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Journal articles on the topic "Business start-up behaviour"
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Hatak, Isabella, and Kirsi Snellman. "The influence of anticipated regret on business start-up behaviour." International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship 35, no. 3 (November 17, 2016): 349–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266242616673421.
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This research note aims to develop the emotional underpinning of early-stage entrepreneurship by examining the influence of anticipated regret, a negative emotion, on the transformation of latent entrepreneurs into nascent entrepreneurs. Drawing on regret regulation theory and two waves of survey data, the analysis demonstrates that anticipated regret manifests as a, feeling for doing, by pushing latent entrepreneurs towards engaging in business start-up behaviour. We conclude that negative emotions exert an important influence on behavioural regulation in early-stage entrepreneurship, fostering the transition from latent to nascent entrepreneurship.
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A, MuhammedSajjad. "“Entrepreneurship Training and Start-up Behaviour- An exploratory Study”." Restaurant Business 118, no. 9 (September 26, 2019): 61–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.26643/rb.v118i9.7969.
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Entrepreneurship and entrepreneur are some of the widely used words nowadays. Studies have found out that entrepreneurship training increases the entrepreneurial intention in a positive way. This is an exploratory study on founders of start-ups at Maker Village (a technology start-up incubator) at Kalamassery Kerala to find out whether the entrepreneurs have undergone any entrepreneurship training before starting the enterprise and also during the start-up phase and whether such training/ education has any impact on their start-up behaviour. A questionnaire containing 38 multiple choice close ended questions and one open questions were given to the start-ups and 36 valid questionnaires were received in response. Convenience sampling was used for the study.Percentage analysis was done to analyse data, correlation analysis and Chi-square test were also done to validate the results.The study has found out that most of the founders of hi-tech start-ups in maker village Kerala had undergone some training or workshop in entrepreneurship before the start-up phase and during the start-up phase and agree that it had helped them in understanding the business and pursuing their current business respectively.So, the study highlights the importance of entrepreneurship training for budding entrepreneurs even in hi-tech start-ups.
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Zaech, Simon, and Urs Baldegger. "Leadership in start-ups." International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship 35, no. 2 (February 8, 2017): 157–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266242616676883.
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This article explores the role of leadership in start-ups and outlines a model of when, why and how leadership behaviour of founder-CEOs influences start-up performance. The model has been tested using a sample of 102 start-ups and their founder-CEOs and includes feedback from 372 employees, rating their leadership behaviour of founder-CEOs. The results indicate that transformational leadership has a significant and positive effect on start-up performance. However, no significant, direct effects on start-up performance were found for transactional leadership or laissez-faire leadership. Furthermore, the size of the start-up has a significant, positive, moderating effect on the relationship between laissez-faire leadership and start-up performance, as well as a significant, positive, moderating effect on the relationship between the transactional leadership dimension, management by exception and start-up performance. Results indicate that for start-ups and their performance, leadership behaviour is as important as their context. Today, leadership is neglected by most entrepreneurs and is not considered a motivation for founding a business. The results show that founders should focus more on leadership behaviour.
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Daovisan, Hanvedes, and Thanapauge Chamaratana. "Financing accumulation for start-up capital." Journal of Family Business Management 10, no. 3 (December 3, 2019): 231–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfbm-06-2019-0044.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the sources of financing accumulation that women entrepreneurs of family businesses use for start-up capital in the garment sector of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). Design/methodology/approach This study presents insights gleaned from a qualitative case study into the ways in which women in Lao PDR finance their family businesses in the start-up phase. The authors conducted 36 in-depth interviews – the study used this purposive sample in each of its five rounds of data collection. The data were collected between December 2018 and April 2019 and were analysed by conducting a content analysis assisted by the software programme ATLAS.ti. Findings The results, though highly case specific, show Lao women’s ability to: accrue their experience, apply their knowledge, engage in self-employment, support their families and aspire to become entrepreneurs. The findings clearly illustrate that women are opportunity and necessity driven, can accumulate income, possess savings behaviour, can manage working capital, investment and accounting and have access to finance (loan and debt) and thus have the potential to become successful entrepreneurs. Originality/value By contextualizing women’s entrepreneurial practices, the paper contributes to an understanding of the sources of financing accumulation used for start-up capital in Vientiane, Lao PDR. Theoretically, the paper extends the knowledge of women entrepreneurs seeking the optimal stock of finance which has the potential to drive family business success.
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Sharafizad, Jalleh, and Alan Coetzer. "Women business owners’ start-up motivations and network content." Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 23, no. 2 (May 16, 2016): 590–610. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jsbed-07-2015-0085.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how women small business owners’ (SBOs) business start-up motivations influence their network content. Design/methodology/approach – Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 28 women SBOs who were recruited through purposeful sampling methods. Interview data on their start-up motivations were used to categorise them into three types: classic, forced and work-family. The interviews explored the network contents of the three categories of participants. Findings – There were many similarities between network contents of classic and forced SBOs, as both groups had started their business for financial reasons rather than family reasons. All the participants’ networks contained information and advice, economic transactions, intangible support and strong ties. However, the sources and types of network content were different for the classic and forced SBOs when compared to work-family SBOs. Research limitations/implications – This study has limitations that tend to be commonly found in exploratory studies, such as a small sample size. However, the findings lay the groundwork for future quantitative studies that examine associations between SBOs’ motivations for starting a business and their network contents. Originality/value – This research responds to calls for studies aimed at developing a more nuanced understanding of SBOs’ networking behaviour. The study provides empirical evidence of a relationship between the motivations for starting a business and the network content of SBOs. The findings can be used by businesswomen’s network organisations in their mentoring and training interventions.
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Kolvereid, Lars. "Preference for self-employment." International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation 17, no. 2 (May 2016): 100–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1465750316648576.
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The preference for self-employment varies much between countries. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the preference for self-employment, new business start-up intentions and actual start-up efforts. This research is an application of the theory of planned behaviour. Data were collected using telephone interviews from a representative sample of Norwegian adults aged 18–64 years. The results support the theory, showing that the preference for self-employment, together with measures of subjective norm and perceived behavioural control, predicts business start-up intentions. These intentions, in turn, together with perceived behavioural control, predict involvement in business start-up efforts. This study has important implications for policymakers and future research.
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Kremel, Anna, and Darush Yazdanfar. "Business advisory services and risk among start-ups and young companies: a gender perspective." International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship 7, no. 2 (June 8, 2015): 168–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijge-05-2013-0046.
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Purpose – This study aims to investigate the demand for business advisory services by owners of start-ups and young companies by taking a gender perspective. The study also examines whether risk-taking is more characteristic of masculine than feminine behaviour in this context. Design/methodology/approach – A literature review examines business advisory services and risk aversion from a gender perspective. The empirical data are derived from interviews with owners of more than 2,700 start-ups and young companies in Sweden. A number of key variables compare how the company owners (women and men) view business advisory services as a way to overcome risk and to gain access to information in networks. Several statistical tests are used to analyse these data. Findings – Women owners of start-ups and young companies use more and different business advisory services than men owners. There are differences among the men owners and women owners with regard to the amount of start-up capital, company size and industry sector. Given the risks associated with start-up, business advisory services are important to women in helping them reduce their risk in the start-up and early stages of their companies. Research limitations/implications – Companies in Sweden’s largest city, Stockholm, were not included in the sample. Financial data were not used as variables. Practical implications – Policymakers should address women owners’ greater demand for business advisory services in their companies’ early stages. Originality/value – This study’s originality is its gender perspective on the demand for business advisory services by start-ups and young companies and its challenge to previous findings about entrepreneurial behaviour and risk-taking.
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Orobia, Laura, and Gerrit Rooks . "Risk Taking and Start-up Capital: Exploring Gender differences in Uganda, through an International Comparison." Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies 3, no. 2 (August 15, 2011): 83–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.22610/jebs.v3i2.258.
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This study sought to explain the gender differences with respect to risk taking behaviour and startup capital in Uganda, comparing with other countries. The start-up capital of businesses run by females is ostensibly smaller than those run by males in Uganda and in any other country. A number of reasons have been forwarded to explain this variance. Some researchers have linked the size of start-up capital to the risk taking behaviour among other factors. However there is insufficient local or Ugandan empirical research into this difference, given that much of the empirical research are based on western data sets. Data for this study was from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2003. A causal research design was used to establish the relationship between risk taking attitude and start up capital. A comparative design was also employed to compare the findings of Uganda with other GEM countries, Chi-square tests, and a two way analysis of variances were used to analyse the data. There are gender differences with respect to risk taking behaviour across all countries under study. However, the gender gap is wider in other countries than Uganda. On the whole, Uganda women are less risk averse as compared to those in other countries. The start-up capital requirement of Ugandan men is more than their female counterparts. In addition, Ugandan men invested more personal start up capital when they are risk averse. Among other recommendations, policy makers should sensitise females about viability of business start ups and encourage women access to ownership of property.
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Mshenga, P. M., D. O. Okello, O. I. Ayuya, D. Mwangi, D. Ouma, J. J., and N. W. Mungai. "Influence of entrepreneurship education on Egerton University’s graduates’ intention to start a business." African Crop Science Journal 28, s1 (October 2, 2020): 289–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/acsj.v28i1.22s.
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Entrepreneurship training has been introduced in most Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in sub-Saharan Africa countries to enhance graduate self-employment. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of entrepreneurship training on Egerton University’s graduates’ intention to start a business. This study used the Ajzen’s theory of planned behaviour (TPB) in a cross sectional survey, conducted during April to May, 2016. A sample of 341 business and non-business Egerton University graduates, enrolled from the year 2008 up to 2015 was used. Data were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire through telephone and face-to-face interviews. They were analysed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and PLS Multi-Group Analysis (PLS-MGA). Findings revealed presence of a significant positive relationship between attitude toward entrepreneurship (b = 0.315, P=0.01), proactiveness (b = 0.042, P=0.01), risk-propensity (b = 0.11, P=0.01), and self-efficacy (b = 0.138, P=0.01) on graduates’ intention to start a business. Furthermore, multi-group analysis showed that the same four attributes significantly predicted entrepreneurship intention among business and non-business graduates to start businesses. Also, subjective norms significantly impacted entrepreneurial intentions of business graduates to start businesses. Finally, business graduates had significant higher scores than non-business graduatesin terms of self-efficacy (b = 0.182, P=0.03) and subjective norms (b = 0.329, P=0.04).
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Kabous, Laila, Andreas Hinz, and Stefan Philippi. "Linking effectuation logic with business model innovation in the context of Swiss start-ups." European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship 17, no. 1 (September 7, 2022): 717–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.34190/ecie.17.1.392.
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Effectuation and business model innovation (BMI) are research topics that are frequently discussed in the literature. While effectuation describes the effectual behaviour for founding a start-up with an emphasis on using currently available means, BMI is considered a way of creating a business model with long-term competitive advantages. Both approaches are valuable for start-ups pursuing growth in an uncertain environment. This work-in-progress paper presents insights from the reviewed extant literature. Further research will investigate effectuation and its enabling impact in designing innovative business models in the context of Swiss start-ups.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Business start-up behaviour"
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Danč, Radek. "Podnikatelský start-up FairList s.r.o." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-225034.
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The thesis is associated with designing a business plan for a start-up named FairList Ltd.. The business plan is developed on the basis of the originally designed economic model which does not generate the needed profit. Attention is especially given to the analysis of the market and the identification of the specific needs of language educators and potential students who play an essential role in the success of the entire project.
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Leslie, Susan Elder. "An examination of the information behaviour of new entrepreneurs in the start-up phase of a business submitted to the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Library and Information Studies /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1271.
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Grešo, Juraj. "Impacts of Consumer Behavior Theory on a Start-up Business." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-114366.
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The thesis presents a general examination of Engel, Blackwell and Miniard's model of consumer behavior, elements of consumer behavior, consumers' attitudes towards health and nutrition issues, and practical application of those findings in development of marketing strategy and tactics for new restaurant concept located in Bratislava, the capital city of Slovak Republic and focused on professional and recreational athletes. This thesis shows main characteristics and specifications of consumer behavior. It describes relations and psychological motives that exist between human sensory systems and consumers' purchasing process. Thesis is based on comparison between theory and reality in consumer behavior. The main aim of this work is to build a basis for development of comprehensive marketing strategy for FitHouse RestaurantsTM, a newly established restaurant concept aimed to provide proper nutrition for professional and recreational athletes. Partial aims of first - theoretical part are to examine consumer behavior and specify consumer's purchasing process in several steps. Second -- research part aims to identify elements that influence consumer decision-making process and attempts to put them in perspective of a consumer opting for healthy lifestyle. It further aims to understand consumer through author's own online survey on sport, nutrition and attributes of an ideal restaurant for healthy lifestyle. Third - practical part presents framework for development of real marketing strategy for FitHouse Restaurants based on results and findings acquired in first and second part of the thesis. It presents ideas and tactics that will help FitHouse Restaurants attract enough customers and succeed on market.
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Lindsay, Wendy A. "Values, entrepreneurial attitude, and entrepreneurial intentions as antecedents of nascent entrepreneur business start-up behaviour in South Africa : a longitudinal study." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/78341.
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Various studies have embarked on identifying differences between existing entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs. Many of these studies used personality characteristics and demographics to explore these differences but to no avail. The use of attitude theory, however, has shown promise in predicting behavioural tendency differences between existing and non entrepreneurs. Various questions, however, remain unanswered including ... Whether entrepreneurial attitudes are inherent in nascent entrepreneurs or whether they develop through exposure to business? To what extent do entrepreneurial attitudes develop over time and how are they related to business start-up? To what extent is it possible to develop entrepreneurial attitudes in non-entrepreneurs? If this is possible, are these attitudes sustainable over time that will lead to business start-up behaviours? In dealing with these unanswered questions, a potentially problematic issue that has been identified with the attitude construct in the psychological literature is that attitudes may not be stable. Thus, attitude toward an object may change. Validated entrepreneurial attitude scales have been developed and deployed; however, most key studies have been cross-sectional and so have not been able to measure whether temporal changes occur. This research adopts a repeated measures longitudinal approach to measuring entrepreneurial attitude so as to be able to address this issue. In addition, because values are regarded as a relatively stable construct and because values and attitudes are related, this research also examines the values - entrepreneurial attitude - entrepreneurial intentions relationship over time and examines to what extent these contribute toward business start-up behaviour. The research design employs two groups: one group whose members identified
themselves as intending to start a business (referred to as nascent entrepreneurs) and another group whose members stated that they had no intentions of starting a business (referred to as non-entrepreneurs). These two groups were tracked over a four and a half year period with repeated measures taken at T₁ (Baseline), T₂ (one year later after they participated in a one
year entrepreneurship training and mentoring intervention), and at T₃ (end-of-study) – which was three and a half years after T₂. There were 329 nascent and 107 non-entrepreneurs at T₁ and 287 nascent and 106 non-entrepreneurs participating in the research at T₃. All participants were black South Africans, chronically unemployed, and were socially and economically disadvantaged. Thus, a major motivation for starting a business for the nascent entrepreneur group was out of necessity – they needed to generate a revenue stream to improve their quality of life and/or survive. Using structural equation modeling, both differences and similarities were detected over time between the nascent entrepreneur and non-entrepreneur group results. Entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions fluctuated while values remained relatively stable. Because attitudes are unstable, the use of entrepreneurial attitudes alone to differentiate between the nascent and non-entrepreneur groups would have been effective at T₁ and T₃ but would have produced spurious results at T₂. The research contributes to theory by building upon and extending prior research that has mainly been undertaken in a Westernised context so that there is a better understanding of
the research constructs and their inter-relationships in a socio-economic disadvantaged context within a developing country,. The research also contributes toward practice in terms of the insights gleaned from the behavioural outcomes identified from immersing nascent and non-entrepreneurs in an intensive entrepreneurship training and mentoring program intervention.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and Innovation Centre, 2012
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Jordaan, Anton John. "Entrepreneurial self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation, and entrepreneurial intention as antecedents of nascent necessity-entrepreneur business start-up behaviour in South Africa: a longitudinal study." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/85203.
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This research examines the inter-relationships among entrepreneurial self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation, and entrepreneurial intention as antecedents to entrepreneurial start-up behaviour. The research participants were South African nascent necessity-entrepreneurs. Theoretical foundations for the research are derived from Ajzen’s (1991) theory of planned behaviour. The research design involved a repeated measures longitudinal study over 4.5 years that included an entrepreneurship training, mentoring, and incubation intervention program. This was introduced during the first 12-months of the study. Repeated measures of the variables of interest were collected at T₁ (baseline), T₂ (immediately at the end of the 12-month entrepreneurship intervention program), and T₃ (end-of-study). A structural model comprised of the variables of interest was developed and structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to analyse the data. The research questions addressed centred upon the extent to which entrepreneurial self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation, and entrepreneurial intention were inter-related and the extent to which they contributed toward nascent necessity-entrepreneur entrepreneurial start-up behaviour. The longitudinal nature of the research allowed for an understanding of the dynamic nature of the variables of interest over the three points where measurements were taken. This was important since changes in the means of the three antecedent variables were observed to various degree immediately after the entrepreneurship training, mentoring, and incubation intervention program (T₂) and at the end-of-study (T₃) - compared to T₁ and T₂. These changes highlighted the shortcomings in cross-sectional studies where variables of interest are known to be unstable over time. While previous studies have examined the inter-relationships among entrepreneurial self-efficacy, entrepreneurial intention, and entrepreneurial start-up behaviour, this research adds to current theory by examining to what extent intrinsic motivation is an important antecedent contributor (along with entrepreneurial self-efficacy) to entrepreneurial behaviour. It also makes a contribution to theory by examining the variable interrelationships in a South African nascent necessity-entrepreneur context (other entrepreneurial intention studies have focused on opportunity-oriented entrepreneurs). The research makes a contribution to practice by providing insights into the design, development, and delivery of effective entrepreneurial training, mentoring, and incubation programs. The research also provides valuable insights for policy makers in the framing of policy aimed at stimulating the entrepreneurial training of nascent necessity-entrepreneurs as a means of assisting them in the new venture creation process.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and Innovation Centre (ECIC), 2014
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Velazquez, Kenia Vanesa Somarriba, and 瓦內沙. "Based on Consumer Value-Attitude-Behavior Model to Construct A Start-Up Business Plan: A Case Study of Healthy Food Restaurant in Nicaragua." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/u4rys6.
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Healthy food is one of the new trends in the restaurant industry. Understanding how customers decide to consume the healthy food is a key issue among scholars and restaurant owners. The present study has as an objective to develop a business plan for a start-up healthy food restaurant in Nicaragua. This study is also aimed to understand how the health values of the consumers influence the attitudes toward taste and healthfulness of the food and how this influence is translated into healthy food consumption intention; and how to interpret that information into an effective marketing strategy. A total of 298 questionnaires were collected through internet based survey and analyzed. The results for the structural equation model (SEM) indicated that the health value has a direct positive effect on the attitudes toward taste and toward healthfulness, although it does not have a direct effect on behavior intention. There is however a direct influence of both attitudes toward taste and healthfulness into behavior intention. The business plan was elaborated and the information from the questionnaire was used to complete the marketing strategy for the restaurant. The financial analysis on the five-year business plan revealed that the restaurant is a solid investment with a Net Present Value (NPV) of US$ 121,977.86 and a Return of Investment (ROI) of 22% with a 30% discount rate.
Books on the topic "Business start-up behaviour"
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Experimentation by start-up-firms. West Lafayette, Ind: Institute for Research in the Behavioral, Economic, and Management Sciences, Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University, 1990.
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Thwin, Chaw Su Su, Shaima Saeed Abdulrahman Ba Naga, Uma Thevi Munikrishnan, Abdullah Al Mamun, Noor Raihani Zainol, and Anas A. Salameh. "Entrepreneurial Intention and Pre-start-Up Behaviour Among Malaysian University Students." In Financial Technology (FinTech), Entrepreneurship, and Business Development, 937–56. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08087-6_65.
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Safaati, R. A., and P. M. Desiana. "Transformational leadership style as a driving factor of organizational citizenship behaviors mediated by work engagement and transfer of training: A case study on start-up companies in Indonesia." In Contemporary Research on Business and Management, 207–10. London: CRC Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781003196013-51.
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Ruggieri, Alessandro, Cecilia Silvestri, and Michela Piccarozzi. "Consumerism, Market Analysis and Impact on Business Plan Definition." In Marketing and Consumer Behavior, 228–62. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7357-1.ch011.
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Creating a company is an event of great uncertainty and complexity. Many variables are to be considered and trying to predict the future development of the business is particularly important. A set of market and strategic analysis instruments can help entrepreneurs to define and solve problem in the start-up phase and to understand the potentialities of business. In particular, the analysis of consumerism is a particularly important factor in order to outline the development of demand and consumer behaviour. Therefore, the first instrument is certainly the business plan; it is necessary to explain and show the aspects of the market where firms will work. This chapter analyzes, through a qualitative analysis, the techniques of market analysis useful for drawing up a business plan focused on the consumer and the dynamics of consumerism. The goal is to emphasize the role the evolutionary dynamics of the consumer and his or her preferences play in leading the company planning towards specific market positioning and in determining the business volume.
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Baaken, Thomas, Liguang Liu, and Lea Lapornik. "Bricolage and Growth Hacking: Two Smart Concepts of Creating a Business Lacking Resources." In Next Generation Entrepreneurship [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.99391.
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The chapter presents two smart concepts of creating a new business without or with only low budget. Thus, it applies particularly e.g., for either students, refugees and/or people from developing countries. “Bricolage” stands for a behaviour in which the actor solves problems using only available resources. Contrary to the resource-creating mentality, only the resources of the repertoire at hand are used. “Growth Hacking” as a new method, using digital approaches in particular, can achieve high sales in a short time. The relevance of data-driven marketing within the framework of a growth strategy. Working primarily with data is a promising strategy for companies that can effectively, efficiently and cost effectively using online tools or online-offline combinations to achieve their growth objectives. Thus, the two concepts are complementing each other by dedication to two different stages of a start-up process. Bricolage for creating the start-up and Growth Hacking for getting it successfully to the market and make it grow sustainably. The Chapter is describing the two concepts and their interdependence by offering a conceptual framework.
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Ruggieri, Alessandro, Cecilia Silvestri, and Michela Piccarozzi. "Consumerism, Market Analysis and Impact on Business Plan Definition." In Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services, 425–57. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5880-6.ch019.
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Creating a company is an event of great uncertainty and complexity. Many variables are to be considered and trying to predict the future development of the business is particularly important. A set of market and strategic analysis instruments can help entrepreneurs to define and solve problem in the start-up phase and to understand the potentialities of business. In particular, the analysis of consumerism is a particularly important factor in order to outline the development of demand and consumer behaviour. Therefore, the first instrument is certainly the business plan; it is necessary to explain and show the aspects of the market where firms will work. This chapter analyzes, through a qualitative analysis, the techniques of market analysis useful for drawing up a business plan focused on the consumer and the dynamics of consumerism. The goal is to emphasize the role the evolutionary dynamics of the consumer and his or her preferences play in leading the company planning towards specific market positioning and in determining the business volume.
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Dávila, Fernando A. Moya. "Relationship Lending and Entrepreneurial Behavior." In Start-Up Enterprises and Contemporary Innovation Strategies in the Global Marketplace, 65–86. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4831-7.ch006.
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Using a game theory approach to model the behavior of entrepreneurs and banks, I develop a new theoretical model supporting the idea that when a relationship is weak and is not considered in economic transactions, thereby causing a bank to disregard a small business entrepreneur's actions, both economic agents (i.e., the bank and the entrepreneur) will lose economic rents. On the other hand, when a relationship is strong and an entrepreneur's actions are observed, the resulting economic rents will be such that each party will be better off building a relationship than not building it. A major contribution of this theoretical model is the introduction of a relationship index (new to the relationship lending literature) that measures the speed of building relationships between banks and small business entrepreneurs and the limit of these relationships. The index is easy to understand because it reveals information about the degree of the relationship (considering speed and limit) between a bank and a small business entrepreneur.
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Stoecker, Randy, and Benny Witkovsky. "From inclusionary to exclusionary populism in the transformation of US community development." In Populism, Democracy and Community Development, 127–48. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447353836.003.0008.
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This chapter addresses the transformation of community development in the United States. The post-World War II history of community development in the United States can be defined by a transition from a power-based model emphasising participatory and redistributive community power building, to a neoliberal model emphasising physical rehabilitation and business development. Neoliberal community development, however much it was consciously planned and engineered by economic and political elites, required a specific political milieu to take root and grow. In particular, it required a voting base that would support candidates promoting far-right, anti-democratic, anti-worker, and baldly racist policies. This political base — rural, white, and male — ends up voting to dismantle the community structures designed to empower them in the hope of some benefit from powerful leaders. This is the exact opposite of the community model that organises people to define and pursue their collective self-interest towards an expanded democracy. How can we understand such behaviour? We can start by thinking about it as a result of the Janus-faced nature of populism that allows it to be either (or both) inclusionary and exclusionary.
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Mengü, Seda, Mehmet Murat Mengü, Yeşim Güçdemir, and Abdurrahman Seçkin Canan. "The Nature of Digital Leadership in Managing Employees Through Organizational Culture." In Business Management and Communication Perspectives in Industry 4.0, 152–72. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9416-1.ch009.
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Thinking, decision-making, and visions have changed with digitalization, which transforms the climate and culture of the corporations and enables the emergence of new institutional behaviors and organizational environments. Should leaders and PR professionals change their current strategies to adapt themselves to the new digital environments? What strategies can the digital leaders utilize to connect with the employees of the future? One of the organizations that have been influenced the most by the digital transformation is the start-ups companies. The managers of the future will need all the flexibility, emotional intelligence, and creative thinking. Thus, the purpose of this study is to determine the influence of digital leadership on start-up companies regarding technological and social influences of the digital age across different demographics. Thus, a short questionnaire was implemented through semi-structured in-depth interviews in order to find out the influences over organizational culture. In this context, the leaders of eight start-up companies from Turkey were interviewed.
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Tandon, Deepak, D. K. Batra, and Neelam Tandon. "Financial Performance and Valuation of Indian Banks." In Start-Up Enterprises and Contemporary Innovation Strategies in the Global Marketplace, 180–91. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4831-7.ch013.
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The Indian banking sector is undergoing a phenomenal transformation through innovative business lines. The sustainability of the banks is characterized by superior performance, more prudent behavior in the finance and commerce industry. Keeping in view the diversification, valuing bank stocks is a cumbersome task. Reliability, transparency, corporate governance, Economic Value Added (EVA), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) are a recent buzz when ranking of the profitability of banks is to be considered by the investor. Operational efficiency, liquidity, solvency, profitability is to be weighed using metrics and evaluation of the sources and magnitude and performance of the banks. DuPont analysis/David Cole Method of bank groups comes to the rescue of the researcher to understand the profitability. The authors have evaluated sources and magnitude of performance, profitability and productivity of the listed Indian Banks. As a pilot study, data has been collected for the years 2007-2016 of three public and three private sector banks and statistical Chi-square tool has been applied to ROA, ROE and EM as variables.
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Wilson, Julie. "Dyadic Relationship Quality (DRQ) – Describing the Development of Leader-Follower Relationship Quality: A Qualitative, Longitudinal Study." In Business, Management and Economics. IntechOpen, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.108458.
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For the last 20 years, Leader-Member Exchange theory (LMX) has been associated with the quality of relationships between leaders and followers, accounting for quality through the four dimensions of contribution, affect, loyalty and respect. This paper contributes to our understanding of relationship quality by presenting an extension to LMX theory. With a more comprehensive view of the development of leader-follower relationship quality than existing LMX theory, we propose the explanatory construct of Dyadic Relationship Quality (DRQ) development. The DRQ model demonstrates how trusting behaviours have hitherto been overlooked as the key to positive initial interactions. We show how performance and relationship quality are active dimensions of relationship development rather than outcomes of the relational process. The paper elaborates the experiential nature of leader-follower relationship quality by utilising a relatively rare methodology in LMX studies, a longitudinal qualitative study of leaders and followers in high-tech start-up organisations.
Conference papers on the topic "Business start-up behaviour"
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Janeska – Iliev, Aleksandra, Stojan Debarliev, and Ljubomir Drakulevski. "BUILDING UP THE BASE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THE MEANING OF UNIVERSITY IN THE ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM." In Economic and Business Trends Shaping the Future. Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Faculty of Economics-Skopje, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47063/ebtsf.2020.0031.
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In our research, we aim to extend the debate about the new role of universities as an entrepreneurial ecosystem, by examining some underlying and fundamental, but very important dimensions for further and deeper examinations of this subject such as university ownership, field of study and the entrepreneurial education concentration within, as well as the university environment and learning programs. The research considers an analysis based on major implications proposed by the GUESSS Project (Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students' Survey) to generate in-depth insights into students’ entrepreneurial intentions. A hierarchical multiple regression was run to determine the effect of different variables related to university ecosystem on entrepreneurial intention of student population. The data comes from the GUESSS survey 2018, conducted at state and private universities in North Macedonia, with undergraduate and postgraduate students. A sample of 398 respondents was collected. The study contributes to the existing literature on nascent entrepreneurship and start-up behaviour in understanding the impact of key elements of an entrepreneurial ecosystem within a university on student start-up activity.
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Slaper, Timothy F., Alyssa Bianco, and Peter E. Lenz. "Digital Vapor Trails: Using Website Behavior to Nowcast Entrepreneurial Activity." In CARMA 2018 - 2nd International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/carma2018.2018.8327.
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Following recent research, we explore virtually contemporaneous, and geographically granular, user online activity related to entrepreneurship. In this paper, we present evidence that data harvested by Dstillery can complement efforts of, and data collected by, government agencies and organizations advocating for entrepreneurship, business formation and economic growth, e.g., the Kauffman Foundation. Our website-based behavior data is close to real time and at a geographically granular level. We find that the concentration of a region’s visits to website resources for entrepreneurship and business development are statistically related to business start-up and, particularly, growth activity. Visits to websites related to entrepreneurship are more strongly associated with growth entrepreneurship, in contrast to start-up entrepreneurship. While data capture and analysis related to entrepreneurship website activity is in its infancy, this analysis points to the potential of this data source to nowcast business formation and growth at a regional level.
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Kappis, Wolfgang, Stefan Florjancic, and Uwe Ruedel. "Alstom Gas Turbine Technology Overview: Status 2014." In ASME Turbo Expo 2015: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2015-43289.
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Market requirements for the heavy duty gas turbine power generation business have significantly changed over the last few years. With high gas prices in former times, all users have been mainly focusing on efficiency in addition to overall life cycle costs. Today individual countries see different requirements, which is easily explainable picking three typical trends. In the United States, with the exploitation of shale gas, gas prices are at a very low level. Hence, many gas turbines are used as base load engines, i.e. nearly constant loads for extended times. For these engines reliability is of main importance and efficiency somewhat less. In Japan gas prices are extremely high, and therefore the need for efficiency is significantly higher. Due to the challenge to partly replace nuclear plants, these engines as well are mainly intended for base load operation. In Europe, with the mid and long term carbon reduction strategy, heavy duty gas turbines is mainly used to compensate for intermittent renewable power generation. As a consequence, very high cyclic operation including fast and reliable start-up, very high loading gradients, including frequency response, and extended minimum and maximum operating ranges are required. Additionally, there are other features that are frequently requested. Fuel flexibility is a major demand, reaching from fuels of lower purity, i.e. with higher carbon (C2+), content up to possible combustion of gases generated by electrolysis (H2). Lifecycle optimization, as another important request, relies on new technologies for reconditioning, lifetime monitoring, and improved lifetime prediction methods. Out of Alstom’s recent research and development activities the following items are specifically addressed in this paper. Thermodynamic engine modelling and associated tasks are discussed, as well as the improvement and introduction of new operating concepts. Furthermore extended applications of design methodologies are shown. An additional focus is set ono improve emission behaviour understanding and increased fuel flexibility. Finally, some applications of the new technologies in Alstom products are given, indicating the focus on market requirements and customer care.
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Puspita, Mugi, Tjutju Yuniarsih, and Lili Adi Wibowo. "The Influence of Transformational Leadership and Knowledge Sharing on Innovative Work Behavior of Millenial Employees in Start-Up Companies." In 6th Global Conference on Business, Management, and Entrepreneurship (GCBME 2021). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.220701.078.
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Lo, Mei-Chen, Yi-Chuan Hsu, and Martin Drozda. "Entrepreneur's priority traits on creative and innovative behavior in technology era - case of innovative new start-up businesses." In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ieem.2015.7385688.
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MEȘTER, Liana-Eugenia, Andreea-Florina FORA, Nicoleta Georgeta BUGNAR, and Margit CSIPKÉS. "FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE BEHAVIOR OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN MAKING THE DECISION TO START A BUSINESS. CASE STUDY." In International Management Conference. Editura ASE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.24818/imc/2021/01.13.
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This study aims to analyze the behavior when making the decision to become entrepreneurs of young people aged 21-23 (economics undergraduates in their final year at universities in Romania and Hungary). The tool used in the analysis is the questionnaire applied that revealed the factors making up the behavior when deciding to start a business. Knowing their motivation will allow them to understand action decisions, development plans, as well as the perception of today's world and the new reality. Similar studies have highlighted the link between the behavior of the young generation, including starting a business, and access to the Internet using new technologies (43% of young people aged 21 to 24 spend between 4 and 8 hours a day in front of screens), lack of financial resources, difficulty in accessing funding sources, lack of career counseling or moral support from those close to you. Compared to the needs of students in Hungary, the study underlines, in the case of Romanian economists, the link between their behavior when facing the entrepreneurial decision and funding sources (lack of own funds, difficulty accessing funding sources), but also lack of career counseling. The identified solution is to support the establishment of a counseling center for economics students within the faculty following the model of the center that operates in the University of Hungary.
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Morgenstern, Rico, Soujatya Mukherjee, Aron Behr, and Mohsen Rafiee. "Numerical Analysis of Condensate Blockage and its Mitigation by a Wettability Altering Nanofluid Treatment." In SPE Reservoir Characterisation and Simulation Conference and Exhibition. SPE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/212609-ms.
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Abstract During field development planning, the condensate blockage phenomena often receives minor attention leading to overestimation of the gas well deliverability. This study addresses the numerical analysis of both the risk potential of condensate blockage and the complex physiochemical processes of nanofluid treatment for two very different gas condensate fields. Producing gas condensate reservoirs below the dew point results in condensate dropout and liquid holdup, which usually impairs the gas flow significantly. Wintershall Dea is currently investigating the feasibility of a nanofluid huff’n’puff treatment which aims to alter the wettability in the near-wellbore area, so that both water and condensate are repelled by the rock surface. For accurate representation of condensate blockage, Generalized Pseudo Pressure (GPP) along with local grid refinements (LGRs) were incorporated in the compositional model as well as high-velocity effects and a detailed post hydraulic fracture environment. The limitations of commercial simulation software in representing the nanofluid treatment in the dynamic reservoir model were overcome by combining the implementation of new hydrocarbon components, the surfactant model, tracers, chemical reactions, and special-purpose Python scripts. The buildup and spatial distribution of the condensate in and around the well and the fracture was analyzed. The two key parameters influencing the severeness of condensate blockage comprise the composition of the reservoir fluid and the effective permeability of the gas phase, which are particularly influenced by multiphase flow behavior, formation and/or fracture damage, high-velocity flow effects, and subsurface equipment like gravel packs. In both reservoirs studied, wells were identified that will most likely experience significant productivity impairments due to condensate blockage, some already a few months after the start of production and some in the next few years. The transport of the active nanofluid chemical was implemented by two different approaches: for one it was carried by a solvent system, and for the other it was dispersed as droplets in gas. Both approaches mainly differ in the depth of penetration and the propagation of the nanofluid as well as in the operational effort and the longevity of the wettability alteration. The nanofluid treatment cases demonstrated promising preliminary results with an increase in gas productivity index up to 30%. The removal of condensate blockage using a novel wettability altering nanofluid formulation was initially conceptualized and subsequently analyzed for vertical wells and hydraulic fractures using numerical simulation. For the first time, a comparison between the injection of the active nanofluid within either a gas or solvent carrier was evaluated. The risk of condensate blockage and a potential treatment were analyzed for real case scenarios including promising business viability.
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Zheng, Yu, and Zhanxun Dong. "An experimental study on the applicability of Fusion display and Overlay display of AR smart city data and information." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001729.
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Background Smart digital twin cities digitally create virtual models of urban systems,It simulates the behavior of physical entities in a realistic environment with the help of data . And through virtual and real interactive feedback, data fusion analysis, decision iterative optimization and other means to design and build smart city platforms, Thus adding or extending new capabilities to smart city management.In conjunction with the trend towards AR glasses， paperless information design，the visual expression of information models, will be an important trend in the future, In demand for AR smart city related information reading, The right visual expression can assist managers in their exploration of the city's data.The key to AR information presentation is the presentation of the information, i.e. the way information is covered. Based on past research findings，There are two most conventional and operational ways to present，Fusion display and Overlay display. However, which one to use as the dominant form of presentation needs to be explored experimentally.Method In order to investigate which is more suitable for smart city data overlay, Fusion display or Overlay display. This experiment used Rhino 3D tools to build a 3D model of the city, The model contains three smart city operation scenarios: building equipment operation status, community power management system, and smart operation of business district，The content of the message is consistent in each scenario，while it is expressed through both Fusion display and Overlay display. Twenty identical questions and answers were set up for each comparison group's information presentation.The experiment will last for five weeks and the number of recruits will be 32, Recruiters are divided into groups A and B, each with sixteen members. The experiment required the subject to be able to read 12pt Arial regular characters without wearing glasses，Group A uses Fusion display, Group B uses Overlay display，Comparison of accuracy of information delivery and fatigue of information reading by subjects after test subjects have completed the same information questionnaire，The applicability of the interface was verified using the NASA- TLX scale. The specific experiments are as follows：(1)Information accuracy test session, this session is for the experimenter to wear the TOBII eye-movement instrument and conduct a 2 question visual expression test to ensure that the experimenter is familiar with the experimental process.(2) Cognitive experiment, the experimenter first read the questions carefully, after clarifying the questions, the experimenter picked up the tablet computer for AR overlay on the images, then the subject looked at the centre of the screen, received the "start" command, clicked on the centre of the screen and started reading to find information and complete the questions, a total of 5 groups of 20 questions, the experimenter recorded the time for each question.(3）Fatigue experiment, in this session, we ask the experimenter to test the fatigue of reading information in two types of visual information presentation: Fusion display and Overlay display，after the experimenter says "start", the experimenter will carry out a 10-minute information reading task of the same type of visual information presentation, read the information in the diagram The test is completed with multiple-choice questions. After reading the same type of visual expression, a five-minute break is taken and another visual expression reading task follows.(4）Interface usability questionnaires, in which the subjects are asked to evaluate the experimental interface according to their own circumstances, fill in an experimental research questionnaire and provide preferences and experimental suggestionsResultAt the end of the experiment, questionnaires, question completion schedules, eye-tracking point charts, thermograms, eye-beat charts and point analysis charts were collected from the AB group, and conclusions were generated through statistical analysis of the experimental data,The results are as follows：1) In terms of correctness data analysis, the Fusion display has a significantly lower correctness rate than the Overlay display2) In terms of completion efficiency, the Fusion display is significantly slower than the Overlay display in recognitionConclusion(1)Under the task-oriented experiment, users in the Fusion display were more focused on text.(2)Users who used the Fusion display f tended to search more in the central area.(3)Users' subjective feedback shows that fusion displays are preferred because they are more technological in nature(4)The range of eye movements of the subjects in the Fusion display is wider, while in the Overlay display, the trajectory of the subjects' eye movements is concentrated on the layer information. (5)The saturated color module has a higher number of user attentions