ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAJECTORIES entrepreneurial opportunities, business models, and firm ... performance

Entrepreneurship Trajectories: Entrepreneurial Opportunities, Business Models, and Firm Performance explores several entrepreneurship trajectories recognized by economists and entrepreneurs. It is not possible to talk about growth paths addressed by entrepreneurial ventures without recalling the bus...

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Main Author: MATRICANO, DIEGO.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] ELSEVIER ACADEMIC Press 2020
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505 0 |a Front Cover -- Entrepreneurship Trajectories -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Framing the entrepreneurship phenomenon -- 1.1 The state-of-the-art of entrepreneurship studies -- 1.2 Overview of the main research themes in entrepreneurship studies -- 1.2.1 Opportunities and the entrepreneurial process -- 1.2.2 Venture financing -- 1.2.3 Entrepreneurial cognition -- 1.2.4 Economic development and entrepreneurship -- 1.2.5 Family business -- 1.2.6 Corporate entrepreneurship -- 1.2.7 Social entrepreneurship and sustainability 
505 0 |a 5.3 Incremental trajectory -- 5.4 Adventurous trajectory -- 5.5 Entrepreneurship trajectories -- References -- 6 Selected cases -- 6.1 The choice of the research method -- 6.2 The data collection system: semistructured interviews -- 6.3 Selected cases -- 6.4 Lascò ltd -- 6.5 Ludus Magnus Studio llc -- 6.6 Xonda Derm ltd -- 6.7 Comments on the cases -- References -- 7 Conclusion -- Index -- Back Cover 
505 0 |a 2.3 A pragmatic approach to the performance of entrepreneurial firms -- 2.3.1 A review of the official reports on the performances of entrepreneurial firms -- 2.3.2 Discussion about the performances of entrepreneurial firms -- 2.4 Possible outputs of entrepreneurship trajectories -- References -- 3 The business model -- 3.1 The business model: an overlapping concept -- 3.2 Defining the business model -- 3.3 Setting up the business model -- 3.3.1 Innovation, adaptation, and experimentation -- 3.4 Factors affecting the setting up of a business model -- 3.4.1 Relevance of industry 
505 0 |a 1.2.8 Women and minority entrepreneurship -- 1.2.9 Global entrepreneurship -- 1.2.10 Entrepreneurship research, education, and pedagogy -- 1.3 Reflections about the main research themes in entrepreneurship studies -- 1.4 The structure of the book -- References -- Further reading -- 2 The performance of entrepreneurial firms -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Problems with prior research -- 2.2.1 Defining entrepreneurial firms -- 2.2.2 Refining the concept of performance achieved by entrepreneurial firms -- 2.2.3 Reviewing the factors that can affect the growth of entrepreneurial firms 
505 0 |a 3.4.2 Relevance of firm age -- 3.5 Entrepreneurial firms and their business models -- 3.6 Concluding remarks -- References -- Further reading -- 4 Entrepreneurial opportunities -- 4.1 The identification of entrepreneurial opportunities -- 4.2 The neoclassical approach -- 4.3 The Austrian approach -- 4.4 The contemporary approach -- 4.5 Reflections on the identification of entrepreneurial opportunities -- 4.6 Concluding remarks -- References -- Further reading -- 5 Entrepreneurship trajectories -- 5.1 The approach for drawing entrepreneurship trajectories -- 5.2 Flat trajectory 
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520 |a Entrepreneurship Trajectories: Entrepreneurial Opportunities, Business Models, and Firm Performance explores several entrepreneurship trajectories recognized by economists and entrepreneurs. It is not possible to talk about growth paths addressed by entrepreneurial ventures without recalling the business model and the type of entrepreneurial opportunity at their foundations. Diego Matricano assumes that the growth paths addressed by entrepreneurial ventures depend on both effective business models and promising opportunities. This pragmatic guide illuminates the entrepreneurial trajectories linking opportunities, business models, and growth paths, offering complete and nuanced views through its extensive use of case studies