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ABSTRACTAlong with entrepreneurship´s continuing emergence among the management sciences, there is an ongoing debate about what the field is – or should be. In this regard, to have a better understanding of the development of this research field, it is useful to understand the scientific structure. This study uses bibliometric techniques and cluster analyses to present an empirically grounded picture of the entrepreneurship research. This research analyzes the 1,112 full-length papers published in the FER Proceedings between 1981 and 2009, and the 378 articles published in the Journal of Business Venturing between 2000 and 2010. Both forums are considered representative in the exchange of entrepreneurial thought. The results indicate that entrepreneurship research published in these forums is characterized by varied themes that are not necessarily connected. Rather, they reflect the disciplinary training and lens of their authors; and considerable dynamism and change in key research themes over time. Hopefully, the results presented here provide abundant opportunities for identifying insightful, influential, and creative research topics in the entrepreneurship field.RESUMOO surgimento da disciplina sobre empreendedorismo em ciências de gestão gera um contínuo debate em seu âmbito. Consequentemente, para ter uma compreensão melhor do desenvolvimento dessa área de pesquisa, é útil conhecer sua estrutura científica. Esta pesquisa usa técnicas de bibliometria e análise de grupos para apresentar um panorama da pesquisa nessa disciplina. São analisados os 1.112 artigos publicados nas atas do FER, entre 1981 e 2009, bem como os 378 artigos publicados no Journal of Business Venturing, entre 2000 e 2010. Ambos os fóruns são considerados representativos no intercâmbio do pensamento sobre empreendedorismo. Os resultados mostram que a pesquisa sobre empreendedorismo publicada nesses fóruns é caracterizada por diversos temas que não estão necessariamente conectados. Similarmente, os resultados mostram a mudança dos temas ao longo do tempo.RESUMENEl surgimiento de la disciplina sobre emprendimiento en las ciencias administrativas, trae consigo un continuo debate sobre su ámbito. En este sentido, para tener una mejor comprensión del desarrollo de este campo de investigación, es útil conocer su estructura científica. Esta investigación usa técnicas bibliométricas y análisis de grupos para presentar un panorama de la investigación en esta disciplina. Se analizan los 1,112 artículos publicados entre 1981 y 2009 en las actas del FER, así como los 378 artículos publicados por el Journal of Business Venturing entre 2000 y 2010. Ambos foros se consideran representativos en el intercambio del pensamiento sobre emprendimiento. Los resultados muestran que la investigación sobre emprendimiento publicada en estos foros se caracteriza por varios temas que no necesariamente están conectados; sin embargo, esto refleja la experiencia y postura de los autores. De igual forma, los resultados muestran el cambio de temas a través del tiempo.

Market orientation and design orientation as strategic concepts have a proven impact on business results, but the direct relationship between these concepts has not yet been analyzed. This research attempts to prove the relationship by studying the managerial implication of design orientation as it relates to market orientation. After analysing 28 case studies of Spanish companies well-known for their business excellence and their design orientation, a management model is proposed. The model is a management tool that offers companies a scheme for auto-diagnosis and a review of best-in-class design practices that have shown to improve business results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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It is generally accepted that the concept of entrepreneurship seeks to understand how opportunities are identified and exploited. However, academic research so far has been mainly conceptual. Consequently, it has been suggested that scholars in this field of research should be more concerned about the origin and nature of opportunities rather than their characteristics. The objective of this research was to explore the relationship between the creative thinking style used by the founder-manager and the type of entrepreneurial opportunity that he/she decided to exploit. This research empirically tested two types of creative thinking (adaptive and innovative) and two types of entrepreneurial opportunity (Kirznerian and Schumpeterian). Both perspectives have opposing views. To explore this relationship, a gradual statistical analysis of the answers provided by 116 founder-managers of startups was compiled. First, a confirmatory factor analysis was performed in order to test scale's components. Second, correlation and regression analysis were used to analyze the relation between creative thinking and entrepreneurial opportunity. Results indicate that the thinking style that prefers to generate original ideas when confronted with a problem is strongly related to the innovative entrepreneurial opportunities, requiring intellectual creativity from the manager leading to a wealth of new information. Similarly, a thinking style that prefers exhaustive, accurate and methodical styles is related to the incremental entrepreneurial opportunities, relying on existing patterns to make things better. Other relationships between the creative thinking style and the entrepreneurial opportunity are identified in the document, as well as theoretical and practical implications of each of them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes the situation of training and development in medium and big size firms in Catalonia from an economical and organizational point of view. The article is based on results from an empirical and descriptive research based on a cross-section sample (106) of medium and large companies with headquarters in Catalonia. As a conclusion, it is important to say that the consolidation of training departments in the organizational structure of a company, the importance of the size of the organization and the nature and nationality of its shareholders are able to explain the structure and importance of the training departments. It is also important to pinpoint the significant differences between the several types of organization and the role of training. It is finally clear the importance of subsidized training as a catalyst for training investment and also the very little effort done by companies to assess economical impact of training investments. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]