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Market Information Scanning Activities and New Venture Success: A Comparison...

Recent technological developments create the need for new ventures to monitor the market environment. The various techniques used to acquire market information differ depending on the venture but are...

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Market Place Information Scanning Practices of New Manufacturing Ventures

Specific information about markets, customers, and competitors, and general knowledge of population, socio- cultural, and demographic trends are suggested in the literature as important to new venture...

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Research on Women Business Owners: Past Trends, Future Directions, and a New...

The number of women starting and owning their own businesses has grown dramatically over the past decade. Concurrent with this trend, there has been an increase in the number of research studies...

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A Comparison of Methods and Sources for Obtaining Estimates of New Venture...

Measuring the performance of new ventures is of interest because they are a major source of job creation and because improvement in performance is critical to their survival and growth. However,...

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Antecedent Influences on Women-Owned Businesses

In a study, the possible linkages between antecedent influences and survival or growth of women-owned enterprises were examined in an attempt to determine key factors important to venture survival and...

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Achieving Progress in an Undefined Field

Investigators' practice of sampling from different populations has hindered the progress of empirical entrepreneurship research. Reaching agreement on a narrowed definition of the field would...

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The Woman Entrepreneur: Management Skills and Business Problems

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Characteristics of the Minority Entrepreneur

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Businesses without Glamour? An Analysis of Resources on Performance by Size...

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From Initial Idea to Unique Advantage: The Entrepreneurial Challenge of...

Strategies for attaining competitive advantages emphasize developing and configuring existing resource strengths into a valuable and unique resource base. But what if you do not yet have a legacy of...

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Israeli women entrepreneurs: An examination of factors affecting performance

This article examines individual factors influencing performance of 200 Israeli women-owned businesses. Whereas research on women entrepreneurs is extensive in developed countries, especially in the...

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Cooperative Strategies in Non-High Tech New Ventures: An Exploratory Study

Cooperative strategies are of growing interest in small and new companies. Current research focuses on high tech companies with less known about cooperative activities in non-high tech businesses....

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Diana a Symbol of Women Entrepreneurs’ Hunt for Knowledge, Money and the...

This article discusses the questions and issues that prompted the founding of the Diana Project, a multi-university research program aimed at identifying factors that support and enable high growth in...

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What do Women Entrepreneurs Want

Women are the majority owners in 30% of all privately held firms in the United States. These firms have $2.5 trillion in revenues and employ 19.1 million individuals. However, despite the large number...

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Touched by an Angel? Entrepreneurs Seeking to Obtain Private Equity Financing

Angel financing is defined as "[i]nformal venture capital-equity investments and non-collateral forms of lending made by private individuals ... using their own money, directly in un quoted companies...

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A Gender-Aware Framework for Women's Entrepreneurship

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Properties of Emerging Organizations: An Empirical Test

The process of new venture creation is central to the field of entrepreneurship. The effects of initial organizing have a direct influence on survival, yet empirical examination of the dimensions of...

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Separated by a Common Language: Entrepreneurship Research Across the Atlantic

While recent inventories and assessments of the entrepreneurship field examine the focus, purpose, and methods, one area receiving less attention is the outcome or dependent variable. The outcome...

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The Effect of Initial Location Choice on Resource Assembly and First Sale in...

The formation of a new venture includes initial choices that affect the process of start-up. Primary among these decisions is the choice of location whether to start from home or from an away...

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Entrepreneurship Education: Correspondence Between Practices of Nascent...

Entrepreneurship courses are vital components of a business school curriculum. Although existing studies examine teaching pedagogy, very few explore the content of entrepreneurship courses. We compare...

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