Entrepreneurship
Publications
41 Results
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Business Connections of Migrant Entrepreneurs: Finding a Niche in the Diverse City of Amsterdam
1 January 2021 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementAmsterdam is known to be a cosmopolitan and multicultural city where newly arrived migrants find opportunities to test business ideas. Behind every business idea, there are people supporting the entrepreneurs’ ...
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How to promote managers’ innovative behavior at work: Individual factors and perceptions
1 January 2021 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementWith the rapid development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), digital technology changes how banks translate new customer demands into new products and services. To achieve this translation, banks ...
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The story of Tony’s Chocolonely - update December 2020
1 January 2021 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThis is an update of the teaching case published on entrepreneurshipcases.amsterdam. It is not openly available but can be requested by teachers.
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Developing Educational Escape Rooms for Experiential Entrepreneurship Education
1 November 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementEducational escape rooms (EERs) are increasingly used in education as learning innovations for non-digital and game-based learning (GBL) since EERs positively influence student motivation. They are common in ...
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Lessons from entrepreneurial failure through vicarious learning
25 October 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementDespite its widespread occurrence, the topic of failure is barely addressed in entrepreneurship education. Consequently, students are given an incomplete and unrealistic picture of the complexity of being entrepreneurs.
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Intervention Framework SmartUp
17 October 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThis comprehensive document shares up-to-date knowledge on Early Warning Signals of business crisis, presents detection and intervention opportunities, and makes a clear case for their beneficial application to SME ...
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Policy evaluation report
30 September 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementIn this policy evaluation report, the results of the first 2 years of the Interreg funded ABCitiEs project are presented. In total 16 entrepreneurship collectives have been studied in 5 partner regions, i.e. Athens, ...
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Governing Collaborative Value Creation in the Context of Grand Challenges: A Case Study of a Cross-Sectoral Collaboration in the Textile Industry
17 June 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe aim of this study is to understand how governance mechanisms in cross-sector collaborations (CSCs) for sustainability affect value creation and capture and subsequently the survival of this organizational form.
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An Investigation of Factors Influencing Entrepreneurial Intention amongst University Students
29 April 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe aim of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the entrepreneurial intention (EI) of university students. In order to do so, EI, individual entrepreneurial orientation, self-efficacy, perceived ...
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Toward a theory of affordable loss
1 March 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementAlthough dozens of empirical studies have been published on effectuation as a whole, much work remains to be done on elaborating each principle in more depth. Based on an exploratory study of seven ventures from the ...
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How to facilitate different types of innovation activities in organizations?
1 January 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementIn dynamic and competitive environment, the importance of innovation is accepted as a necessary ingredients for firms to create value and sustain competitive advantage.
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Tech Scale-Ups in the Amsterdam City Region
1 January 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThis report analysis the geography of the tech sector in Amsterdam, with a focus on scaleups. After a literature review, it contains a quantitative analysis, showing and mapping the spatial clustering of various ...
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Tackling Food Waste: Factors that influence food waste
1 December 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe increased generation of food waste is a global and national problem. The purpose of the study is to investigate the factors that influence food waste and the role of technology in tackling food waste in the ...
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Looking beyond individual-based diversity
27 November 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementAmsterdam is known to be a cosmopolitan and multicultural city with multiple economic opportunities. Such context provides suitable legal, political and economic conditions where newly arrived migrants are ...
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Entrepreneurship for Society: developing a transdisciplinary minor program
28 October 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and Management‘Entrepreneurship for Society’ is a new minor program at Amsterdam UAS, the Netherlands. Using the concept of the ‘Doughnut Economy’ by Kate Raworth as theoretical baseline, focus is on social ...
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The Development of Entrepreneurial Intention amongst University Students: The Influence of Individual and Contextual Factors
16 October 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe swift enhancement of technology has affected the business environment while higher education alone no longer plays a definitive role in the employment process. To meet the emerging requirements of employers, ...
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Academic entrepreneurship in the context of education
16 October 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementPurpose: This study aims to extend literature on academic entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial networking by examining how academics, in their role of entrepreneurial educators, network for the creation and execution ...
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Country of Origin Criteria for Digitalization with National IT Products
9 October 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementIn today’s world, digital transformation enhancement in IT sector becomes crucial for efficient solutions in organizations. Institutions in public sector try to enrich its process solutions with additional ...
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Information security behaviour
12 June 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementIn today’s world, information security is a trending as well as a crucial topic for both individuals and organizations. Experts believe that nothing can guarantee any system’s security unless ...
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Governance of urban collectives in Amsterdam
5 June 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementAcross European cities local entrepreneurs are joining forces in new ways, forming collectives to stimulate business growth and innovation and to create a more attractive business environment. The value of such ...
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How to facilitate different types of innovation in an organization through entrepreneurial orientation and knowledge management
28 May 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementIn dynamic and competitive environment, the importance of innovation is accepted as a necessary ingredients for firms to create value and sustain competitive advantage. However, very little empirical research has ...
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The university’s role in sustainable development
1 April 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe role of (entrepreneurial) universities as change agents in regional economic development has been highlighted before, but how they can drive regional sustainable development in developing countries has been ...
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The Street-Wise University: The Amsterdam Knowledge Mile as an Intermediary and Place-Making Concept
1 January 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementUniversities have become more engaged or entrepreneurial, forging deeper relations with society beyond the economic sphere. To foster, structure, and institutionalize a broader spectrum of engagement, new types of ...
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Working Passionately Does Not Always Pay Off: The Negative Moderating Role of Passion on the Relationship Between Deliberate Practice and Venture Performance
1 January 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementDeliberate practice, an iterative process that leads to expertise, is found to be positively associated with superior performance in domains such as sports, education, and entrepreneurship. At the same time, ...
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Ideas, Context and Connections: Conceptual Framing of the Opportunity to Innovate for Migrant Entrepreneurs
14 December 2018 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementAre migrant entrepreneurs innovative with their business ideas and practices? The introduction of novel business ideas would provide migrant entrepreneurs with a cutting edge advantage against competitors, but the ...
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The story of Tony’s Chocolonely
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Developing stereotypes to facilitate dialogue between social entrepreneurs and local government
10 April 2018 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementSocial enterprises and government share the ultimate goal of solving societal problems, which provides a lot of potential for collaboration between the two parties. While the local government level is the most ...
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Entrepreneurship education for the acquisition of entrepreneurial expertise
1 January 2018 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementQuestions we care about Entrepreneurship education (EE) has grown exponentially over the last decade. A shift can be observed from teaching about entrepreneurship to teach for and through entrepreneurship ...
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Reconceptualization of entrepreneurial expertise
1 January 2018 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementKnowledge about entrepreneurial expertise, how experts think and make decisions have progressed in the last decade. Despite this advancement, studies have difficulties in providing a general conceptual model of ...
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Embedding entrepreneurship at AUAS
1 January 2018 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) wants to further expand its reputation as the place where students can develop relevant skills, expertise and networks to either become professional entrepreneurs ...