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Title: A RELATIONAL EXAMINATION OF RESOURCE ACQUISITION IN ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORKS
Author: Medaugh, Melissa
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship
Description: Social networks provide entrepreneurs with a cost-effective way to acquire resources from people they know personally. In the current research, I develop and test a relational model of resource acquisition, which demonstrates the predictive role o...

Title: Alice M. McCall oral history interview, 1979 May 24
Creator: McCall, Alice M. (Alice Murray), 1912-2006
Date Created: 1979-05-24
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship, Cable cars (Streetcars), Radio, Single-sex schools
Description: Alice M. McCall recounts growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1910s to the 1930s. Topics discussed include her father's tailoring business, playing pranks on streetcar drivers as a child, memories of the end of World War I, chan...

Title: Alice M. McCall oral history interview, 1979 May 24
Creator: McCall, Alice M. (Alice Murray), 1912-2006
Date Created: 1979-05-24
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship, Cable cars (Streetcars), Radio, Single-sex schools
Description: Alice M. McCall recounts growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1910s to the 1930s. Topics discussed include her father's tailoring business, playing pranks on streetcar drivers as a child, memories of the end of World War I, chan...

Title: Bryant McMurray oral history interview 4, 2017 April 26
Creator: McMurray, Bryant, 1947-
Date Created: 2017-04-26
Subjects--Topical: Photography of sports, Motorsports--Economic aspects, Motorsports--Marketing, Stock car drivers, Advertising campaigns, Sports--Public relations, Television--Production and direction, College teaching, Entrepreneurship
Description: In this fourth installment of a series of interviews, Bryant McMurray describes his work in public relations and marketing campaigns for companies heavily involved with the motorsports industry such as STP Corporation, Hardee’s, and R.J. Reynolds....

Title: COMMITMENT, TRUST, KINSHIP – BUILDING A LEGACY THROUGH SUCCESSION PLANNING
Author: Rolan, Lisa
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship
Description: This dissertation deals with the incumbent's commitment to the family firm and the degree of formalization of a succession plan and how trust and kinship strengthen or weaken the relationship. This dissertation argues that the incumbent's commitme...

Title: Does Fit Matter? An Investigation of Employee-Supervisor Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation Fit on Innovative Work Behavior Within Established Organizations
Author: Piwowar, Theresa
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship, Management
Description: Within established organizations, employee innovative behavior is vital for the long-term survival of firms. Employee individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) represents tendencies by an individual toward innovativeness, proactiveness, and ris...

Title: Does Gender Matter? A Moderated Model for Family Climate and Psychological Ownership of the Family Firm as Experienced by Next-Generation Family Members.
Author: Shike, Sarah
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship
Description: While most family business leaders want their offspring to take over the family business, most next-generation family members choose to pursue opportunities outside their families’ businesses. This research aims to understand how internal family d...

Title: FROM OPPORTUNITY RECOGNITION TO OPPORTUNITY EVALUATION: A CONGRUENCE PERSPECTIVE OF OPPORTUNITY BELIEF FORMATION
Author: Scheaf, David
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Cognitive psychology, Entrepreneurship
Description: Beliefs about the existence and attractiveness of opportunities underpin entrepreneurial action. Belief formation is broken into two distinct phases. Third-person opportunity beliefs (i.e., an opportunity for someone) form as a result of the oppor...

Title: Founder Social Identity As A Predictor Of Customer And Competitor Orientation In Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises
Author: Rutherford, Austin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship, Marketing
Description: This dissertation explores the association between Founder Social Identity and the twoleading component measures of market orientation: customer and competitor orientation. Using the typology of entrepreneurial identities developed by Fauchart and...

Title: Harvie C. Jordan oral history interview, 1979 October 23
Creator: Jordan, Harvie C., Sr., 1910-1992
Date Created: 1979-10-23
Subjects--Topical: Printing industry, Depressions, Newspaper publishing, Entrepreneurship
Description: Harvie C. Jordan recalls co-founding his paper company, the Dixie Tag and Envelope Manufacturing Company, describes contract work that it undertook for the U.S. government during World War II, and discusses its significance in Charlotte, North Car...

Title: Harvie C. Jordan oral history interview, 1979 October 23
Creator: Jordan, Harvie C., Sr., 1910-1992
Date Created: 1979-10-23
Subjects--Topical: Printing industry, Depressions, Newspaper publishing, Entrepreneurship
Description: Harvie C. Jordan recalls co-founding his paper company, the Dixie Tag and Envelope Manufacturing Company, describes contract work that it undertook for the U.S. government during World War II, and discusses its significance in Charlotte, North Car...

Title: Improvement or Peril: The Paradox of Professionalizing Innovation-Driven Portfolio Firms
Author: Medaugh, Melissa
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship, Management, Psychology
Description: To understand why some innovation-driven portfolio firms benefit more from venture capital (VC) funding than others, I explore the salient phenomenon of founder CEO exit. Integrating institutional logics and psychological contracts theories, I pro...

Title: Jerald Melberg oral history interview, 2018 February 23
Creator: Melberg, Jerald L.
Date Created: 2018-02-23
Subjects--Topical: Baptist, Entrepreneurship, Art museums--Acquisitions, Art galleries, Commercial, Art dealers, Poverty, Education
Description: Long time Charlotte art gallery entrepreneur and curator, Jerald Melberg, reflects on his life and his professional involvement with the art community in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he served as a curator at the Mint Museum of Art for several...

Title: Moderating Effect of Political Affiliation, Kinship Ties, Environmental Munificence and Environment Uncertainty in the Relationship Between Institutional Trust and Entrepreneurial Orientation.
Author: Henriques, Tchijica
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship, Industrial management
Description: Micro-entrepreneurship constitutes undeniably an important development strategy in developing countries. Earlier empirical studies have shown it generates 20 to 45% of full-time employment and 30% to 50% of rural household income in Africa. Howeve...

Title: Predicting Startup Success in U.S
Author: Lopes Veloso, Felipe Augusto
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Artificial intelligence, Entrepreneurship
Description: This thesis consists of the creation of a reliable model to predict the success of Startups located in U.S. Previous researches have been focused either on the accuracy of different algorithms, without investigating the real effect of the risk and...

Title: Relationship Between Entrepreneurial Orientation and the Intention to Pursue Digital Entrepreneurship: Opportunity Evaluation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Author: Chapman, Ophelia
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Entrepreneurship, Industrial management
Description: Over the past several years the connection between entrepreneurship and digital technologies has transformed the way business is conducted. This, coupled with reactions to the coronavirus outbreak that have caused interruptions to significant econ...

Title: Resilience and Venture Performance: The Moderating Role of Culture within Entrepreneurship
Author: Barzuna Hidalgo, Oscar
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship, Sociology
Description: Resilience research within the field of entrepreneurship has increasingly received attention from academia. However, most studies have considered this construct under extreme circumstances such as war, the aftermath of natural disasters, and econo...

Title: Supportive Entrepreneurial Figures: Examining the Role of Gender and Racial Homophily and Status on New Venture Creation
Author: Sandoval, Rosalyn
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship
Description: Although women and racial minority entrepreneurs make considerable contributions to society by creating their ventures, they often face additional barriers and limitations that explain the differential rate of new venture creation between men and ...

Title: The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship Meets the Dark Triad: Entrepreneurial Passion, Work Addiction, and Personality Traits
Author: Gerdts, James
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship, Social sciences, Psychology
Description: Passion can drive entrepreneurs to new heights of success and fulfilment, but the dark side can also lead to conflict with relationships and other valued activities. Work addiction goes a step further as it demands the entrepreneur’s time and ener...

Title: The Dualistic Model of Passion and Employee Intrapreneurial Behaviors
Author: Holoman, Mark
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship, Industrial management
Description: Passion research is rapidly expanding within the field of entrepreneurship. However, measurement of the passion construct has rarely considered entrepreneurial-thinking employees within established firms, or intrapreneurs. Drawing from identity th...