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0000-0003-2957-5927
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University of Queensland
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Publisher: Pluto Journals
Date: 03-2010
DOI: 10.1080/08109021003668620
Abstract: New ventures play an important role in economic growth. The resource logic underlying how these firms develop in the early stages, however, has not received adequate attention in the literature. This paper examines the launch trajectories of embryonic ventures. We propose a configurational model of these trajectories based on the resources and stages required to establish a viable commercial entity. Potential launching paths are identified, from the inception of a new product/service idea through to success outcomes, including rapid, independent sales growth, stabilized profit, acquisition or Initial Public Offering. We argue that embryonic firms must balance the development of product, financial and human resources through waves of resource accumulation as they move through different stages of development. We summarize our arguments in a model of venture evolution.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 27-03-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2017
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 26-08-2014
DOI: 10.1108/IJEBR-09-2013-0135
Abstract: – The purpose of this paper is to develop contemporary entrepreneurial configurations of small firms and relates them to performance. Adding a process dimension, the authors extend the more commonly used resource and growth taxonomies in this field of research. – A review of current literature on small firm configurations is followed by a discussion of its dimensions, namely, context (external and internal environment), content (entrepreneurial orientation (EO)) and process (strategy making). These are related to perceived performance, using cluster analysis and ANOVA for a s le of 320 small New Zealand firms. – The results isolate young corporates, young simple and mature consolidator clusters. Young corporates outperform their counterparts in dynamic environments in how they use formal structures, and their high EO and generative strategy-making (GSM). – This study uses self-reporting measures and a cross-sectional design. – The findings show how young, small firms can enhance their performance practically by aligning the key dimensions of an entrepreneurial configuration. These firms could benefit from early formalization of systems and structures, a high EO, and by using a GSM approach. – The contribution is threefold. First, the authors empirically verify the existence of three clusters of small firms and then link these to perceived performance. Second, by basing the small-firm configurations on a content, context, process framework, the authors highlight the importance of aligning these dimensions to performance. Third, the authors find evidence of the role of early formalization to accompany GSM and EO if small firms want to improve performance outcomes.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 10-05-2011
DOI: 10.1108/13552551111130736
Abstract: This paper aims to examine the integration of entrepreneurship and strategy to develop a conceptual framework of strategic entrepreneurship. The framework is developed through an analysis of theory and refined through an examination of practice. This framework is considered in the context of potentially entrepreneurial and strategic activity undertaken by 12 of the 17 state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) operating in New Zealand in 2006‐2007. Based on a review of documents, observation, and interviews with SOE executives, cases of 12 SOE activities were analysed to compare and contrast strategic entrepreneurship in practice. The findings reveal distinct elements within the four activities classified as strategic entrepreneurship, activities, such as leveraging from core skills and resources from a strategic perspective, and innovation from an entrepreneurial perspective. This study is one of the first to examine the nature of strategic entrepreneurship in practice and the associated financial returns.
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2011
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 30-04-2015
DOI: 10.1038/NRD4611
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Date: 09-2013
DOI: 10.1142/S1084946713500167
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore an ongoing application of the entrepreneurial method applied to the problem of food security in the developing world as an alternative logic. Food production and marketing channels in the developing world are often based on scientific logic starting with an ideal outcome and then strategically designing a plan to achieve it. This study is unique in that it describes the application of an entrepreneurial approach to food product and marketing in less developed nations. A field study is used to illustrate how entrepreneurship is being harnessed to help build a more efficient and effective agricultural value chain in Papua New Guinea (PNG) based on a more entrepreneurial approach. Value chain analysis uses effectual logic to leverage innovation and create value for the consumer, the organization and society thereby enhancing food security for the desperately poor in PNG. The use of the entrepreneurial method is offered as an alternative model for future international aid interventions and policy.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-07-2013
Abstract: This exploratory study draws upon the perspectives of employees and managers from 50 small Australian firms to build a more complete and nuanced view of the interaction of human resources and capabilities with firm performance. Specifically, it uses a mixed methods multilevel design that elicits employee perspectives of employment systems and chief executive officer (CEO) assessments of firm performance. Results show that higher performing firms had better rated employment systems, with a cluster of human resource practices which included greater informality, employee engagement and participation. The views of employees were more discriminating and diagnostic than those of CEOs. The article discusses the implications of these findings for the study of employment systems and human resource management in small firms.
Publisher: The University of Queensland Business School - Service Innovation Alliance
Date: 17-05-2023
DOI: 10.14264/AED4918
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 11-2007
DOI: 10.5172/JMO.2007.13.4.312
Abstract: This paper presents a suggested framework for future research designs to examine the benefits of entrepreneurship, both non-financial and financial. Based on a review of the literature and using contextual exemplars throughout the paper with an Australia and New Zealand focus, we identify a range of benefits from entrepreneurship at the various levels of analysis (e.g. in idual, organizational, national). From a non-financial perspective such benefits include independence, autonomy, competitive advantage, increased market share, employment and increased standards of living. From a financial perspective, entrepreneurships benefits include enhanced remuneration or rent from revenue, profits, cash flow, return on investment and increases in GDP – specific financial measures to be expressed in clear financial terms. The suggested framework represents both an initial step towards the measurement of entrepreneurships financial benefits and a valuable starting point for the development of a theory of the non-financial and financial benefits of entrepreneurship.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-03-2020
DOI: 10.1111/RADM.12401
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-03-2012
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5828-8.CH006
Abstract: This chapter reports research findings into the productivity challenge facing the Australian oil and gas industry. This industry has been experiencing cost overruns indicating a productivity decline that puts future projects and investment at risk. Using world-class survey methodologies developed by the Centre for Business Research at Cambridge University and adapted for the oil and gas industry, an evidence-based view on business decisions and conditions is provided and linked to performance. While many of the productivity challenges facing the Australian oil and gas industry are beyond immediate managerial control, this research shows that key productivity drivers are in the realm of the firm to influence. The research reported in this chapter shows that improvements in innovation, collaboration, and deeper competitive capabilities are the best levers to lift business productivity and to build a growth pathway for the future for this industry.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-07-2018
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 31-05-2011
DOI: 10.1108/09513551111133489
Abstract: This article aims to consider success in terms of the financial returns and risks of new public management (NPM) in state‐owned enterprises (SOEs). Financial returns of New Zealand SOEs were examined through a review of their annual reports over a five‐year period. Dimensions of risk were examined through interviews conducted in two phases over a two‐year period with senior executives from 12 of the (then) 17 SOEs operating in New Zealand. Findings indicate the potential for SOEs to operate as profitable government investments, with clear support for positive financial returns under NPM. However, variations noted within in idual SOEs also indicate that profitable and commercial operations may not be possible in all cases. An examination of the risks associated with SOEs' operations reveals a number of dimensions of risk, encompassing financial, political (including regulatory), reputational, and public accountability aspects. There is a need for an enhanced awareness on the part of internal and external stakeholders (such as the government and general public) of the risks SOEs face in pursuing higher levels of profitability. Also required, is a more acute understanding on the part of internal and external stakeholders (e.g. government and the public) of the need for SOEs to manage the range of risks identified, given the potentially delicate balance between risk and return. While previous studies have considered the financial returns of SOEs, or the risks faced by the public sector in terms of accountability, few have addressed the two issues collectively in a single context.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.5172/JMO.2012.18.1.123
Abstract: Dynamic capabilities ‘create, extend or modify’ the firm's current operating capabilities in order to enable strategic renewal. Although widely recognized, this conceptualization of the relationship between dynamic and operating capabilities lacks empirical grounding. Using process research into the difficult radical new product development path of a new influenza drug, our data reveal that dynamic and operating capabilities have a stage-gate type relationship. We demonstrate that dynamic capabilities need to achieve certain critical outputs if successful transfer to the operating capability stage is to be reached. Furthermore progress from one stage to the next is dependent on how well dynamic capabilities co-specialize with downstream operating capabilities. This co-specialization is enabled via three processes within a dynamic capability: value network knowledge generation, value schema development and value proposition development.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 26-11-2013
DOI: 10.1093/ICC/DTT046
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 31-12-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-04-2017
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 05-2006
DOI: 10.1108/03068290610660698
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to consider the role of government in fostering entrepreneurial activity and economic development, thereby balancing social and economic objectives. Case studies on state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) in New Zealand, one of which is examined in detail, are analysed and compared. Triangulated data from interviews, texts, and personal observation were collected and analysed in two separate phases, examining effective pathways for social enterprise in the public sector and related themes. Findings suggest the role of government is not limited to policy‐making. Examination of activity which aims to balance social and economic objectives identifies several factors which have contributed to successful and entrepreneurial operations within SOEs. Although limited to a single case, this paper reveals the nature and importance of entrepreneurial activity within government organisations. Deregulation as an alternative to privatisation is examined and evaluated. Evidence is provided to support entrepreneurship within the public sector as a strong foundation for balancing both social and economic objectives.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-06-2016
Abstract: This paper investigates two aspects of bank financing using a s le of 1,973 Australian small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs). We compare the variables that explain why Australian small to medium sized enterprises seek bank finance with those that underpin bank credit rationing of loan applications. Our analysis highlights that little overlap exists between the two sets of variables. Larger small to medium sized enterprises with growth intentions, business plans, and those in the agriculture industry are significantly more likely to seek finance. In contrast, firms in agriculture that are older, and that have incremental product innovation, 40% or more of export sales, and a male Chief Executive Officer, are less likely to be credit rationed. Importantly, having business plans, whether in large or small firms, does not relate significantly to credit rationing.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-08-2019
DOI: 10.1080/07317115.2019.1650863
Abstract: . The aim of this systematic literature review (SLR) was to investigate the effect of companion animals (whether simply as pets or used in more formal intervention approaches) on the physical and mental health of older adults (aged 60+). . The reviewers identified key search terms and conducted a systematic search of the PsycINFO and PubMed databases. The 70 articles reviewed were evaluated through tabular and thematic analysis. . In 52 of the studies examined, companion animals positively contributed to the mental and/or physical health of older adults. With respect to mental health, involvement with a companion animal improved participant quality of life and effectively attenuated symptoms of depression, anxiety, cognitive impairment, and the behavioral and psychiatric symptoms of dementia (BPSD). In relation to physical health, marked increases in physical activity and improvements in blood pressure and heart rate variability were the only consistent physical health improvements observed from companion animal interactions. . Animal companionship can benefit the mental and physical health of older adults, although more and better controlled research on this topic is required. . Use of companion animals has the potential to be an effective treatment or adjunct therapy to improve the health status and quality of life of older in iduals.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-07-2016
Abstract: We investigate the relationships between innovation in the business model, business model design themes, and firm performance. The ‘business model view’ and the related ‘business model innovation’ as emerging strategy, and innovation research domains, remain both ill-defined and marred by vague construct boundaries and limited empirical support. We build on existing theory to test our research model in a s le of 331 Australian firms. We find that business model design themes, which we argue are mechanisms for appropriating value from the firm’s business model, mediate the relationship between innovation and firm performance. Innovation without clarity in the business model leads to modest or negligible performance outcomes. We advocate for novelty-centered design themes because they unlock and translate the value from innovation to firm performance to a greater extent than transaction efficiency and user simplicity. We contend that broad innovation within the business model matters to performance but only if firms focus their business model design efforts more narrowly on coherently entrenching novelty and efficiency within their activity and transaction architecture.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 06-06-2023
DOI: 10.1108/IJEBR-07-2022-0681
Abstract: The paper aims to develop a strategic conceptualization and measurement scale of organizational resilience to support researchers examining how small firms prepare and respond deliberately to general disruptions in the operating environment over more extended time frames. The paper uses a four-step process to develop, present and test (for predictive validity) a scale of strategic organizational resilience for frequent events or those needing long-term responses. The resulting seven-factor measurement scale of organizational resilience consists of readiness, slack, problem-solving, flexibility, connectedness, adaptiveness and proactiveness. The literature on organizational resilience explains how organizations recover from rare but catastrophic events by focusing on adaptation principles and short-term survival. The broader conceptualization presented here enables the study of organizational resilience in small-medium size enterprises (SMEs) across more frequent and pervasive events, such as financial crises, industry downturns and other forms of structural change and technological disruption. This is operationalized in a measure that includes new strategic factors associated with forward-planning and more traditional operationally focused elements.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-08-2014
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 05-09-2016
Abstract: Unequal workplace gender outcomes continue to motivate research. Using the prism of work-life-(im)balance, the purpose of this paper is to show how identity salience and motivation contribute to a subject position that for many reproduces socially gendered practices of workplaces. After initial inductive computer-assisted text analysis, the authors innovatively move to deductively analyse data from focus group and semi-structured interviews of 18 female and 19 male Australian managers in the financial and government sectors. The authors find that a gendered sense of reflexivity is virtually non-existent among the female Australian managers and professionals interviewed in this research. The inductive stage of critical discourse analysis revealed a substantial difference between men and women in two concepts, responsibility, and choice. These form the axes of the typological model to better explain how non-reflexive gendered workplace practices are “performed”. This empirical research provides a foundation for understanding the role of choice and responsibility in work-home patterns for women. The absence of a reflexive gender-based understanding of women’s work-home choice is explained in Bourdieusian terms. By not specifically using a gender lens, the authors have avoided the stereotypical understanding of gendered workplaces.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2014
DOI: 10.1111/JSBM.12143
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-10-2013
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2007
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1108/11766090610659724
Abstract: The purpose of this research is to elaborate on a model of entrepreneurship within the public sector. Case studies involving state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) trace three ex les of entrepreneurial ventures. A theme of strategic use of entrepreneurial action within these organisations emerges. It is argued that these ex les are representative of both a field of enquiry and a specific concept which has been termed “strategic entrepreneurship”. On the strength of the findings from this study we are able to draw two important conclusions. First, empirical support is found for the notion of “strategic entrepreneurship”, which is defined and explained in this paper. Second, incidences of strategic entrepreneurship are demonstrated in the SOEs, which extend the range of entrepreneurial types usually described in the public sector. A number of core and supporting elements of strategic entrepreneurship are identified, providing a clear framework for businesses. This paper progresses strategic entrepreneurship beyond the purely theoretical, by examining and analysing strategic entrepreneurship in an applied business setting, in this case public sector organisations.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-12-2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 11-2006
DOI: 10.5172/JMO.2006.12.3.209
Abstract: This paper argues that in idual small firms just like large firms, place differing emphasis on strategy-making and may employ different modes of strategy-making. It offers a typology of the different modes of strategy-making that seem most likely to exist in small firms, and hypothesises how this typology relates to performance. It then describes the results of an empirical study of the strategy-making processes of small firms. The structural equation analysis of the data from 477 small firms with less than 100 employees indicates among other results that the simplistic, adaptive, intrapreneurial and participative modes of strategy-making exist in these small firms. Of these modes, the simplistic mode exhibits the strongest relationship with firm performance.
Publisher: Emerald (MCB UP )
Date: 2006
Start Date: 2016
End Date: 12-2021
Amount: $330,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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