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Look who is talking ... and who is listening: Finding an integrative “we” voice in entrepreneurial scholarship
Full text linkThis paper explores the relationship between the study of entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurs we study. While scholars typically adopt a detached, third-person stance for the purpose of explaining and predicting entrepreneurial action, entrepreneurs instead operate in a first-person stance of deciding what to do. The two stances cannot be reduced to one another. We argue that an engaged dialogue – a second-person stance – can bring scholars and entrepreneurs together into a unifying practical decision-making perspective. By working to develop this integrative voice in scholarship, we can collapse the dualism of rigour and relevance
Dynamics of external growth in SMEs
No full textOur focus on external growth and related competence development as a process required observing and jointly examining a large number of variables that influence growth processes and, in particular, the complex relationships among them (Huber & Van de Ven, 1995). The heterogeneity of the phenomenon requires rich and deep descriptions aimed at assessing the abstractions and generalizations that can be meaningfully attempted (Davidsson, 2005, p. 56)
The Reflective Entrepreneur
Full text linkIn a world where entrepreneurial success often seems deceptively accessible, it is not always clear what makes a person entrepreneurial. In this book, Dimo Dimov offers a reflective insight into the entrepreneurial journey, striking up a conversation about entrepreneurship in order to challenge and untangle existing preconceptions. A discussion of challenges and tensions such as idea versus opportunity, genius versus lunatic, and skill versus luck forms the foundation of the book, while the second part offers actions and considerations which can help the reader to seek opportunities in a fractious environment. The final part of the text focuses on the collective spirit in entrepreneurship, arising from the interplay between participation and outcomes. The author brings a succinct diversity to the field, making this book essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students on entrepreneurship courses, as well as scholars, researchers, and practitioners looking for a new perspective on entrepreneurship
The Reflective Entrepreneur
Full text linkIn a world where entrepreneurial success often seems deceptively accessible, it is not always clear what makes a person entrepreneurial. In this book, Dimo Dimov offers a reflective insight into the entrepreneurial journey, striking up a conversation about entrepreneurship in order to challenge and untangle existing preconceptions. A discussion of challenges and tensions such as idea versus opportunity, genius versus lunatic, and skill versus luck forms the foundation of the book, while the second part offers actions and considerations which can help the reader to seek opportunities in a fractious environment. The final part of the text focuses on the collective spirit in entrepreneurship, arising from the interplay between participation and outcomes. The author brings a succinct diversity to the field, making this book essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students on entrepreneurship courses, as well as scholars, researchers, and practitioners looking for a new perspective on entrepreneurship
Multi-model ear database for biometric applications
No full textWe present the 3DEarDB, a multi-model ear database, characterized by different types of ear representation, either 2D or 3D, depending on the acquisition device used. The main objective is to provide the biometrics community with a unified tool for testing and comparing of classification algorithms not only on 2D intensity and/or depth images, or videos, but also on detailed 3D mesh models of human ears. The 3DEarDB features accurate 3D mesh models of right ear captured from more than 100 subjects, with a resolution of 1 mm and an accuracy of 0.05 mm, collected via the VIUscan 3D laser scanner, available at the Smart Lab of IICT-BAS, in the AComIn project frames. Two more ear acquisition modalities are also included: 3D Kinect ear depth maps and 2D high-definition video clips, associated to the basic mesh models. To extend 3DEarDB compatibilities with known methods for 2D/3D ear detection and/or recognition, we provide two more ear model types. Namely, a set of 2D ear intensity projections (of different orientations and/or lightening directions), and a set of 2D depth map projections can be generated by demand from the basic 3D ear models. Finally, we report about preliminary experiments conducted by means of Extended Gaussian Image approach that confirm the consistency of the proposed 3D-Ear-Data-Base
Entrepreneurship Education as a First-Person Transformation
Full text linkAs entrepreneurship education spreads and aims to transform mindsets,its theories and methods need to be attuned to the first-person perspective of the learner. We provide a map for entrepreneurship education that bridges the subjective,inter-subjective,and objective as distinct varieties of knowledge and turns the classroom into a space for practical reasoning. It focuses on the world as it could be,brought alive in the first-person sense of possibility and shaped by new ways of seeing and doing. © The Author(s) 2020.yesPublishe
The hyper-growth of family SMEs (Summary)
No full textBy understanding hyper-growth firms, researchers may better understand the features involved with firm growth and success in general, and dynamics of new job generation and general economic development. The phenomenon constitutes a theoretical and empirical challenge to classical stage-based growth models and is still largely overlooked by academic research, especially in Europe.
Consistently with the Resource-Based View (RBV), recent research papers suggested that high performance can be explained in terms of existence of unallocated resources within the firm. These (non-financial) indivisibles resources - called slack - are available in quantities greater than necessary and are expected here to be one of the main causes and incentives for hyper-growth. It is therefore in particularly interesting to study firms that have idiosyncratic approach to resource; this is the case of family business, which are surprisingly disregarded as far as hyper-growth is concerned. A significant influence of the family on hyper-growth may be expected in light of two main reasons: the managerial parsimony that characterizes the family governance archetype; the non-economic goals that drive the behavior of family firms
Framework for agricultural performance assessment based on MODIS multitemporal data
No full textWe present a hierarchical classification framework for automated detection and
mapping of spatial patterns of agricultural performance using satellite-based Earth observation
data exemplified for the Aral Sea Basin (ASB) in Central Asia. The core element of the framework
is the derivation of a composite agricultural performance index which is composed of
different subindicators taking into account cropping intensity, crop diversity, crop rotations, fallow
land frequency, land utilization, water use efficiency, and water availability.We derive these
subindicators from net primary productivity and evapotranspiration data obtained from the
MODIS sensor on board the Terra satellite during the observation period from 2000 to 2016,
as well as from cropland maps created through multiannual classification of normalized difference
vegetation index (NDVI). We classified pixel-based NDVI time series covering more than
8 × 106 ha of irrigated cropland based on a hierarchical approach concatenating unsupervised
and supervised classification techniques to automatically generate and refine training labels,
which are then used to train a decision fusion classifier, achieving an average overall accuracy
of 78%. The results give unprecedented insights into spatial patterns of agricultural performance
in the ASB. The proposed method is transferable and applicable for global-scale mapping, and
the results of this remote sensing-aided assessment can provide important information for
regional agricultural planning purposes
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