Applied and Practice
An Applied and Practice article provides actionable ideas about how to start, manage, grow or fund a new venture. It should be written to appeal to entrepreneurs, managers, students, policymakers and other players. Its emphasis should be providing skills, insights and knowledge to help readers achieve success.
Length: <3,000 words
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Many of today’s best innovations – the ones that have created powerhouse companies and have transformed industries, regions and society itself – started as a discovery in a lab. Firms that know Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Riccardo Fini , Einar Rasmussen , Johan Wiklund and Mike Wright
By Sofia Bapna, Mary J. Benner and Liangfei Qiu Online social media communities have helped companies build customer loyalty and sales, but new firms starting from scratch to build those communities Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Sofia Bapna
It's been said that, “Once you have seen one family firm, you have seen just one family firm.” While it’s popular to say that every family firm is unique, as a researcher I take issue with the Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Thomas Zellweger
New firms must attract two kinds of resources: talent and money. A recent study that I conducted with Tom Vanacker of Ghent University explored how a new firm's affiliations with venture capital Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Daniel Forbes
In recent decades, the U.S. has experienced significant economic shifts as changes occur in technology, globalization and other societal trends. These economic changes have affected different areas Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Rani Bhattacharyya and Jennifer Hawkins
Many venture capital firms, business accelerators and other investors see the strength of the founding team as an important predictor of whether their investment will pay off. No wonder that Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Kevin Bryan and András Tilcsik
Conceptualization that is induced by the play (Kolb & Kolb. 2005). This study echoes the thesis of John Dewey (1916), one of the most influential thinkers in educational theory in the 20th Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Salvatore Tomaselli and Danilo Maurici
When it comes to innovation, family firms often are trapped in an “ability–willingness paradox”: the superior ability to innovate is unrealized because of fear of innovation. Our research 1 Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Emanuela Rondi , Alfredo De Massis and Josip Kotlar
Note: This is the first of two articles that explore crowdfunding's emergence as an important source of capital for entrepreneurs and others; its history and an overview of how the major crowdfunding Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Lawrence Trautman and Wayne Aho
What's in a name? For many family-run businesses, the business name and family name are the same, linking the reputations of the two, for better or worse. New family business owners often grapple Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Sharon Belenzon