Sunday, December 26, 2010

Metacognition research

Metacognition - "thinking about thinking"
see, Mitchell, et al., 2007)

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To structure the literature review, I use the photographic imagery for labels bar:

LS - most distantly rlated to the thesis
MS - medium relation
CU- most closely related to thesis

Thus labels as follows:-
LS related fields
MS related fields
CU related fields

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Entrepreneurial Cognition Research

Mitchell, Ronald K., Busenitz & et. al. (2007)

The Central Question in Entrepreneurial Cognition Research 2007

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, January 2007,
Baylor University.

Green paper: Entrepreneurship in Europe

Commission of the European Communities (2003)

Green paper : Entrepreneurship in Europe

Commission of the European Communities, Brussels.

Behind the research

Robinson, Peter B. & Mitchell, Ron K. (1999)

Behind the Research: Metatheoretical Foundations in Entrepreneurship Research

University of Calgary, Canada.

Friday, December 24, 2010

The Philosophic Consultant

Koestenbaum, Peter (2003)

The Philosophic Consultant - revolutionizing organisations with ideas

Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer
989 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-1741

A General Theory of Entrepreneurship

Shane, Scott (2003)

A General Theory of Entrepreneurship

Edward Edgar Publishing Limited,
Glensanda House
Montpellier Parade
Cheltenham
Glos GL50 IUA
UK

The Organisation

Added for purpose of easy labelling:

Books by Title - A
Books by Author -A
Books by Subject - A
Books by Year - 2000

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Added the following as part of Blog organisation:

Articles by Author - A
Articles by Subject - A
Articles by Year - 2000

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Giat MARA and youth entrepreneurs

Giat MARA to produce 8,000 micro entrepreneurs within the next 5 years. Giat MARA wants training programme not merely for thesake of technical knowledge but also to develp trainess to become entrepreneurs.

(Borneo Post, 21/12/10)

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Gerak Usahawan 2006

Gerak Usahawan 2006 - an expo in Kuching ( cuttings,Borneo Post, March 15,2006)

Bumiputra and EE

Entrepreneurship is an integral part of the NEP in enhancing bumiputera participation in the business sector.

Support bodies-side of story

That existing institutions were providing financial service to small firms. What was lacking was the small firms knowledge of where to go for finance and how to prepare and present an application for finance.

Skeptical of assistance?

The bumiputras are skeptical of assistance?

Definition - SME

Defined according to annual sales turnover for manufacturing ( including agro-based) and manufacturing-related services in the SME :-

A micro company is defined as having annual sales of less than RM 250,000.

A small SME, sales should be between RM250,000 and less than RM10 million

A medium SME betwen RM10 million and RM25 million.

For primary agriculture sector definition as follows:

A micro SME's annual sales turnover is less than RM200,000

A small SME between RM200,000 and less than RM1 million

A medium company RM 1 million to RM5 million.

( Year introduced 2004)

EE support bodies

Entrepreneur Development Council set up in all districts in Sarawak under the Ministry of Entrepreneur Development and Cooperative Development (24/3/06)

National Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Development Council ( 2004)

SME Bank

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The labels for notes posts are as follows:
Objective
Ideation
Journalising
Random notes
Gist ideas
Compared ideas
Other media - cuttings
Other media - you tube
List of articles
Bibliography
Jottings

Initial notes

This blog is in continuation of an earlier one. More importantly it assembles ideas, notes, jottings etc for the purpose of organising writing my proposed thesis on entrepreneurship.
It starts today, 21 Dec'10, at Laman Kambatik, Bintulu.