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- Hjalmarsson, Dan
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Building Local Innovation Support Systems: Theory and Practice
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Ingår i: Questioning the Entrepreneurial State: Status-quo, Pitfalls, and the Need for Credible Innovation Policy. - Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature. - 1572-1922. - 9783030942731 - 9783030942724 ; 53, s. 95-109
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Interest in innovation as a way of meeting societal challenges is increasing. Interest in different types of public innovation support is therefore increasing as well. Umeå University has many years of experience in developing and operating a well-functioning innovation support system. A common theme is to offer project owners creative arenas as context for entrepreneurial judgments and assessments during the various steps of the innovation process. Improved program theories are needed to enable evaluations that provide feedback, learning, and accountability.
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- Kremel, Anna
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Heterogeneity in the level and handling of the Liability of Newness : Female and immigrant entrepreneurs’ need for and use of business advisory service
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the start-up entrepreneurs face the Liability of Newness when problems and challenges often threaten business survival. Business advisory service, provided by public and private supplier contacts, can offer important knowledge and information, accompanied by various forms of assistance, and thereby decrease the entrepreneurs’ risk of failure and reduce their Liability of Newness. However, it is difficult to match the entrepreneurs’ need for such advice with the available advice. The support must meet the need. Most nations in the European Union have programs and projects that provide such support for entrepreneurs and SMEs. Special programs often support female entrepreneurs and/or immigrant entrepreneurs.This thesis examines the level and handling of the Liability of Newness with special focus on female entrepreneurs and immigrant entrepreneurs in Sweden. The four papers of this thesis take the perspective of these entrepreneurs. The research is based on a sample of 2 832 entrepreneurs who were interviewed (in a telephone survey) on their impressions and recollections on their need for and use of business advisory service in the start-up processes of their companies. Fulfilment of need is achieved when the need for business advisory service is matched with the right use of business advisory service.Heterogeneities as far as the level and handling of the Liability of Newness exist related to female entrepreneurs (vs. male entrepreneurs) and immigrant entrepreneurs (vs. non-immigrant entrepreneurs). Female entrepreneurs have a higher need for business advisory service than male entrepreneurs and also use more business advisory service than male entrepreneurs. As a result, female entrepreneurs can decrease the hazard rate for their companies and also reduce the Liability of Newness as their companies move toward the standard risk in their industry. Immigrant entrepreneurs also have a higher need for business advisory service than non-immigrant entrepreneurs. However, because immigrant entrepreneurs use business advisory service to the same extent that non-immigrant entrepreneurs do, immigrant entrepreneurs are unable to decrease the hazard rate for their companies or to reduce the Liability of Newness.The thesis makes both theoretical, methodological and practical contributions.The thesis may be of interest to government policy makers with its attention to the need and use of business advisory service by female entrepreneurs and immigrant entrepreneurs.
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- Hjalmarsson, Dan, et al.
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Public Advisory Services - Theory and Practice
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Ingår i: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0898-5626 .- 1464-5114. ; 15:1, s. 83-98
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Public advisory service to SMEs is a multibillion pound activity throughout the industrialized world. Yet very little research has been done on the theoretical basis for this field. This paper proposes some elements in a theoretical understanding of the rationale behind public measures. The authors argue that public intervention should be considered at two levels, as a public market intervention and as a consultant-client relation at the micro level. At the market intervention level, public advisory service is seen in the perspective of economic theory, comparing neo-classical and neo-Austrian theory. Two different kinds of services are identified and discussed: operational and strategic. At a micro level, the concepts of client identity and clientifying power relations serve to understand the small business manager's way of responding to services. In combining both levels - the market perspective and the micro level - it is argued that the neo-classical theory is connected to operational/expert services and objectifying power technologies. The neo-Austrian theory corresponds with the empirical findings at the micro level showing strategic services embedded in a subjectifying power technology. With the neo-Austrian perspective the rather symmetrical relations between client and consultant at the micro level is comprehensible
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- Hjalmarsson, Dan
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Programteori för statlig företagsservice
- 1998
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to construct a vital part of a program theory for public business advisory service for small and medium sized companies (SMEs). Program theory is defined as the presuppositions concerning what the intervention or program. originally was designed to achieve and how this achievement was to come about. Program theory is also to be understood as intervention theories and as the reasoning underlying the program.Public business advisory service is, in this context, seen as public intervention or public policy designed and implemented to enhance growth and renewal in the small business sector. In Sweden alone, national and regional governments spend several billions of SEK each year on providing SMEs with business service. However, little theoretical work has been done to explain why this service is needed and how it should be designed and implemented. A program theory is thus needed.The construction of such a theory, presented here, is composed of four parts:Part one of the thesis is a survey of the need for service presented in the report The Need for Business Advisory Service (Behovet av företagsservice, Hjalmarsson, D., & Johnsson, T., 1980).Part two - the report Business Advisory Service from Bill to Action (Företagsservice från proposition till handling, Hjalmarsson, D., & Johnsson, T., 1982 ) - is a case-study of advisory service in practice with a focus on implementation.Part three is an official report containing surveys, analyses and proposals regarding the future of the Swedish Regional Development Funds, which until 1994 were the major providers of advisory service in Sweden. The official report is presented in A Strategy for Small Business Development (Strategi för småföretagsutveckling, Hjalmarsson, D., chapter 1-9 in SOU 1993:70).In part four, this document, Program Theory for Public Business Advisory Service (Programteori för statlig företagsservice), the empirical and theoretical findings of the whole thesis are summarized and developed into a vital part of a new program theory. Focus is on the construction of a theoretical basis for the public business advisory service and on some general questions concerning the implementation of that service.
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