Life cycles of growing organizations: A review with implications for knowledge and learning

R Phelps, R Adams, J Bessant - International journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Conceptualizing growth trajectories of organizations in organismic terms describing
transitions through a series of stages, from birth to maturity, has considerable intuitive …

Latino self-employment and entrepreneurship in the United States: An overview of the literature and data sources

BJ Robles, H Cordero-Guzman - The Annals of the …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
While significant attention has been paid to the growth of the Latino population and its
contribution to the US labor market, less scholarly and popular media attention has focused …

A categorization of small retailer research streams: what does it portend for future research?

RC Runyan, C Droge - Journal of Retailing, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper presents an extensive review of 20+ years of research on small, independent
retailers. For each of 134 articles, the focus, theory, analysis, methodology, and key findings …

Individual factors affecting entrepreneurship in Hispanics

J C. Canedo, D L. Stone, S L. Black… - Journal of Managerial …, 2014 - emerald.com
Purpose–Although there has been considerable research on entrepreneurship (Rauch and
Frese, 2000), there has been limited research on Hispanic entrepreneurs (eg Peterson …

Towards understanding the initial adoption of online retail stores in a low internet penetration context: An exploratory work in Ghana

AB Jibril, MA Kwarteng, M Pilik, E Botha, CN Osakwe - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Online shopping has become increasingly popular in the past two decades. Yet, despite its
popularity, the use of online stores on the African continent pales in comparison to other …

Enrichment for retail businesses: How female entrepreneurs and masculine traits enhance business success

DV Moudrý, P Thaichon - Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2020 - Elsevier
Studies indicate that more male entrepreneurs are pursuing business ventures than their
female counterparts. Latterly, there has been increased research interest in female …

The evolution of CEO compensation over the organizational life cycle: A contingency explanation

G Wang, P Singh - Human Resource Management Review, 2014 - Elsevier
There continues to be an intense debate in the public domain on executive compensation,
usually centered on issues related to its effectiveness and fairness. While there are …

The practice of employee learning in SME workplaces: A micro view from the life-cycle perspective

S Tam, DE Gray - Journal of Small Business and Enterprise …, 2016 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore how employees in small and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs) practise and view workplace learning at three different life-cycle stages …

“Ethnic” family business or just family business? Human resource practices in the ethnic family firm

RE Kidwell, F Hoy, S Ibarreche - Journal of Family Business Strategy, 2012 - Elsevier
The presence of family influence and family social capital may factor into a family firm's
relatively slow process in formalizing human resource practices when compared to a non …

Breaking the cycle of crime: Promoting the positive social spillover potential of entrepreneurship

M McDaniel, C Sutter, JW Webb, FJ Elgar… - Journal of Business …, 2021 - Elsevier
Entrepreneurship can result in many positive economic effects, but is it possible that
entrepreneurship can also have positive social spillover effects such as helping to reduce …