Efforts to achieve inclusive and sustainable agricultural-sector growth in developing economies will benefit from agricultural entrepreneurship (agripreneurship) by young farmers. However, challenges that hinder transition subsistence commercial agriculture remain. A better understanding of enablers constraints farmers experience can facilitate the development an enabling environment for sustai...

Our research explores an understudied topic in the field of entrepreneurship: the insecurity experienced by a group of entrepreneurs known as necessity entrepreneurs. Although little attention has been paid to this phenomenon, in the entrepreneurship literature, necessity entrepreneurs, more than ever, represent a very important social group in an increasingly tough economic and social climate....

Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs’ human capital endowments. Our argument for this relationship follows from established theories of developm...

This paper presents a theoretical framework in which the relationships between ethnic entrepreneurs and the communities in which they work can be understood. The nature of social ties that affect ethnic entrepreneurs is described. Drawing on concepts from the family business literature, it is proposed that entrepreneurs will have an ambivalent relationship with their employees, customers, co-et...

The proponents of the entrepreneurial motivation dichotomy have argued that opportunity-driven entrepreneurs are more likely to succeed and sustain in entrepreneurship, unlike people who start-up businesses out necessity. However, disagreement still exists on why under which conditions former might outperform latter. This research contributes this debate by examining mediation role psychologica...

The objective of this study is to investigate the effectiveness economic stimulus packages COVID-19 for small-medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia, specifically on young entrepreneurs’ age 40 and below offer some views financial measures that should be prioritised strengthened lessen burden those entrepreneurs who are severely affected during pandemic. Data collected mainly from survey 25 indu...

Social exclusion related to the unemployment of vulnerable population groups constitutes a crucial limitation achieving sustainable world. In particular, young and senior populations have specific characteristics that put them at risk from labor market. This circumstance has motivated an attempt foster cooperation between these age enable develop entrepreneurial initiatives will contribute clos...