This study aimed to understand the implications of the entrepreneurial competence in microenterprises. Literature on micro-enterprises and entrepreneurial competence has been reviewed; the research design opted the analysis of entrepreneurial competence in micro-enterprises in a multi-case study way. By the research findings were divided by the construct implication of entrepreneurial competenc...

the purpose followed in this study was to investigate entrepreneurial characteristics prevailent among the students of university college of agriculture, university of tehran carried out through a descriptive-survey method. the research population consisted of students of the university college of agriculture, university of tehran from among whom 123 were selected through stratified random samp...

Empirical evidence shows that entrepreneurs hold a large fraction of wealth, have higher saving rates than workers, and face substantial uninsurable entrepreneurial and investment risks. This paper constructs a heterogeneous-agent general equilibrium model with uninsurable entrepreneurial risk and capital-market imperfections to explore the implications of uninsurable entrepreneurial risk for w...

How does top management team (TMT) conflict influence entrepreneurial strategy making of new ventures? With a sample of new ventures in China’s technology industries, this study examines the conditions under which TMT cognitive conflict and affective conflict are associated with entrepreneurial strategy making. We found that cognitive conflict among TMT members had a positive relationship with ...

entrepreneurship is very important in order to creating jobs for the unemployed and educated youth. as regards educated youth have fewer tendencies to self-employment and investment in this context. therefore this study was performed with the objective investigating personality skills of entrepreneurial of rural youth and suggest solutions for strengthen these skills in gonbad-e-kavous county. ...

The purpose of this chapter is to explore organizational knowledge-based practices. A distinguishing feature of the successful post-Network Age enterprise is its intrinsic entrepreneurial character that manifests itself in key organizational knowledge practices relating to organizational culture, processes, content, and infrastructure. The chapter reports on the outcome of field research in whi...

The present study centers on innovativeness and risk-taking. These two personality traits are among the most distinctive entrepreneurial characteristics. They provide a good starting point for a comparison of entrepreneurial behaviour between Finnish and U.S. entrepreneurs and small business owners. The Carland Entrepreneurship Index (CEI) was employed to measure the varying degrees of innovati...

The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the concept of entrepreneurial marketing. This term is used as an umbrella to capture conceptualizations of marketing as an innovative, risk-taking, proactive area of managerial responsibility. Such conceptualizations include guerrilla marketing, radical marketing, expeditionary marketing, subversive marketing and others. Six core dimensions of...