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Re-writing the Danish American dream? (2008)
Journal Article
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?.

Power and wind power: exploring experiences of renewable energy planning processes in Scotland. (2008)
Thesis
AITKEN, M. 2008. Power and wind power: exploring experiences of renewable energy planning processes in Scotland. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

Energy use and production have become highly salient within both national and international policy. This reflects an international recognition of the need to cut emissions in order to mitigate the threats of climate change. Within the UK there is sig... Read More about Power and wind power: exploring experiences of renewable energy planning processes in Scotland..

The Prayer Factory: spirituality at work, and the paradoxes of performativity, monoculturalism and dissent. (2008)
Report
TOURISH, D. and TOURISH, N., 2008. The Prayer Factory: spirituality at work, and the paradoxes of performativity, monoculturalism and dissent. Aberdeen: The Robert Gordon University.

Recent years have witnessed a significant growth of academic and practitioner interest in spirituality within the workplace, and in particular in spirituality management and leadership development. This paper argues that the literature in the area is... Read More about The Prayer Factory: spirituality at work, and the paradoxes of performativity, monoculturalism and dissent..

Success factors for high-tech start ups: views and lessons of Israeli experts. (2008)
Book Chapter
CHOREV, S. and ANDERSON, A. 2008. Success factors for high-tech start ups: views and lessons of Israeli experts. In Groen, A., Van Der Sijde, P., Oakey, R. and Cook, G. (eds.) New technology-based firms in the new millenium. Bingley: Emerald [online], volume 6, chapter 15, pages 239-259. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1876-0228(08)06015-8

Beyond the widely acknowledged importance of new business, the role of young exporting high-tech business in Israel and many other small economies is seen as vital for economic growth. Israel is small and geographically isolated from the main markets... Read More about Success factors for high-tech start ups: views and lessons of Israeli experts..

Organisational culture, national culture and performance in international joint ventures based in Israel. (2008)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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..

An examination of large commercial banks within G-10: risk, efficiency, and the 1996 market risk amendment. (2008)
Thesis
FORSYTH, M. 2008. An examination of large commercial banks within G-10: risk, efficiency, and the 1996 market risk amendment. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

The financial industry changed significantly through the 1990s as commercial banks pursued additional profits through non-traditional and off-balance sheet (OBS) activity. The regulatory bodies had to accept the changing risk nature of the industry a... Read More about An examination of large commercial banks within G-10: risk, efficiency, and the 1996 market risk amendment..

Rescripting the Danish-American dream: an exploration of the embeddedness of enterprise cultures and discourses. (2008)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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 impact of reform of the coffee industry in Kenya on small and large farmers. (2008)
Thesis
VARQA, S. 2008. The impact of reform of the coffee industry in Kenya on small and large farmers. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

Underdevelopment is a major problem facing many developing countries around the world. Market mechanisms have increasingly been employed in an attempt to overcome the problem of underdevelopment such as low growth and poverty; however the implementat... Read More about The impact of reform of the coffee industry in Kenya on small and large farmers..

The adoption of e-trade innovations by Korean small and medium sized firms. (2008)
Journal Article
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..

Exploring the policing-entrepreneurship nexus. (2008)
Report
SMITH, R. 2008. Exploring the policing-entrepreneurship nexus. SIPR Briefing Paper, 5. Dundee: Scottish Institute for Policing Research, School of Social Sciences, University of Dundee.

Although the term Entrepreneurial Policing (EP) is in vogue, it remains little more than meaningless rhetoric; traditionally the term entrepreneur itself has not been part of the pragmatic lexicon of policing. Indeed, the term is little more than a b... Read More about Exploring the policing-entrepreneurship nexus..

Adopting 'agile leadership' in the Police Service. (2008)
Report
SMITH, R. 2008. Adopting 'agile leadership' in the Police Service. SIPR Briefing Paper, 5. Dundee: Scottish Institute for Policing Research, School of Social Sciences, University of Dundee.

The police service in Britain is undergoing a period of rapid and significant change both organisationally and environmentally a fact appreciated Sir Ronnie Flannigan (Flannigan, 2008: 1) in his review of policing in England and Wales. Flannigan (200... Read More about Adopting 'agile leadership' in the Police Service..

The role of market orientation in developing and sustaining market relationships: an empirical study in Taiwan. (2008)
Thesis
TING, S. 2008. The role of market orientation in developing and sustaining market relationships: an empirical study in Taiwan. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

Significant work has taken place in the development of our understanding of business dyadic relationships but much work remains to be done in determining the antecedents, particularly our understanding of cultural contexts. This research aims to add... Read More about The role of market orientation in developing and sustaining market relationships: an empirical study in Taiwan..

Crisis plan? What crisis plan! How microentrepreneurs manage in a crisis. (2008)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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..