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Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2006

Proceedings of the 3rd International AGSE Entrepreneurship Research Exchange, Feb 7-10, 2006, Unitec, Auckland, New Zealand

Edited by
L. Murray Gillin
ISBN: 0 85590 807 6

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Conference papers


Papers sorted by first author

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

Craig M. Allen, David C. Bangert, Gregory V. Gibson and Lenard Huff
The Theory and Design Underlying a Course of Study on the Social Network of Hawaii’s Biotechnology Entrepreneurs

Chi Anyansi-Archibong
Entrepreneurship as the Missing Factor in Sustainable Economic Development of Poor Nations: A Systematic Analysis of Factors of Production

David Arelette
The Entrepreneurial Conglomerate – A Case Study of Serial Entrepreneurship in a Single Firm

Eberhard Auchter and Willy Christian Kriz
The Benefits of Simulations in Entrepreneurship Education: Presentation of a Start-Up Simulation Approach and Evaluation Results

B

Zong-Tae Bae and Min-Seok Cha
Recent Trend in Entrepreneurship Research: A Content Analysis of Selected Journals

Peter Balan
Exploring the Innovation Capability and Entrepreneurial Orientation Relationship: A Case Approach

Bob Beaver and Graeden Chittock
Entrepreneurs and Their Investors: Why Aren’t They Getting a Bigger Bang for Their Buck?

Karin Berglund and Anders W. Johansson
The Entrepreneurship Discourse – Outlined from Diverse Constructions of Entrepreneurship at the Academic Scene

Karin Berglund, Maria Dahlin and Anders W. Johansson
Walking a Tightrope between Artistry and Entrepreneurship. The stories of the Hotel Woodpecker, Otter Inn and Luna Resort

Bjorn Berggren, Christer Olofsson and Lars Silver
Do too many Cooks Spoil the Broth? The Effect of Syndication on the Performance of Venture Capitalists’ Portfolio Firms in Sweden

Ravi Bhat and Alex Maritz
Teaching of Entrepreneurship Programs to Confucian Heritage Cultural Background Students

Carmine Bianchi and Graham W. Winch
Investigating Sustainable Strategies for Turning Around ‘Stunted Growth’ Businesses

Jérôme Billé and Richard Soparnot
Customer Knowledge: A Resource for Innovation? The PSA Case Study

Alan Birnie, Graeme Martin and Peter Newman
Opportunity Recognition and Perception of Uncertainty Among Entrepreneurs in Christchurch: an Exploratory Study

Mary-Anne Boyd, Pieter Nel and Jens Hansen
Implementing Consumer Health Research: Empirical Results Leading to Social Innovation in New Zealand

Raymond Trevor Bradley
The Psychophysiology of Entrepreneurial Intuition: A Quantum-Holographic Theory

Patrice Braun and Julian Lowe
A Matter of Trust: Networks and Entrepreneurs

Peter Bryant
Self-regulation and Entrepreneurial Career Choice

Noel Burchell
Matching Intrepreneurs, Culture and HR Practices in Entrepreneurial Organisations: A Key to Building Intrepreneurial Human Capital

Hermina HM Burnett and Shahid Yamin
Creating Dynamic Communities Through New Ventures: A City and Regional Study

C

Alan Cameron and John Guthrie
Farmers’ Markets: the Small Business Counter-Revolution in Food Production and Retailing

Graeden Chittock and Howard Frederick
A Multivariate Analysis of Taxonomies Used for the Categorization of Informal Investors in New Zealand

Sarah Y. Cooper, Tony Ward, William A. Lucas and Frank Cave
Developing Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Intent for Technology Entrepreneurship: The Role of Work Experience

Sarah Y. Cooper and William A. Lucas
Enhancing Self-Efficacy for Entrepreneurship and Innovation: an Educational Approach

Trish Corner and Kathryn Pavlovich
Entrepreneurial Alliance and Social Capital: Building Testable Theory

D

Leo-Paul Dana and Robert B. Anderson
A Multidisciplinary Theory of Entrepreneurship as a Function of Cultural Perceptions of Opportunity

Anne de Bruin and Susan Flint-Hartle
The Search for Equity Capital? Implications for Women Entrepreneurs

Julien De Freyman, Katia Richomme-Huet and Robert Paturel
Condition Model for Transferring Social Capital in Family Business Succession

Anton de Waal
Organisational Innovation Audits: A Typology of Theories with Some Practical Implications

Tom Donnelly, David Morris and Martti Hyry
Small Business and Entrepreneurship in Northern Finland

Evan J. Douglas
Risk Perception by Entrepreneurs: ‘Rose-Coloured Glasses’ and Other Syndromes

E

Johan Esbach and Alistair Campbell
How Entrepreneurship Influences an Engineering Faculty at a Newly Formed University of Technology

F

Nikolinka Fertala
Deep Are Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Germany Asleep? A dynamic Model of Adjusting Beliefs

Jason R. Fitzsimmons and Evan J. Douglas
The Impact of Overconfidence on Entrepreneurial Intentions

Dennis Foley
Does Business Success Make You Any Less Indigenous?

Urs Fueglistaller
Entrepreneurship Awards in Switzerland and the Effect on the Development of Start-Ups and SMEs – An Empirical Study About Swiss Awards, the Award-Winners and Those Who Refused to Take Part in the Award-Contests

G

Loris Gillin
A Model for Social Value Creation within Social Entrepreneurship Ventures – Governance and Stakeholder Factors

Scott Gordon
The Role of Interpersonal Trust and Vigilance in the Process of Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition using Social Networks

Geoffrey Gregson and Richard Harrison
Examining the Early Development of Intellectual Assets and Intellectual Property in New Technology Based Firms

H

Gary Hancock
Best Practice Business Incubator Management Research: Developing a Conceptual Framework

Katrin Hansen and Patricia von Papstein
Entrepreneurial Cross-Mentoring: Experiences from German/Austrian Projects

Peter Hayward
Towards Wise Entrepreneurship Policy

Bernd Heesen
Success Factors of Subsidized Startups in Germany

Kevin Hindle and Brent Mainprize
Is the Quality of Entrepreneurial Business Plans Related to the Outcome of a New Venture?

Erik Hunter and Per Davidsson
Celebrity Entrepreneurship: An Experimental Study of a Phenomenon in Emergence

J

Bruce A. Johnstone
Institutions Advising Entrepreneurs: A Case Study of the Gisborne Aquaculture Cluster

Colin Jones
Stepping Back to Look Inside the Entangled Bank

Tanya Jurado, Claire Massey and Robyn Walker
Excellence as a Construct for Micro-Enterprise: New Zealand Owner-Manager Perceptions

K

Bob Kayseas, Kevin Hindle and Robert B. Anderson
An Empirically Justified Theory of Successful Indigenous Entrepreneurship: Case study of the Osoyoos Indian Band

Jodyanne Kirkwood and Colin Campbell-Hunt
Using Multiple Paradigms to Understand Entrepreneurial Motivations

Neal Knight-Turvey
Influencing Employee Innovation Through Structural Empowerment Initiatives: the Need to ‘Feel’ Empowered

Munish Kumar
Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship

L

Frank La Pira, L. Murray Gillin, and Pamela Scicluna
Non-Local Intuition: Developing Electro-Physiological Measures of Decision Making Serial Entrepreneurs

Cosmas Lambini
Rural Women Entrepreneurs and Access to Socio-Economic Development in Northern Ghana

Yannick Le Guern
Toward a French Entrepreneurial Model for Public Policy Implementation

Jonathan Levie and Tom McKaskill
A Hypothetical Model for Selling a Business – a Vendor Perspective

Noel J. Lindsay, Wendy A. Lindsay, Anton Jordaan and Gido Mapunda
Indigenous Nascent Entrepreneur Self-Efficacy and Perceived Individual Success

Noel J. Lindsay and Wendy A. Lindsay
Venture Capitalist Entrepreneurial Orientations in Developing Environments

Angeline Low
Economic Outcomes of Female Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Belinda Luke and Martie-Louise Verreynne
Strategic Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector: Fact or Farce?

Mats Lundqvist and Karen Williams
Promoting and Measuring University-Based Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Seppo Luoto and Kari Ristimäki
Gendered Entrepreneurship in the Finnish Students’ Narratives – A Social Semiotics Approach

M

Ian McDonald and Martin Knoche
No. 8 Wire – a New Zealand Lifestyle or Growth Model – a Case Study of Auckland Technology Companies

Gido Mapunda
Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Gender Issues: Implications for Enterprise and Innovation

Alex Maritz
Entrepreneurial Orientation Across the Tasman

Alex Maritz and Gideon Nieman
Entrepreneurship Link to Franchise Networks

Alex Maritz and Bob Beaver
The New Zealand Lifestyle Entrepreneur

Richard Missens, Leo-Paul Dana and Robert B. Anderson
Overview of Aboriginal Communities and Economic Partner Agreements in Northern Canada

Topoyame Moremong-Nganunu, Kevin Hindle and Everarda Cunningham
A Preliminary Evaluation of the World’s Largest Skills Enhancement Program for Entrepreneurs

Rowena Morrow
Hope, Entrepreneurship and Foresight

Linda Mosek, L. Murray Gillin and Liora Katzenstein
Evaluating the Donor – Enterprise Relationship in a Not-For-Profit Social Entrepreneurship Venture

Jens Mueller, Joe Dewberry, Tan Wee Liang and Hu Hanjun
Action Means More Than Words: How Effective Can a Global Action-Learning Program for Entrepreneurship Education Be? A Comparison of the Outcomes in Singapore, China, Korea and New Zealand

Jens Mueller, Heinz Klandt, Gael MacDonald and Tanja Finke-Schuermann
They Talk the Talk, but do they Walk the Walk? To What Extent do Entrepreneurial Organizations in Germany and New Zealand Practice Sustainability?

O

Allan O’Connor, Nita Cherry and Patricia Buckley
Defining Entrepreneurship as a ‘Domain of Practice’: Implications for Theory and Research for Policy and Education

P

Gábor Papanek and Áron Perényi
The Nature of Hungarian Spin-Off Enterprises

Edwina Pio
Inspirational Parables: Ethnic Minority Indian Women Entrepreneurs in New Zealand

R

Franceen Reihana, Helmut Modlik and Mihipeka Sisley
Maori Entrepreneurial Activity in Aotearoa New Zealand

David A. Robinson and Jeremy Hayllar
Assessing the Team Role Preferences of Would-Be Entrepreneurs

Stefan Roskos and Heinz Klandt
Young Technology Ventures in Europe: Aspects of Market Orientation and Entrepreneurial Orientation

Susan Rushworth and L. Murray Gillin
An Investigation of the Role of Values and Purpose in Fast-growing Australian Businesses

S

John Saee
Entrepreneurship Education and Training: A Panacea for the European Economic Malaise in the Third Millennium

Sean Patrick Sassmannshausen and Daniel Reinert
Apprenticeship Training Positions in Young and Newly Founded Enterprises: Empirical Research and Results from Germany

Sean Patrick Sassmannshausen
The Breeding-Ground Hypothesis: Social Capital, Entrepreneurial Networks and Local Industrial Clusters: An Evolutionary View

Salvatore Sciascia, Riccardo De Vita, Fernando Alberti and Alberto Poli
Re-Thinking Corporate Entrepreneurship and Venturing: a Case Study in the Italian Food Industry

Lip-Chai Seet, Hock-Tee Koh
Entrepreneurship and Education in Singapore

P.S. Shehrawat
Agro-Processing Industries – A Challenging Entrepreneurship for Rural Development

Jane A. K. Silver and Claire MacLean
Identifying Enterprise Skills: An Enterprise Behaviours, Skills and Attributes Map for Personal Development

Ken Simpson
Social Entrepreneurship in New Zealand: Where to from Here?

J. Brock Smith, Ronald K. Mitchell and Mark Pritchard
Good Housekeeping: Establishing an Operationalisation Baseline in the Testing of Transaction Cognition Entrepreneurship Theory

Stephen Spring and L. Murray Gillin
Evaluating the Impact of “Top Management Team” Focus on Large Company Corporate Entrepreneurship

John Steen and John Yencken
Use of Actor-Network Theory to Develop a Holistic View of New Technology-Based Small Firm Development

Paul Steffens, Jason R. Fitzsimmons and Per Davidsson
Small Firm Performance: Patterns of Evolution in Growth-Profitability Space

Laszlo Szerb, Gabor Rappai and Siri Terjesen
Seeding New Ventures – Green Thumbs Not Fertile Fields: Individual and Environmental Drivers of Informal Investment

T

Maks Tajnikar and Ksenja Pušnik
Probability of Bankruptcy in Small Firms and Cost Efficiency – The Case of Slovenia

Christine Tamásy
What Makes a Nascent Entrepreneur? A Causal Analysis Based on Primary Data From Ten German Regions

Janusz K. Tanas and Shahid Yamin
Entrepreneurial Education for the New Millennium

Pete Thomond and Fiona Lettice
Exploring how Resource Allocation Routines Inhibit the Pursuit of Disruptive Innovations as a Route to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Dana Tomasino and Raymond Trevor Bradley
The Psychophysiological Basis of Creativity and Intuition: Accessing “The Zone” of Entrepreneurship

Polona Tominc and Miroslav Rebernik
Significantly Different – Yet Alike: Male and Female Early-Stage Entrepreneurship in Three European Post-Socialist Countries

Marian Tye and L. Murray Gillin
Magic Bullets, Mates or Myths – Who are the Mentors?

V

Marco van Gelderen, Maryse Brand, Mirjam van Praag, Wynand Bodewes, Erik Poutsma and Anita van Gils
Some Advances in the Explanation of Entrepreneurial Intentions

Elina Varamäki, Marko Järvenpää, Marko Kohtamäki, Tommi Tuominen, Tero Vuorinen, Kirsti Sorama, Erkki. K. Laitinen, Tom Wingren, Petri Helo, Jukka Vesalainen, Timo Pihkala and Jarkko Tenhunen
Challenges of Creating a Network-level Performance Measurement System for SME Networks

Martie-Louise Verreynne
Help or Hindrance – The Role of Intrapreneurial Strategy-Making in Small Firm Performance

Thanaphol Virasa
Entrepreneurship Policies in Thailand: Focus, Direction, and Critical Success Factors

Riitta Viitala and Jukka Vesalainen
Entrepreneurs as Knowledge Leaders

Christine Volkmann, Kim Oliver Tokarski and Ute Gunter
(Women) Business Angels in Germany – An Exploratory Study Within an International Context

W

John Watson
External (Bank) Funding for SMEs: ‘Finance Gap’ versus ‘Pecking Order Theory’

Mark Weaver, Terry Noel, Edward Schoen and Lou Bucelli
An Analysis of a 2005 Survey of University Based Venture Funding

Andrew Wilkinson and Kevin Hindle
Defining, Measuring and Assessing Entrepreneurial Capacity: A Review of Selected Literatures

Paul Woodfield and Pieter Nel
An Empirical Investigation into Cooperation Amongst Family Businesses in New Zealand

Christine Woods, Deb Shepherd, David Irving and Claire Dale
A Preliminary Study of Entrepreneurial Family Businesses in New Zealand, and some implications for growth

Y

Takashi Yamamoto
Rural Economic Revitalization in Japan Through “Economic Gardening”