This article reviews and critiques the opportunity discovery approach to entrepreneurship and argues that entrepreneurship can be more thoroughly grounded, and more closely linked to more general problems of economic organization by adopting the Cantillon-Knight-Mises understanding of entrepreneurship as judgment. The article begins by distinguishing among occupational, structural, and function...

To ensure survival, seize opportunities, and resist threats in the unpredictable business scenario, companies increasingly adopt practices that enable intra-entrepreneur behavior. This behavior is characterized by alignment of company members search innovative solutions for development organization building a competitive advantage. The current study reflects on importance intra-entrepreneurship...

Due to the cross-boundary characteristicof inter-organizational information systems (IOS), its usage is affected by inter-organizational relationships (IORs), which plays an even more important role in China.This paper develops a conceptual model of the influence of IORs on IOS usage and supply chain performance. Based on organizational learning theory, the paper dividespatterns of IOS usage in...

Entrepreneurship education has been high on the European agenda during the last ten years. Many countries, among them Norway, have launched action plans to promote entrepreneurship education. The aim of the plan is to foster innovative and entrepreneurial skills, and to encourage more young persons to establish their own enterprises. This paper is based on a survey among higher education (HE) g...

The abundance of active and innovative entrepreneurs has been ascribed as one of the main reasons for Taiwan’s miraculous economic development. This paper expounds upon the past 60 years and how Taiwanese business behaviour has been manifested by adaptive entrepreneurship. Taiwan’s entrepreneurs exercise their alertness to opportunities, use guerrilla strategies to profit whenever possible, man...

The aim of this study is to examine, from a resource-based perspective, the relationships between the use of management control systems (MCS) and organizational capabilities. More speciWcally, the study focuses on the diagnostic and interactive uses of one important aspect of MCS, namely performance measurement systems (PMS), and four capabilities leading to strategic choices (i.e., market orie...

This study applies organizational innovation theory to one specific type of innovation—electronic business. It describes e-business innovation along seven dimensions: organizational focus, radicalness, centrality, adaptability, uncertainty, pervasiveness, and communicability. E-business is identified as both an administrative and technical innovation that is flexible, has median centrality, hig...

This study aims to further the understanding of how innovative moments (IMs), which are exceptions to a client's problematic self-narrative in the therapy dialogue, progress to the construction of a new self-narrative, leading to successful psychotherapy. The authors' research strategy involved tracking IMs, and the themes expressed therein (or protonarratives), and analysing the dynamic relati...