Sökning: "Entrepreneurial Motivation"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 avhandlingar innehållade orden Entrepreneurial Motivation.
1. Affective motivation : Studies of its importance for entrepreneurial activities
Sammanfattning : Motivation is a significant concept within the entrepreneurial process, referring to everything from identifying opportunities and generating or articulating ideas to evaluating opportunities and planning steps to form or launch an enterprise and then grow and develop that enterprise. Motivational drivers can be classified as non-affective (i.e. LÄS MER
2. An Entrepreneurial Mindset : Self-Regulating Mechanisms for Goal Attainment
Sammanfattning : Comprised of a cover story and five separate but interrelated articles, this dissertation explores entrepreneurial learning. By connecting multiple theoretical perspectives, reviewing extant literature, using four qualitative datasets, and building theory inductively, the articles explain components to and mechanisms of entrepreneurial learning. LÄS MER
3. Entrepreneurial behavior and business performance
Sammanfattning : How does the behavior of the entrepreneur affect the development and performance of the business venture? Why do some small business owner-managers remain small, when others wish to grow? In this dissertation the author tries to answer these questions by examining the importance of stable psychological characteristics of the entrepreneur on business performance and expected future performance. The author argues that the entrepreneurship research focus on the entrepreneurial personality is far too narrow, ignoring a crucial range of psychological factors such as intellectual ability and motivation that matter immensely in terms of how entrepreneurs act. LÄS MER
4. Företagares agerande för hembygdens utveckling
Sammanfattning : This thesis describes the connection between mundane societalentrepreneurship and local area development in a rural sparsely populatedcontext. It is a qualitative study from a holistic view on the actors. The empiricalwork consists of three deep case studies from one of the most sparsely populatedregions in Europe. LÄS MER
5. Acquisition of Capabilitities through International Technology Transfer
Sammanfattning : The focus in this thesis is on the acquisition of static and dynamic capabilities in LDC industry. This has been studied in small industries in Tanzania, which were started through international technology transfer, in which small producing firms from Sweden acted as technology suppliers (The Sister Industry Programme). LÄS MER