Resumo Ao introduzir novos serviços e produtos no mercado, através da criação de seus negócios, os empreendedores, de certo modo, introduziram um novo valor no mercado, porém eles necessitam introduzir inovações para garantir o êxito. A inovação é necessária porque é através dela que os empreendedores conseguem implantar diferenciais em seus negócios, os tornando competitivos. Considerando, por conseguinte, que a inovação gera crescimento e prosperidade econômica aos negócios, o estudo objetiva identificar as práticas inovadoras de micro e pequenos empreendedores e como estas práticas favorecem os seus negócios. A pesquisa classifica-se quanto aos objetivos como exploratória e explicativa, utilizando como método para a obtenção dos dados uma pesquisa de campo aplicada a uma amostra de 53 micro empreendedores, através de um questionário contendo variáveis de inovação e êxito dos negócios. As variáveis de inovação incluem: inovação de produtos, de processo, gerencial e de marketing. Já as variáveis de êxito incluem: vendas, faturamento, número de clientes, qualidade do produto/serviço, entre outras. Os resultados indicam que os empreendedores utilizam todos os tipos de inovação estudados, e que a inovação de processo, gerencial e de

It is generally acknowledged that transnational networking plays an important role in promoting the performance of ethnic entrepreneurial firms. Yet distinctions between the different types of transnational networking and their effects on business performance have received scant attention in the literature, probably because ethnicity has been considered to be the main actor in the networking-performance relationship. This paper argues that one of the reasons why business performance differs across ethnic entrepreneurial firms is that ethnic entrepreneurs engage in dissimilar types of transnational networking. Analyses of the data generated by 720 ethnic entrepreneurs in Canada revealed that ethnicity, along with human capital and push/pull factors, both of which are part of our conceptual framework, plays a central role in the engagement of different types of transnational networking and that the different types of transnational networking affect business turnover (sales) and business survival (age). Push/pull factors were found to play a marginal role in business performance. These results highlight the competitive market that immigrants and members of ethnic minority groups encounter in the hosting economy and stress the value of transnational networking.

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Following an empirical study of the managerial systems of 116 entrepreneurs, the subjects were divided into two types. A total of 42 were classified as operators and the remaining 74 as visionaries. The managerial systems of all the sample entrepreneurs were analysed using Filion's Empirical Systems Modeling Methodology with consideration for Fayol's management key basic elements: planning, organizing, commanding and controlling. Each of the two types had its own activity system. For the operators, the activities were selecting, performing, assigning, allocating, monitoring and adjusting. For the visionaries, they were visioning, designing, animating, monitoring and learning.