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NEW VENTURE CREATION IN SOFTWARE BUSINESS, ACTA UNIVERSITATIS OULUENSIS A Scientiae Rerum Naturalium 601

ISBN-13:	978-951-42-9997-1
Kieli:	suomi
Kustantaja:	Oulun yliopisto
Oppiaine:	Tekniikka
Painosvuosi:	2012
Sijainti:	Print Tietotalo
Sivumäärä:	320
Tekijät:	KONTULA JUKKA

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Entrepreneurship research is a dynamic field in development. It has long ago moved pastanalyzing the differences between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs to trying to understand theactivity that an entrepreneur does. Current entrepreneurship research has identified businessopportunities and their development as the main focus of entrepreneurship research field.However the creation of new business opportunities is largely not understood and theory whichbuilds on entrepreneurship is still in its initial phases. This study aims to understand the creation of new ventures through a holistic approach, notfocusing only on the entrepreneur but also on the industry and society where the venture creationhappens. Therefore this study focuses on new venture creation in a software business context. Thiscontext was chosen because the economy is moving from a production based economy to aknowledge based economy and software plays a vital role in this change. The research questionset forth in this study is: How are new ventures created in the software industry? This study identifies culture, society and entrepreneur as components and actualisation,socialisation and emergence as the processes that affect new venture creation. These componentsand processes are derived from existing literature of entrepreneurship. Based on these componentsand processes a research framework is created which is used as the study approaches venturecreation through process and case study logics. As a result of this study a model of venture creation in software business was created. Themodel shows how the dynamic formation of new ventures happens. The model of venture creationidentifies components, processes and generative mechanisms of which the latter create the realdynamism in the model. The study showed how entrepreneurs and the creation of new business were tightly integratedinto the environment in which the entrepreneurs resided and the people with whom they interacted.The study also showed that venture creation and the development of an entrepreneurial identity donot happen overnight. Rather, they take time to develop, and happen in an evolutionary way.

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