Portfolio entrepreneurship in family firms: a resource-based perspective

Fdi Scale and Performance of Taiwanese Family Firms in China:a Resource Based Perspective

In the present study we have used data from 276 family-owned Taiwanese manufacturing firms that invest in China in order to examine the effect of firm resources in Taiwanese firms on FDI performance in China. Hypotheses were developed and it was found that firm-specific advantages like firm size, R&D intensity, international experience, and managerial capabilities had a positive influence on bo...

Enterprise Resource Planning Systems in Family Firms

Chandlerian Firms vs Entrepreneurship

This paper employs an original dataset for 146 US metropolitan areas to test some propositions that characterize two different models of organizing firms and industries: the managerial firm, epitomized by the work of Alfred Chandler, and the entrepreneurial system, recently highlighted by many authors. We discuss the reasons why, compared to the entrepreneurial systems, the Chandlerian world en...

Enabling Employee Entrepreneurship in Large Technology Firms

Managers of large technology firms are routinely expected to improve the performance of their development projects. This expectation arises because of the need for firm competitiveness and because externalization of technology development through outsourcing and acquisition is an alternative to internal product projects (Granstrand and Sjölander, 1990; tinyurl.com/mhtrv77). Improvements can tak...

A strategic perspective of entrepreneurship

Contends that the E-V-R (environment-values-resources) congruence model provides an ideal framework for examining what entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial managers must achieve strategically in order to create and sustain organisational effectiveness and success. E-V-R shows how the environment is a source of opportunities and threats – external key success factors; and that resources constitute ...