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Re-writing the Danish American dream? (2008)
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SMITH, R. and NEERGAARD, H. 2008. Re-writing the Danish American dream? An enquiry into Danish enterprise culture and Danish attitudes toward entrepreneurship. Bridge: journal of the Danish American Heritage Society, 31(1), pages 41-64.

This research story which to us reads like a fairytale is the second-part of an exploration into Danish Enterprise Culture. It tells an oft forgotten tale, a Danish Success Story which we hope will one day be held even dearer by self-deprecating Dane... Read More about Re-writing the Danish American dream?.

Organisational culture, national culture and performance in international joint ventures based in Israel. (2008)
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AVNY, G. and ANDERSON, A.R. 2008. Organisational culture, national culture and performance in international joint ventures based in Israel. International journal of business and globalisation [online], 2(2), pages 133-145. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBG.2008.016622

International Joint Ventures (IJV) capitalise on localised skills, knowledge and capabilities. Moreover, the internationalisation of markets offers scope to innovate, develop and market new products benefiting from international collaborations. Nonet... Read More about Organisational culture, national culture and performance in international joint ventures based in Israel..

Bottom-up design of strategic options as finite automata. (2008)
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OLIVEIRA, F.S. 2010. Bottom-up design of strategic options as finite automata. Computational management science [online], 7(4), pages 355-375. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10287-008-0084-1

In this paper we look at the problem of strategic decision making. We start by presenting a new formalisation of strategic options as finite automata. Then, we show that these finite automata can be used to develop complex models of interacting optio... Read More about Bottom-up design of strategic options as finite automata..

Research practices in entrepreneurship: problems of definition, description and meaning. (2008)
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ANDERSON, A.R. and STARNAWSKA, M. 2008. Research practices in entrepreneurship: problems of definition, description and meaning. International journal of entrepreneurship and innovation [online], 9(4), pages 221-230. Available from: https://openair.rgu.ac.uk/handle/10059/674

The dominant paradigm of entrepreneurship research practices, positivism, has brought about a fundamental paradox: researchers often try to analyse a phenomenon that cannot properly be defined. As a result, much entrepreneurship research is fragmenta... Read More about Research practices in entrepreneurship: problems of definition, description and meaning..

Locating 'power' in wind power planning processes: the (not so) influential role of local objectors. (2008)
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AITKEN, M., MCDONALD, S. and STRACHAN, P. 2008. Locating 'power' in wind power planning processes: the (not so) influential role of local objectors. Journal of environmental planning and management [online], 51(6), pages 777-799. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/09640560802423566

There have been conflicting accounts of the role and influence of local opposition within planning application outcomes for wind power developments. There is an expanding literature that considers public responses to proposed renewable energy develop... Read More about Locating 'power' in wind power planning processes: the (not so) influential role of local objectors..

Marketing sustainability: use of information sources and degrees of voluntary simplicity. (2008)
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OATES, C., MCDONALD, S., ALEVIZOU, P., HWANG, K., YOUNG, W. and MCMORLAND, L-A. 2008. Marketing sustainability: use of information sources and degrees of voluntary simplicity. Journal of marketing communications [online], 14(5), pages 351-365. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/13527260701869148

The concept of voluntary simplicity (VS) is taken as a starting point to investigate consumers' use of information sources when making purchases of sustainable technological products and services. Differences in information seeking and sources consul... Read More about Marketing sustainability: use of information sources and degrees of voluntary simplicity..

Rescripting the Danish-American dream: an exploration of the embeddedness of enterprise cultures and discourses. (2008)
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SMITH, R. and NEERGAARD, H. 2008. Rescripting the Danish-American dream: an exploration of the embeddedness of enterprise cultures and discourses. Journal of Asia entrepreneurship and sustainability [online], 4(2): selected papers from the proceedings of the 2008 Perspectives on entrepreneurship conference: cultures and contexts, June 2008, Aberdeen, UK, pages 61-86. Available from: http://www.asiaentrepreneurshipjournal.com/AJESIV2008aberdeen.pdf

It has been documented by numerous studies that countries differ in their rate of entrepreneurial activity. The reasons why this is so are usually attributed to structural issues. However, we argue that these variations have historical and cultural r... Read More about Rescripting the Danish-American dream: an exploration of the embeddedness of enterprise cultures and discourses..

From tradition to modern: attitudes and applications of guanxi in Chinese entrepreneurship. (2008)
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ANDERSON, A.R. and LEE, E. Y-C. 2008. From tradition to modern: attitudes and applications of guanxi in Chinese entrepreneurship. Journal of small business and enterprise development [online], 15(4), pages 775-787. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/14626000810917852

Purpose - This article aims to examine one aspect of Chinese culture, guanxi. Guanxi, "special relationships" has long been employed to facilitate business in China. The authors ask whether this is likely to continue in the rapidly changing environme... Read More about From tradition to modern: attitudes and applications of guanxi in Chinese entrepreneurship..

Modeling the impact of market interventions on the strategic evolution of electricity markets. (2008)
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BUNN, D.W. and OLIVEIRA, F.S. 2008. Modeling the impact of market interventions on the strategic evolution of electricity markets. Operations research [online], 56(5), pages 1116-1130. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.1080.0565

This paper presents a large-scale computationally intensive model for understanding the dynamic strategic evolution of electricity-generating asset portfolios in response to various market interventions, and the consequent longer-term effects of such... Read More about Modeling the impact of market interventions on the strategic evolution of electricity markets..

The adoption of e-trade innovations by Korean small and medium sized firms. (2008)
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OH, K.-Y., CRUICKSHANK, D. and ANDERSON, A.R. 2009. The adoption of e-trade innovations by Korean small and medium sized firms. Technovation [online], 29(2), pages 110-121. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2008.08.001

The purpose of this study was to explore the adoption of e-trade innovations by small-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) operating in South Korea. Employing a modified TAM model, which included the industry environment and convenience factors, we survey... Read More about The adoption of e-trade innovations by Korean small and medium sized firms..

Crisis plan? What crisis plan! How microentrepreneurs manage in a crisis. (2008)
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BUDGE, A., IRVINE, W. and SMITH, R. 2008. Crisis plan? What crisis plan! How microentrepreneurs manage in a crisis. International journal of entrepreneurship and small business [online], 6(3), pages 337-354. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJESB.2008.019131

This inductive research study seeks to answer these research questions: (1) Do owners of successful microbusinesses react to crises unknowingly; or (2) Do they proactively manage crises? Using naturalistic observation and in-depth interviews of busin... Read More about Crisis plan? What crisis plan! How microentrepreneurs manage in a crisis..

Zzzz.... Some reflections on the dynamics of village entrepreneurship. (2008)
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SMITH, R. 2008. Zzzz... Some reflections on the dynamics of village entrepreneurship. International journal of entrepreneurship and small business [online], 6(3), pages 370-389. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJESB.2008.019133

Using the qualitative research techniques of auto-ethnography, active reflection and natural observation to construct a data set of businesses in a village in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK this exploratory, longitudinal study examines the dynamic... Read More about Zzzz.... Some reflections on the dynamics of village entrepreneurship..

ICT (information communication technology), peripherality and smaller hospitality businesses in Scotland. (2008)
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IRVINE, W. and ANDERSON, A.R. 2008. ICT (information communication technology), peripherality and smaller hospitality businesses in Scotland. International journal of entrepreneurial behavior and research [online], 14(4), pages 200-218. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/13552550810887381

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of information communication technology (ICT) in small rural hospitality businesses. Although ICT is often presented as a means of reducing the impact of being rural, little is known about th... Read More about ICT (information communication technology), peripherality and smaller hospitality businesses in Scotland..

Public-to-private buy-outs, distress costs and private equity. (2008)
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WEIR, C., WRIGHT, M. and SCHOLES, L. 2008. Public-to-private buy-outs, distress costs and private equity. Applied financial economics [online], 18(10), pages 801-819. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/09603100701222283

This article extends previous work by testing the financial distress costs hypothesis in the context of the UK, a contract-based distress resolution system, and by considering the role of private equity firms. Using a hand-collected dataset covering... Read More about Public-to-private buy-outs, distress costs and private equity..

Role typologies for enterprising education: the professional artisan? (2008)
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ANDERSON, A.R. and JACK, S.L. 2008. Role typologies for enterprising education: the professional artisan? Journal of small business and enterprise development [online], 15(2), pages 259-273. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/14626000810871664

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine how the context, approach and teaching techniques used for entrepreneurship education need to reflect the different roles that encompass enterprise. Design/methodology/approach - The authors analyse a... Read More about Role typologies for enterprising education: the professional artisan?.

Means-end theory in tourism research. (2008)
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MCDONALD. S., THYNE, M. and MCMORLAND, L.-A. 2008. Means-end theory in tourism research. Annals of tourism research [online], 35(2), pages 596-599. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2007.09.006

Means-end theory has been widely used in marketing to identify values-based motivations behind consumption (Reynolds and Olson 2001). It has also been adopted by researchers arguing that it deepens understanding of tourist behavior by linking specifi... Read More about Means-end theory in tourism research..

Excellence: capturing Aristotelian notions of meaning and purpose. (2008)
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ANDERSON, A.R. and CROCKETT, C. 2008. Excellence: capturing Aristotelian notions of meaning and purpose. International journal of business excellence [online], 1(3), pages 262-281. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBEX.2008.017883

In this paper, we argue that conventional models for excellence are too narrow, too internally focused, too instrumental and too functionalist to achieve excellence in dealing with emerging broad socioeconomic concerns. We try to show that Aristotle’... Read More about Excellence: capturing Aristotelian notions of meaning and purpose..

The value of information in electricity investment games. (2008)
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OLIVEIRA, F. 2008. The value of information in electricity investment games. Energy policy [online], 36(7), pages 2364-2375. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2008.01.005

In this paper we look at the assumptions behind a Cournot model of investment in electricity markets. We analyze how information influences investment, looking at the way common knowledge of marginal costs, expectations on the competitors' marginal c... Read More about The value of information in electricity investment games..

A constraint logic programming algorithm for modeling dynamic pricing. (2008)
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OLIVEIRA, F.S. 2008. A constraint logic programming algorithm for modeling dynamic pricing. INFORMS journal on computing [online], 20(1), pages 69-77. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1287/ijoc.1060.0218

We extend Lemke's algorithm to solve a dynamic pricing problem. We identify an instance in which Lemke's algorithm fails to converge to an optimal solution (when an optimum does exist) and propose a constraint logic programming solution to this probl... Read More about A constraint logic programming algorithm for modeling dynamic pricing..

Agency costs, corporate governance mechanisms and ownership structure in large UK publicly quoted companies: a panel data analysis. (2008)
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MCKNIGHT, P.J. and WEIR, C. 2009. Agency costs, corporate governance mechanisms and ownership structure in large UK publicly quoted companies: a panel data analysis. Quarterly review of economics and finance [online], 49(2), pages 139-158. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2007.09.008

This paper examines the impact of governance and ownership variables on agency costs for a panel of large UK quoted companies. We use three measures of agency costs: the ratio of sales-to-total assets, the interaction of free cash flows and growth pr... Read More about Agency costs, corporate governance mechanisms and ownership structure in large UK publicly quoted companies: a panel data analysis..