreneurial Technology (TEO), the leaders’ role in the dissemination of the principles, concepts and criteria of Odebrecht Entrepreneurial Technology (TEO), and its practice in the corporation. The theoretical basis refers to themes like leadership, organizational culture and the Odebrecht Entrepreneurial Technology (TEO), focusing on the importance of leadership, some concepts, main theories and characteristics of effective leadership. Highlight is given to Burns’s model of transformational leadership, used here as reference in the analysis model. As for organizational culture, some concepts, models and the importance of leaders on this subject are discussed. Schein’s model is also highlighted, being used as reference for the analysis model as well. The research methodology was that of a survey, through a self-administered questionnaire, which was answered by the employees of the above mentioned company. The results showed that according to the participants’ perception, there is acceptance of the adopted model of organizational culture, however the practice of the philosophical conceptions and the leaders’ role in the dissemination of this culture, still have not been seen by a significant part of the participants.