Research suggests that there are cross-cultural variations in entrepreneurial entry rates (Autio et al., 2013) and it seems that this in part stems from differences in cultural values. Hayton et al (2002) argue that differences in cultural values may mean that the extent to which entrepreneurial behaviours, such as risk taking and independent thinking are considered desirable will differ betwee...

corporate entrepreneurship channels the efforts of an organization to create a series of sustainable competitive advantages as the basis for growth and profitability. corporate entrepreneurship seeks the basic goals of identifying and following opportunities to create new ventures and strategic renovation (recreation). this research is aimed at investigating the impact of the organizational ent...

Using data from a large European financial services firm which engaged in an entrepreneurial initiative to enhance its competitiveness, this paper explores the strategic role of middle managers in the context of corporate entrepreneurship and its link to multiple dimensions of performance. The findings indicate that middle managers’ role can be decomposed along four reliable and stable dimensio...

Milton Friedman argued that the social responsibility of firms is to maximize profits. This paper examines this argument for the economic environment envisioned by Friedman in which citizens can personally give to social causes and can invest in profit-maximizing firms and firms that give a portion of their profits to social causes. Citizens obtain social satisfaction from corporate social givi...

Although comprehensiveness is considered among the most salient and enduring strategic decision-making characteristics in organizations, its influence on firm behaviour has remained elusive. As a first step, our study builds and tests a model that specifies the influence of comprehensiveness on the firm’s pursuit of corporate entrepreneurship. Our core argument is that while comprehensiveness h...

Previous research in corporate entrepreneurship found that selecting the right executive champion and requesting moderate initial funding was strongly correlated with start-up funding. Utilizing credible teams was found to be an important factor for projects receiving over $1,000,000. However, understanding the cognitive abilities of the individuals receiving funding was not assessed. We found ...

Have tax policies affected entrepreneurial activity in the U.S.? We extend the time series literature on this topic by using more recent data and modern econometric techniques to examine the importance of federal income, payroll, capital gains, corporate income, and estate taxes on self-employment rates. Regression results show that most of these taxes have significant but small effects on self...

While hard data is difficult to find, the financial crisis appears to have had a substantial negative effect on investors’ willingness to finance innovative entrepreneurship. This dearth of capital is particularly worrisome in light of the widely recognised need for innovative ventures—the so-called “green shoots”— to reignite economic growth after the world-wide recession. A growing body of ev...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational identity with organizational entrepreneurship among the faculty members of tabriz university. among the influential factors on organizational entrepreneurship, transformational leadership and organizational identity were two variables that were considered. an applied, descriptive, an...

The experience of work in an entrepreneurial context is saturated with emotional experiences. While the literature on the relation between affect and entrepreneurial performance (EP) is growing, there was no quantitative integration of the results so far. This study addresses this gap and meta-analytically integrates the results from 17 studies (N = 3810) in order to estimate the effect size fo...