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Entrepreneurship and Firm-Cluster Interactions- New Insights
No full textEntrepreneurship and Cluster Dynamics
focuses on the origin and development of clusters and specifically on the role played by strategic entrepreneurship in these contexts. Although separately, entrepreneurship and
cluster studies have already attracted the attention of academics and practitioners, this book aims to go further and offer an integrated and interactive view of the topics.
The cross-cutting approach is one of the main attributes of this book.
In fact, the book involves a great range of organizational and economic
perspectives, from social psychology to conventional applied economics disciplines. Moreover, these topics allow the use of different levels of analysis,
from the individual entrepreneur behind a start-up to the structure of cluster
networks, including the organizational levels.
An analysis of the change and development of clusters going further than
traditional functional approaches by examining how entrepreneurs and their
actions are not only influenced by the cluster, but also shape the cluster’s develop
ment, will offer an explanation of how entrepreneurship and networking entre
preneurs can foster and perhaps also inhibit cluster development and change.
Finally, Entrepreneurship and Cluster Dynamics
theorizes about the role of the
strategic entrepreneurship in developing start-ups inside already established
companies, which can play the role of broker in the cluster.
Entrepreneurship and Cluster Dynamics
offers a unique opportunity to
academics, researchers and students to learn about relations and interactions between entrepreneurship and cluster perspectives, providing both
new and original theoretical propositions and also rigorous conclusive
empirical exercis
Entrepreneurship and Cluster Dynamics.
No full textThe purpose of this book is to provide a guide to understanding the sig
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nificance of the role of strategic entrepreneurship in the change and devel
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opment of clusters contexts. Both topics, entrepreneurship and cluster
dynamics, and the way they are addressed in this book may capture the
interest of readers.
The origins of this collection are the 30th EGOS Colloquium,
Reimagin
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ing, Rethinking, Reshaping: Organizational Scholarship in Unsettled Times
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which took place in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) from July
3–5 of 2014.
This book represents the main proceedings of the sub-theme
Entrepreneurs,
Networking and Clusters: A
Multi-level Perspective
included in the collo
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quium program.
There has been much advocacy of the idea that economies where stra
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tegic entrepreneurship is present provide a recipe for economic and social
success. On the other hand, a general consensus was finally reached on the
importance of geographical proximity for firms in terms of competitiveness.
Although separately, entrepreneurship and cluster have already attracted
the attention of academics and practitioners, we aim to go further and offer
an integrated and interactive view of both topics.
The majority of existing research was focused on specific or partial aspects
of these topics, such as: the cluster and their policy implications, entrepre
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neurship and industry development with reference to different regional areas,
and other similar issues. Based on our knowledge, our book is probably the
only one that addresses the interaction between entrepreneurship and clus
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ter evolution by appreciating their reciprocal influence and co-evolution.
A
cross-cutting approach is one of the main attributes of the book. In fact,
the book involves a great range of organizational and economic perspectives,
from social psychology to conventional applied economics disciplines. More
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over, these topics allow the use of different levels of analysis, from the indi
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vidual entrepreneur behind a start-up to the structure of cluster networks,
including the organizational levels.
Particularly, the book
Strategic Entrepreneurship and Cluster Dynam
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ics
collects contributions from different provenances, including outstand
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ing authors from representative universities and research centers. The book
Preface
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is a unique opportunity to learn about relations and interactions between
entrepreneurship and cluster perspectives, providing both new and original
theoretical propositions and also rigorous conclusive empirical exercises.
In other words, we would like to answer some relevant research questions,
such as: how does a cluster affect entrepreneurship? How do entrepreneurs
create and use networks? How do entrepreneurs create and impact on clus
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ters through the network? To sum up, thanks to the nature of the topics and
the way they are addressed throughout the book, we are convinced that the
book goes further than a narrow community of specialists or experts and
may capture a much larger audience.
The structure of the book was developed from the argument that clusters
and entrepreneurship are mutually connected. On the one hand, clusters are
more than pure functioning structures, and on the other, entrepreneurship
can interfere with the cluster development and change it in many different
and even contradictory ways.
In a more systematic way, the book presents as a general aim to analyze
the change and development of clusters from the entrepreneurship perspec
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tive. This general aim can be divided in several more specific ones: (1) an
analysis of the change and development of clusters going further than pure
functioning, as most literature has done; (2) offer an explanation of how
entrepreneurship can foster, but perhaps also inhibit, cluster development
and change; (3) claim for strategic entrepreneurship that is able to identify
and create opportunities for business and innovation and development and
competitive advantage creation based on these opportunities; and finally,
(4) theorize about the role of strategic entrepreneurship in developing start-
ups inside already established companies, which can play the role of broker
in the cluster.
We are indebted to a number of people, starting with the organizers of the
30th EGOS Colloquium, who considered our proposal interesting enough
to be presented as a sub-theme. Also, and particularly, we would like to
express our gratitude to all the contributors. They generously provide us
high-quality research and have patiently considered the different rounds of
reviews, making generous additional efforts on their works, resulting much
better-quality final chapters
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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