Bai, W. 2017. The Best of Both Worlds. The Effects of Knowledge and Network Relationships on Performance of Returnee Entrepreneurial Firms. Doctoral thesis / Företagsekonomiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet 184. 105 pp. Uppsala: Företagsekonomiska institutionen. ISBN 978-91-506-2616-2. In an increasingly globalized business world, international human mobility and its association with entre...

We explore the impact of the institutional environment on the nature of entrepreneurial activity across Europe. Political, legal, and regulatory variables that have been shown to impact capital market development influence entrepreneurial activity in the emerging markets of Europe, but not in the more mature economies of Europe. Greater fairness and greater protection of property rights increas...

Entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) is often included in entrepreneurial intentions models to explain why some individuals are more likely than others to become entrepreneurs. An unsettled question among researchers is whether ESE differs between men and women. While early studies seem to suggest that men have higher ESE than women, more recent studies are inconclusive. Lacking empirical suppor...

Objective: Purpose of this study was to determining the share of self-efficacy, achievement motivation and self-esteem in predicting entrepreneurial behavior in physically disabled females. Method: The design of the present study was a predictive correlation. The sample consisted of 80 female members of Disabled Community in Isfahan City who had 18-36 years old and participated in questionnaire...

Do …nancial constraints have persistent e¤ects on the creation of businesses, or should we expect that forward-looking individuals always save their way out of credit constraints? This paper studies the interaction between savings and the decision to become an entrepreneur in a multiperiod model with borrowing constraints to answer this question. The model has a simple threshold property: able ...

A wide range of United States political policies influence the level of innovative entrepreneurial activity in the country, that is the number of new businesses started each year that bring truly new products and ideas to the market. These policies begin with an educational system that fosters a creative, inventive, and educated population with the skills to start new businesses. Immigration po...

Entrepreneurial networking has been a relatively under-researched area in the field of entrepreneurship. The apparent avoidance of this topic by researchers could be attributed to a multitude of speculative reasons, such as the multi-disciplinary nature of the topic; uncertainty with regard t o the nature and operation of entrepreneurial networking; disagreement among scholars on critical succe...

Research universities continually struggle with issues related to commercialization of faculty research. Increasingly, they must hire and support faculty conducting cutting-edge science, but also facilitate commercialization of their research. Many universities provide resources to faculty through venture labs and/or entrepreneurial sabbaticals. The topic has been front and center for decades, ...

Purpose – In 2008, the world had undergone a global economic crisis. Since women always face greater difficulties in obtaining capital than men, the economic crisis had a greater effect on them. The purpose of this paper is to examine the implications of the global crisis for women’s entrepreneurship, from the perspective of equality, diversity and inclusion. Design/methodology/approach – The p...