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AUTHOR
Antonia Mohedano-suanes
Crowdfunding and Social Entrepreneurship: Spotlight on Intermediaries
This study contributes to the literature by describing how crowdfunding platforms that host social entrepreneurship projects build and preserve legitimacy. We study three intermediaries, analyzing the actions they take to ensure that creators and funders perceive crowdfunding as a trustworthy form of alternative finance. This study shows that the legitimacy that funders ascribe to a project&rsquo
E-commerce entrepreneurship as a national priority: the case of Thailand
Thailand has been one of the most successful developing countries. This progress came to a sudden halt in 1997 when the Asian financial crisis hit this country. Thailand responded by creating a favourable environment for business incubation as a high priority at the national government level. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the steps taken by the Thai government to encourage e-commerce entrepreneurship as a key component of its successful reaction to the economic crisis of 1997 and e-service as a source for its future national competitiveness.
Intrapreneurs: Characteristics and Behavior
Intrapreneurship has become a relevant topic in literature as far as its impact on organizational performance is more and more often highlighted from very diverse points of view. The main goal of this chapter is introducing the specific personal and professional profile of intrapreneurs, considered as highly committed individuals motivated by innovation, continuous improvement and able to leader teams in the direction they foresee within the companies in which they work. This chapter will present the relevance and impact of intrapreneurship, the role and main characteristics of the intrapreneurs, their behavior and motivations, and finally some good practices will be exposed in order to enc…
Linking Women Entrepreneurship with Social Entrepreneurship
In recent times, the number of women entrepreneurs in the world has grown steadily, motivated by necessity or by reasons related to the identification and exploitation of a gap in the market via which they can exploit and develop the experience and knowledge acquired. However, a new phenomenon is emerging in the field of entrepreneurship: the creation of organizations to attain social goals. It is precisely within this new framework that women can take on a relevant role due to a certain extent to a greater sensitivity towards the social problems in their environment. In this paper, we discuss several cases of women entrepreneurs that have allowed us to relate the motives for entrepreneuria…
Innovation in services through learning in a joint venture
Innovation determines a firm's competitiveness and survival and a joint venture is a fast and effective way to acquire the missing knowledge that partners require to innovate, but ‘knowing how to cooperate’ can be a determining factor in achieving the successful transfer of knowledge. Employing a sample of 81 service-sector firms and using a structural equation modeling methodology, we found a positive and direct impact between the cooperative learning process and partners' commitment to innovation.