Most research on new product and service development by entrepreneurial firms takes an individual-level, pre-launch perspective or firm-level post-launch perspective. Our study examines two components of the new product and service introduction process: how entrepreneurs’ prior knowledge underpins (1) firm technological innovation prior to the introduction of new products and services (pre-laun...

IS research and practice does not adequately address modern organizational forms of flatter hierarchies; decentralized decision-making, greater capacity for tolerance of ambiguity, permeable internal and external boundaries, capacity for renewal, self-organizing units, self-integrating coordination mechanisms and continual change. The important challenge for IS is to determine what sort of orga...

Entrepreneurial ecosystem is recently in increasing focus of scholars. There are several members of the entrepreneurial ecosystem shifting towards an entrepreneurial society. This paper explores how various regional members inside of the ecosystem are helping in spreading the entrepreneurial thoughts and shifting individuals and the general opinion from managed economy towards an entrepreneuria...

Small business is often regarded as entrepreneurship-driven. There are many reasons for this, e.g.: (1) The entrepreneur as a person plays a much more vital role than in large firms and (2) entrepreneurial spirit is not weakened by considerable hierarchies and can more easily pervade the firm. Welsh & White’s (1981) statement on the differences between small and big business seems to apply. Man...

This paper characterizes the relationship between entrepreneurial wealth and aggregate investment under adverse selection. Its main finding is that such a relationship need not be monotonic. In particular, three results emerge from the analysis: (i) pooling equilibria, in which investment is independent of entrepreneurial wealth, are more likely to arise when entrepreneurial wealth is relativel...

Post Keynesians [hereafter PK] fashion their theory of employment (i.e., private sector labordemand hiring) utilizing Keynes's general theory. Entrepreneurial demand for hiring workers is derived from the point of effective demand determined in product markets. Since Keynes's "general" theory requires fewer restrictive axioms than the axiomatic theory underlying both classical economics (new an...

Key words Strategy implementation Managing large traditional organizations Entrepreneurial behavior 2 ABSTRACT Innovative use of resources to pursue opportunities has become vital for all—even large traditional—organizations. While traditional management literature has identified contextual features to foster entrepreneurial behavior, little research has looked at why—in the same organizational...

Entrepreneurship allows nurses to design models of in-hospital nursing practice which would benefit patients, nurses, physicians, and the hospital. Article: There is a growing interest in nursing in designing professional practice models that "work," that is, models that promote benefit both to nurses and to the clients they serve. But devising hospital models of nursing practice that are satis...