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Determinant competencies for emerging educators’ entrepreneurial behavior in the Institute of Agricultural Applied- Scientific Education, Iran

Nowadays, entrepreneurship has attracted more attention in the world and is considered one of the new and essential tasks in skill training systems. The present study aimed to investigate determinant competenc...

Authors: Mina Khorrami, Homayon Farhadian and Enayat Abbasi

The role of networks in technological capability: a technology-based companies perspective

This study examined the influence of networks on the development of technological capabilities of 90 technology-based companies (TBCs) graduated by Brazilian incubators. The relational-based view theoretically...

Authors: Cleonir Tumelero, Roberto Sbragia, Felipe Mendes Borini and Eliane Cristina Franco

Tourism potential of the confluence between river Niger and river Benue in Nigeria: implication for project finance

This research proposes the development of the confluence of river Niger and river Benue in Nigeria as a viable international tourist center.

Authors: Alfred Ayodele Meseko, Davison Iheanyi Obieje and Oksana Karpenko

Familial legacies: a study on Gujarati women and family entrepreneurship

Among the states of India, the State of Gujarat in India presents numerous opportunities for entrepreneurship. This is the result of entrepreneurship ingrained in the culture and tradition of Gujarat. The sign...

Authors: Ranjana Singh and Tania Sebastian

A real options model for loan portfolios of actively traded Philippine universal banks

This study applies Real Options Theory to banking in the environment of actively traded Philippine Universal Banks. These banks exist in an environment of imperfect information with regard to lending, and a co...

Authors: Jackson J. Tan and Fernando L. Trinidad

How does export compliance influence the internationalization of firms: is it a thread or an opportunity?

Internationalization is a complex process, in which firms face various challenges that may lead to opportunities or threads. One of these challenges is export compliance. The objective of this paper is to dise...

Authors: Vahid Jafari Sadeghi, Paolo Pietro Biancone, Charles Giacoma and Silvana Secinaro

Examining the effect of child labour in the profitability of women owned enterprises: a case of microcredit supported enterprises in Tanzania

This paper examines the effect of child labour in the profitability of women owned enterprises. The study covered 429 women respondents who had access to microcredit in Morogoro and Iringa towns. We used the O...

Authors: Charles S. Tundui and Hawa P. Tundui

Social enterprises in the Indian context: conceptualizing through qualitative lens

Adopting an inductive theory building approach through qualitative research methodology of data collection and analysis spread across six months, followed by inter-rater reliability testing using quantitative ...

Authors: Subhanjan Sengupta and Arunaditya Sahay

Beyond the EJ model: entrepreneurial orientation and industry choice of Ghanaian entrepreneurs

This paper seeks to understand an entrepreneur’s decision to either the services or manufacturing sectors of the Ghanaian economy. This objective is significant because it provides an extension of current stre...

Authors: George Acheampong

Environmental incentives of entrepreneurship: Fuzzy clustering approach to OECD countries

The rate of nascent entrepreneurship is crucial for economies of countries in order to identify economic well-being and promote dynamics for new business start-ups. Supportive governmental programs, proper ent...

Authors: Anıl Boz Semerci̇ and Mustafa Çi̇men

Effect of outsourcing strategies on the performance of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs)

Several organizations have embarked on outsourcing strategies over the years but many still suffer in terms of their goal achievement; some have experienced low productivity both in terms of quality and quanti...

Authors: John I. Agburu, Nyianshima Calvin Anza and Akuraun Shadrach Iyortsuun

Family dynamics and intergenerational entrepreneurs’ leadership style

Studies have shown that a family plays an important role in encouraging people to pursue an entrepreneurial career. Consequently, studies have indicated that involvement in a family role may have an effect on ...

Authors: Eric V. Bindah

Analysis of the ASEAN Banking Integration Framework: the Philippines as a looking glass for consumer preference

ASEAN, a region currently undergoing an ambitious integration initiative proposed a unified regional banking system thru the Qualified ASEAN Banks. This brings forth an array of competitive banking alternative...

Authors: Francis Lawrence B. De Jesus and Enrico Aurelio Torres

The financial structure of the Tunisian listed businesses: an application on panel data

This article aims at analyzing the financial structure of the Tunisian listed companies in the stock exchange of Tunis (SET). The study focuses on 26 companies observed over a period of 6 years (2005–2010). Th...

Authors: Mohamed Soufeljil, Asma Sghaier, Zouhayer Mighri and Hanène Kheireddine

The impact of psychological capital on project success mediating role of emotional intelligence in construction organizations of Pakistan

The aspect of emotional intelligence towards psychological capital is still not perfectly and adequately certified and is awaited for further analysis and investigation. Similarly, the growing interest on psyc...

Authors: Huma Sarwar, Kashif Nadeem and Junaid Aftab

Comparing mission statements of social enterprises and corporate enterprises in the new and renewable energy sector of India: a computer aided content analysis study

This paper aims to explore how differently corporate enterprises and social enterprises strategically position themselves through their mission statements. The most notable distinctions between the mission sta...

Authors: Subhanjan Sengupta and Arunaditya Sahay

Social innovation in education: BRAC boat schools in Bangladesh

Bangladesh consists of wetlands that pose great threat to the public primary education services. BRAC (Building Resources Across Communities) - a non-governmental organization, therefore, took the opportunity ...

Authors: Jashim Uddin Ahmed, N. M. Ashikuzzaman and Aditi Sonia Mansur Mahmud

Exogenous determinants of entrepreneurial intuition and the mediatory role of psychological capital among potential youth entrepreneurs

Some scholars have argued that intuition should be given more importance in scholarly research but not many researchers have investigated intuition in entrepreneurial settings. This study therefore investigate...

Authors: Omonigho Simon Umukoro and David Efevogho Okurame

Islamic microfinance and household welfare nexus: empirical investigation from Pakistan

Many approaches and tools have been utilized throughout the globe by public and private sector organizations to curtail the deprivations and enhance welfare of the poor. Islamic Microfinance is one of them and...

Authors: Hafiz ZahidMahmood, Kausar Abbas and Mehreen Fatima

Exploring the socio-cultural challenges of food processing women entrepreneurs in IRINGA, TANZANIA and strategies used to tackle them

Women entrepreneurs have significant contributions to the economies of sub-Saharan Africa. However, women in this region are facing a shocking array of challenges in their business environment. This paper exam...

Authors: Alsen Florian Kapinga and Calkin Suero Montero

The determinants of location specific choice: small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries

This study adopts a resource-based view to model how location specific-factors among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in coastal environments in developing economies enable them to sustain clusters an...

Authors: Adeleke Oladapo Banwo, Jianguo Du and Uchechi Onokala

How marketing capabilities shape entrepreneurial firm’s performance? Evidence from new technology based firms in turkey

Prior research has shown that early development of marketing capabilities enable firms to achieve competitive advantage. The entrepreneurial orientation of the firm acts as a catalyst and impacts the market or...

Authors: Muhammad Shahid Qureshi, Nergis Aziz and Sarfraz A. Mian

Family, society and the individual: determinants of entrepreneurial attitudes among youth in Chennai, South India

High rates of youth unemployment across the world have captured the attention of many world organizations and other policy makers. One policy solution that has been proposed to curb these high rates is encoura...

Authors: Radha Jagannathan, Michael J. Camasso, Bagavan Das, Jale Tosun and Sadagopan Iyengar

Examining start-up Intention of Indians through cognitive approach: a study using GEM data

In this paper, the authors have investigated the factors that affect the decision to start a new business among Indians, using a sample of 2700 interviews of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2012 Adult Populati...

Authors: Mohd Yasir Arafat and Imran Saleem

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