For decades, business journalists have focused their attention on major companies. News organizations are now beginning to recognize the role of entrepreneurs and the value of small business, the leading generator of jobs in the US. economy. Journalists are trying to improve and expand coverage of entrepreneurship and small business at a challenging time. Entrepreneurs are creating new companie…
Drawing on the entrepreneurial event model, we examined the role of perceived desirability and perceived feasibility and their interaction in university scholars' entrepreneurial intentions, with data from 252 Chinese academic entrepreneurs. Results showed that perceived feasibility only had a significant effect on scholars' entrepreneurial intentions formation. Further, the moderating effect o…
Entrepreneurship and small business have received strong public policy and academic interest in the last 15 years. It has been claimed that small firms are the source of considerable innovative activity, generating many new jobs and playing an important role in industrial evolution. This has obvious consequences at the macroeconomic level. Countries that encourage entrepreneurship and free entr…
A model of attitude toward entrepreneurship and the factors influencing this were tested with students in the business department at technological colleges and universities in Taiwan. Personality traits were adopted as the independent variable, environmental cognition as the intervening variable, and attitude toward entrepreneurship as the dependent variable. Survey questionnaires (1,085) were …
This stimulating new textbook has been written because, in the words of its authors, "when viewed together marketing and entrepreneurship are always marginalised in the context of any one field". Therefore, for anyone interested in these issues, there is always the difficulty of trawling through an extensive range of disparate and frequently unrelated literature fields to locate relevant work. …
For decades, business journalists have focused their attention on major companies. News organizations are now beginning to recognize the role of entrepreneurs and the value of small business, the leading generator of jobs in the U.S. economy Journalists are trying to improve and expand coverage of entrepreneurship and small business at a challenging time. Entrepreneurs are creating new companie…
Although the business and public policy communities have ignited a national movement toward embracing social entrepreneurship as a laudable enterprise and a critical piece in addressing social problems, social work remains notably absent from the discussion and definition of this field. Though the values and practices of social entrepreneurship are closely aligned with social work, social work …
The study pursues to find out the function of World Bank support structures and entrepreneurship development initiatives in Kandahar and Helmand province of Afghanistan. Data was gathered through questionnaire, a sample of 121 respondents was drawn randomly from the population of 232 registered entrepreneurs of Afghanistan Rural Enterprise Development Programme (AREDP), a project of World Bank.…
A contingency approach to the conceptualization of export performance based on the structure-conduct-performance paradigm is discussed. The proposed framework proposes that exporting firms need to align their objectives with their external environmental and export channel structure to achieve superior export performance.
We investigated the influence of negative family events, classified as family-member-based events and property-based events, on Chinese farmers' entrepreneurship. In addition, borrowing insights from conservation of resources theory, we tested the moderating role of socioeconomic status in the relationships between these two types of negative family events and farmers' entrepreneurial behavior.…