Entrepreneurship frameworks and empirical investigations from forthcoming leaders of European research (Elsevier JAI, 2006)
Includes bibliographical references
Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Europe and Entrepreneurship Research -- References -- Habitual Entrepreneurs Experiencing Failure: Overconfidence and the Motivation to Try Again -- Failure, Overconfidence and the Motivation to try Again -- Research Method -- Sample, Data Collection and Respondents -- Sample Representation -- Measures -- Validity -- Reliability -- Results -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Meta-Analysis as a Tool for Developing Entrepreneurship Research and Theory -- The Advantages of a Meta-Analytical Approach to Entrepreneurship -- The Personality Approach to Entrepreneurship as an Example for Developing Entrepreneurship Research and Theory based on Meta-Analysis -- The Big Five Personality Traits -- Specific Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs -- Description of Meta-Analysis -- Theoretical Analysis of the Constructs under Investigation -- Location and Collection of Studies --
Creation of a Meta-Analytic Data Base -- Meta-Analytical Data Analysis -- Interpretation and Integration of Results -- Limitations and Critique to Meta-Analysis -- Meta-Analysis as a tool for Developing Evidence-Based Entrepreneurship -- Meta-Analysis as a tool for Developing Theory, Research, and Practice -- Theory Development -- Research -- Practice Recommendations -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- An Empirical Test of Systematic Process Differences between the Bursting of Innovative Venture Initiatives and the Shaping Forces of Imitative Venture Initiatives -- Theory Development -- Variation in Progress in the Business Start-up Process as a Function of Venture Opportunity Variation -- Systematic Variation in the Business Start-up Process Predicted by Different Factors During Different Sequences in the Process due to Venture Opportunity Variation -- Resources -- Method -- Measures -- Control Variables -- Analysis Methods --
Results: A Formal Empirical test of Variation in the Nascent Business Start-up Process -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- The Mechanisms and Processes of Entrepreneurial Networks: Continuity and Change -- Identifying Network Parameters: Observing Changing Structure, Content and Process Over Time -- Structure, Content and Process -- Contextual Contingencies -- Conceptual Issues and Understanding Network Practices -- Methodology -- Ego-Centred Discussion Networks -- The Sample and Setting -- The Quantitative Survey -- The Cross-Sectional Qualitative Survey -- The Longitudinal Qualitative Study -- Qualitative Method -- Quantitative Data Analysis -- Qualitative Data Analysis -- Findings -- Structure -- Content -- Process -- Contextual Contingencies -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Characterising Innovation in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services -- The Nature of KIBS -- Implications for Innovation -- Data -- Some Brief Comments on 'Innovativeness' --
Multivariate Analysis -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- A Resource-Based View on Organic and Acquired Growth -- The Empirical Observation -- Theory and Hypothesis Development -- The Relevance of the Resource-Based View of the Firm -- Organic Growth -- Acquired Growth -- Method -- Measures -- Sample II -- Measures II.