Congres 'Slim Organiseren in het MKB' georganiseerd door het Kenniscentrum Arbeid op 4 februari 2014. Hanzehogeschool Groningen april 2014.

This chapter proposes an integrated perspective on institutional work as ingenious actions of entrepreneurs for the purpose of opportunity development. Ingenuity refers to actions undertaken by entrepreneurs who work within ‘the institutional setting and uses this embeddedness by co-opting, coordinating, …

By assessing four cases, this paper develops propositions about the transfer of employee oriented corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices within multinational SMEs. Specifically we explore whether an individual owner-manager can add value within a foreign subsidiary by means of normatively-based, …

This is a case study which discusses the journey of a successful Ethiopian dairy entrepreneur. It turned out that the inclusiveness of the small holder farmer into the chain with fair incentive sharing mechainsms and guarenteed market access made her chain more efficient, reliable and profitable.

In the nineties of the last century, a lot of (ICT) incubators started in the Netherlands, many private (GorillaPark, Ant Factory, Lost Boys and Newconomy), some public, such as Twinning. Most of them stopped early this century or gone bankrupt. From 2005 university incubators like YesDelft!, Erasmus …

This article responds to the call of scholars for more research on psychological phenomena in entrepreneurship and especially business transfers. The complexity represented in business transfers has attracted a substantial interest of a wide variety of disciplines in the last 30 years. Despite this attention …

Adaptive urban development is the design, construction and continuing evolution of urban areas to anticipate and react to changes in the environment and society. These changes include both processes within the city itself and external developments. It is expected that until 2100 a total of 5 billion …

The starterstraject is a project set up by the Chamber of Commerce and the city of Zoetermeer. The goal of the starterstraject is to give the starting entrepreneur a head start. The starting entrepreneur is prepared for the risks and difficulties that arise when starting a new business. The starting …

Every year I talk to many entrepreneurs about business transfers and acquisitions. Only rarely do they tell me that it was a cinch. Buying or selling a business is complex. For a start, a business should be shipshape from an organizational and administrative perspective, while several legal and fiscal …

This study examines the main drivers for the exit choice of small firm owners. Only recently studies have begun to compare the exits of mature firms. Previous studies concentrated on start-ups, primarily trying to explain survival. Exit choice as used in this study differentiates between liquidation …