Corporate Entrepreneurship In SMEs : A Systematic Mapping Study

Entrepreneurship and Corporate Governance

This paper explores the relationship between the theory of the firm and the theory of financial markets. I begin with Mises’s claim that the defining feature of an industrialized, market economy is the use of financial markets to allocate capital among firms and among industries. This presupposes a market for the ownership and control of productive assets. Unfortunately, the Austrian theory of ...

Corporate Entrepreneurship: How?

Sustainable entrepreneurship in SMEs . Theory and Practice

Sustainable entrepreneurship is a spin-off concept from sustainable development that can be defined as the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce, their families, local communities, the society and the world at large as well as future generations. Sustainable entrepreneurship is an approac...

Corporate Entrepreneurship: a Strategic and Structural Perspective

Recently there has been a growing interest in the use of corporate entrepreneurship as a means for corporations to enhance the innovative abilities of their employees and, at the same time, increase corporate success through the creation of new corporate ventures. However, the creation of corporate activity is difficult since it involves radically changing internal organisational behaviour patt...

Smes and Economic Growth: Entrepreneurship or Employment

There has been increasing recognition of the importance of the SME sector in recent years; indeed, the contribution made by SMEs to overall economic development has become widely recognized in many of the newly industrialized economies. In an effort to go beyond some of the present empirical works, this study uses a dataset on both developed and developing economies to examine the contribution ...