Three habits of successful policy entrepreneurs

Successful entrepreneurs minimize risk

Many scholars see entrepreneurs as action-oriented individuals who use rules of thumb and other mental heuristics to make decisions, but who do little systematic planning and analysis. We argue that what distinguishes successful from unsuccessful entrepreneurs is precisely that the former vary their decisionmaking styles, sometimes relying on heuristics and sometimes relying on systematic analy...

Successful Policy Innovation in Three Colombian Cities

This paper evaluates transformative policy innovations with respect to security and taxation in the three main Colombian cities: Bogotá, Medellín, and Cali. In the first two, such policies were associated with huge success. Elsewhere we (Gutiérrez et al. 2009) have tagged these transformation processes as ‘urban/metropolitan miracles’. The term comes from the fact that both common citizens and ...

COGNITIONS AND BEHAVIORS OF SUCCESSFUL NASCENT ENTREPRENEURS: A THREE-YEAR PANEL STUDY ABSTRACT A mediation model of the cognitions and behaviors that successful nascent entrepreneurs

A mediation model of the cognitions and behaviors that successful nascent entrepreneurs (vs. quitters) use to start “promising” companies was derived from psychological theories about the causality among situation (environment), person (cognition), and behavior. Entrepreneurship, leadership and social cognition research concepts that offer successful responses to uncertain resource-poor dynamic...

Policy Options for Financing Rural Entrepreneurs

Successful Internet Entrepreneurs Don't Have To Be College Dropouts: A Model for Nurturing College Students to Become Successful Internet Entrepreneurs

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