Browsing International Review of Entrepreneurship: Volume 3, Issue 1, 2005 by Date of Publication
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Characteristics of China's Urban Entrepreneurs
(Senate HallDublin, 2005)What are the characteristics of China?s urban entrepreneurs? This paper seeks to address that question using survey data from five cities in China: Shanghai, Wuhan, Shenyang, Fuzhou, and Xian for the period 1996-2001. I ... -
The Transformation from Entrepreneurship to Professional Management at Countrywide Financial Corporation
(Senate HallDublin, 2005)This article describes the process undertaken to make the transformation from a small entrepreneurial venture to an entrepreneurially-oriented, professionally-managed organization. It is a case study involving a company ... -
Against the Odds? A Case Study of Betfair.com
(Senate HallDublin, 2005)Betfair can claim to be Britain's greatest dot com success story. Launched in 2000 its radical innovation was that it enabled people to bet (wager) directly against each other thus cutting out the dominant bookmakers. ... -
Nurturing Corporate Entrepreneurship: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Organizational Elements That Foster Corporate Entrepreneurship
(Senate HallDublin, 2005)This study is a cross-cultural, empirical investigation to assess the relationship between organizational climate for corporate entrepreneurship and national culture values. National culture values regarding entrepreneurship ... -
Venture Capital Syndicate Formation and Competition: Evidence from Biotechnology
(Senate HallDublin, 2005)Venture capital firms (VCs) form syndicates that compete to invest in deals. Does more competition makes it less likely that VCs choose syndicate partners based on past ties? Using over 200,000 observations on how VCs ... -
Creating Bridges: The Vision of the UCLA-Oxford Empirical Research in Entrepreneurship Conference
(Senate HallDublin, 2005)During the past few decades, we have witnessed the beginnings of rise of many spectacularly successful entrepreneurial firms and perhaps even more spectacularly successful entrepreneurial failures. We have watched in awe ...