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Understanding major dimensions and determinants that help in diffusion & adoption of product innovation: using AHP approach

In this global world, diffusion & adoption of new product innovation have become intricate and involves multifaceted process, as consumers demand a broad range of choices. So, this has generated enthusiasm amo...

Authors: Bisma Mannan and Abid Haleem

Mini-companies as “greenhouses” of economic competence: a longitudinal study of “Young Enterprise Switzerland”

The paper investigates how Swiss students on the higher secondary level evaluate their participation in mini-companies. Theoretically, the study draws on the concept of project-based learning (PBL). Data was c...

Authors: Carsten Quesel, Guido Moeser and Susanne Burren

A review of marketing strategies from the European chocolate industry

This paper reviews the main marketing strategies applied by the European chocolate industry. It focuses on the role of country-of-origin, product diversification and scenarios, and provides a historical overvi...

Authors: Nur Suhaili Ramli

An empirical analysis of the factors affecting social entrepreneurial intentions

The present study aims at identifying the social entrepreneurial intention among undergraduate students in Indian context by using the theory of planned behaviour as the research framework. A 72 item questionn...

Authors: Preeti Tiwari, Anil K. Bhat and Jyoti Tikoria

Implication of attitude of graduate students in Oman towards entrepreneurship: an empirical study

The purpose of the paper is to assess the implication of attitude of graduate students in Oman towards entrepreneurship. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA), and a multivariate regression model were used to asse...

Authors: Omer Ali Ibrahim, Sonal Devesh and Vaheed Ubaidullah

The impact of ICT on the efficiency of HRM in Cameroonian enterprises: Case of the Mobile telephone industry

The objective of this study is to determine the impact of Information and Communication Technology on the efficiency of Human Resource Management in the Cameroon mobile Telecommunication Sector. It specificall...

Authors: Serge Mandiefe Piabuo, Ngwe Elvis Piendiah, Njoh Lawrence Njamnshi and Puatwoe Janice Tieguhong

Ethnic entrepreneurs and online home-based businesses: an exploratory study

This exploratory, qualitative study considers how online home-based businesses offer opportunities for ethnic entrepreneurs to ‘break out’ of traditional highly competitive and low margin sectors. Previous stu...

Authors: Muhammad Naveed Anwar and Elizabeth M. Daniel

Identifying SME mortality factors in the life cycle stages: an empirical approach of relevant factors for small business owner-managers in Brazil

Although small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) are an important part of worldwide economy, frequently, researches on SME mortality factors ignores their characteristics. This paper discusses the relation be...

Authors: Edmundo Escrivão Filho, Alexandre Farias Albuquerque, Marcelo Seido Nagano, Luiz Adalberto Philippsen Junior and Jair de Oliveira

Stock market anomalies: the day of the week effects, evidence from Borsa Istanbul

This study was conducted to investigate the market anomalies in the Borsa Istanbul Index (BIST). The scope of this study is to examine the Monday effects in BIST that are stock index of Turkey with an data set...

Authors: Hülya Cengiz, Ömer Bilen, Ali Hakan Büyüklü and Gülizar Damgacı

Comparing internal and external impacts of sustainable innovation: an exploratory study

Sustainable business impact is growing within the field of impact assessment, however, the field, specifically in regard to Entrepreneurship, would benefit from theory based on comparisons of external and inte...

Authors: Wasseem Abaza

Business incubation process and firm performance: an empirical review

Industrialization is central if any economy is to be successful and the policy attempts at industrialization involve creating systems and institutional arrangements that can help accelerate the process of indu...

Authors: Fidelis A. Ayatse, Nguwasen Kwahar and Akuraun S. Iyortsuun

Large firm dominance on country’s entrepreneurship potentials

This paper aims to determine whether countries where large firms are very dominant have less entrepreneurial activities. There is anecdotal evidence that the continued decline in the business dynamism or the n...

Authors: Raymond E. Gaspar

Awareness in innovators: from ‘outside the box’ to ‘inside the bubble’

Innovation is sometimes perceived as a linear and sequential process, and at other times as multidimensional. Based on the common thread of ‘awareness’ that grounds many theories on innovation, we analyze the ...

Authors: Prateek Goorha and Jason Potts

CSR reporting, stakeholder engagement and preventing hypocrisy through ethics audit

Since Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and business ethics are principles that sustainable organizations cannot ignore in the 21st century several international organizations (ILO, OECD, and EU) have esta...

Authors: Merle Ojasoo

The relationship between Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation (IEO) and entrepreneurial intention

The importance of entrepreneurship to a nation development is unneglectable. Malaysian government has carried out various supporting activities to promote entrepreneurial activities in the country. However, th...

Authors: Wei-Loon Koe

Women entrepreneurship: research review and future directions

Studies on women entrepreneurship have witnessed a rapid growth over the past 30 years. The field is in an adolescence stage with a considerable number of journal articles, literature reviews and books being p...

Authors: Vanita Yadav and Jeemol Unni

From adaptive to generative learning in small and medium enterprises-a network perspective

Organizational learning has been playing an important role for competitive advantages for the organization. Managing learning and change in the unique context of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can obtain ...

Authors: Chao-Hua Li

Erratum to: The impact of various entrepreneurial interventions during the business plan competition on the entrepreneur identity aspirations of participants

Authors: Muhammad Shahid Qureshi, Saadat Saeed and Syed Waleed Mehmood Wasti

The impact of various entrepreneurial interventions during the business plan competition on the entrepreneur identity aspirations of participants

We intend to see how interventions during a business plan competition workshop impact the relationship between the personality, intellectual capital, entrepreneurial skills of the participants and their entrep...

Authors: Muhammad Shahid Qureshi, Saadat Saeed and Syed Waleed Mehmood Wasti

A change in the importance of mortality factors throughout the life cycle stages of small businesses

The aim of this paper is to describe the mortality factors and the change in the importance of these factors throughout the life cycle stages of small businesses. Research on mortality of small businesses igno...

Authors: Alexandre Farias Albuquerque, Edmundo Escrivão Filho, Marcelo Seido Nagano and Luiz Adalberto Philippsen Junior

Success factors of overall improvement of microenterprises in Malaysia: an empirical study

Most of the enterprises of the World belong to the class of microenterprises and thus, the contributions of microenterprises to the national economic growth and development of the countries are not ignorable. ...

Authors: Fardous Alom, Moha Asri Abdullah, Abdul Rashid Moten and S. M. Ferdous Azam

Analysing entrepreneurship education: a bibliometric survey pattern

Entrepreneurship education is an evolving field that confronts obstacles due to fragmentation issues and eclectic approaches that have to be resolved utilising robust educational theories and tools able to int...

Authors: Alexandros Kakouris and Panagiotis Georgiadis

A stich in time: the story of Konark Cinema

The case describes the dramatic journey of a movie theater ‘Konark Cinema’ from an oligopolistic to monopolistic competition, with an enormous opportunity to skim the market today. The primary concern for the ...

Authors: Rajeev Kumar Panda and Swagatika Sahoo

Stakeholder theory in social entrepreneurship: a descriptive case study

In this paper, a descriptive case study of a social entrepreneurial firm is used to demonstrate stakeholder salience and stakeholder social issue management valence. The methodology is to use a semi structured...

Authors: Ruben Burga and Davar Rezania

Entrepreneurial intention: antecedents to entrepreneurial behavior in the U.S.A. and Turkey

Research confirms that intentions play an important role in the decision to start a new firm. But what factors influence intention? The purpose of this study is to investigate the antecedents to entrepreneuria...

Authors: Nurdan Ozaralli and Nancy K. Rivenburgh

System of dynamic norms as a basis for sustainable development management of territories of innovative development

The aim of the research is to develop a system of dynamic norms providing an assessment of the projects of territories of innovative development for the purposes of their control and management.

Authors: Anna Maltseva

Credit rationing’s determinants of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Chittagong, Bangladesh

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute immensely to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and they have a significant influence in growth of economy. However, SMEs are constrained in their access to formal cred...

Authors: Mohammed Ziaul Hoque, Nilufar Sultana and Tasmia Thalil

Supportive government policies, locus of control and student’s entrepreneurial intensity: a study of India

The study surveyed 1255 (Male = 847, Female = 408) University students who are pursuing professional courses. The multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was applied to identify the relationship between Gen...

Authors: Deepti Prakash, Shilpa Jain and Kavita Chauhan

Business format in social entrepreneurships for Bangladesh’s water sector

This study suggests a social business format, founded on social entrepreneurship for the water sector, that appears suitable in Bangladesh. The theoretical aspect of the study examines the literature on social...

Authors: Mohammed Ziaul Hoque and Kulsuma Akter Nahid

International entrepreneurial culture of Thai SMEs

This study examines an entrepreneurial culture of international small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Organizational culture is one of the crucial aspects that can differentiate one firm from another. We ...

Authors: Chaiwat Baimai and Anada Mukherji

Using short films for the effective promotion of entrepreneurship

Mass media formats such as films may affect attitude and behavior at social, group or individual level. Existing literature lack sufficient evidence and results on the way according to which, films may influen...

Authors: Leonidas A. Zampetakis, Manolis Lerakis, Konstantinos Kafetsios and Vassilis Moustakis

Effectiveness of microcredit program and determinants of income among small business entrepreneurs in Malaysia

Together with Singapore, Malaysia is one of the successful cases in Asia achieving rapid economic growth. However the issues of poverty still being discussed today. Amanah Ikthiar Malaysia (AIM) is one of the ...

Authors: Rika Terano, Zainalabidin Mohamed and Jarir Hakimi H. Jusri

Crowdsourcing in business and management disciplines: an integrative literature review

The objective of this study is to review crowdsourcing literature of the business and management disciplines and to know its relation with the open innovation concept. A systematic literature review is used in...

Authors: Mokter Hossain

Call for collaboration in researching the best practices in teaching ethical entrepreneurship: the conflict of money and ethics

Entrepreneurs seek opportunity, are organizational innovators, and engines of economic development. Pursuit of economic self-interest may manifest “guile,” or deceit. As academics, we are charged by businesses...

Authors: Emeric Solymossy

What do small business owner-managers do? A managerial work perspective

This article proposes management styles to small business owner-managers based on the two most important approaches to managerial work. The managerial work performance of small business owner-managers was anal...

Authors: Jair de Oliveira, Edmundo Escrivão, Marcelo Seido Nagano, Antonio Sergio Ferraudo and Daniela Rosim

Thirty years of entrepreneurship research published in top journals: analysis of citations, co-citations and themes

Entrepreneurship research has increased markedly over the past three decades. In this paper we conduct a large scale survey of the literature beyond a subjective perspective on what entrepreneurship research h...

Authors: Manuel P. Ferreira, Nuno R. Reis and Rui Miranda

Investigating the effect of entrepreneurial competencies on business performance among early stage entrepreneurs Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM 2010 survey data)

Entrepreneurs of this era need to be more competent and skillful compared to businessmen working in the beginning of this century. A robust body of knowledge has grown around entrepreneurs’ need for superior s...

Authors: Mahtab Barazandeh, Kourosh Parvizian, Mehdi Alizadeh and Saber Khosravi

The interplay between new technology based firms, strategic alliances and open innovation, within a regional systems of innovation context. The case of the biotechnology cluster in Belgium

New technology based firm (NTBF) survival and growth are connected with strategic partnering alliances and open innovation within technology clusters. Strategic partnerships in the biotechnology industry allow...

Authors: Jean-Pierre Segers

Erratum to: Identification the main challenges of small and medium sized enterprises in exploiting of innovative opportunities (Case study: Iran SMEs)

Authors: Jahangir Yadollahi Farsi and Mohammad Taghi Toghraee

Sustainable manufacturing practices in Malaysian automotive industry: confirmatory factor analysis

Sustainable manufacturing practices (SMPs) have received enormous attention in current years as an effective solution to support the continuous growth and expansion of the automotive manufacturing industry. Th...

Authors: Nurul Fadly Habidin, Anis Fadzlin Mohd Zubir, Nursyazwani Mohd Fuzi, Nor Azrin Md Latip and Mohamed Nor Azhari Azman

Modeling entrepreneurial decision-making process using concepts from fuzzy set theory

Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial culture are receiving an increased amount of attention in both academic research and practice. The different fields of study have focused on the analysis of the characteris...

Authors: Islem Khefacha and Lotfi Belkacem

Exploring the dynamics of network characteristics for Indian high technology entrepreneurial firms

Recent research acknowledges that networking constitutes an important aspect of entrepreneurial efforts for any organization. This aspect takes up an even bigger role in case of high technology firms that are ...

Authors: Bharat Bhushan and Sharadindu Pandey

Social women entrepreneurship in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Women are taking the lead as change agents and innovators in the society. The participation of women in economic activities occupied a prominent place in the list of strategic priorities and national developme...

Authors: Florabel O. Nieva

Erratum to: Impact of family capital & social capital on youth entrepreneurship – a study of Uttarakhand state, India

Authors: Lalit Sharma

Rural-urban migration: A path for empowering women through entrepreneurial activities in West Africa

Migration has contributed to the economic empowerment of women in West Africa. Empowerment can be accepted as a way to open up entrepreneurial opportunities that could contradict the established gender norm. T...

Authors: Julia Bello-Bravo

The Effect of Psychological Capital on Innovation in Information Technology

In today’s competitive world, innovation is considered as a key factor to success and survival for organizations. So far, the literature has recognized various items that affect innovation in organizations. Th...

Authors: Babak Ziyae, Mohammad Hassan Mobaraki and Mozhgan Saeediyoun

Poverty alleviation by Zakah in a transitional economy: a small business entrepreneurial framework

Around 3 billion people are living in poverty of which 35 % are from Muslim World (World Bank 2010). In this case, global Muslim community has prime role to address the injustice of global poverty through zakah a...

Authors: Nazamul Hoque, Mohammad Aktaruzzaman Khan and Kazi Deen Mohammad

A review of literature on open innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises

Studies on open innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have experienced a rapid growth over the last several years. Yet, there is no comprehensive review on this field of research. The objecti...

Authors: Mokter Hossain

Mediating effect of marketing capability and reward philosophy in the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance

The complex relationship between firm performance and entrepreneurial resources raises attention to development program with aim of promoting entrepreneurial mindset to the SMEs. This study has intention to de...

Authors: Aluisius Hery Pratono and Rosli Mahmood

Impact of leadership role perspective on conflict resolution styles - a study on small and medium sized entrepreneurs of Karnataka State in India

Perceptual studies are important because of the influence of perception on individual behavior. The behavior of an individual is known to be influenced by activation of traits like stereotypes; behavior of lea...

Authors: Neetha Veerappa Karadakal, Nagalingappa Goud and Princy Thomas