Thai Entrepreneur and Community-Based Enterprises’ OTOP Branded Handicraft Export Performance

The Entrepreneur in the Community

This paper presents a theoretical framework in which the relationships between ethnic entrepreneurs and the communities in which they work can be understood. The nature of social ties that affect ethnic entrepreneurs is described. Drawing on concepts from the family business literature, it is proposed that entrepreneurs will have an ambivalent relationship with their employees, customers, co-et...

Community-based Enterprises: Propositions and Cases

Community-based enterprises have been implemented in a wide range of circumstances in the US and around the world. Community-based enterprises relate to a variety of areas including social entrepreneurship, economic development, empowerment zones, grass roots enterprises, and collective entrepreneurship. Varied initiatives can be found in Indian nations in the U. founding. The current paper dev...

The Ambitious Entrepreneur: High Growth Strategies of Women-owned Enterprises

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY During the last two decades, researchers have sought to develop categories of entrepreneurs and their businesses along a variety of dimensions to better comprehend and analyze the entrepreneurial growth process. Some of this research has focused on differences related to industrial sectors, firm size, the geographical region in which a business is located, the use of high-tech...

Designing Export Performance Model based on Organizational Orientations

This study extends prior researches by exploring the effect of organizational orientations on export performance. Building on the already extensive literature, we developed a model of relationship. A total of 120 usable questionnaires were received from the Iranian food industry SMEs. The results indicated that entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation and learning orientation positively ...

Export Performance in Small and Medium Enterprises in New South Wales: Sectoral and Regional Dimensions