Entrepreneurship, which is the process of identifying, evaluating and developing opportunities, has been recently identified as the most important element in the economic development of countries in various areas and industries, including banking industry. Since opportunity identification is the first step in entrepreneurship, the present research attempts to investigate and prioritize the indi...

Entrepreneurship is seen as a viable and powerful job engine for the U.S. economy. In 2008, 18.7% of workers 18-64 were either an owner-manager of an established business or involved in early-stage entrepreneurial activity For many women, entrepreneurship has been hailed as a welcoming workplace with great opportunity. Studies and growth projections by government and trade organizations such as...

In respond to a call from Carter (2011) to research the determinants of earnings from entrepreneurship across the business life cycle, we propose a life course framework and test this to explore two questions: (1) how capability to earn from entrepreneurship emerges from accrual of resources across the life course of the individual and their household, as this relates to the inter-generational ...

Abstract Government size, corruption, and tax policy can influence allocation towards necessity or opportunity-driven entrepreneurship. Using a comparative multi-source sample across 52 countries during 2005–2015, we apply mixed-process estimation of the simultaneously unrelated system equations unpack these heterogeneous complex effects. Interestingly, our results show that corruption on oppor...

Most of the economies in both developed and developing nations consider youth policies visualize a society as situation where have an equal opportunity any other citizen; hence, to realize fullest potential, productively participating economic, social, political, cultural religious life without fear or favor. Despite this visualization, youths many continue face myriad challenges including but ...

Entrepreneurs have often been considered as either belonging to the necessity or opportunity category based on their motivations when they started organization. However, necessity/opportunity entrepreneurship dichotomy is too limiting and boundary between certainly not clear-cut it assumed. Moreover, interpretation of entrepreneurial motivation must be a product interaction specific situation i...

Abstract The FDI-entrepreneurship nexus has received growing attention over the last decade. However, empirical findings on their relationship have been inconsistent at best. This study seeks to examine how inflows of Greenfield investment influence entrepreneurship host country. Using panel data from 110 countries during period 2001-2018, we find that level brings detrimental impact total and ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the understanding and presence of sustainability within entrepreneurship education. The extant literature on sustainability within the entrepreneurship discipline remains extremely limited. Previously, sustainability within an entrepreneurship context has related to economic viability as opposed to sustainability in its broadest sense. This stu...