Corporate Venturing: Strategies and Success Factors

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Inhoud: Corporate venturing is a practice whereby a company sets up a separate organizational unit, the corporate venturing unit (CVU), to invest in new technological and business opportunities arising within or outside the boundaries of the firm, for long...-term strategic and/or shortterm financial purposes. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the practice of corporate venturing, based on a review of the existing corporate venturing literature and in-depth interviews with the corporate venturing managers of twelve European multinational firms from various manufacturing industries. Three research questions are addressed: 1) what are the motives for companies to engage in corporate venturing; 2) which are the success factors of corporate venturing; and 3) does corporate venturing generate (economic) value for firms?hide

Identifying the Entrepreneur in Entrepreneurship: An Overview of the Research Field with Special Emphasis on Human and Social Capital

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Inhoud: To date, the entrepreneurship phenomenon is characterized by several thrusts and conceptual frameworks. In this literature review, we provide an overview of over forty years of entrepreneurship research, thereby breaking down the phenomenon into fi...ve components: creator, creating process, new value created, close and remote environment. We also elucidate on the concepts of human and social capital, two variables that have been highly adopted to explain the influence of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs on new value creation.hide

Spatial Models of European Union Politics

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Inhoud: This paper presents an overview of the literature on spatial models of European Union (EU) politics. We discuss the early theoretical literature from the 1990s as well as more recent models. The early models focused on the legislative procedures in... the EU, whereas later models analyze specific aspects of EU politics or pecific procedures. We further present a comprehensive overview of the empirical literature that was stimulated by the spatial theory literature. We conclude that spatial modeling has proven to be an important tool to study EU politics, since it yields clear and understandable conclusions and creates opportunities for empirical research.hide

Party Identification and the Economy in Europe: A Literature Review

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Inhoud: As one of the strongest determinants of the vote choice of United States citizens, party identification has been the object of extensive scholarly attention. Despite fifty years of research, its place in the funnel of causality and its applicabilit...y outside the United States remains unclear. In this literature review, we discuss the most influential articles about these two unsolved questions. Furthermore, we evaluate whether propensity-to-vote data can enrich our understanding of European partisanship and its relationship with citizens’ evaluation of the economy.hide

Value added By Design: A Literature Review

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Inhoud: This paper reviews the literature on managing design in organizations, searching for factors that capture the added value generated by design. In order to contribute to the cohesiveness in future research, we incorporate all types of design and sta...rt by discussing the variety of definitions of design. Next, we focus on the financial and non-financial indicators of the value added by design that appear to be relevant in the extant literature. Avenues for future research include paying more attention to the impact of investing in design on brand value, as well as on human capital, sustainability and intellectual property.hide