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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

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

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

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

Antecedents of perceived entrepreneurial ability in Catalonia: the individual and the entrepreneurial context

The main purpose of this study is to examine the antecedents of perceived entrepreneurial ability within a given context.

Authors: Manoj Chandra Bayon, Yancy Vaillant and Esteban Lafuente

A conceptual study of immigrant born globals and their multinationalization process

We build on the growing interest in born globals by examining the multinational growth pattern of immigrant new ventures, as opposed to that of native entrepreneurial new ventures. The multinational growth pat...

Authors: Ranfeng Qiu and Vipin Gupta

Savings, entrepreneurial trait and self-employment: evidence from selected Ghanaian Universities

Youth unemployment is a major setback to sustainable growth. In recent times, Ghana has experienced a downward trend in youth employment in spite of several attempts made by the government to control the unemp...

Authors: James A Peprah, Clifford Afoakwah and Isaac Koomson

Performance of women owned enterprises accessing credit from village credit and savings associations in Kenya

In the recent years there has been an influx of women venturing in the field of entrepreneurship in developing countries. This is attributed to advocacy on women empowerment programs and policies. Women owned ...

Authors: Castro N Gichuki, Milcah Mulu-Mutuku and Lydia N Kinuthia

Financial performance of banks in Pakistan after Merger and Acquisition

Business transactions are going to be fast day by day because of dynamic changes in the global environment. Merger and Acquisition is a strategy adopted by the organizations globally to meet the needs of recen...

Authors: Qamar Abbas, Ahmed Imran Hunjra, Rauf I Azam, Muhammad Shahzad Ijaz and Maliha Zahid

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

The pace of innovation continues to increase not only in the developed world but also in developed markets. The key issue facing many small medium-sized enterprises is related to how they can foster effective ...

Authors: Jahangir Yadollahi Farsi and Mohammad Taghi Toghraee

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

The research paper intends to interpret how the three forms of family capital viz. family’s financial capital, family’s man power capital and family’s human capital influences the career choice intention of st...

Authors: Lalit Sharma

The deployment and internationalization speed of e-business in the digital entrepreneurship era

Digital Entrepreneurship has revolutionized worldwide businesses. Worked by the fast development of computer knowledge, Electronic Businesses (here in after acronym as EBSs) are experiencing the increasing gro...

Authors: Babak Ziyae, Seyed Mojtaba Sajadi and Mohammad Hassan Mobaraki

Microfinance impact on women’s decision making: a case study of Andhra Pradesh

The present study seeks to examine the impact of microfinance and other socio-economic factors on women empowerment as viewed from their participation in decision making, income as well as employment generatio...

Authors: Vachya Lavoori and Rajendra Narayan Paramanik

Owner-manager replacement: a venture capitalist decision model

We develop a theory of managerial replacement in which a venture capitalist monitors an investee firm run by a manager of unknown quality (Good or Bad). An informative signal S_t correlated with performance (value...

Authors: Robert Cressy

Business failure factors in Iranian SMEs: Do successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs have different viewpoints?

Small and medium Enterprises (SMEs) play a key role to innovation, employment, and competitive advantage. One of the requirements for growth, creativity as well as entrepreneurship in societies is to study the...

Authors: Zahra Arasti, Fahimeh Zandi and Neda Bahmani

Entrepreneurial effort and economic growth

Entrepreneurs allocate resources among different activities that generates a profit; in particular, in this paper entrepreneurs consider at each instant of time both innovation and rent-seeking as alternative ...

Authors: Félix-Fernando Muñoz and Francisco Javier Otamendi

Tackling enterprises operating in the informal sector in developing and transition economies: a critical evaluation of the neo-liberal policy approach

Over the past decade or so, there has been widespread recognition that a large and growing proportion of the global workforce is employed in informal sector enterprises. To explain this, neo-liberals contend t...

Authors: Colin C Williams

Potential for opportunity recognition along the stages of entrepreneurship

The study primarily verifies whether ORP differs in stages of entrepreneurship and aims at identifying factors that influence ORP in different stages of entrepreneurship. The stages of entrepreneurship include...

Authors: Kishinchand Poornima Wasdani and Mary Mathew

The relationship between women entrepreneurship and gender equality

The degree at which entrepreneurship affects the economy depends on numerous factors, including the quality, gender composition, and type of entrepreneurial activity. Gender equality and female entrepreneurshi...

Authors: Leyla Sarfaraz, Nezameddin Faghih and Armaghan Asadi Majd

Effect of individual factors on youth entrepreneurship – a study of Uttarakhand state, India

In this study we have tried to examine the effect of individual factors like intelligence, past self employment experience, past work experience and educational course of professional students on their decisio...

Authors: Lalit Sharma and Pankaj Madan

Factors influencing polytechnic students’ decision to graduate as entrepreneurs

The existence of supply–demand gaps in graduate output not only contributes to the problem of graduate unemployment but also undermines the efficiency of public investment in tertiary education, and therefore ...

Authors: Camillus Abawiera Wongnaa and Anthony Zu Kwame Seyram

Leader and organization: the impetus for individuals’ entrepreneurial orientation and project success

This study advances research on leader’s & individuals’ entrepreneurial orientation, organizational factors and project success in IT firms. This study adds value by taking entrepreneurial orientation of leade...

Authors: Ishfaq Ahmed, Ghulam Ali and Muhammad Ramzan