企业家能力、企业家创新及其组织能力形成机制

在我国经济整体转型时期，企业家必须把握宏观经济的变化。同时研究企业家能力、企业家创新及其形成组织能力的机制，具有十分重要的意义。     

论如何培养大学生"企业家精神"

随着就业形势的日益严峻,大学生就业已成为高校学生管理工作的重点。不少大学生在面对就业问题上,采取了“创业”。随之而来的将是高校如何应对大学生“创业”的教育改革。本文阐述了培养“企业家精神”对于当代大学生尤其是准备创业的大学生的重要性,以及在高校学生管理工作中如何培养大学生的“企业家精神”。     

企业家极限问题溯源及其思考

企业家极限问题的提出,是管理思想、经济理论和企业家理论演进的结果。秉承专家学者关于企业家个性特征与企业发展密切相关的观点,结合我国国情,该文对企业家极限问题进行较深入研究,研究内容包括概念界定,内涵系统化及发展规律。     

University capability as a micro-foundation for the Triple Helix model: The case of China

By articulating the notion of university capability by distinguishing resources and capabilities, this paper aims to advance our understanding of the Triple Helix model from a micro-foundational perspective. From an external evaluative viewpoint, we suggest that university capability consists of (1) resource bases, (2) motivation/objectives, (3) resource allocation and coordination mechanisms, and (4) regional outcomes. Based on qualitative data collected from two leading Chinese cities in innovation and regional development, our study empirically elucidates two different approaches to deal with university capability. Our conceptualization of university capability may be a useful analytical tool to better understand the role of ‘university’ and its relationship with the other actors in the Triple Helix model.     

基于企业家的中小企业知识传播共享机制研究

从企业知识管理中知识的传播共享机制以及企业家能力等角度研究中小企业的成长问题。首先提出企业中知识传播和共享的共性问题,然后从企业知识角度对企业家能力的构成进行重新定义,提出了知识能力的概念。在此基础上,阐述了中小企业创业、守业和展业三个发展阶段中企业知识管理的特点和企业家应具备的知识能力,最后根据目前大多数中小企业成长难现状,构建了基于企业家能力这一核心的中小企业知识传播和共享新机制。     

资源型城市企业家人力资本对区域创新影响的实证分析——以山西省为例

转型发展是资源型城市实现可持续发展的根本出路,经济转型归根结底是从资源依赖到创新驱动的转型,即核心是提升区域创新能力。作为经济增长方式转变的微观推动者,企业家对于提升区域创新能力、促进资源型城市的经济转型具有重要意义。本文就企业家人力资本对于区域创新能力的影响机理进行了理论分析,以煤炭资源大省山西为例,应用面板数据模型对理论进行了验证。本文的理论与实证分析表明,企业家人力资本的提升是资源型地区转型发展的关键。     

Transnational networking and business performance: Ethnic entrepreneurs in Canada

It is generally acknowledged that transnational networking plays an important role in promoting the performance of ethnic entrepreneurial firms. Yet distinctions between the different types of transnational networking and their effects on business performance have received scant attention in the literature, probably because ethnicity has been considered to be the main actor in the networking–performance relationship. This paper argues that one of the reasons why business performance differs across ethnic entrepreneurial firms is that ethnic entrepreneurs engage in dissimilar types of transnational networking. Analyses of the data generated by 720 ethnic entrepreneurs in Canada revealed that ethnicity, along with human capital and push/pull factors, both of which are part of our conceptual framework, plays a central role in the engagement of different types of transnational networking and that the different types of transnational networking affect business turnover (sales) and business survival (age). Push/pull factors were found to play a marginal role in business performance. These results highlight the competitive market that immigrants and members of ethnic minority groups encounter in the hosting economy and stress the value of transnational networking.     

Entrepreneur political skill and new venture performance: Extending the social competence perspective

Research on the social competence perspective holds that since operating high performing new ventures is dependent on entrepreneurs’ ability to influence stakeholder actions, entrepreneur social competence is likely critically important to new venture performance. Using a sample of 163 entrepreneurs throughout the USA, we extend such research by examining the entrepreneur political skill new venture performance relationship. Our results suggest that political skill, which is the component of social competence which specifically assesses an individual's ability to influence other's actions within the business environment, is positively associated with new venture performance. Study results provide additional support for the social competence perspective.     

The negative influence of the entrepreneur’s level of higher education on the attractiveness of European SMEs as alliance partners in Brazil: the role of practical experience and international entrepreneurial orientation

Notwithstanding the contemporary relevance of alliance strategies for SME internationalisation, especially in the case of uncertain business environments, few studies have investigated human resource issues in the context of SMEs prior to alliance formation. Even more scarce are studies looking at the impact of a manager/entrepreneur’s characteristics on pre-alliance formation, despite recognition of the expected crucial role of the entrepreneur in this context and of the strong connection between an entrepreneur and their SME. Drawing on international entrepreneurship theory and empirical observations from an exploratory study, we propose a post hoc conceptual model. The exploratory empirical part of our study employs a sample of entrepreneurs from biotechnology SMEs in the United Kingdom and Germany intending to ally in a large emerging market (i.e. Brazil). Our empirical observations suggest an anomalous (at first glance) negative association between the entrepreneur’s level of higher education (a construct at the individual level) and the attractiveness of the SME as a partner firm vis-à-vis alliance formation (a construct at the firm level). Our post hoc model emphasises the role of practical experience and the corresponding levels of international entrepreneurial orientation as theorised variables mediating the observed empirical relationship. We develop theoretical propositions, and suggest practical implications and future research directions.     

The importance of surrogate entrepreneurship for incubated Swedish technology ventures

Universities and incubators that are more experienced in venture creation have been found to appoint surrogate entrepreneurs as one way to improve entrepreneurial team formation. However, it is not known how such intervention into the core of a venture affects performance. This article investigates the impact of surrogate entrepreneurs on technology ventures stemming from leading Swedish university incubators. From a total of 170 ventures incorporated 1995–2005, belonging to 16 incubators, 59 ventures (35%) have received incubator help to recruit a surrogate entrepreneur. Swedish surrogate ventures perform significantly better in terms of growth and revenue compared to non-surrogates. Significantly higher performance of surrogates is also found in the subgroup academic technology ventures as well as the largest technology subgroup of information and communication technology (ICT) ventures. These findings in combination with a case study of the most productive incubation environment are used to propose future research and policy regarding university incubators intervening into entrepreneurial team formation in different ways.