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Full-Text Articles in Business
Beyond A Single Quadrant, Vijaya Saunder M, Rithica Mamidi
Beyond A Single Quadrant, Vijaya Saunder M, Rithica Mamidi
Asian Management Insights
Rethinking platform businesses in the digital era.
Sustainability Impact Assessment Of New Ventures: An Emerging Field Of Research, Klaus Fichter, Florian Ludeke-Freund, Stefan Schaltegger, Simon J.D. Schillebeeckx
Sustainability Impact Assessment Of New Ventures: An Emerging Field Of Research, Klaus Fichter, Florian Ludeke-Freund, Stefan Schaltegger, Simon J.D. Schillebeeckx
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
Entrepreneurs and start-ups are key actors in implementing environmental innovation and accelerating sustainability transitions. Thus, analyzing as well as predicting the impact of entrepreneurial ventures is central to management and entrepreneurship research. The sustainability performance, value and impact of incumbent firms and their products and services has been a key topic in business-related sustainability research for many years. However, assessing the sustainability effects of new ventures such as start-ups is a neglected area in the research literature. This article therefore provides an overview, including key definitions, a new conceptual framework, and notions that can help guide and inspire a future …
Building A Sustainable End-To-End Aquaculture Solution, Gibran Huzaifah
Building A Sustainable End-To-End Aquaculture Solution, Gibran Huzaifah
Asian Management Insights
Gibran Huzaifah, founder and CEO of eFishery, speaks about his entrepreneurial journey in the aquaculture space.
Acquiring An Entrepreneurial Mindset, Maw Der Foo
Acquiring An Entrepreneurial Mindset, Maw Der Foo
Asian Management Insights
Key ingredients to facilitate the acquisition.
Experiential Learning: The Case Of Training Mba Students In An Asian School, Chiyachantana N. Chiraphol, Kuan Yong David Ding, Jack Jiajun Hong
Experiential Learning: The Case Of Training Mba Students In An Asian School, Chiyachantana N. Chiraphol, Kuan Yong David Ding, Jack Jiajun Hong
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
Consulting for a startup company is an effective way for Master of Business Administration (MBA) students to learn about management consulting, and the ways and means of a startup company. This paper discusses the experience of an MBA startup project within the context of a core corporate finance course. The project requires the active engagement of several groups of stakeholders—MBA students, the university’s entrepreneurship incubator, a selection of startup companies, and the project’s academic collaborators. In line with the literature, we find that entrepreneurship education through student-startup collaboration contributes to the students’ entrepreneurial learning, and that the offering of an …
Burning The Flame Of Entrepreneurship, Singapore Management University
Burning The Flame Of Entrepreneurship, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
From starting a business in a foreign land to adapting to the internet economy, Florence Fang is all about enhancing human lives
Is Guanxi Still Everything When Doing Business In China?, Singapore Management University
Is Guanxi Still Everything When Doing Business In China?, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
Research finds that traditional guanxi-style connection-building is no longer the main key to success when doing business in China, and a new generation of Chinese entrepreneurs form business ties based on reputation and capabilities
Turtletree: Cultivating Food Sustainably, Fengru Lin
Turtletree: Cultivating Food Sustainably, Fengru Lin
Asian Management Insights
Lin Fengru, co-founder of TurtleTree, speaks about her entrepreneurial journey in the biotech space.
Raising Capital: The Startup Journey, Simon J.D. Schillebeeckx, Guarav Nagar
Raising Capital: The Startup Journey, Simon J.D. Schillebeeckx, Guarav Nagar
Perspectives@SMU
Make sure you get a lawyer to read your term sheet, and keep talking to VCs and other founders
Entrepreneuring Ahead While Helping Others, Anna Haotanto
Entrepreneuring Ahead While Helping Others, Anna Haotanto
Perspectives@SMU
Anna Haotanto is a living example of what financial prudence and planning can create. In this month of celebrating women, her advice to women is to achieve financial freedom so that they too can finance their dreams
A Foot In The Door: Field-Experiments On Entrepreneurs’ Network Activation Strategies For Investor Referrals, Jared Nai, Yimin Lin, Reddi Kotha, Vissa Balagopal
A Foot In The Door: Field-Experiments On Entrepreneurs’ Network Activation Strategies For Investor Referrals, Jared Nai, Yimin Lin, Reddi Kotha, Vissa Balagopal
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
We investigate entrepreneurial network activation—the processes by which entrepreneurs select specific contacts from their existing personal network and persuade the selected contacts to provide referrals to access targeted early-stage investors (venture capitalists or angel-investors). We differentiate between selection of entrepreneur-centric contacts versus investor-centric contacts. We also distinguish between persuasion tactics that induce contacts' cooperation through promises of reciprocity versus offers of monetary incentives. We conducted two field-experiments in India and one in Singapore. Our primary field-experiment involved 42 Singapore-based entrepreneurs seeking referrals from 684 network contacts to reach a panel of four investors. Our evidence suggests that selecting investor-centric contacts …
Entrepreneurship And The Great Chinese Urban Migration, Singapore Management University
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
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
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?”
Sinwattana: Capital Crowdfunding For Thai Smes, Singapore Management University
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
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 …
Winning Startup Competitions, Shao Yen Tan, Kush Agarwal
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
Building A Hook For Success, Nir Eyal
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
The Importance Of Innovation And Entrepreneurship In China’S Social Transformation, Guo Jun Shen
The Importance Of Innovation And Entrepreneurship In China’S Social Transformation, Guo Jun Shen
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
As world’s second largest economy, China has seen tremendous changes since its 1978 “open door and reform” policy. Different reformations in form of policies were planned and rolled out to release the potential of productivity. At the same time, social development also seen a huge progress. How the reformation been transformed to social development and in what degree? This is the question was answered in this dissertation. I studied four major reformations covering: State owned Enterprises (SoE), land, financial liberalization, and science and technology, and their impacts on the social development. At macro level, I identified mediation effects of entrepreneurship …
Learn, Adapt, And Move On: An Interview With Rajesh Lingappa, Rajesh Lingappa, Singapore Management University
Learn, Adapt, And Move On: An Interview With Rajesh Lingappa, Rajesh Lingappa, Singapore Management University
Asian Management Insights
Rajesh Lingappa, co-founder and former chief technology officer of RedMart, talks about his entrepreneurial journey in the world of technology.
Estimating The Benefits And Costs Of Forming Business Partnerships, Jungho Lee
Estimating The Benefits And Costs Of Forming Business Partnerships, Jungho Lee
Research Collection School Of Economics
I estimate a matching model of business‐partnership formation to quantify the relative importance of productivity gains, financing gains, and the coordination failure of effort provision (moral hazard) among partners. Productivity gains account for 61% of the gain from the observed partnerships. For partners in the first quartile of the wealth distribution, however, financing accounts for 93% of the gain. The cost of moral hazard corresponds to 42% of the entire gain from partnerships. A loan policy specifically targeting partnerships is less effective in improving welfare than a conventional loan policy that provides loans to individual entrepreneurs.
A Dynamic Account Of Self-Efficacy In Entrepreneurship, Michael M. Gielnik, Ronald Bledow, Miriam S. Stark
A Dynamic Account Of Self-Efficacy In Entrepreneurship, Michael M. Gielnik, Ronald Bledow, Miriam S. Stark
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
We present a dynamic account of self-efficacy in entrepreneurship that integrates social–cognitive and control theory. According to our dynamic account, variability in self-efficacy energizes action because it involves self-motivation and discrepancy perception as competing motivational processes. We argue that variability and the average level in self-efficacy nascent entrepreneurs display over time support the enactment of entrepreneurial intentions and predict business ownership. The proposed positive effect of variability further implies an inverted u-shaped relationship between self-efficacy at a single point in time and business ownership. To test these hypotheses, we repeatedly assessed entrepreneurial self-efficacy of nascent African entrepreneurs during a 12-week …
Tax Uncertainty And Business Activity, Jungho Lee, Jianhuan Xu
Tax Uncertainty And Business Activity, Jungho Lee, Jianhuan Xu
Research Collection School Of Economics
We investigate the extent to which uncertainties about tax policies affect business activities. We develop a statewide tax-uncertainty measure (TU measure) and show that it captures state corporate tax uncertainty. By comparing adjacent counties across state borders, we show that increasing tax uncertainty by one standard deviation (a 30% increase in the TU measure) leads to a 0.17% point per-year decrease in the growth rate of establishments over two years. The result holds after conducting a variety of robustness checks and is not likely to be driven by general state-policy uncertainties.
Research On Extreme Poverty Governance Based On Social Network Analysis, Wenyong Lei
Research On Extreme Poverty Governance Based On Social Network Analysis, Wenyong Lei
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
In this dissertation, the author goes inside some of China's most remote and poorest villages and tries to reveal the determinants, correlates and strategies to address the gap of existing poverty governance system and the complexity and diversity of poor population. He offers in-depth insights into what the poor people think about poverty with two major indicators, identifies evidence on the feasibility of duel-network embedding strategy to reduce poverty, and explains how diverse groups hit by extreme poverty could develop entrepreneurship relationship with diversified market and available social economic resources. Drawing on examples that take place in Xide County, a …
How Does Energy Matter? Rural Electrification, Entrepreneurship, And Community Development In Kenya, Antoine Vernet, Jane N. O. Khayesi, Vivian George, Gerard George, Abubakar S. Bahaj
How Does Energy Matter? Rural Electrification, Entrepreneurship, And Community Development In Kenya, Antoine Vernet, Jane N. O. Khayesi, Vivian George, Gerard George, Abubakar S. Bahaj
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
We examine the impact of rural electrification on individuals and businesses within a community in order to test a resource-based theory of entrepreneurship. We show that access to electricity increases average households’ income and entrepreneurial activities. The impact of electricity on entrepreneurial activity has wide-ranging implications for development policy in countries where access to electricity is sparse. Results show a significant difference in entrepreneurial opportunities with respect to firm formation, with the electrified site reporting more new micro-enterprises than the control site after implementation. Electrification affects both households’ income, individuals’ perceptions of their social position, and opportunities for business development. …
Entrepreneurship, College, And Credit: The Golden Triangle, Roberto M. Samaniego, Juliana Yu Sun
Entrepreneurship, College, And Credit: The Golden Triangle, Roberto M. Samaniego, Juliana Yu Sun
Research Collection School Of Economics
We develop a model to evaluate the aggregate impact of college finance in an environment with entrepreneurship. The calibrated model captures the stylized fact that entrepreneurs with college are more common and more profitable in the United States. The calibration indicates this is mainly because higher labor earnings allow college‐educated agents to ameliorate credit constraints if and when they eventually become entrepreneurs. Changes in financing constraints on entrepreneurs can thus affect college attendance, and changes in financing constraints on college can affect entrepreneurship rates as well.
Reward-Based Crowdfunding Success: Decomposition Of The Project, Product Category, Entrepreneur, And Location Effects, C. S. Richard Chan, Haemin Dennis Park, Pamkaj Patel, David Gomulya
Reward-Based Crowdfunding Success: Decomposition Of The Project, Product Category, Entrepreneur, And Location Effects, C. S. Richard Chan, Haemin Dennis Park, Pamkaj Patel, David Gomulya
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
We assess the relative importance of project, product category, entrepreneur, and location effects on reward-based crowdfunding success. Applying variance decomposition analysis to a sample of 98,336 crowdfunding projects launched between May 2009 and May 2014 on the Kickstarter platform, we find that agency factors, specifically the project and entrepreneur effects, explain the highest relative variance (over 80% of total variance) across three crowdfunding success outcomes – pledge amount, number of backers, and funding success. Structural factors, specifically product category and location effects, have lower but still significant effects. Our study extends prior variance decomposition studies in strategy and entrepreneurship research …
International New Ventures: Revisiting The Influences Behind The ‘Born-Global’ Firm, Terence P. C. Fan, Phillip Phan
International New Ventures: Revisiting The Influences Behind The ‘Born-Global’ Firm, Terence P. C. Fan, Phillip Phan
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
There is a small but theoretically important literature on 'born-globals' or international new venture firms that positions itself in contrast to the more established sequential international entry literature. In this paper we examine the pattern of entry into international markets for a set of international new ventures and show that they need not be a distinct breed of firms, as previous research has portrayed. Absent a specific technological advantage, the decision for a new venture to internationalize at inception is influenced by the size of its home market and by its production capacity, as well as by cultural and economic …
Innovations In Asia: Selected Case Studies, Institute Of Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Singapore Management University
Innovations In Asia: Selected Case Studies, Institute Of Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Singapore Management University
Research Collection Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
This book is a compilation of seven case studies written by faculty and staff of Singapore Management University (SMU) and has been edited in conjunction with the inaugural Asia Pacific Innovation Forum organised by the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) and hosted by SMU in December 2014. These cases have been carefully selected to illustrate the various challenges inherent in creating entrepreneurial and business innovations.
The first five cases are related to start-ups by experienced professionals and students. Jayashree is an excellent case that shows how an individual with very little education was able to design and implement …
Factors Driving Financial Inclusion And Financial Performance In Fintech New Ventures: An Empirical Study, Miguel Angel Soriano
Factors Driving Financial Inclusion And Financial Performance In Fintech New Ventures: An Empirical Study, Miguel Angel Soriano
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
Financial inclusion, or providing access to and active use of affordable financial products to the 2 billion unbanked adults globally, can facilitate individual prosperity, reduce poverty and increase economic development. Digital technologies such as mobile phones, cloud computing, data analytics and blockchain are one of the biggest enablers of financial inclusion by making it economically possible to serve these individuals. This dissertation examined the role of digital technologies in financial inclusion from the perspective of new financial technology (Fintech) ventures serving the unbanked and underbanked. Supported by strategy management theories, I identified key factors that impact the success of these …