FRONTIERS FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH 1998
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FRONTIERS FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH 1998 TABLE OF CONTENTS |
NATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INDEPENDENT BUSINESS AWARD WINNING PAPER ON THE GENERAL TOPIC
KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION AWARD WINNING PAPER ON THE SPECIAL TOPIC, HIGH GROWTH FIRMS AND PUBLIC POLICY
III. INTRAPRENEURSHIP AND CORPORATE SPONSORED NEW VENTURES
IV. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ENTREPRENEUR(S)
XI. ENTREPRENEURIAL MANAGEMENT: SUCCESSION
XIV. FIRM GROWTH: PATTERNS AND TRAJECTORIES
XV. FIRM GROWTH: INTERNATIONALIZATION
XVI. FIRM GROWTH: PUBLIC POLICY
XVIII. EQUITY: EARLY STAGE, ANGELS
XX. EQUITY: INVESTORS AND ENTREPRENEURS
XXI. EQUITY: INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS (IPOS)
XXII. MARKET ECONOMIES: PROGRAMS AND POLICIES
XXIII. TRANSITION, MIXED ECONOMIES: PROGRAMS AND POLICIES
XXVIII. ETHICS, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
XXIX. OTHER, NOT ELSEWHERE
CLASSIFIED
National Federation for Independent Business Award Winning Paper on the General Topic
New Firm Survival: Institutional Explanations
for New Franchisor Mortality
Scott Shane and Maw-Der Foo
Kauffman Foundation Award Winning Paper on the Special Topic, High Growth Firms and Public Policy
Strategies of High Growth Firms in Adverse
Public Policy and Economic Environments
David Lohmann
Successful Entrepreneurs’ Insights into
Opportunity Recognition
Gerald E. Hills and Rodney C. Shrader
Summary
Idea Generation: Who Comes Up with the Most
Profitable Products?
Peter A. Koen and Pankaj Kohli
Summaries
Politico-Economic Factors Associated with
Interest in Starting a Business: A Study of Pacific Rim Countries
Thomas M. Begley, Wee-Liang Tan, and Herbert Schoch
Dimensions of Perceived Entrepreneurial
Obstacles
Patricia G. Greene
III. INTRAPRENEURSHIP AND CORPORATE SPONSORED NEW VENTURES
New Venture Formation Based on
Discontinuous Innovation in Established Firms
Mark P. Rice, Gina Colarelli O’Connor, and Lois Peters
Summaries
Entrepreneurial Spin-Offs from American
Indian Reservation Gaming: A Comparative Study of California Indian Tribes
Craig Galbraith, Steve Robinson, and Curt Stiles
A Corporate Entrepreneurship Program:
Case Study
Newell Gough
Corporate Entrepreneuring: Criteria
Used by Corporations to Determine Start-Up Funding
Peter A. Koen
Getting Bigger by Growing Smaller: The
Use and Formation of Strategic Entrepreneurial Units
Joel M. Shulman, U. Srinivasa Rangan, and Frank S. Streeter
Bootlegging Resources and Beyond: A
Study of Informal Venture Activity in Corporations
Natalie Taylor and Robert Gierschick
IV. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ENTREPRENEUR(S)
What’s Achievement Got to Do with It?
The Role of National Culture in the Relationship Between Entrepreneurship and Achievement
Motivation
Emmeline G. de Pillis
Social Skills and Entrepreneurs Financial
Success: Evidence that the Ability to Get Along with Others Really Matters
Gideon D. Markman and Robert A. Baron
Differences in Perceptions and Behavior: A
Comparative Study of New Venture Decisions of Managers and Entrepreneurs
John W. Mullins and David Forlani
The Structure and Substance of African
American Entrepreneurial Networks: Some Preliminary Findings
Nicholas Young
Summaries
Towards a Theoretical Model of
Entrepreneurial Team Foundation
Jari Handelberg, Shailendra Vyakarnam, and Robin C. Jacobs
Why Start? Attributions and Activities
Among a National Sample of Business Founders
Andrea L. Kimmel, Kelly G. Shaver, and Elizabeth J. Gatewood
Poster Summaries
Critical Success Factors for Immigrant
Entrepreneurs: A Cross-Cultural Longitudinal Study
Frances M. Amatucci and Frederick Young
Success as a Psychological and Social
Construct—The Influence of the Entrepreneur’s Nature on His/Her Conception of
Success
Corinne Morel d’Arleux
Does the Business Start-up Process Differ by
Gender? A Longitudinal Study of Nascent Entrepreneurs
Gry Agnete Alsos and Elisabet Ljunggren
Access to Capital: A Comparison of Men and
Women-Owned Small Businesses
Susan Coleman
Summaries
Why Do Women Become Entrepreneurs?
Sharon A. Alvarez and G. Dale Meyer
Entrepreneurship: New Challenge for Slovene
Women
Miroslav Glas and Tea Petrin
Gender-Based in Bank Shopping and
Credit Terms
Pia Hokkanen, Annareetta Lumme, and Erkko Autio
Poster Summary
Is Gender Still a Factor in Entrepreneurial
Leader Behavior?
Kim T. Leahy and John H. Eggers
Summaries
The Family and the Business
Sue Birley and Dennis Ng
Human Resource Practices in Family versus
Non-Family Owned Businesses: Do They Differ?
Dirk De Clercq, Hans Crijns, and Hubert Ooghe
Coping with Growth Transitions in Asian
Family Business: Key Success Factors in Singapore
Wee-Liang Tan and Siew-Tong Fock
Funding Options for Transferring the
Family-Held Firm: A Comparative Analysis
Nancy B. Upton and J. William Petty
Does Formal Business Planning Enhance
the Performance of New Ventures?
G. T. Lumpkin, Rodney C. Shrader, and Gerald E. Hills
A Contingency Approach to Small Scale
Business Success: A Longitudinal Study on the Effects of
Environmental Hostility and Uncertainty on the Relationship of Planning and Success
Andreas Rauch and Michael Frese
Summary
Survival and Growth of Business
Start-Ups: Strategic and Operational Planning by Management Training
Tom Schamp and Dirk Deschoolmeester
Gaining Legitimacy: The Symbolic Use
of Technology by New Ventures
Connie Marie Gaglio, Michael Cecchini, and Susan Winter
Adaptors and Innovators in Non-Urban
Environment
Kimmo Hyrsky and Aki Kangasharju
Summaries
Pioneer Pricing: An Investigation of
Entrepreneurs’ Pricing Policies
Evan J. Douglas and Dean A. Shepherd
Using Corporate Social Performance
to Overcome Liabilities of Newness: A Study of Entrepreneurial Firms
Daniel W. Greening and Bruce R. Barringer
The Influence of Risk Assessment on
Venture Launch or Growth Decisions
William I. Norton, Jr., and William T. Moore
Total Competitiveness and Strategic
Adaptation in New Ventures
Dennis P. Slevin and Jeffrey G. Covin
Strategy Process as a Characteristic of
Small Scale Business Owners: Relationships with Success in a Longitudinal Study
Marco van Gelderen and Michael Frese
From Planning to Growth and Beyond: A
Cross Industry Analysis of Entrepreneurial Priorities
Candida G. Brush, Patricia G. Greene, and Myra M. Hart
Managing Goal Tradeoffs: Implications for
the Entrepreneur
Harry J. Sapienza, James Almeida, Michael Hay, and Jonathan Levie
Can Entrepreneurial Core Competencies and
Capabilities Overcome Poor Strategies
Steven T. Walsh and Bruce A. Kirchhoff
National Federation of Independent Business Paper of Distinction: Entrepreneurial Orientation as Predictor of
Performance and Entrepreneurial Behaviour in Small Firms—Longitudinal Evidence
Johan Wiklund
Summaries
The Influence of the Entrepreneurs’
Vision on Job Creation in Successful Belgian Entrepreneurial Companies
Jan Van Autreve, Hans Crijns, and Marc Buelens
A Cross Industry Longitudinal Study of
Technical and Non-Technical Entrepreneurial Firms
Robert G. Schwartz and Richard D. Teach
Models to Study the Dynamic Impact of
Strategy on Entrepreneurial Firm Performance
Richard D. Teach, Robert G. Schwartz, and Nancy R. Jay
Operationalizing Stevenson’s
Conceptualization of Entrepreneurial Management: Defining the Opportunity-Based Firm
Terrence E. Brown
An Investigation of New Venture Teams in
Emerging Businesses
Gaylen N. Chandler and Steven H. Hanks
The Search for the Lead Entrepreneur:
Identification through the Measurement of Entrepreneurial Drive and Skills
Michael D. Ensley, JoAnn C. Carland, and James W. Carland
The Effect of Executive Pay Dispersion on
Entrepreneurial Team Conflict, Cohesion, Consensus, and New Venture Performance
Michael D. Ensley and Doug T. Grider
Summaries
Entrepreneurial Orientation versus Relating
Miller/Covin & Slevin’s Conceptualization of Entrepreneurship to Stevenson’s
Terrence E. Brown and Per Davidsson
Organization Culture in Entrepreneurial
Companies: Is It Different? Does It Matter?
Robert Keeley, Sandra Keeley, Robert Knapp, and James Rothe
Poster Summaries
The Empowerment of the Human Factor in the
Small Enterprise
Alessandra De Chiara
From Work Teams to Entrepreneurial Teams: The
Importance of Technical and Interpersonal Skills
Leann J. Mischel and John E. Sawyer
XI. ENTREPRENEURIAL MANAGEMENT: SUCCESSION
Summaries
Entrpreneurial Management Succession, Firm
Growth and Performance
John E. Butler, Phillip H. Phan, Borje O. Saxberg, Soo Hoon Lee
Entrepreneurial Burn-Out: Part of the Game
or an Avoidable Crisis
Craig Galbraith and Curt T. Stiles
Summaries
Causal Dimensions Underlying the
Entrepreneur’s Own Explanation for Success or Failure
Larry W. Cox and Steven M. Sommer
Destruction of Wealth—The Goats,
Not the Heroes
Karl A. Egge
On the Growth of Small Enterprises:
The Role of Intentions, Gender and Experience
Barbara J. Orser, Sandra Hogarth-Scott, Peter Wright
Growth Management of Emergent Firms
in Canada
Stewart Thornhill and Raphael Amit
Summaries
Sustaining Rapid Growth in
Entrepreneurial Firms: The Importance of Overcoming the Managerial Capacity Problem
Bruce R. Barringer and Foard F. Jones
The Role and Influence of
Non-Executive Directors in Growing Small Firms
David Deakins, Patrick Mileham, Eileen O’Neill
Why Most New Organizations Do Not
Grow: A Preliminary Theory and Cases
William B. Gartner and Earl Eisenberg
Entrepreneurial Competencies and
Practices of Growing SMEs
Yvon Gasse
XIV. FIRM GROWTH: PATTERNS AND TRAJECTORIES
Kauffman Foundation Special Topic Paper of Distinction: A Taxonomy of High-Growth Firms
Frédéric Delmar and Per Davidsson
High Growth/Low Growth Industry
Differences in Patterns of Job Creation by SMEs: The Impact of Social Capital
Rebecca Reuber and Eileen Fischer
Getting Past the “Entrepreneurial
Growth Ceiling”: A Longitudinal Study of IPO Firm Growth through Solution Driven
Strategies
Theresa M. Welbourne, G. Dale Meyer, and Heidi M. Neck
Summaries
Towards a Theory of New Venture Growth
Alexander Ardishvili, Richard N. Cardozo, Brian Harmon, and Saratchandra Vadakath
Fast-Growth Firms in the U.S. Software
Development Industry: Are Entrepreneurial Teams the Route to Success?
Thomas M. Cooney
Sustainable Enterprises: Creating
Growth in Mid-Sized Companies
Alice J. de Koning and Daniel F. Muzyka
A Comparative Analysis of Performance
Metrics in the INC. 100 Index of the Fastest Growing U.S. Public Companies
Christopher Hennessey, Julian Lange, and Benoit Leleux
Poster Summary
Retail Entrepreneurship and Fast Growth
Success: Fast Growth Retailers and the Changing UK Retail Environment
Neil Sackett
XV. FIRM GROWTH: INTERNATIONALIZATION
The International Activities of British
Start-Up Companies in High-Technology Industries: Differences between Internationalisers
and Non-Internationalisers
Oliver Burgel and Gordon C. Murray
The Internationalization of New and Small
Firms
Paul Westhead, Mike Wright, and Deniz Ucbasaran
Summaries
International Expansion Is a Two-Way
Street: The Case of Chihuahua Charlie’s Restaurants and Silver Streak Flame-Broiled
Hamburgers
Frank Hoy, Somnath Bhattacharya, Patrick A. Traichal, John Barnes, and John Hadjimarcou
International Entrepreneurship: An
Examination of “Global” and “Gradual Globalizing” Firms
Ben L. Kedia and Paula D. Harveston
Understanding International
Entrepreneurship: Looking at the Resource Rich Fashion Industry
Dara Szyliowicz and Teresa Nelson
XVI. FIRM GROWTH: PUBLIC POLICY
Summaries
A Comparison of Multiple Perspectives
on Public Policy Supportive of Rapid Growth Firms
Eileen Fischer, A. Rebecca Reuber, and Nancy M. Carter
Encouraging Entrepreneurial Behavior:
An Examination of Public Policy Encouraging Business Expansion
Dale W. Jasinski and Steven C. Dunn
Why Slovene Public Policy Should Focus
on High Growth SME-s
Ales Vahcic, Robert Hisrich, Miroslav Glas, and Branko Bucar
A Four Nation Study of
Entrepreneur/Banker Interaction in Young Growing Firms
Jonathan Levie and Jan P. Warhuus
Defaulting on Loan Guarantees: Costs
and Benefits of Encouraging Early-Stage Growth
Allan L. Riding and George Haines, Jr.
Summary
Bank Lending, Banking Structure and
Small Firm Financing: The Case of Italy
Maria Minniti
XVIII. EQUITY: EARLY STAGE, ANGELS
Summaries
Swift Trust, Cooperation and
Coordinator Judgement in the Informal Investment Decision Making
Process
Mark R. Dibben, Richard T. Harrison, and Colin M. Mason
The Evolution of
“Angel” Networks
Lloyd Steier and Royston Greenwood
Japanese Business Angels
Yasuhisa Tashiro
Housing: The Financial Muscle Behind
the Outburst in Business Formations?
William J. Dennis, Jr.
Summaries
Attracting Foreign Resources to New
Ventures: The Role of Intellectual Capital, Location and International Experience
Joseph E. Coombs and David L. Deeds
The Influence of Sector on the Early
Stage Financing of High-Tech Entrepreneurs
John Freear, Roger Grinde, and Jeffrey Sohl
XX. EQUITY: INVESTORS AND ENTREPRENEURS
Venture Capitalists’ Criteria for
Selecting High-Tech Investments: Prescriptive Wisdom Compared with Actuality
William D. Bygrave, Gregory Johnstone, Julie Lewis, and Robert Ullman
Consequences of Conflicts in the Venture
Capitalist—Entrepreneur Team Relationship in the United Kingdom
Hiro Higashide and Sue Birley
Contracts Between Entrepreneurs and
Investors: Terms and Negotiation Processes
Hans Landström, Sophie Manigart, Colin Mason, and Harry Sapienza
Venture Capitalists’ Expertise: Real
or Fallacious
Dean A. Shepherd, Andrew Zacharakis, and Robert Baron
Management Assessment Methods in Venture
Capital: Towards a Theory of Human Capital Valuation
Geoffrey H. Smart
Summary
Contribution of Formal and Informal
Venture Capital Investors to Value Creation by Firms in Which They Invest
Samuel Hale, Jr. and Peter Hackbert
XXI. EQUITY: INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS (IPO's)
Summaries
Courting the European Growth Firms: A
Survey of Attitudes Towards Listing Alternatives
Benoit F. Leleux and Daniel F. Muzyka
The Internationalization of Equity
Markets: How Entrepreneurial U.S. Firms Reach World Investors
Teresa Nelson and Dara Szyliowicz
The Race to Market: An Examination of
IPO windows in the Semiconductor Industry
Russell W. Wright
Poster Summary
High-Tech Management Buy-Outs
Ken Robbie, Mike Wright, and Brian Chiplin
XXII. MARKET ECONOMIES: PROGRAMS AND POLICIES
Barriers to Entry for High-Growth
Entrepreneurial Firms: Implications for Public Policy in Manufacturer-Retail Relations
G. Page West III
Summaries
Promoting Entrepreneurship in the
Telecommunications Industry: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Outcomes for Entrepreneurs of
the Distribution of Wireless Licenses by the FCC
Cecilia M. Falbe, Joy Robillard Doran, and Qiang Yang
An Entrepreneurial Support Program:
Its Efficiency and Effectiveness in Rural versus Non-Rural Areas
Elizabeth Gatewood and James Chrisman
State versus Private Venture
Capital: Cross-Spawning or Crowding Out? A Pan-European Empirical Examination
Bernard Surlemont, Helene Wacquier, and Benoit Leleux
New Venture Strategic Responses to
Regulatory Change
Craig A. Turner, Charles E. Bamford, and Thomas J. Dean
XXIII. TRANSITION, MIXED ECONOMIES: PROGRAMS AND POLICIES
Summaries
Multi-Cultural Entrepreneurial
Ventures in the Former Soviet Union: Case Studies of Finnish and American Approaches in
Russia, Ukraine and the Baltics
Pier A. Abetti, Inkeri Hirvensalo, and Mark I. Kapij
A Venture Capital Model for
Transitioning Economies: The Case of Poland
Richard T. Bliss
Flexible Adaptation of Minority
Entrepreneurs: The Case of the Arab Manufacturing Sector in Israel
Israel Drori and Miri Lerner
Community Entrepreneurship: The
Case of the Israeli Kibbutz
Sibylle Heilbrunn and Amitai Niv
Summaries
The Role of Science
Parks in the Support of NTBFs: The Entrepreneur’s Perspective
Richard Ferguson and Christer Olofsson
Public Policy and Private Initiative
in the Incubation of Israeli High Technology Entrepreneurial Firms
Susanna Khavul, Candida G. Brush, Shlomo Kalish, and Miri Lerner
Business Incubation and Enterprise
Support Systems in Restructuring
Rustam Lalkaka and Pier A. Abetti
Poster Summary
The Impact of Business Incubators on
Entrepreneurial Networking: A Comparative Study of Small,
High-Technology Firms
Hassan Shahidi
Summaries
University Revenues from Technology
Transfer: Licensing Fees vs. Equity Positions—An Analysis
Michael J. Bray and James N. Lee
The Role of Entrepreneurial Firms in
the Transfer of Public Research to the Productive Sector
Margarida Fontes
Public Policy and High-Growth
Firms: The Role of Technology Transfer
Dale W. Jasinski and Steven C. Dunn
Public Sector Entrepreneurship in
Central and Eastern Europe—A Study of Academic Spin-Offs in Bulgaria and Hungary
Dylan Jones-Evans, Fred Steward, Katalin Balazs, and Kyril Todorov
Academic Entrepreneurship in the
European Context: A Comparative Study
Magnus Klofsten and Dylan Jones-Evans
Purchasing Criteria in Technology
Licensing: An Empirical Study with Some Benchmarking Implications
Matti Koiranen
The University Technology
Commercialization Mechanisms: A Survey of Innovative U.S. Programs
Sarfraz A. Mian and Walter H. Plosila
Summaries
Who Is on the Fast TracTM?
Person Variables and Venture Growth Following Entrepreneurship Education
John R. O. Calver and Kelly G. Shaver
The Status of K-12 Entrepreneurship
Education in the United States
Francis W. Rushing and Calvin A. Kent
Introducing Engineering and Science
Students to Entrepreneurship: Models and Influential Factors at Six American Universities
Terri Standish-Kuon and Mark P. Rice
Poster Summaries
Entrepreneurs as Mentors: Mentoring
Entrepreneurially
Alistair R. Anderson, Susan L. Kirkwood, and Sarah L. Jack
Sherpa or Shepherd: The Adviser
Relationship in Small Firms—Mentor and/or Consultant?
Linda Graham and Eileen O’Neill
U.S. Public AIDS Policies and the
Emergence of AIDS Service Organizations
Valerie E. Mock and Frank Hoy
Summaries
Poster Summary
Are Arts Managers Entrepreneurs?
Sarah Williams
XXVIII. ETHICS, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Socially Responsible
Entrepreneurial Ventures as a Macroculture
Richard L. McCline and Armand Gilinsky, Jr.
XXIX. OTHERS, NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED
Summaries
‘Persistent Fighters’ and
‘Ruthless Speculators’: Entrepreneurs as Expressed in Collocations
Kimmo Hyrsky
How Small and Medium Size
Manufacturers (SMMs) Use the Internet in Technology Development
Michael J. Merenda, A. R. Venkatachalam, and Gregory Theyel
An Examination of the Relative
Influence of Strategy and Industry Structure on Alternative Measures of New Venture
Performance
Kenneth C. Robinson
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