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Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2009

Proceedings of the 6th International AGSE Entrepreneurship Research Exchange, Feb 3-6, 2009, ECIC, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Edited by
L. Murry Gillin
ISBN: 978-0-9803328-5-8 (CD-ROM)

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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

A. Anderson, K.A. Wahab, H. Amin, R. Chong
Firm Performance: An Analysis From The Theory Of Innovation

A. Awang, Z.A. Ahmad, A.R. Said Asghar, K.A. Subari 
Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) and Performance of Small and Medium Agro-Based Enterprises (SMAEs) in Malaysia – Mediating Effect of Knowledge and Networking (paper not available)

David Arelette, Alex Maritz
Precision without accuracy - why entrepreneurial research must be done in real time to create valid teaching materials

Eberhard Auchter, Willy Kriz, Helmut Wittenzellner
Evaluation of a Nationwide German Entrepreneurship Education Program “exist-priME-cup'

Josee Audet, Yvon Gasse, Maripier Tremblay
Business Transmissions: Calling for Potential Successors!

B

Peter Balan, Noel Lindsay, Allan O'Connor
Innovation Capability: Contrasting a Service Industry with the Manufacturing Sector

Waswa Balunywa, Peter Rosa
The Contribution of Portfolio Entrepreneurs to Economic Development and Growth: The Ugandan Laboratory Case

Eyal Benjamin, Eli Gimmon, Liora Katzenstein
Radical Strategic Change in High Technology New Ventures: a Natural Event?

B. Berggren
Financing SMEs in different stages of the business cycle – Analyzing the financial search activity of Swedish SMEs between 1991 and 2000

Jean-Michel Beaudoin, Josee Audet, Luc LeBel, Luc Bouthillier
Forestry Entrepreneurship: An Avenue for Economic Development Among Aboriginal Communities?

Jose Bilau, Eduardo Couto
Initial Capital Structure of Portuguese Innovative Firms: The Role of Nascent Entrepreneurs’ Human Capital

Carmine Bianchi, GrahamW. Winch
Small Business ‘Gigantism’ and ‘Dwarfism’: A Contradiction in Terms or Two Sides of the Same Coin? Towards a Theory of ‘Abnormal’ Growth in SMEs

Sanjay Bhowmick
Is ‘Social Entrepreneurship’ an Oxymoron Term?

Richard Blandy
Schumpeter was right: Business Innovation Depends more on ntrepreneurship than on R&D - Evidence from the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ 2003 Innovation Survey

Chris Brown, Simon Denny
The Impact of an Entrepreneurship Education Programme on Entrepreneurial Intentions

Do Actual Outcomes Justify Writing A Business Plan Either For Educating Students Or For Starting Real Ventures? (paper not available)
W. Bygrave, J. Lange, A. Perdomo

David Bruce, Helen Thorne
Avoiding Central Tendency: A Study of Cognitive Variation

Peter Bryant
The Role of Ethics in Developing Entrepreneurial Ambidexterity

H. Burgers, J. Jansen, F. Van Den Bosch, H. Volberda
Is the Sum more than the Corporate Entrepreneurship Parts? The Different Effects of Social Capital on Innovation, Venturing, and Renewal Processes

C

Alistair Campbell
Tacit Knowledge Transfer and a Systems Approach: Key Themes in Entrepreneurship Education

Alistair Campbell, Hermina Burnett
Entrepreneurial Trait Analysis: exploring links with Entrepreneurial Orientation

Andrew Cardow, Bill Kirkley
Are we there yet? Stagnation in entrepreneurship teaching practice ten years on

Garcia Corral de Zubielqui, Noel Lindsay, Howard Harris
Exploring the Influence of Drivers, Idea Sources, and Collaboration on Globalisation, Innovation, and Firm Performance Relationships

Entrepreneurship Education and the Development of Self-efficacy: A Comparative Study (paper not available)
S. Cooper, W. Lucas, E. Douglas

Patricia Corner, Kathryn Pavlovich
Effectuation Illustrated: What is Spiritual Entrepreneurship?

Ron Corso, Stuart Gluth
The Application of Creative Thinking Methodologies to Post Graduate Entrepreneurship Education

J. Courvisanos
Political Economy of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (paper not available)

D

C. Dahlborg, C.J. Sundberg, A. Nilsson Vindefjärd, J. Skår
Patterns of Knowledge Search – Cases from Product Development Processes in Biotechnology Spin-off Companies (paper not available)

Carol Dalglish
A Sustainable Model for Supporting Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries

Todd Davey, Carolin Plewa, Thorston Kliewe
Attitudes to Entrepreneurship: What do 1st Year Business Students think? Areas of focus and improvement for universities in promoting and supporting student entrepreneurship

Wawan Dhewanto, Michael Vitale, Amrik Sohal
The Effect of Organisational Culture on Technology Commercialisation Performance: A Conceptual Framework

Evan Douglas, Krittinne Nuttavuthisit
Product and Market Roll-out Decisions for New Venture Survival and Growth

E. Douglas, J. Fitzsimmons
Nascent Entrepreneurs vs Nascent Employees - Different Strokes for Different Folks (paper not available)

Andries Du Plessis, Andrew Marx
Suggestion system as the perfect tool for entrepreneurs to be successful in New Zealand: some empirical evidence

Antonio Dottore, David Corkindale
Towards a Theory of Business Model Adaptation

E

S. Easwaran
Building Environmental Awareness Into Enterprise Education: An Indian Viewpoint (paper not available)

K. Ellis
Fostering Social Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurial Leaders in Rural America: What Does It Mean? (paper not available)

Johan Esbach
The Relevance of Engineering Entrepreneurship: A study at CPUT

F

Andreas Fili
Good Cop – Bad Cop: Multiple Principals in Informal Investment Relationships

Rosemary Fisher, Janice Langan-Fox
Passion and Uncertainty in Successful Entrepreneurial Action

D. Foley, E. Pio
Inextricable Identity & Ideology: Indigenous Women Entrepreneurs in Australia & Hawaii (paper not available)

Werner Fees, Amir H. Taherizadeh
Innovation Management In China: What Casts A Cloud?

N. Fertala
Is Emotional Intelligence the Most Intoxicating Factor in the Entrepreneurial Success Equation? (paper not available)

Dennis Foley
Are Māori entrepreneurs within the Aotearoa tourism industry sustainable? Are they driven by economic needs or cultural values?

Tom Franck, Nancy Huyghebaert
When Does Leverage Stimulate or Hamper Post-Entry Performance? Insights from Analyzing the Incentives of an Entrepreneur and Rival Firms

Tom Franck, Nanacy Huyghebaert
Determinants of Capital Structure in Business Start-Ups: the Role of Nonfinancial Stakeholder Relationship Costs

H. Frederick
A Principal Components Analysis of New Zealand Board Composition: Factors that Influence an Export Strategy (paper not available)

G

C. Garonne, P. Davidsson
The Relationships between Newness and Effectuation? (paper not available)

Paolo Giacon
Classical and emergent paradigms of academic entrepreneurship

Scott Gordon, Paul Davidsson, Paul Steffens
Novice vs. Habitual Entrepreneurship: Differences in Motivations, Actions and Expectations

Noga Gulst, Alex Maritz
Venture failure: Commonalities and causes

Sharon Grant, Kate Ferris
Measuring Stress in Entrepreneurs: Are Existing Occupational Stress Scales Relevant?

Stephen Golla, Heinz Klandt, Warren Kreyzig
Impact of Inter-Organisational Relation on Start-ups’ Resource Acquisition (summary)

Chris Graves, Pi-Shin Seet
The use of private equity amongst family-controlled enterprises: theoretical possibility vs. practical reality?

Geoff Gregson
The Role and Effectiveness of National Support Networks in Stimulating Entrepreneurship: The Case of Connect Scotland

H

Richard Harrison
Mapping the Early Stage Risk Capital Market: Estimating Scale and Efficiency

Lois Hazelton, Laurence Gillin
A Health Audit for Social Entrepreneurship: Sustaining Innovation in the Aged Care Industry

Richard Harrison, Clare Leitch, Francis Hill
Foundationalism and Non-foundationalism in Entrepreneurship Research: Beyond the Quantitative/Qualitative Divide

Kevin Hindle
The Relationship between Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Easy definition, Hard Policy

Daniel Holland, Dean Shepherd
Never, Never, Never Give In? Understanding the Entrepreneur’s Decision to Persist in the Face of Adversity

Brian Hunt, Thanaphol Virasa
Generation Y: An Emerging Entrepreneurial Phenomenon

J

Robert Jones, Michela Betta, James Latham, David Goss
Female Social Entrepreneurship as a Discursive Struggle

S. Jones
University research and commercial outcomes - Is it a beautiful marriage or a divorce waiting to happen? (paper not available)

Colin Jones
A Taxonomy of Enterprise Educators: Preliminary Consensus and Disagreement

K

S. Kauko-Valli
Finding Competitive Edge – Role of Thinking Patterns and Meaning Giving (paper not available)

Teemu Kautonen, Roxanne Zolin, Andreas Kuckertz, Anmari Viljamaa
Trust and strong ties in the selection and evaluation of business advisors by small firms

D. Kissel, C. Muelenz, S. Golla
The Role of Critical Life Events in the Biography of the Female Entrepreneur: Approach to Setting up a Theory of the Effect of Life Events (paper not available)

K
From the Biography of Female Entrepreneurs to Prediction of Success: Innovative Approaches to Practices of Consultation and Finance (paper not available)
D. Kissel, C. Muelenz, S. Chlosta, H. Klandt, S. Golla

Leonie Kelleher
Entrepreneurial Research – Lessons learned from Scott Shane’s Intensive PhD Seminar in Entrepreneurship

Thorsten Kliewe, Todd Davey, Thomas Baaken
Creating Entrepreneurial Value Through University-Industry Interaction: How Universities Can Acquire and Satisfy Business Partners to Exploit Their Entrepreneurial Potential

L

Hamrila A. Latip, Fang Zhao, Superi Awang Said
Entrepreneurship education: To foster the right pedagogies

N. Lindsay, W. Lindsay, F. Kropp, A. Jordaan
Entrepreneurial Empowerment and Wellbeing in Indigenous Nascent Entrepreneurs and Non-Entrepreneurs (paper not available)

Julie Logan, Chris Hendry, Jim Brown, Nigel Courtney
Barriers and Pathways to Entrepreneurship and Innovation

William Lucas, Sarah Cooper
The Power of Entrepreneurial Ideas: Necessity, Enablement and the Intention Model

Bernhard Lobmayr
Assessing entrepreneurship and innovation in medical devices

M

Magdalena Markowska
Cookbook or improvisational cooking: How and from whom to learn what is essential during the entrepreneurship process? A case of rural gourmet restaurant

Judy Matthews
Relationships between Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Design: Implications for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Pauric McGowan, Sarah Cooper
The Role of University-based Business Plan Competitions in Developing Entrepreneurial Capital for Technology Venturing

D. McStay, M. Harvey
Generational Differences in Tertiary Students' Entrepreneurial Intention (paper not available)

C. Mitra, A. Borza
Fair Trade an essential part of Social Entrepreneurship (paper not available)

Kylie Moppert
Women talk entrepreneurship : Gender, Power and Agency

Sanjav Mohapatra, Rayjeev Roy
Innovative Small Scale Entrepreneurship in India

Mervyn Morris
Entrepreneurship and Family Firms: A case study in growth and survival

Sussie Morrish, Jonathan Deacon
Entrepreneurial Marketing: A Comparative Case Study of 42Below Vodka and Penderyn Whisky

Laure Muselli
Value creation and value capture for open source software publishers: a new business model based on mutualisation

N

Lucia Naldi, Mattias Nordqvist
The internationalization of family firms: A resource dependence perspective

Rick Newby, John Watson, David Woodliff
SME Performance: Relating Outcomes to Objectives

ngrid Norton, Harry Ballard
Quality Assurance or Quality Control in clothing manufacturing: An analysis of SMME practices in the Western Cape, South Africa I

M. Ngoze, O. Minyacha
Developing Women Entrepreneurship in Kenya through Special Entrepreneurship Support Programmes (paper not available)

O

Allan O'Connor, Hermina Burnett, Gary Hancock
Converging Entrepreneurship Education with Business Incubation: An Exploration of the Development Process for Entrepreneurs

Allan O'Connor, Nita Cherry
An Analysis of Government Policy Communication on Entrepreneurship Education in Australia: Spanning Macro and Micro Economic Implications

Hannes Ottosson
Social Capital and Advancement of Entrepreneurs through New Venture Process

P

by A.M. Peredo, M. McLean
Indigenous Development and the Cultural Captivity of Entrepreneurship (paper not available)

Kristian Philipsen
Global integrator firm' task: To connect demanding customers and global suppliers. How to develop connecting, translating and product developing capabilities

Kristian Philipsen, Jesper Kolind
Global Integrator: How an Entreprenurial Firm Bridges a Network of Global Suppliers and Customers

Viljem Psenicny, Rado Bajt
Predicting Sustainable Growth of Dynamic Enterprise in Transition Countries

R

Jean Raar
Environmental Perspectives, Practices And Performance In Small Firms

Allan Riding, Tyler Chamberlin
On the Design of Loan Guarantee Programs for SMEs: Determinants of Risk

Alicia Robb
Sources of Funding for New Women-Owned Firms: Evidence from the Kauffman Firm Survey

Alicia Robb, David Robinson
Towards a New Pecking Order? The Capital Structure Decisions of Nascent Firms

Jeffrey Robinson, Dt Ogilvie
Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Insights from Institutional and Complexity Theories (summary)

Peter Rosa, Patricia Joubert
Wildlife Exploitation in sub-Saharan Africa: an Entrepreneurship Analysis

Susan Rushworth
The use of ‘general principles’ as an integrating framework for an entrepreneurship education program

S

S.P. Sassmannshausen, S. Gladbach, A. Halbach, C. Flohr
Would Schumpeter and Stevenson ever have Lunch together at McDonald´s? An Empirically Based Theoretical Approach towards the Definitions of Entrepreneurship and its Relationship with the Franchisee (paper not available)

S.P. Sassmannshausen
The Entrepreneur, his Organization and the World out there: A Bibliometric Based Review of 1,000 Papers on Entrepreneurship and Networks, Social Capital, Inter-organizational Relations and Alliances (paper not available)

Retha Scheepers
Shaping Corporate Entrepreneurship Capability: The Impact of Rewards

Martin Senderovitz
How are SMEs defined in current research?

Martin Senderovitz, Kristian Philipsen
Is a Penrosean approach appropriate for case studies of management of growth processes in SMEs?

Julienne Senyard, Per Davidsson, Scott Gordon, Paul Steffens
The Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence (CAUSEE) High Potential Nascent Entrepreneurs: Some Preliminary Findings

Dissanayake  M. Semasinghe, Per Davidsson
Venture Idea Newness, Relatedness and Performance in Nascent Ventures

Gurmeet Singh, Rafia Naz, Rd Pathak
Internationalization of SMEs: A Challenge for Fiji

Paul Steffens, Julienne Senyard, Ted Baker
Linking Resource Acquisition and Development Processes to Resource-Based Advantage: Bricolage and the Resource-Based View

Asif Siddiqui
Investigating the behavior of venture capital syndications and its’ impact on the entrepreneurial growth (with Australian data)

Paul Steffens, Maria Kaya
Drivers of Technology Substitution: Successive Generations of High Tech Products (summary)

J. St-Pierre, J. Audet, I. Jallouli
Intangible Assets and Performance: An Exploratory Analysis on Manufacturing SMEs (paper not available)

T

Janusz Tanas, Laurence Gillin
Entrepreneurship in Transitional Economy

Kanitsorn Terdpaopong
How financially distressed SMEs could be distinguished from the successful ones in Thailand's market

Harchand Thandi, Kourosh Dini
Milking the Immigrant/Ethnic Entrepreneur’s Human Capital – An Australian Experience

T 000069
Financing development in clean technology - TAG, a concept for evaluating market potential  (summary)
Maria Tunberg, Cecelia Mark-Herbert, Charles Neame

V

Marco Van-Gelderen
 Perseverance of Enterprising Individuals: A Conceptualization and Prescriptions (summary)

Virginie Vial
Social capital uncovered: entrepreneurship networks and cronyism effects on Indonesian manufacturing wealth creation, destruction and (re)-distribution

T. Volery
Ethnic Entrepreneurship in Switzerland (paper not available)

W

Z. Wang, T. Xu
Toward a Theory of Chinese Agricultural Firm Entrepreneurship

Ge Wang, Tin Xu
Actualizing Entrepreneurship Education In Chinese Higher Vocational And Technical Colleges

Whatarangi Winiata, Daphne Luke, Elizabeth Cook
The Influence of Regional Māori Business Networks on Māori Enterprise

Shu-Yuan Wu, Marcus Ho
An Agent-based Simulation of the Opportunity Creation Process

Z

Tatiana Zalan, Geoff Lewis
The Role of ‘Private’ Private Equity in Entrepreneurial Growth: The Case of Prudential Equity Partners

P. Zbierowski, M. Bratnicki
In the Look for Success Factors of SMEs with the Use of Data Envelopment Analysis (paper not available)

P. Zbierowski, M. Bratnicki
Entrepreneurship and Small Business from Perspective of Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) (paper not available)