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Orser, Barbara J., Catherine Elliott, and Joanne Leck. "Feminist attributes and entrepreneurial identity." Gender in Management: An International Journal 26, no. 8 (November 8, 2011): 561–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17542411111183884.
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PRAKALPA, SEEMA. "Entrepreneurial attributes of women entrepreneurs." ASIAN SCIENCE 9, no. 1and2 (December 15, 2014): 84–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.15740/has/as/9.1and2/84-92.
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Ray, Dennis M. "Entrepreneurial Attributes, Skills and Training Programmes." Journal of Entrepreneurship 2, no. 1 (March 1993): 33–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097135579300200102.
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Bhatti, Muhammad Awais, Mohammed A Al Doghan, Suzanie Adina Mat Saat, Ariff Syah Juhari, and Mohammed Alshagawi. "Entrepreneurial intentions among women: does entrepreneurial training and education matters? (Pre- and post-evaluation of psychological attributes and its effects on entrepreneurial intention)." Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 28, no. 2 (February 4, 2021): 167–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jsbed-09-2019-0305.
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PurposeResearchers have been trying to identify different psychological attributes which influence entrepreneurial intention (EI) and role of entrepreneurial education and training programs to develop these attributes among women. Therefore, the purpose of this study is twofold: firstly, to evaluate the difference among psychological attributes before and after an entrepreneurial education and training program. Secondly, to examine the effects of psychological attributes on EI among female students in Saudi Arabia.Design/methodology/approachA detailed program was designed with the combination of entrepreneurial education and training program throughout a 14-week semester. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire from 310 female university students studying in a Saudi university and participated in this program. SPSS, version 20, was used to analyze the data.FindingsEntrepreneurial education and training programs based on active learning and learner-centered approaches play an important role to significantly improve the level of psychological attributes and EI of female students. Furthermore, findings of this study also suggest that psychological attributes (training retention, self-confidence, tolerance of ambiguity, innovativeness and achievement motivation) positively influence EI.Originality/valuePrevious studies only focused on relationship testing among psychological attributes and EI. This research proposes strategies to design entrepreneurial education and training program to improve psychological attributes and EI which can be considered practical version of EntreComp conceptual model.
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Coyle, Paul. "How Entrepreneurial Leadership Can Engage University Staff in the Development of an Entrepreneurial Culture." Industry and Higher Education 28, no. 4 (August 2014): 263–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/ihe.2014.0215.
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Using a case study, the process by which a university in the UK sought to implement its strategic objective to become an entrepreneurial university, by defining a set of desirable entrepreneurial attributes for all staff, is examined. It is concluded that the role of leaders, in connecting the desirable entrepreneurial attributes to the day-to-day-work of staff, is vital if an entrepreneurial culture is to be established throughout a university. Key aspects of entrepreneurial leadership that can support university–industry interaction are recommended.
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Farrington, Shelley, Danie Venter, Christine Schrage, and Peter Van der Meer. "Entrepreneurial attributes of undergraduate business students: a three country comparison revisited." South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences 15, no. 4 (November 8, 2012): 333–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajems.v15i4.213.
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In 2001/2002 a study was undertaken to establish whether significant differences existed between the levels of development of several entrepreneurial attributes, as perceived by undergraduate business students from three universities in three different countries. The rationale was that, if entrepreneurial attributes could be identified as more developed in one country than in another, solutions could be provided for developing these attributes in others. The primary objective of this study is to investigate and compare the levels of development of entrepreneurial attributes of undergraduate business students in the present study (2010) to the levels of development reported by undergraduate business students in the 2001/2002 study. Cronbach alpha coefficients were calculated to assess the reliability of the measuring instrument and ttests to establish significant differences. Cohen’s d statistics were calculated to establish practical significance. The findings suggest that the educational environment and entrepreneurship education policy of the Dutch university participating in this study could provide solutions as to how entrepreneurial attributes among students could be developed further.
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Olearnik, Janusz, and Mirosława Pluta-Olearnik. "Attributes of the Entrepreneurial University in Polish Practice." Marketing i Zarządzanie 42 (2016): 139–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.18276/miz.2016.42-09.
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Ray, Dennis M. "Understanding the entrepreneur: entrepreneurial attributes, experience and skills." Entrepreneurship & Regional Development 5, no. 4 (January 1993): 345–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08985629300000022.
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Riviezzo, Angelo. "Detecting the Determinant Attributes of Entrepreneurial Orientation within the Italian University Departments." Journal of Enterprising Culture 22, no. 02 (June 2014): 133–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s021849581450006x.
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In the context of public universities the use of the entrepreneurial orientation construct is not widespread and still there is no precise definition of what it means. It is, in fact, necessary to consider the peculiarities of universities and then adopt a coherent operationalization of the construct. The main aim of this paper is to identify the determinant attributes of the entrepreneurial orientation within the Italian universities. To this aim, the study moves from a recent and innovative definition of the public universities' entrepreneurial orientation proposed in the literature, and is based on survey data from 103 Italian university departments. A multiple regression analysis and an importance-performance analysis are used to investigate the relationship between the dimensions and the single items used to operationalize the entrepreneurial orientation and the entrepreneurial orientation perceived by the surveyed department heads. The findings show that not all the dimensions and the items considered affect in the same way the Italian university entrepreneurial orientation. Implications and limitations are discussed.
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Lafuente, Esteban, Maria-Cristina Stoian, and Josep Rialp. "From export entry to de-internationalisation through entrepreneurial attributes." Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 22, no. 1 (February 16, 2015): 21–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jsbed-09-2012-0101.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine export behaviour from a broad perspective considering the influence of entrepreneurial attributes on export entry, export sustainability and de-internationalisation in Romanian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach – Based on theoretical underpinnings from the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm and the Institutional Economics (IE) framework, the proposed hypotheses are tested with a rich survey data set of 319 Romanian SMEs. The data are analysed by means of a multinomial logit regression. Findings – The study reveals that exporting is not a single event and that variables commonly used to study export propensity linked to the entrepreneurial attributes have a differential influence over the export decisions. More concretely, export entry is positively impacted by the presence of management studies and an entrepreneurial team while sustainment in the international arena is strongly and positively influenced by decision-makers’ prior labour experience. De-internationalisation is explained by the entrepreneurs’ fear of business failure. The conclusions of this study point towards a holistic view of export policy making revealing relevant implications for SMEs’ internationalisation. Originality/value – This study enriches the international business literature by simultaneously examining different export decisions, namely export initiation, sustainability and de-internationalisation, at the SMEs’ level in a Central and Eastern European (CEE) emerging market. The paper also highlights the dynamic character of entrepreneurial resources and suggests that at distinct stages in the international development of a SME, different entrepreneurial attributes may play a significant role.
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Yousaf, Usman, Amjad Shamim, Hafsa Siddiqui, and Maham Raina. "Studying the influence of entrepreneurial attributes, subjective norms and perceived desirability on entrepreneurial intentions." Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies 7, no. 1 (March 2, 2015): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jeee-03-2014-0005.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of entrepreneurial attributes, subjective norms and perceived desirability on entrepreneurial intentions. Design/methodology/approach – The data were collected from the business students of the Quaid-i-Azam School of Management Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. In total, 200 questionnaires were circulated among students of which, 185 were returned, representing 92.5 per cent response rate. After discarding incomplete and biased questionnaires, 170 were left for further analysis. The SPSS 20.0 was used to perform statistical analysis. Findings – The research finds that students’ entrepreneurial attitude, perceived desirability and subjective norms significantly lead to the development of students’ intentions to become entrepreneurs. Interestingly, the student’s existing skills and capabilities do not prove to be a significant predictor of their intentions to become entrepreneurs. The study concludes that the students can become successful entrepreneurs even without existing entrepreneurial skills and capabilities, provided that they have the entrepreneurial attitude, desirability and support by the community. Research limitations/implications – Limited sample size is one of the main limitations which confines its generalizability. Nonetheless, this research can create a ripple effect to further explore the factors on a large-scale sample in different cities, universities and countries. Originality/value – In the existing economic crises in the country, developing entrepreneurs is one of the important ways to boost-up financial growth. Students are one of the best potential segments, in this regard, to be developed as potential future entrepreneurs. Research on student’s intentions to become entrepreneurs in Pakistan is limited. This research had added value in both theory and practice by identifying the factors that can develop students’ intentions to become entrepreneurs.
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SHEH, SEOW WAH. "ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERS IN FAMILY BUSINESS ORGANISATIONS." Journal of Enterprising Culture 12, no. 01 (March 2004): 1–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218495804000026.
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This research reports the findings of an empirical study into the behavioural attributes of the Chinese transformational leader in Singapore. The literature review reveals that the current research on transformational leadership only focuses on Western organisations. This research design used both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The qualitative research used the case study strategy as a primary instrument. This case study approach was to search for new themes and patterns across eight Chinese Chief Executives of medium to large-scale business enterprises. In the quantitative part of the research, the subordinates of the selected leader were identified to participate in the questionnaire survey – to rate their leaders' based on the presence and intensity of practice of the identified behavioural attributes. The six factors rotated uncovered a common list of behavioural attributes of the Chinese transformational leader that will facilitate the transformation process. Implications of the findings are discussed.
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Villasana, Marcia, Rafael Alcaraz-Rodríguez, and Mario Moisés Alvarez. "Examining entrepreneurial attributes of Latin American female university students." Gender and Education 28, no. 1 (October 21, 2015): 148–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2015.1093100.
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KIRBY, D. A., and Y. FAN. "CHINESE CULTURAL VALUES AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATION." Journal of Enterprising Culture 03, no. 03 (September 1995): 245–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218495895000131.
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The paper sets out to explore the link between Chinese cultural values and entrepreneurship. A list of Chinese cultural values (CCVs), first developed by the Chinese Cultural Connection, has been fully reexamined and amended. This list is then compared with entrepreneurial attributes defined by Western researchers in order to find links between the two. Although some entrepreneurial attributes are found to coincide with CCVs, it is concluded that the key attributes are either missing in, or conflicting with CCVs.
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Lewis, Hilary. "A Model of Entrepreneurial Capability Based on a Holistic Review of the Literature from Three Academic Domains." Industry and Higher Education 25, no. 6 (December 2011): 429–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/ihe.2011.0071.
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While there has been a noted variation in the ‘species’ of entrepreneur so that no single list of traits, characteristics or attributes is definitive, it is posited that to be an entrepreneur a certain amount of entrepreneurial capability is required. ‘Entrepreneurial capability’ is a concept developed to place some form of identity on the attributes that are needed to pursue an entrepreneurial career. The concept of entrepreneurial capability is linked to that of entrepreneurial capital, previously discussed by Erikson (2002) and Firkin (2003), but it provides greater depth and offers wider applicability. After reviewing the literature from the fields of economics, politics and the social sciences, the author proposes an ‘equation’ and a model for the factors that act as building blocks for an individual's entrepreneurial capability, which can be applied to nascent as well as experienced and serial entrepreneurs.
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Elliott, Catherine, Janet Mantler, and Joie Huggins. "Exploring the gendered entrepreneurial identity gap: implications for entrepreneurship education." International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship 13, no. 1 (May 19, 2021): 50–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijge-04-2020-0048.
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Purpose Women are underrepresented in most university entrepreneurship education (EE) programmes and less likely than men to pursue business venturing as a career. One reason may be the “entrepreneurial identity gap”, whereby female students do not see themselves as successful entrepreneurs. This paper aims to explore the nature of this identity gap and its relationship to entrepreneurial intent and entrepreneurship education. Design/methodology/approach A set of contemporary, gender-inclusive entrepreneurial attributes was developed using entrepreneurial subject matter experts and tested with 591 university students to explore the nature of the gendered entrepreneurial identity gap. Findings While masculine stereotypes persist and the entrepreneurial identity gap is larger for female students, results suggest that a more gender-inclusive vocabulary of entrepreneurship is emerging among the student population and an androgynous perception of the idealized entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship education had a positive influence on entrepreneurial intent. Research limitations/implications Study findings advance the conversation about entrepreneurial identity, the nature of the gendered identity gap and the role of education in closing that gap. The questionnaire and set of gender-inclusive attributes should continue to be tested beyond student samples. Practical implications Based on this study, entrepreneurship education could benefit from more gender-inclusive instructional practices and vocabulary and a broadened definition of what it means to be entrepreneurial. More students – both men and women – will see themselves as entrepreneurs and be inspired to participate in the innovation economy. Originality/value This study takes a novel approach to the study of entrepreneurial identity, developing a new set of attributes and contemporary vocabulary around business venturing.
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Mathews, Jose. "Entrepreneurial Process: A Personalistic-Cognitive Platform Model." Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers 33, no. 3 (July 2008): 17–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0256090920080302.
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Entrepreneurship theories and research deal with a variety of behavioural and non-behavioural processes and issues that explain the nature of entrepreneurship in different ways. The advances made in entrepreneurship research now centre on entrepreneurial cognitions, entrepreneurial personality, and motivation even though the other areas of research are not without significance, considering the importance of the field. The personalistic-cognitive platform model proposed accounts for the composite dynamics of the entrepreneurial behaviour that focus on the behavioural dynamics of the entrepreneur. The superimposition of the behavioural processes on the economic/social attributes of the environment gives rise to a platform of personality and cognition that overarches itself to the generalization, prediction, and dynamics of entrepreneurship. The platform is constructed based on the �bricks and mortars� of entrepreneurial syndrome, entrepreneurial motivational dynamics, environmental scanning, decisional processes, and cognitive mediation circumscribed in the entrepreneurial mental model. Entrepreneurial syndrome is formed by the cluster of an array of entrepreneurial traits of venture significance. The syndrome gets manifested as a stable dynamic formation of personality that seeks new ventures and produces goods and services of economic value. Entrepreneurial motivational dynamics unravels the nature of entrepreneurial drive that has push and pull forces that direct the person to different economic realms. The performance motivation of the person is characterized by goal setting, expectancy, and selfefficacy motivation. Together they explain the motivational dynamics of entrepreneurial behaviour that aims to derive something of lasting value. Scanning the environment enables the entrepreneur to distill the trends and the significant attributes that will lay the base of his entire business ventures. The scanned attributes are transformed in the person. As the decisional activity involves the identification of a specific alternative, the complexity that surrounds the selection of an alternative has special place in the entrepreneurial context. In the highly uncertain and novel situation, an entrepreneur is to take causal or effectual decisions. The cognitive mediational activity exemplified in the entrepreneur�s mental model transforms the environmental complexity into useable forms of entrepreneurial outcomes. The cognitive strategies of differing natures help the entrepreneur in bringing about entrepreneurial ventures that are ultimately the products of entrepreneurial cognitions and related personal variables.
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Krawczyk-Bryłka, Beata. "Attributes of Entrepreneurial Teams as Elements of a Mental Model." Studia i Materiały Wydziału Zarządzania UW 2/2016, no. 21 (October 30, 2016): 7–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.7172/1733-9758.2016.21.1.
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O’Leary, Simon. "Developing entrepreneurial and employability attributes through marketing projects with SMEs." Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship 19, no. 1 (July 10, 2017): 77–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jrme-07-2016-0024.
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Purpose This research aims to assess how marketing-related projects with small- and medium-size enterprises act as a form of experiential learning and help develop entrepreneurial and employability attributes for students in higher education (HE). Design/methodology/approach The research is based on published material and an evaluation, within HE, of consultancy projects as a final assessment option alongside the well-established dissertation. Findings External initiatives that embrace experiential learning have helped students develop a better appreciation of client needs, while enhancing their confidence and team-working skills. The institutional degree programme studied is in its seventh year and more than half of students have chosen the project option so far. One key finding is the pivotal role of the academic supervisor and a need for that person to have suitable industry and sector knowledge, as well as effective and empathetic client relationship management abilities. Research limitations/implications The study is limited to one programme at one university but, as it encompasses a very broad definition of marketing-related activities, covers several years and is part of a longer-term longitudinal study, it constitutes research from which some conclusions can be drawn. Practical implications In addition to enhancing the students’ entrepreneurial and employability attributes, outward-facing activities help enrich the overall student experience and also offer HE institutions an opportunity to raise their profile with external organisations. Social implications With graduate employability rising in importance, initiatives such as these can help develop important graduate attributes and capabilities. Originality/value The principal originality and value is that this is a starting point for a potential longitudinal study of the impact of experiential learning and client-orientated projects on graduate career development.
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Nofal, Razan, and Mais Jaradat. "The Impact of Transformational Leadership on Entrepreneurial Orientation via the Mediating Role of Organizational Learning Capability." Journal of Business & Management (COES&RJ-JBM) 8, no. 2 (April 22, 2020): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.25255/2306.8043.2020.8.2.65.111.
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The current research aims to investigate the effect of transformational leadership on entrepreneurial orientation in Jordanian commercial banks, and whether organizational learning capability mediates the effect of transformational leadership on entrepreneurial orientation. Adopting a quantitative research design, data were collected by means of a questionnaire-based survey of employees in Jordanian commercial banks. Based on 330 usable responses, the results revealed the significant effect of transformational leadership and two of its dimensions (inspirational motivation and intellectual stimulation) on entrepreneurial orientation. Two other dimensions (idealized influence and individualized consideration) did not contribute to entrepreneurial orientation. Additionally, the results showed that transformational leadership has a significant effect on organizational learning capability, and that organizational learning capability in turn affects entrepreneurial orientation. The findings confirm that organizational learning capability fully mediates the effect of transformational leadership on entrepreneurial orientation. A number of recommendations are advanced, the most important of which is that banks should improve and develop managers’ transformational attributes by training them on how to deal with employees in order to increase their entrepreneurial orientation. Banks should also consider improving their learning capability, as this plays a significant role in enhancing and supporting the effect of transformational leadership attributes on entrepreneurial orientation.
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Obeidat, Bader, Razan Nofal, and Ra’ed Masa’deh. "The Effect of Transformational Leadership on Entrepreneurial Orientation: The Mediating Role of Organizational Learning Capability." Modern Applied Science 12, no. 11 (October 29, 2018): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/mas.v12n11p77.
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This study aims to investigate the effect of transformational leadership on entrepreneurial orientation in Jordanian commercial banks, and whether organizational learning capability mediates the effect of transformational leadership on entrepreneurial orientation. Adopting a quantitative research design, data were collected by means of a questionnaire-based survey of employees in Jordanian commercial banks. Based on 330 usable responses, the results revealed the significant effect of transformational leadership and two of its dimensions (inspirational motivation and intellectual stimulation) on entrepreneurial orientation. Two other dimensions (idealized influence and individualized consideration) did not contribute to entrepreneurial orientation. Additionally, the results showed that transformational leadership has a significant effect on organizational learning capability, and that organizational learning capability in turn affects entrepreneurial orientation. The findings confirm that organizational learning capability fully mediates the effect of transformational leadership on entrepreneurial orientation. A number of recommendations are advanced, the most important of which is that banks should improve and develop managers’ transformational attributes by training them on how to deal with employees in order to increase their entrepreneurial orientation. Banks should also consider improving their learning capability, as this plays a significant role in enhancing and supporting the effect of transformational leadership attributes on entrepreneurial orientation.
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Urban, B., and A. Stacey. "Preferred attributes of entrepreneurial opportunities: A conjoint and cluster analysis study." South African Journal of Business Management 46, no. 1 (March 31, 2015): 83–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajbm.v46i1.85.
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This paper builds on opportunity-based conceptualisations of entrepreneurship that focus on the identification and exploitation of opportunities. The study investigates the importance of factors when evaluating opportunities andidentifies distinct clusters of preferences for differing opportunities. Based on a conjoint analysis where importances and part worth utilities were calculated when assessing an entrepreneurial opportunity, significant differences appear in the importances associated with the business sector, capital intensity, technology maturity, market potential and return on investment potential. Moreover clustering is dependent on gender, academic background and principal work experience of respondents. A holistic conclusion of this study confirms not only that both opportunity dimensions and demographic factors are important, but that identifying levels of differences and differences in the degree of importances with unique constellations therein, is fundamental in understanding opportunity evaluation. The study contributes to the clustering of different types of opportunities to ensure the effective targeting of policies and services by government. Empirical evidence is mounting which demonstrates that there are more entrepreneurial opportunities in developing countries and that the higher number of entrepreneurial opportunities and demand for entrepreneurship in developing countries is indeed matched by higher rates of opportunity-driven entrepreneurs entering the market.
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Matinde, Elias. "Enhancing the Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Attributes of Engineering Graduates: A Review Proposal for Metallurgy and Materials Engineering Undergraduate Curricula at Two African Universities." Education Sciences 9, no. 1 (December 27, 2018): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci9010004.
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This paper explores the potential opportunities to enhance the entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial attributes of graduates in the Metallurgy and Materials Engineering curricula at two universities in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Due to the diminishing geographical constraints between Zimbabwe and South Africa, and the strong juxtaposition between the two economies, this paper adopts a simplified comparative education methodology to benchmark education best practices between these two countries. While the reviewed curricula in their present form may be providing learners with opportunities for disciplinary problem solving and inquiry-based learning, this paper proposes a body-centred cubic (bcc) model to integrate a new dimension of entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial education into the teaching and learning space. Based on the 3D bcc lattice with six planes, where the first five planes represent the current curricula, pedagogy practices and desired attributes, the sixth plane is taken to represent the additional dimensions of the desired entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial attributes.
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Smith, Kelly, Dina Williams, Naveed Yasin, and Ian Pitchford. "Enterprise skills and training needs of postgraduate research students." Education + Training 56, no. 8/9 (November 4, 2014): 745–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/et-05-2014-0052.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a survey of postgraduate research (PGRs) students studying at the University of Huddersfield, concentrating on entrepreneurial attributes and the importance of enterprise-related skills future career intentions. Design/methodology/approach – Electronic survey questions asked respondents to rate their confidence in a series of enterprise-related skills, and each skill's importance in their career development. Identification with attributes relating to independence, risk taking, self-efficacy, tolerance of ambiguity, and innovativeness were explored. Further questions probed the importance of enterprise skills development, research impact, and career aspirations including business start-up potential. Findings – Respondents identified with entrepreneurial attributes and were positive towards enterprise skills development. The majority felt that their research could have commercial impact, and over a third reported that starting a business appealed to them. Comparisons of importance and confidence ratings identified skills areas where confidence was relatively low and needed to be improved, where there is a large gap between confidence and importance, and where a skill was rated as having lower importance than is optimal from an institutional perspective. Interestingly, different groups of students considered “self-employment” compared with “business start-up” as a career option. Research limitations/implications – These single-institution results suggest that PGRs are more entrepreneurial than might be expected. Is the higher education (HE) sector underestimating the entrepreneurial potential of the PGR population, their appetite for engaging in enterprise, and their enterprise and commercialisation training needs? Originality/value – The results have relevance for the HE community in terms of understanding PGR entrepreneurial attributes, and training needs for enterprise and commercialisation of research output.
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Bronstein, Johann, and Markus Reihlen. "Entrepreneurial University Archetypes." Industry and Higher Education 28, no. 4 (August 2014): 245–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/ihe.2014.0210.
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Most research on the entrepreneurial university is case-study based. While this helps us to understand specific characteristics of particular cases, integrative studies that build on cumulated knowledge have yet to be conducted. This study aims to synthesize existing research and to generate archetypes of the entrepreneurial university by conducting a qualitative meta-synthesis of the empirical literature. The underlying assumption of this research is that there is no single model or best type of the entrepreneurial university. Nevertheless, the authors expect to see entrepreneurial universities converge into a few distinct archetypes that display similar organizational attributes. As primary data sources, they use twenty-seven case studies on entrepreneurial universities, which are synthesized into four empirically grounded archetypes: ‘Research-preneurial’ or research driven; ‘Techni-preneurial’ or industry driven; ‘Inno-preneurial’ or service innovation driven; and ‘Commerce-preneurial’ or knowledge commercialization driven. This meta-synthesis provides a taxonomy of various structures, strategies and resources that characterize entrepreneurial universities, serving as a conceptual framework for a heterogeneous body of literature.
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Wikantiyoso, Bimo, Benedicta Prihatin Dwi Riyanti, and Angela Oktavia Suryani. "A Construction of Entrepreneurial Personality Tests: Testing Archetype Personality Inventory in Entrepreneurship." International Journal of Applied Business and International Management 6, no. 1 (April 20, 2021): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.32535/ijabim.v6i1.1085.
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VUCA is about a hyper-competitive and unpredictable environment. It stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Personal attributes are necessary to navigate the VUCA environment. Studies in entrepreneurship show that narratives help people to connect different experiences. Literature shows that a narrative journey can be described through archetypes and relate to entrepreneurial behavior. This study aims to construct and validate measurements of entrepreneurial personality by adapting Pearson & Marr's archetype inventory test within the entrepreneurial context. This study was conducted as an assessment of the measurement psychometric attributes consisting of 12 archetypes. Explanatory Factor Analysis (EFA) was carried out by Oblimin rotation resulting in 60 final items. This study involved 154 small and medium entrepreneurs in Jakarta and West Java.
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Strojny, Jacek, and Katarzyna Horska. "Przedsiębiorczość a edukacja akademicka – analiza badań studentów Wydziału Zarządzania studiów stacjonarnych I stopnia Politechniki Rzeszowskiej." Przedsiębiorczość - Edukacja 8 (January 1, 2012): 78–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.24917/20833296.8.8.
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The paper discusses aspects connected with entrepreneurship amongst university students. It underlines the influence of the culture and socialization while creating the entrepreneurial personality. The research aimed at measuring the level of entrepreneurial attributes among students of the Faculty of of Management. The study confirmed the relatively high level of entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviors among the research sample. The realization of assumed hypotheses allowed additional conclusions to be drawn.
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Paul, Justin, and Archana Shrivastava. "Comparing entrepreneurial communities." Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy 9, no. 3 (August 10, 2015): 206–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jec-06-2013-0018.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare entrepreneurial attributes of MBA students, the next generation business people, from two important Asian countries, India from South Asia and Japan from East Asia (India, being an emerging country and Japan, a developed country). Design/methodology/approach – Survey responses from MBA students in India and Japan were measured on an entrepreneurial personality index. Bateman and Crant’s scale consisting of 17 traits is used to identify if entrepreneurial traits are a learned cultural behaviour or intrinsic personality factors. Findings – Although the findings indicate that India has benefitted from entrepreneurship in the information technology and information technology-enabled service ventures during the past two decades, the country still has a long way to go when compared to developed countries like Japan, where entrepreneurship is widespread. Research limitations/implications – The results are based on a single survey, using cross-sectional data. Originality/value – The level of entrepreneurship differs considerably across countries and periods. The authors put forward a theoretical framework to denote the linkage between entrepreneurial attitude, pro-active personality and culture, besides highlighting the three pillars of entrepreneurship.
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Vodă, Ana Iolanda, Gina Ionela Butnaru, and Rodica Cristina Butnaru. "Enablers of Entrepreneurial Activity across the European Union—An Analysis Using GEM Individual Data." Sustainability 12, no. 3 (January 31, 2020): 1022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12031022.
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The objective of this study involves identifying the influence of different perceptual attributes on the likelihood of engaging in early-stage entrepreneurial activities (TEA). The study correspondingly applies individual data based on the statistics gathered from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Adult Population Survey database for 18 European Countries in 2007 and 2014. We performed several logistic regression analyses in order to test the influence of some entrepreneurial attributes on the propensity to engage in TEA. We identified four perceptual determinants: Capability to identify opportunity; having the skills, knowledge and experience to start up a business; fear of failure; and knowing other entrepreneurs. We tested their effect along with some control variables and interaction effects. The results confirm the importance of these factors in explaining entrepreneurial activities across different economies.
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Holienka, Marian, Jana Holienková, and Miroslav Holienka. "Sports as a Stepping‑Stone for Entrepreneurship: Examining Sports University Students." Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis 66, no. 6 (2018): 1485–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun201866061485.
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Sports and entrepreneurship have several common attributes. Therefore, when focusing on entrepreneurship among university students, sports students deserve special attention. The main aim of our exploratory study was to examine personality traits, enterprising tendencies and entrepreneurial propensity of sports students. Our study was based on data gathered through own data collection using a survey instrument comprising of established measures of enterprising tendencies and interpersonal aspect of personality, and items capturing individual’s entrepreneurial propensity and other personal and environmental attributes. We have collected 254 responses from 130 sports and 124 pedagogy students, who served as a comparison group. Our findings show that sports students exhibit higher enterprising tendency, significant differences in four out of eight examined general personality traits, and higher entrepreneurial propensity compared to their pedagogy counterparts. In search of potential origins of these differences and high embeddedness of entrepreneurship among sports students, we explored selected individual attributes as well as environmental factors related to respondents’ personal and university settings. Based on our findings, we develop implications for entrepreneurship encouragement and utilization of enterprising potential in sports student population.
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Jeraj, Mitja, and Miha Marič. "Relation between Entrepreneurial Curiosity and Entrepreneurial Self-efficacy: a Multi-Country Empirical Validation." Organizacija 46, no. 6 (November 1, 2013): 264–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/orga-2013-0027.
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AbstractThe main purpose of this paper is to present empirical analysis of the relation between entrepreneurial curiosity and entrepreneurial self-efficacy. A detailed literature review in a broad field of entrepreneurship, narrow field of entrepreneurship psychology, and organizational sciences revealed, at one hand different connections between determinants influencing entrepreneurs, and latest scientific research trends on the other hand. Although the significance of curiosity in motivating and learning has received expressive scholarly support, like also entrepreneurial self-efficacy as one of the most studied personal attributes among entrepreneurs, no study to our knowledge existed in relation to entrepreneurial curiosity connected with entrepreneurial self-efficacy. An online multi-country survey was conducted in Slovenia and USA among entrepreneurs and results of structural equation modelling showed that entrepreneurial curiosity and entrepreneurial self-efficacy are related. Entrepreneurial curiosity has a positive impact on entrepreneurial self-efficacy of running entrepreneurial tasks. The findings of this research have both theoretical and practical implications.
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Sulaiman, Debbi, and Lexi Pranata B.Limbing. "PROFESSIONALISM AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTION HOUSEKEEPER HOTEL." Jurnal Entrepreneur dan Entrepreneurship 8, no. 1 (March 25, 2019): 13–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.37715/jee.v8i1.1112.
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The purpose of this study is to determine the performance of hotel housekeeper professionalism and entrepreneurial action. The research method used a qualitative approach. Data were collected using interviews and observations. For data analysis, the present study used the technique of Miles and Huberman (1994). This study found that entrepreneurial action from hotel housekeepers was identified by a number of attributes such as passion, open mindedness to change, teamoriented attitude, competence and ability towards housekeeping, interpersonal skills, ability to control personal emotions, professional ethics, leadership spirit and perfectionist.
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Rivera-Kempis, Clariandys, Leobardo Valera, and Miguel A. Sastre-Castillo. "Entrepreneurial Competence: Using Machine Learning to Classify Entrepreneurs." Sustainability 13, no. 15 (July 23, 2021): 8252. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13158252.
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Competencies are behaviors that some people master better than others, which makes them more effective in a given situation. Considering that entrepreneurship translates into behaviors, the competency-based approach expresses attributes necessary in the generation of such behaviors with greater precision. By virtue of the dynamic and complicated nature of entrepreneurial phenomena and, especially, of the numerous data sets and variables that accompany the entrepreneur, it has become increasingly difficult to characterize it. In this study, we use predictive analysis from the machine learning approach (unsupervised learning) in order to determine if the individual is an entrepreneur, based on measures of 20 attributes of entrepreneurial competence relative to classification and ranking. We investigated this relationship using a sample of 6649 individuals from the Latin American context and a series of algorithms that include the following: logistic regression, principal component analysis, ranking and classification of data using the Ward method, linear discriminant analysis, and Gaussian regression among others.
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Kwasi Mensah, Emmanuel, Lawrence Adu Asamoah, and Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi. "Entrepreneurial opportunity decisions under uncertainty: Recognizing the complementing role of personality traits and cognitive skills." Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation 17, no. 1 (2021): 25–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.7341/20211711.
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Purpose: The aim of this paper focuses on advancing the entrepreneurial literature by enhancing the understanding of the connections between personal behavior and cognitive skills in decision making under uncertainty. Methodology: The method of this research has been adapted the framework used by Garrett and Holland (2015), who developed propositions from the conceptual narratives of how environmental uncertainty and complexity differentially affect the motivations and cognition of independent entrepreneurs and corporate entrepreneurs to engage in entrepreneurial action. Findings: The findings of this research provide a conceptual basis for a broader perspective on behaviors and cognitions that motivate or hinder entrepreneurial actions while at the same time, positioning the entrepreneur’s decision at the core of decision theory. Implications for theory and practice: Theoretically, this research contributes to a holistic view of opportunity decisions. It redirects the traditional analyses path of entrepreneurial decisions discussed distinctively from the personal behavior or cognition paradigm, which does not provide a complete view into the larger entrepreneurial decisions under uncertainty. Practically, our argument provides further insight into the black box of entrepreneurial opportunity decisions under uncertainty and thus highlights the need for a broader perspective for the entrepreneur, especially in the early stage of venture formation, where some cognitions and required personal attributes are needed in consonance for entrepreneurial action. Originality and value: Entrepreneurship research on decision making under uncertainty has mainly focused on the effect of uncertainty on entrepreneurial actions, while an attempt at the individual level, particularly, from the cognitive framework seeks to explain why actions differ. Scholarly efforts have also been made on what informs entrepreneurial actions from the perspective of the entrepreneur’s personal attributes. However, no integrated approach is offered in the literature to study how cognitive skills and personality traits complement each other.
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Chen, Ming-Huei, Yu-Yu Chang, and Ju-Yun Pan. "Typology of creative entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial success." Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy 12, no. 5 (November 6, 2018): 632–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jec-07-2017-0041.
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Purpose The rise of creative economy has been the subject of considerable interest in the recent literature. Despite the growing effort to investigate entrepreneurship in creative industries, little work has been done to scrutinize the relationship between individual attributes of creative entrepreneurs and the new venture outcomes. Prior research shows that entrepreneurial creativity and opportunity recognition are the major determinants of entrepreneurs’ behavioral posture in the new venture process. Therefore, this study aims to explore the typology of creative entrepreneurs’ attitude to new venture creation using entrepreneurial creativity and opportunity recognition to categorize entrepreneurs in creative industries. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 291 entrepreneurs in creative industries of Taiwan and cluster analysis was used to categorize the research data. Findings The results identify four types of creative entrepreneurs, namely “creative constructionist”, “creative opportunist”, “creative designer” and “creative producer”. To better understand the role of creative entrepreneurs in affecting new venture success, the career outcomes perceived by entrepreneurs were compared between different categories. Results suggest that entrepreneurs who are categorized as “creative constructionist” have better career success in firm’s creative performance, personal career achievement, social reputation, entrepreneurial satisfaction and entrepreneurial happiness. Moreover, findings also suggest that constructionist type of creative entrepreneurs have the lowest intention to quit the entrepreneurial career. Originality/value This paper confirms that entrepreneurial creativity and opportunity recognition complement each other to accomplish entrepreneurs’ career success. Its findings shed light on entrepreneurs’ attribute typology as well as how the typology is linked to entrepreneurial career success in creative industries. Theoretical contributions and practical implications are discussed.
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McRae-Williams, Pam, Julian Lowe, and Peter Taylor. "The Influence of Industrial Clusters and Place on Innovation and Entrepreneurial Behaviour." International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation 8, no. 3 (August 2007): 165–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/000000007781698590.
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Responses from a questionnaire survey of wine and tourism businesses operating in regional clusters were analysed using factor analysis. These suggested three factor scores relating to entrepreneurial behaviour; four factor scores relating to cluster activities and attributes; and three factors relating to the respondents' personal characteristics. The three entrepreneurial behaviour factor scores were interpreted as: innovator, calculator and venturer. These were used as dependent variables in regression models. The independent variables were the cluster and personal characteristics factor scores, industry and place. The central result was that the cluster activity variables did not have a significant impact on the innovator behaviour variable, which contradicts the standard view. Cluster activities and attributes were found to attract entrepreneurs of the calculator kind, and to a lesser extent, of the venturer kind. Place did seem to offer an attraction to entrepreneurs beyond those offered by the intensities of the cluster activities and attributes.
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Gadomska‑Lila, Katarzyna. "Significance of Culture in Development of Entrepreneurial Mindsets." Kwartalnik Ekonomistów i Menedżerów 41, no. 3 (July 1, 2016): 29–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0009.4707.
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Entrepreneurship becomes one of the essential conditions of the survival and development on a competitive market. Stimulation and development of entrepreneurship require activities in various fields. Culture is of major importance for the formation of entrepreneurial mindsets. In this paper, changes within the perception of entrepreneurship and its determinants are analyzed. The author focuses on cultural determinants, taking into consideration different groups of factors. An attempt is taken to identify the features of entrepreneurial culture and to characterize its key attributes, as well as to indicate the ways of forming and developing entrepreneurial culture.
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Czemiel-Grzybowska, Wioletta. "Entrepreneurial orientation in family firms – management and intercultural development." Journal of Intercultural Management 6, no. 4-1 (December 1, 2014): 181–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/joim-2014-0044.
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AbstractThis paper has taken an insight to the systemic models of family business from the open systems perspective. I focus on family business system models and on the subsystems content of family system and ownership system in family business context. The paper claim that the open system perspective on intercultural family businesses has both theoretical and empirical implications on family business research. Family businesses have many reasons, including family conflicts over money, nepotism leading to wrong management, and infighting over the succession of power from one generation to the other. Regulating the family’s roles as shareholders, board members, and managers is very important because it can help avoid these pitfalls. This paper will discuss the importance of the openness of the company through five the attributes of enduring family businesses: ownership, family, business and portfolio governance, wealth management, foundation. Dimension of attributes success have taken family business like five jewelers.
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Teal, Elisabeth J., and Charles W. Hofer. "Key Attributes of the Founding Entrepreneurial Team of Rapidly Growing New Ventures." Journal of Private Equity 4, no. 2 (February 28, 2001): 19–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3905/jpe.2001.319980.
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Urban, B. "The Importance of Attributes in Entrepreneurial Opportunity Evaluations: An Emerging Market Study." Managerial and Decision Economics 35, no. 8 (August 27, 2013): 523–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mde.2639.
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Rey-Martí, Andrea, Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano, and Daniel Palacios-Marqués. "Entrepreneurial attributes of human capital and contingency factors in the culinary tourism." International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 12, no. 1 (September 18, 2015): 67–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11365-015-0375-2.
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Maireva, Chrispen, and Nzwirashe Rejoyce Magomana. "The Influence of Endogenous Factors on Entrepreneurial Success Among Youths in Masvingo Urban, Zimbabwe." EAST AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, Issue 2 (April to June 2021) (May 24, 2021): 179–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.46606/eajess2021v02i02.0088.
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This study sought to establish the influence of endogenous factors on entrepreneurial success among youths. The study adopted a quantitative correlational research approach. The population of the study comprised of 420 youth entrepreneurs in Masvingo Urban. A sample of 201 respondents was drawn from the population using a random sampling technique. The data was collected using a structured questionnaire and analysed using descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis. The study found that the level of education, management skills, previous entrepreneurial experience, cultural background and the personal characteristics, attributes, skills, and attitudes of the youth entrepreneurs influenced their entrepreneurial success. The level of education, entrepreneurial training and the requisite technical skills also helped the youth entrepreneurs to grow their businesses. The cultural background was found to have an influence on the youth entrepreneurial success. The study recommended that availability of funds, coupled with training and enhancement of entrepreneurial skills by government agencies has the potential to improve the entrepreneurial activities.
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Gozukara, Izlem, and Nurdan Colakoglu. "Enhancing Entrepreneurial Intention and Innovativeness of University Students: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Alertness." International Business Research 9, no. 2 (January 21, 2016): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v9n2p34.
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<p>Entrepreneurship is a process of value creation consisting of committing time and effort, considering financial, social and other risks, resulting financial gain. The initial step of entrepreneurship is to recognize opportunities, which refers to a mechanism of intention. Empirical studies have provided evidence that entrepreneurial behavior is best predicted by intention. Intention, in turn, is associated with certain personality traits and attributes. This study aims to investigate the mediating effect of entrepreneurial alertness on the relationship between innovativeness and entrepreneurial intention of Turkish university students. The results of the study demonstrated that innovativeness has a positive effect on entrepreneurial intention, and entrepreneurial alertness fully mediates the relationship between innovativeness and entrepreneurial alertness. The present paper suggests that higher education institutions should focus on modifying personal attitudes of college students through entrepreneurship education and business incubation programs in order to foster enterprise creation and thereby economic development.</p>
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Litau, E. Ya. "Anti-Ideology of Entrepreneurship as an Attribute of Entrepreneurial Projects." Economics and Management 26, no. 8 (September 27, 2020): 830–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.35854/1998-1627-2020-8-830-839.
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Aim. The presented study examines and develops theoretical and methodological foundations that make it possible to distinguish innovative entrepreneurship among other economic phenomena.Tasks. The author identifies the specific features of entrepreneurship and its qualitative differences from other types of economic activity aimed at obtaining benefits, specifies the relationship between creative destruction and economic development, determines the attributes of innovative entrepreneurship.Methods. This study uses systematic analysis of professional literature on entrepreneurship to highlight the main attributes of entrepreneurial activity. The methodology of dialectical contradiction in its original Hegelian interpretation plays an important role in elaborating and substantiating the definition of entrepreneurship. The author considers innovative activity as creation of new values, which, according to the logic of dialectical development, destroy the old ones, triggering the process of economic development.Results. An approach to understanding the phenomenon of entrepreneurship is proposed, making it possible to distinguish this type of activity as significantly different from other types of economic activity, which may be externally similar but have different content. During the development of this approach, the concept of “anti-ideology” of entrepreneurship is introduced, which reflects the essence of innovative activity as a process of creative destruction. The necessary and sufficient attributes of entrepreneurial innovation are identified, making it possible to reflect the meaning of this phenomenon and verify this complex defining structural element in the system of economic relations. The study substantiates that the level of anti-ideology and public benefit can be used as criteria for assessing the significance of an entrepreneurial idea. A progressive model of anti-idea realization (PMA) is proposed based on the methodological principle. It can be used to develop an efficient system for evaluating startups within the framework of venture capitalism.Conclusions. Specification of the relationship between creative destruction and economic development is crucial to understanding the importance of innovative entrepreneurship. Each historical period creates its own demand for a specific type of entrepreneurs. The principle of anti-ideology, which lies at the heart of the PMA model, is key in identifying competitive commercial ideas, making it possible to focus resources and attention on projects that can make a significant contribution to economic development.
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Et al., Indraah. "COMPARATIVE STUDIES ON ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION." Psychology and Education Journal 58, no. 1 (January 20, 2021): 5764–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/pae.v58i1.2212.
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Entrepreneurship is a process of creating realizing values for entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurial activities play quite important roles in promoting economic and social development. While the development of entrepreneurship in Malaysia and Nigeria is growing very fast, there have been few studies on entrepreneurship and the factors that influence intentions to become entrepreneurs. In the field of entrepreneurial research, the motivation factors which lead people to leave their comfort zone, take financial risks, abandon their high-income jobs to pursue their own business is always an interesting topic. For these reasons, in recent decades, the problems of entrepreneurship have become a focus for many scholars and policy makers. This paper examines the attributes that influences entrepreneurship intention in Malaysia and Nigeria. Data were collected from universities of the two countries. This study applies a quantitative approach with statistical techniques using descriptive statistics. The output of this study is expected to significantly contribute to business owners as well as decision makers.
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Natarajan, Ganesh. "Entrepreneurial Organization Building in the Emerging Economy." Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies 3, no. 2 (July 2017): 91–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2393957517712391.
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Zensar Technologies is a significant success story of the India software services industry. In this article, Ganesh Natarajan who led the company as it’s Vice Chairman and CEO from 2001 to 2016 presents the exciting journey of the company. The article highlights the inflection points, the hurdles that the management team had to navigate and the unique attributes that made it a global success story. The article is derived from the Sage Publications book written by Ganesh Natarajan band Prameela Kalive titled ‘From Start-up to Global Success—the story of Zensar.’
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Yoshida, Shingo, Hironori Yagi, Akira Kiminami, and Guy Garrod. "Farm Diversification and Sustainability of Multifunctional Peri-Urban Agriculture: Entrepreneurial Attributes of Advanced Diversification in Japan." Sustainability 11, no. 10 (May 21, 2019): 2887. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11102887.
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Multifunctionality of urban agriculture is essential for the sustainability of both cities and urban farms, especially in Asian mega-cities exhibiting extensive urban sprawl. To maximise the multifunctionality of these farms, entrepreneurial or innovative farm diversification is important. However, there is insufficient research on this issue in developed countries. This study aims to demonstrate the existence of advanced diversified farms characterised by entrepreneurship, skilled farm management and social networks and explore their economic and social sustainability by using data from a survey of 386 farms located close to urban areas in Japan. Gaussian mixture clustering analysis revealed that only about 10% of the sample can be classified as advanced diversified farms and most of the other diversified farms do not exhibit entrepreneurial attributes. Furthermore, regression analysis revealed that advanced diversification has a positive impact not only on the economic viability of farms, but also on their social performance. These findings have significant implications for policies promoting the sustainability of urban agriculture, suggesting that a more balanced promotion of the diversification and entrepreneurial attributes of farms is crucial to building a sustainable relationship between cities and urban agriculture.
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Kawai, Norifumi, and Tomoyo Kazumi. "Female entrepreneurs’ cognitive attributes and venture growth in Japan: the moderating role of perceived social legitimacy." International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship 13, no. 1 (January 21, 2021): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijge-05-2020-0063.
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Purpose By drawing upon social cognitive and legitimacy perspectives, this study aims to explore the role of perceived social legitimacy as an informal institutional force that moderates the effects of female entrepreneurs’ self-efficacy and entrepreneurial tenacity on venture growth. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a data set of 308 Japanese female entrepreneurs, who are a subject of limited extant scholarly attention, to test the hypothesised relationships empirically. Findings Consistent with the unified framework, the study was able to identify that the acquisition of social legitimacy required by female entrepreneurs serves as a crucial safety net under which entrepreneurial self-efficacy and tenacity can significantly affect venture growth. Research limitations/implications The study highlights that high levels of entrepreneurial traits alone are not necessarily sufficient to guarantee women’s venture growth. In doing so, this study stimulates the development of theory on the complementary role of the social legitimacy of entrepreneurship in fueling and mobilising the female entrepreneurs’ cognitive resources as the key to venture growth in the Japanese context. Practical implications Policymakers should be dedicated to implementing more gender-specific policies designed to continually cultivate women’s cognitive attributes in tandem with the promotion of social awareness to embrace entrepreneurship as a promising career option. Originality/value The originality of this study lies in stimulating a debate on the underlying heterogeneity of female entrepreneurs in the performance outcomes of two entrepreneurial cognitive attributes. By integrating the concept of perceived social legitimacy, the study can respond to Miao et al. (2017), who sought further examination of untested boundary conditions in the cognitive characteristics-venture growth equation.
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KNATKO, Dmitri, Galina SHIROKOVA, and Karina BOGATYREVA. "INDUSTRY CHOICE BY YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRY SETTINGS: THE ROLE OF HUMAN AND FINANCIAL CAPITAL." Journal of Business Economics and Management 17, no. 4 (July 8, 2016): 613–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/16111699.2015.1113199.
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Entrepreneurial entry happens as a consequence of a general choice of an individual to become an entrepreneur. While most entrepreneurial entry studies rarely consider an industry choice to be an aspect of entrepreneurial decision making process, we address this issue taking into account individual, industrial, and country specific attributes. Using data from the Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students’ Survey (2013–2014) on young nascent entrepreneurs and extending it with objective indicators derived from World Bank, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, and International Property Rights Index datasets, we investigate how various factors impact the choice between knowledge-intensive and capital-intensive industries. Drawing on the RBV and contingency approach, we link an industry choice to the level of human capital development and access to financial capital testing for possible country-specific moderation effects. Our study contributes to entrepreneurial entry research stream extending the understanding of entrepreneurial entry decision making nuances related to individual access to resources and both industryand country-level contingencies.
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Nogueira, Tadeu Fernando. "Entrepreneurial learning: what do we mean by it?" Learning Organization 26, no. 6 (September 9, 2019): 560–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tlo-04-2018-0067.
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Purpose Given the growing recognition that learning plays a crucial role in entrepreneurship, this paper aims to systematically review the literature on entrepreneurial learning (EL), take account of its progress and analyze the unique characteristics of EL as a concept. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a systematic approach to reviewing the literature on EL and critically assess the EL concept through the criteria of resonance, attributes (involving consistency, fecundity and differentiation), domain and causal utility. Findings A synthesis and assessment of extant literature reveals that a key challenge is the clear articulation of EL as a concept. This paper takes the first steps toward the specification of EL through a discussion of its unique properties. In this respect, the paper proposes the understanding of EL as an undertaking of entrepreneurial (i.e. proactive, exploratory and collaborative) learning behaviors (a crucial component of the EL concept) and recommends the context of new venture creation as an appropriate domain for the study of EL. Research limitations/implications This paper paves the way toward a more robust specification of EL as a concept. Originality/value This systematic literature review initiates a discussion about how EL literature can find convergence on key issues, thus helping the field move forward. It does so by articulating central attributes of the EL concept.