... perspective focuses on how managerial problems appear (and can be dealt with) during a firm's growth through typical stages of development (Davidsson and Wiklund, 2000). Entrepreneurship Firm growth High‐growth firms Trigger points Public policy Business development Owing to the complex...

... Pickernell can be contacted at: dgpicker@glam.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Firm age Entrepreneurs Knowledge management External resources Enterprising individuals United Kingdom Business development Enterprise development Government policy Small businesses...

... favorable business conditions verified in Latin American countries emphasize the relevance of entrepreneurs' human capital endowments in determining business development and its further growth. On the contrary, market‐related issues and the availability of financial resources are more important in South...

... of the regional differences. Yang and Xu (2006) explain that there is an existence of regional differences in entrepreneurship, regional economic growth, regional entrepreneurial activities, and small business development in China. This may be because of the differences in availability of financing. Okpara...

... environment (Smallbone and Welter, 2009). Entrepreneurship Small business growth Transition Institutions Albania Corruption Business development Small enterprises © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 The study employed mainly quantitative methods, using principal component analysis...

...@westminster.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Small business networks Web 2.0 Information and communications technology Collaboration Small enterprises Business development Web 2.0 is the term coined by O'Reilly (2005) , which has come to be used to describe a wide range...

... Group Publishing Limited 2012 Broadband Small business Economic impact Entrepreneurship Infrastructure Small enterprises United States of America Business development Economic growth Communication technologies Small businesses play a vital role in a country's economic growth...

... to medium‐sized enterprises Business growth Collaboration Online marketing Business development The internet provides leverage for small businesses because it has significantly reduced the cost of marketing, and created mechanisms whereby individuals can make use of other people's connections...

.... Natasha Evers can be contacted at: natasha.evers@nuigalway.ie © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 International new ventures Dynamic capabilities Low technology sectors Business development International business Ireland International entrepreneurship (IE) is described...

... Business development Business support services In an increasingly fast‐changing and knowledge‐based economic environment, entrepreneurship has been recognized as an important component of economic growth (Audretsch and Thurik, 2000 ; OECD, 1996). Not surprisingly, therefore, the phenomena...

... seized? RQ2. How are successive individual strategic choices affecting growth trajectories? RQ3. Do typical early growth trajectories exist? © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Belgium Business development Business formation Over the past decades, new...

... Small to medium‐sized enterprises Business development During the past few decades, research on entrepreneurship has boomed in France. The word “entrepreneur” has gained legitimacy, even in the worlds of politics and the media. But, at the same time, the notion of entrepreneurship...

... three years and slow born‐global that go global after this period and compare them to traditional firms that go through a gradual internationalization of more than six years. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 France Business development Small enterprises International business...

... Group Publishing Limited 2011 France Entrepreneurialism Business development Business formation While the number of new startups has been increasing steadily over the last few years in France, entrepreneurial intention has followed a converse trend. In 2001 [1] , 31 percent...

... the expansion in the number of employees is conditioned to their implementation by the entrepreneur, where firms showing higher employment growth rates are more sensitive to the presence of these factors. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Entrepreneurialism Business development Human...

... should also be large enough to satisfy shareholder demand for dividends (Salmi, 2006). However, internal financing is not so informative a number in itself, but is still quite useful for measuring companies in the same sector. Business development Profit Transportation Forest products Finland...

... Information transfer Learning Business development Service industries Greece Small business growth is a major contributor to job creation, the commercialisation of new ideas and innovations and the encouragement of entrepreneurial activity (Smallbone and Wyer, 2000 ; Robbins et al., 2000...

... to further our knowledge on the topic of firm's fast growth. Durim Hoxha can be contacted at: durim.hoxha@uab.cat © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Business development Transition management Companies business environment Western Europe Employment Small‐ and medium‐sized...

... conducted by SMEs and best practice defined in academic theory. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Marketing Competences Training needs Design and development Business development The role that entrepreneurship plays in providing this impetus has spawned the work of many authors...

.../value The paper provides a framework for testing the factors that differentiate growing new ventures during various stages of entrepreneurship. Business formation Business development Entrepreneurialism Business environment 1. rapid growth, i.e. more than doubling sales turnover (over...