tailieunhanh - Handbook of Organizational Behavior_2

Tham khảo sách 'handbook of organizational behavior_2', khoa học xã hội, chính trị - triết học phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 16 Entrepreneurial Phenomena in a Cross-National Context Urs E. Gattiker Aalborg University Aalborg Denmark John Parm ulhei The Aarhus School of Business Aarhus Denmark I. Introduction International trade is thriving and the demand for job creation through the founding of new firms is increasing and becoming a political hot topic. A response by researchers to these developments has resulted in a rise in cross-national studies assessing and comparing attitudes toward technology and how these attitudes relate to the effective use of technology . Gattiker and Nelligan 1988 Earley and Stubblebine 1989 . Also how cross-national differences and similarities in management systems may influence the possible success of high-technology start-ups has been investigated . Goslin et al. 1993 . Others have appraised and compared the efforts of countries to keep their workers abreast of new technology-related developments thereby assuring that workers skill levels match the requirements of the workplace caused by innovation . Muszynski and Wolfe 1989 . The literature has primarily focused on these issues in large firms. For instance. Adler 1998 proposed that having a less rigid bureaucracy and using control as a tool of enablement instead of coercion will help larger firms to remain innovative. Zahra and Garvis 1998 reported that large . firms exhibiting international corporate entrepreneurship show better performance than other large firms do. Some studies have addressed how structural changes in an economy through mergers and plant closures . Baldwin and Górecki 1990 and the formation of new companies . Birley and McMillan 1992 tend to influence national employment levels as well as economic growth. Much of the research investigating the formation of new companies has concentrated on the personal characteristics of entrepreneurs . see Brockhaus 1982 for an extensive review of this literature asking what makes them different from other people. In contrast to