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Regional Frontiers 2006 - Conference Papers

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Best Paper Awards

Bill Bygrave Award for Best Paper in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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

AGSE Award for Best Paper in Applied Entrepreneurship Research

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

Karingal Consultants Award – Best Paper Authored by Doctoral Student

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

QSR International Award – Best Application of Qualitative Software

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

CIT Award – Best Paper in Indigenous Entrepreneurship

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

CIT Award – Best Paper in Women’s Entrepreneurship

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

CIT Award – Best Paper in New Zealand Entrepreneurship

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

CIT Award – Best Paper in Entrepreneurial Education

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

NZTE Award – Best Entrepreneurship Research Exchange Paper

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

Financing Ventures

Success Factors of Subsidized Startups in Germany
Bernd Heesen

Summaries

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

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

Entrepreneurship Link to Franchise Networks
Alex Maritz and Gideon Nieman

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

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

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

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

Indigenous Entrepreneurship

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

Does Business Success Make You Any Less Indigenous?
Dennis Foley

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

Indigenous Nascent Entrepreneur Self-Efficacy and Perceived Personal Success
Noel Lindsay, Wendy Lindsay, Anton Jordaan and Gido Mapunda (see Best Paper Awards)

Maori Entrepreneurial Activity in Aotearoa New Zealand
Franceen Reihana, Helmut Modlik and Mihipeka Sisley (see Best Paper Awards)

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

Summaries

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

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

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

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Celebrity Entrepreneurship: An Experimental Study of a Phenomenon in Emergence
Erik Hunter & Per Davidsson (see Best Paper Awards)

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

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

The Psychophysiology of Entrepreneurial Intuition: A Quantum-Holographic Theory
Raymond Trevor Bradley (see Best Paper Awards)

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

Summaries

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

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

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

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

Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship
Munish Kumar

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

Hope, Entrepreneurship and Foresight
Rowena Morrow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Policy Issues

Summaries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Towards Wise Entrepreneurship Policy
Peter Hayward

Gender Issues

Economic Outcomes of Female Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Angeline Low

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

The Search for Equity Capital? Implications for Women Entrepreneurs
Anne de Bruin and Susan Flint-Hartle (see Best Paper Awards)

Summaries

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

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

Entrepreneurial Orientation

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

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

The Role of Interpersonal Trust and Vigilance in the Process of Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition using Social Networks
Scott Gordon (see Best Paper Awards)

Young Technology Ventures in Europe: Aspects of Market Orientation and Entrepreneurial Orientation
Stefan Roskos and Heinz Klandt (see Best Paper Awards)

Summaries

Entrepreneurs as Knowledge Leaders
Riitta Viitala and Jukka Vesalainen

Entrepreneurial Orientation Across the Tasman
Alex Maritz

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

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

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

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

Gem Studies

Summaries

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

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

Networking

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

Challenges of Creating a Network-level Performance Measurement System for SME Networks
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

Summaries

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

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

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

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

Commercialisation

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

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

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

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

Summaries

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

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

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
Urs Fueglistaller

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

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

Unlocking Biotechnology Ventures - the Role of Business Development
Sonja Kind and Dodo zu Knyphausen-Aufsess

Firm Growth

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

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

Summaries

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

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

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

Entrepreneurial Education

Defining Entrepreneurship as a ‘Domain of Practice’: Implications for Theory and Research for Policy and Education
Allan O’Connor, Nita Cherry & Patricia Buckley (see Best Paper Awards)

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

Stepping Back to Look Inside the Entangled Bank
Colin Jones

Summaries

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

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, Joe Dewberry, Tan Wee Liang and Hu Hanjun

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

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

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

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

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

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

Social Entrepreneurship

Evaluating the Donor – Enterprise Relationship in a Not-For-Profit Social Entrepreneurship Venture
Linda Mosek, L. Murray Gillin & Liora Katzenstein (see Best Paper Awards)

Summaries

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

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

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

Human Capital

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

The New Zealand Lifestyle Entrepreneur
Alex Maritz and Bob Beaver

Summaries

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

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

Self-regulation and Entrepreneurial Career Choice
Peter Bryant

Venture Capital

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

Summaries

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

Corporate Entrepreneurship

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

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

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

Family Enterprise

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

Summaries

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

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

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