knowledge-based firms play a critical role in economics of developing countries. innovation and entrepreneurship are two important factors for sustainable development of these firms. corporate entrepreneurship and recognizing factors impacting them have become important in recent years. the purpose of this paper is to examine the relations between corporate entrepreneurship, market orientation ...

This paper explores the General Enterprising Tendency (GET) test used to examine the enterprising tendency among business students in Sarawak. The findings from a sample of 75 final year business students indicate low scores in five key enterprising tendencies, namely: need for achievement, need for autonomy, calculated risk taking, drive and determination and creative tendency (innovativeness)...

Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven industrialization. If we consider the share of non-OECD countries in global trade in manufactures, this has been a...

today, survival and value creation in organizations depend on creative and innovative thinking as well as understanding and utilization of environmental opportunities. this research attempts to introduce the organization behavioral barriers which affect the development of corporate entrepreneurship. first, with the views of different experts, various behavioral barriers of corporate entrepreneu...

Eradicating abject poverty, realising social development and environmental sustainability are among the core focus of the UN millennium development goals. In Africa, realising such triple-win outcomes poses running challenges due to persistent youth bulge and growing unemployment and their attendant youth violence and crimes. Notwithstanding, in all societies, youths generally have remarkable i...

Promoting Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: Policy Challenges T RECENT ENTHUSIASM OF DONORS, DEVELOPMENT agencies and governments for promoting entrepreneurship as a route to development is perplexing. Entrepreneurs, called “heroes” by The Economist (14 March, 2009), appear upon closer scrutiny to be rather irrelevant and even impotent in many developing countries. Three decades ago, Na...

Quantification of the failure of the passive welfare system to alleviate the plight of Indigenous people in Australia indicates a remedial role for Indigenous entrepreneurship. However, sustained poor performance in Indigenous entrepreneurship in Australia contrasts with recent high levels of performance in Canada. Three phenomena account for the differences. Canadian Indigenous entrepreneurshi...