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The process of business group formation by habitual entrepreneurs : entrepreneurial dynamics and organizational setting

@inproceedings{Iacobucci2003ThePO,
  title={The process of business group formation by habitual entrepreneurs : entrepreneurial dynamics and organizational setting},
  author={Donato Iacobucci},
  year={2003},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:18640316}
}
The paper develops a conceptual framework to analyze the causes and mechanisms of business group formation by habitual entrepreneurs. Data for analysis are drawn from a database regarding a sample of groups of Italian manufacturing businesses. The empirical analysis shows that business group formation by habitual entrepreneurs is mainly the result of a growth process around the original business. Several levels of entrepreneurship can be distinguished in this process. Firstly the emergence of… 
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