Measuring readiness for entrepreneurship: An information tool proposal

Coduras, Alicia; Sáiz-Álvarez, José Manuel; Ruíz, Jesús Ángel Prieto

doi:10.1016/j.jik.2016.02.003

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“…They are linked both to personal features of individuals/future entrepreneurs, as well as to the existing market and economic opportunities. The scientific literature on the readiness of individuals for entrepreneurship has evidenced that social factors such as gender, age, education, skills, family, and community background, previous working experience or career expectations, psychological factors, and immigration background could influence entrepreneurial behavior, and by a matter of consequence, the behavior related to sustainability entrepreneurship [36][37][38][39]. Choongo et al (2016) examine the factors influencing the identification of opportunities in Zambia, finding that entrepreneurial knowledge is not enough for a positive attitude towards environment, their recommendation consisting in the necessity to increase awareness among existing and future entrepreneurs with respect to the consequences of business activities on the environment [40].…”

Section: Key Drivers Of the Decision In Favor Of Sustainability Entrementioning

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Circular Economy and Decision Models among European SMEs

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While targeting waste reduction and maintaining the value of products and resources in the system as much as possible, undertaking circular economy practices at the company level is a way of achieving entrepreneurial sustainability. This paper explores entrepreneurial decision models for adopting circular economy practices, focusing on European SMEs. Decision tree models are applied on data from Flash Eurobarometer 441 in order to uncover business strategies in relation to the implementation of circular economy practices at the company level and with the optimal level and nature of investments in the circular economy for improving economic performances of companies. The main findings of the article offer a better understanding of the relation between characteristics of European SMEs and their decisions in the field of circular economy. Such results are relevant from both macro and micro perspectives, as they can be used for customizing circular economy programs and intervention strategies for various groups of SMEs, as well as for supporting sustainable entrepreneurial decisions.

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Section: Key Drivers Of the Decision In Favor Of Sustainability Entrementioning

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“…or psychological (knowledge-based) distance to resources, opportunities, and capital motivate small firms and start-ups in the high-tech industry to engage in networking (Andersson, Evers, and Griot 2013;Brekke 2015;Coduras, Saiz-Alvarez, and Ruiz 2016). Performance in high-tech small-and start-up firms has therefore been explained by meaningful inter-organisational relationships that provide access to external resources (Azadegan, Patel, and Parida 2013;Bouncken, Pesch, and Reuschl 2016;Caloghirou, Kastelli, and Tsakanikas 2004;Hagedoorn, Roijakkers, and Kranenburg 2006;Thorgren, Wincent, and Örtqvist 2009;Vesalainen and Hakala 2014).…”

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Network capability, innovativeness, and performance: a multidimensional extension for entrepreneurship

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Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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a Entreprenuership and innovation, luleå university of technology, luleå, sweden; b Department of management, university of vaasa, vaasa, Finland; c accounting and Control, luleå university of technology, luleå, sweden; d Entrepreneurship and management, hanken school of Economics, helsinki, Finland ABSTRACT Small-and start-up firms in the high-tech industry usually engage in networking to overcome resource, knowledge, and competence constraints in creative, innovation-based competition. Quite often, however, network relationships fail due to lack of network capability (NC), defined as the ability to manage and gain benefits from external relationships. In the present study, we propose and examine an updated five-dimension NC construct and test its effect on innovativeness and performance. Two independent hightech samples of small firms and start-ups support measurement properties of the proposed NC construct and suggest that the oftenoverlooked dimension in NC research of network relationship building is important to include in a complete NC construct. Doing so can help explain organizational innovativeness and effects on the customer, sales, and innovation performance more effectively. As a result, we find support for the proposed NC scale and the importance of network capabilities for small companies and start-ups to remain competitive. Walter, Auer, and Ritter 2006) and as a potent strategy to handle multiple relationships by coordinating, maintaining, complementing, and facilitating internal communication through partner knowledge to secure high performance (Baum, Calabrese, and Silverman 2000;Oliver 2001;Tolstoy and Agndal 2010;Wincent 2008). For more than 20 years, the

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“…This gap represents a great disadvantage that still prevents scientists from supporting practitioners and enterprises in the strategic management of sustainability, through an agreement of comprehensive and effective assessment methods and tools [112][113][114][115][116]. Therefore, we remark that the priority of the scientific debate on "Porter-Wagner dilemma" is to share univocal methods to measure firms' performance.…”

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“…It is certainly linked to the complexity of the topic, as well as been shown in [2,38,43,48,66,111]. However, it demonstrates that no consensus has yet been reached, despite numerous studies conducted in recent years [104,112]. Moreover, this inhomogeneity may be due to the fact that many studies related to the analysis of EP-BP relationship at the firms' level consider business cases, and consequently the choice of indicators for measuring EP and BP are affected by the availability and relevance of data for specific case studies analyzed.…”

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“…Therefore, we remark that the priority of the scientific debate on "Porter-Wagner dilemma" is to share univocal methods to measure firms' performance. Coherently, it is important to share standardized information tools to support scientists, practitioners and managers in measuring the benefits of sustainable policies and practices [112,115,117].…”

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Exploring the Direction on the Environmental and Business Performance Relationship at the Firm Level. Lessons from a Literature Review

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Abstract:The interest of scientists and companies in understanding the business implications of environmental investment is timely; however, a dilemma remains at the firm level: is the environment a "strategic competitive factor", as in the "Porter point of view", or is it a "luxury good", as in the "Wagner point of view"? Our research contributes to this debate through a review of the papers published in scientific journals between 2000 and 2015 that discussed the direction of the relationship between the environmental and business performances of enterprises. The objectives of the research are: (a) to verify if there is an agreement in the scientific literature of the last 15 years about the "Porter-Wagner dilemma" when focusing at the firm level; (b) to underline the prevalent cause and effect directions of the relationship between environmental and business performance; and (c) to investigate the reasons for any disagreements in this topic among the scientists. The results show that the main agreement regards the positive bi-directional relationship, as a virtuous cyclic approach with mutual effects between business and environmental performance; nevertheless, more complex hypotheses emerge, such as nonlinear and/or conditional relationship, that need to be further explored. On the other hand, the Porter-Wagner dilemma remains, and the main reason for the non-agreement among scientists can be due to the several non-homogeneous variables considered in the analyses. Thereafter, as lesson for scientists, the priority is to share univocal methods to measure firms' environmental and business performances.

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Measuring readiness for entrepreneurship: An information tool proposal

Cited by 70 publications

References 42 publications

Circular Economy and Decision Models among European SMEs

Circular Economy and Decision Models among European SMEs

Network capability, innovativeness, and performance: a multidimensional extension for entrepreneurship

Exploring the Direction on the Environmental and Business Performance Relationship at the Firm Level. Lessons from a Literature Review

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