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Entrepreneurship And The Great Chinese Urban Migration, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

A recent research study finds that rural migrants in China are likely to establish bigger companies and universities in big cities can serve as talent importers

Start Small. Do It Well. Then Expand Your Offerings., Binny Bansal

Asian Management Insights

An interview with Binny Bansal. Binny Bansal, co-founder of Flipkart, and co-founder and executive chairman of xto10x, talks about his entrepreneurial journey in the world of e-commerce.

Entrepreneurial Lessons, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Growth keeps a company interesting and helps retain talent. There are many issues to grapple with, from manpower to asking your clients, “How much would you pay for that?”

Investing For The Future, Saker Nusseibeh

Perspectives@SMU

Even if you don’t believe in climate change, shifting consumer and governmental attitudes make businesses that prioritise sustainability more profitable

Sinwattana: Capital Crowdfunding For Thai Smes, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

A Singaporean entrepreneur falls in love with Thailand, and creates the country’s first online equity crowdfunding platform

The Impact Of Digitalization On International Expansion: A Study On Market Entry Strategy Based On The Integration-Responsiveness Framework, Thian Kiang Tan

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Digitalization has accelerated the growth and creation of new business models. There are more unicorn companies (a non-public company valued at more than US$1B) in the last 10 years than the decades before it. The use of digital technologies presents new opportunities for digitally active firms to capture growth in a new market. This paper studies how digitalization influences the internationalization process of the firm and its mode of entry into a foreign market. Drawing on existing literature on digitalization, this paper creates a novel approach to study the effect of digitalization by classifying firms based on their market business …

Business Families As Stewards Of Sustainability, John Cheng, Ankesh Shahra, Cynthia Handriani Wijaya, Louise Dudley

Perspectives@SMU

The drive to preserve the business for future generations makes family-owned enterprises especially suited to sustainability initiatives. Embracing ESG frameworks will help measure their effectiveness

The Entrepreneurial Scientist, Kush Agarwal

Perspectives@SMU

Kush Agarwal is a trained scientist who calls himself “an entrepreneur by DNA”. His advice to budding startup founders: Manage your expectations with VCs

Winning Startup Competitions, Shao Yen Tan, Kush Agarwal

Perspectives@SMU

Tan Shao Yen and Kush Agarwal were a mentor-mentee pairing in the Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition. Their organisations are now collaborating to explore the application of new technology in the built environment

A Cio’S Take On Singapore’S Startup Ecosystem, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

New challenges will drive innovation, says CPG’s Tan Shao Yen

Study On Green Products Innovation Of Fashion Sme “Np”, Griba Raymundo Ginting, Lamtiur Hasianna Tampubolon

BISNIS & BIROKRASI: Jurnal Ilmu Administrasi dan Organisasi

Innovation is a social and economic success due to the discovery of new solutions that significantly improve value offered to customers and benefits perceived by customers with cost exchanges as profits. Therefore, innovation becomes a competitive advantage for MSME to have the ability to compete and survive in dynamic markets. The purpose of this research is to examine innovations in the green products of MSME Fashion. The research uses qualitative methods with semi-structured interviews and observations. Data is obtained through in-depth interviews with three informants namely the owner and two employees of Fashion SME and triangulation to two consumers of …

Building A Hook For Success, Nir Eyal

Perspectives@SMU

Nir Eyal rode the Silicon Valley wave and created the Hook model that keeps customers coming back for more. He sees shades of 2006 Silicon Valley optimism in Singapore

Angling For Effective Innovation Governance In Asia: Lessons Learnt From Singapore’S Qian Hu Fish Farm, Thomas Menkhoff, Geok Chwee Ong

Asian Management Insights

Would you feed herbal medication to help fishes heal? This proposition may seem like a wild idea, but it was a calculated act of innovation by Qian Hu Corp Ltd, a Singapore-based Chinese family ornamental fish business.

Lead With Your Heart, Hyper Innovate, And Make A Difference, Steve Johanns, Singapore Management University

Asian Management Insights

Steve Johanns, founder and former Chairman of Veriown Global, is now taking smart villages into Sub-Saharan Africa through his company Villedge Solutions. He talks about his entrepreneurial journey in the world of hyper innovation and the secrets found in last mile empowerment.

Barriers And Enablers To Building Entrepreneurial Ecosystems As Perceived By Change Agents In The Workplace, Shanda Barrett

Dissertations

This study explores factors that influence entrepreneurial ecosystems. Clifton (2010, 2015) recommends entrepreneurship, better business models, and new business startups as a solution for economic renewal in the United States and specifically identifies disengaged workers and low-energy workplaces as the starting point. The recommendation does not address how to make workplaces conducive to entrepreneurial activity, nor does the recommendation address how to engage entrepreneurial employees.

Existing literature outlines the known tensions between theory, anecdotal evidence, and the professional practice of building entrepreneurial ecosystems. To date, the term entrepreneurial ecosystem exists as a metaphor in the extant literature. While scholars have …

Factors Contributing To Innovation Orientation Of Singapore Technology Small And Medium Enterprises (Smes), Kok Beng Neo

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

As Singapore transitioned from economy that was primarily dependent on foreign direct investments (FDI) to a knowledge-based economy driven by indigenously developed science, technology and innovations, it became critical for the local firms to grow and internationalize. The government has thus invested heavily (of $19 billion from 2016 to 2020, and $25 billion from 2021 to 2015) in science and technology research and development. The Committee of Future Economy (CFE) concluded that in an era of rapid technological change where innovation cycles have shortened, one of economic strategy is to support our “high growth” enterprises to “scale up”. However, the …

Using Sequential Mixed Methods To Evaluate The Contribution Of Absorptive Capacity (Acap), Anthony Paul Buckley, Francis Martin Behan

Conference papers

How might Absorptive Capacity (ACAP) (Cohen & Levinthal 1990,,Song et al. 2018) contribute to indigenous firm innovation and growth and how might the effects of this construct be evaluated at both firm and policy level? This paper demonstrates how a mixed methods research design and data analysis strategy can address the research question outlined above. Within the ‘mixed methods’ research genre, the design approach argued for here is for a ‘sequential mixed methods research’ approach. This is where one methodology is followed sequentially by another to add robustness to the overall findings from a study. The approach can also be …

Escape For Boone & Crocket, William Foxx, W. Frank Thompson Jr., Joseph W. Giese, David Vanbuskirk

Atlantic Marketing Journal

Eber Crocket is the owner of Boone & Crocket Trapper Supply (B&C). He feels like the environmental forces that are impacting his business are like a trap slowing closing on him. He is considering ideas to improve his store’s profitability.

Demand for furs as fashion goods is a multi-million dollar industry. Twenty percent of this demand is met by wild fur which is harvested by trappers. Trapping suppliers serve as the middleman between small individual trappers and auction houses. These auction houses collect the raw fur pelts from trappers and trapping stores and hold them until one of their auctions. …

Homie: Home Services Company, Kean Loong (Josh) Teo

MSc in Innovation Capstone Projects

Analysis of the market for home services, value proposition, differentiator, market attractiveness, and business model. Included marketing campaign and social media posts.

A Flair To Remember: Innovative Use Of Technology During Covid-19 Focus On Weddings, Carla Rosas, Danielle Lynch, Mj Adekanmbi, Simioluwa Opayemi

Case Studies

Student blog series from MSc in Event Management students at TU Dublin.

In this blog post Carla Rosas, Danielle Lynch, MJ Adekanmbi and Simioluwa Opayemi interview event planner Gabriella Olukoya from luxury events company A Flair to Remember. Gabriella gives vital insight on the current state of the wedding industry and also on how to ‘flip the script’ and use the ‘negatives’ and make them positives to elevate an events company. As a current ‘Regional Finalist’ for Wedding Planner of the Year, Gabby is a prime example of ‘Creating Success’ during COVID-19 by adding and implementing technology into their events …

Entrepreneurial Strategies To Mitigate The High Failure Rates Of Small Retail Businesses, James A. Latour

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The high rate of business failures within the first 5 years negatively affects half of startup business owners. Small retail business owners who fail to develop innovative entrepreneurial strategies experience high failure rates within the first 5 years of operation. Grounded in self-determination theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore entrepreneurial strategies small retail business owners use to support long-term sustainability. Participants were five small retail business owners from Southern Illinois who successfully used entrepreneurial strategies to reduce high failure rates. Data were collected from semistructured interviews and internal documents relevant to reducing high failure …

Relationship Between Leadership Style And Innovation Performance In Small-To-Medium-Scale Enterprises In Nigeria, Emmanuel Chukwuemeka Ossai

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractThe Global Innovation Index recently indicated that Nigeria lags several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in innovation inputs and outputs. It is uncertain whether leadership style in place in Nigerian enterprises is a factor in this situation. Innovation performance is the contribution of product and process innovations to profits and growth in an enterprise. The purpose of this correlational, cross-sectional, survey study was to understand the relationship between leadership style and innovation performance in small-to-medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria. The SME sector was selected because it is the engine of growth of the economy and the highest employer of labor, but …

Are Entrepreneurial Capabilities And Prior Knowledge The Silver Bullet For The Generation Of New Digital Venture Ideas In A Digital Context?, Meifang Yao, Dan Ye, Gao Yang, Hui Shi, Xianrong Zheng

Information Technology & Decision Sciences Faculty Publications

Digital technology has had an important impact on entrepreneurship. It has changed the uncertain nature of the process of new venture idea generation, and it has also brought unprecedented opportunities for the generation of new digital venture ideas. In order to explore how startups can deal with major challenges brought by digital technology and create new digital venture ideas, this paper focuses on micro level entrepreneurial actions and constructs a theoretical model of the relationship among networking capabilities, IT capabilities, prior knowledge, and new digital venture ideas. Furthermore, through the hierarchical linear regression analysis of 278 sample data, the paper …