Transnational entrepreneurship: opportunity identification and venture creation

Title: Transnational Institutions and Ethnic Entrepreneurship Track

This paper proposes to analyze the roles of two transnational institutions (a Pentecostal church and a government agency for foreign relations) in ethnic enterprise. The studied group is made up of Brazilian immigrants who set up in business with money saved as workers in the American state of Massachusetts in informal economy niches. The institutions that help understand this process, which th...

Role of Entrepreneurship in Economic Development With special focus on necessity entrepreneurship and opportunity entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs are people who create new businesses, which help create new jobs for people. They help in intensifying competition, with the help of technology they master in increasing productivity and thus contributing in the development of the country, followed by economic growth. So it can be said that entrepreneurship is good for economic growth .The paper will justify how far this stands tr...

Corporate Entrepreneurship and Creation of Value

It has increasingly been recognized that appropriate theory based measures are required in entrepreneurial research (Smith, Gannon, & Sapienza, 1989). However to date, the study of corporate entrepreneurship (CE) has principally used input-based measures such as accounting results, which may not provide an accurate picture of the firm’s performance. This study advances the output-based measure ...

Strategic Entrepreneurship, Collaborative Innovation, and Wealth Creation

STRATEGIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP, COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION, AND WEALTH CREATION DAVID J. KETCHEN, JR.,* R. DUANE IRELAND, and CHARLES C. SNOW Department of Management, College of Business, Auburn University, Auburn Alabama, U.S.A. Department of Management, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, U.S.A. Department of Management and Organization, Smeal College of Business, T...

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