This paper aims towards better understanding the role of entrepreneurship in fragile states, which despite the practical interest and relevance has been somewhat disregarded in academic research. Given the necessity to support policy formulation with appropriate and relevant measurement of entrepreneurship and the business environment, the primary focus in this paper is to scrutinize existing i...

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...

Self-efficacy refers to the subjective beliefs that people have of their capability to perform a given task, a topic of continual research in the last two decades in different fields of human functioning. There is ample research about the relationship between self-efficacy and performance, and with entrepreneurship. Chen et al. (1998) in particular proposed a construct to predict the likelihood...

This study focuses on the development of small business and private entrepreneurship in the provision of employment for the teaming population of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It is one of the main indicators used in identifying not only the economic situation of the people, but also the lifestyle of the people, especially where they live. One of the main issues affecting the program of employmen...

The dotcom crash presented new challenges to successful business and decision-making in e-entrepreneurship, the implications of which can be better understood by looking at the changing meanings of expert knowledge and of business community. This is one of the main findings of a case study on e-entrepreneurship in the Greater London business area. Using a sample of 42 entrepreneurs, who started...

the best deal. Nowhere is more real than today business environment which affect the success or otherwise of any business venture. Several authors have attributed failure of businesses particularly small and medium scale enterprises to various factors ranging from training of the entrepreneur to exposure and experience while some analysts opined that business environment could impact on small a...

Based on the present situation of the domestic development of entrepreneurship education, the research analyzes the necessary conditions for entrepreneurship education courses and teaching, to build the university students' entrepreneurship education quality evaluation system, an empirical analysis on the analytical hierarchy process. By aimed at the design of index system, fully interprets the...

This paper explores the formation and growth of entrepreneurship in three different types of business venture under market socialism in China. It reveals how key contingency factors interacting in different types of firm shape the 'Chinese Characteristics' of entrepreneurial processes in 'China' type of market economy and explains its impact on firm's growth or failure. It emphasizes the import...

Politicians expend a great deal of eff ort on attempting to reduce unemployment and stimulate economic growth. Policy programs specifi cally intended to create additional employment can be found at the regional, national, and supranational levels. Historically, such measures focused on the performance of large incumbent fi rms and more or less ignored the role that new businesses play in econom...