Results 91 to 100 of about 68,106 (251)

SMEs in Focus : Exploring the experience of micro, small and medium enterprise owners in Malta [PDF]

, 2013
Report commissioned by the Ministry for Fair Competition, Small Business and Consumers in 2011. In-depth qualitative interviews were carried out on a purposive sample of business owners (n=31) to explore the relational dynamics at the root of doing ...
Martin, Gillian M.
core  

Two hearts that beat as one: Signals, narratives, and financing (less) novel ventures via equity crowdfunding

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Financial resource acquisition is crucial for ventures but hindered by uncertainty. While signaling mitigates this uncertainty, its effectiveness hinges on venture novelty and the narratives used to clarify embedded information. Adopting a configurational lens, we examine the interplay among novelty, signals, and narratives in
Jiahe Wang, Lien Denoo, Joris Knoben
wiley   +1 more source

Venture Capital Practices in Saudi Arabia: The Views of Investors

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how venture capital (VC) investors in Saudi Arabia evaluate, negotiate, and support entrepreneurial ventures in a rapidly developing yet institutionally young setting. Drawing on 21 semi‐structured interviews with 24 investors, it offers rare insight into VC practices in the Middle East.
Tibah al‐Harbi, Renzo Cordina, David M. Power   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic Leadership: Toolbox for the Values-Based Entrepreneur [PDF]

, 2012
Four entrepreneurship models are proposed which lend guidance in the development of a business, from birth to exit, each examining ways to maintain the business founder’s initial vision and to continue to infuse values and ethical decision-making at each
Galli-Debicella, Alexandra, Guo, Chun, Manz, Charles C, Nguyen, Phuong Anh, Ruane, Sinéad G   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Game Changers: Leadership Lessons From Popular Sport Icons

New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 25-31, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores leadership lessons that can be drawn from popular sport icons. These lessons reveal how athletes leverage their status to drive social change or how they inspire others through performance‐based practices that align with effective modern‐day leadership skills.
S. Lynn Shollen, Maylon Hanold
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing entrepreneurial intentions among vocational high school students in online business and marketing in East Java, Indonesia: The role of passion, education, and entrepreneurial skills in supporting SDGs [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
Answering the need to foster entrepreneurial intention among vocational school students, this study explores the impact of passion, education, and entrepreneurial skills on entrepreneurial intention.
Sulistyowati Raya, Sudarwanto Tri, Rakhmawati Dwi Yuli, Maula Farij Ibadil, Biantoro Trie Sis, Narmaditya Bagus Shandy, Ahmad Md Fauzi   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Collaborating in future states—Contextual instability, paradigmatic remaking, and public policy

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Collaboration is ubiquitous in public policy life, with its presence and profile determined by prevailing governance conditions. Commitments to globalisation and marketisation in the latter part of the 20th century marked the onset of an era defined by collaboration, between and across tiers and spheres of government, with non‐state actors ...
Helen Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
wiley   +1 more source

A terminal assessment of stages theory : introducing a dynamic states approach to entrepreneurship [PDF]

, 2009
Stages of Growth models were the most frequent theoretical approach to understanding entrepreneurial business growth from 1962 to 2006; they built on the growth imperative and developmental models of that time. An analysis of the universe of such models (
Afuah A., Aldrich H., Ancona D., Anderson P., Autio E., Axelrod R., Baron R.A., Bhidé A., Birch D., Birch D.L., Birley S., Chandler A.D., Christensen C.R., Churchill N.C., Dean J., Dhalla N.K., Dubin R., Eggers J.H., Epstein M.J., Gardner J.W., Gartner W., Greiner L., Greiner L., Gupta Y.P., Hanks S.H., Hawken P., Holland J., Kauffman S., Kaufman H., Kimberly J.R., Kuratko D.F., Leibenstein H., Lichtenstein B., Lippitt G.L., Marshall A., Meyer A., Nicholls–Nixon C., Normann R., Pennings J., Penrose E., Prigogine I., Reynolds P.D., Rhenman E., Rostow W.W., Sahlman W.A., Schaltegger S., Schoonhoven C.B., Schori T.R., Schrödinger E., Scott B.R., Scott R., Senge P., Small Business Administration, Starbuck W.H., Stevenson H., Thompson J., Timmons J.A., Toynbee A.J., Tushman M.L., Webster's   +59 more
core   +2 more sources

THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source