abstract. academic spin-offs are recognized as the main means of technology transfer, contribute to the commercialization of the results of academic research, leading to society wealth creation. academic spin-offs start with some major disadvantages related to their liability of newness, smallness and their university origination. it is been argued that academic spin-off need to strengthen thei...

Innovative work behavior has been one of the essential attribute of high performing firms, and the roles of entrepreneurial orientation and self-leadership have been important for promoting innovative work behavior. This study advances research on innovative work behavior by examining the mediating role of self-leadership in the relationship between perceived entrepreneurial orientation and inn...

Entrepreneurial orientation and the franchise system: organisational antecedents and performance outcomes Type Article URL http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/6073/ Date 2013 Citation Dada, Olufunmilola and Watson, Anna (2013) Entrepreneurial orientation and the franchise system: organisational antecedents and performance outcomes. European Journal of Marketing, 47 (5/6). pp. 790-812. Creators ...

the current paper aims to investigate the effect of entrepreneurial marketing on innovation considering the moderating effect of two-factor learning orientation and organizational structure. then, the relationship between innovation and the marketing performance was assessed. in this research, sales and marketing managers of 42 sample companies were selected from three industries including: ind...

We examine entrepreneurship in multigenerational family firms. Specifically, we employ theoretical lenses drawn from both entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial orientation) and strategy (resource-based view) to develop an integrated model of transgenerational entrepreneurship. Following a review of the literature in these fields we develop propositions that articulate connections between a family f...

the aim of the present research was to study the impact of organizational culture on entrepreneurial orientation given the mediating role of knowledge management. the statistical population consisted of the employees of district 1 and 2 municipalities of qazvin who were about 200 in number, of whom 130 people were selected based on stratified random sampling method and cochran formula. data ana...

Entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) is often included in entrepreneurial intentions models to explain why some individuals are more likely than others to become entrepreneurs. An unsettled question among researchers is whether ESE differs between men and women. While early studies seem to suggest that men have higher ESE than women, more recent studies are inconclusive. Lacking empirical suppor...

This paper analyses entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in multinational corporations (MNCs) and develops a new typology of MNC EO based on combining R&D and asset growth investment intensities as orthogonal resource allocations. A cluster analysis of US MNCs on these two dimensions reveals three types of entrepreneurial stance: conservative, aggressive-asset growth and balanced. Internal knowledg...