Purpose Entrepreneurial intentions have traditionally been linked to an entrepreneur's personal ability take advantage of opportunities. Yet, entrepreneurs' perceptions contextual factors, which extend beyond one's control, deserve equal attention. This paper looks at the role played by cultural intelligence and institutional environment in shaping entrepreneurial intentions. Design/methodology...

Investigating the Predictors of Entrepreneurial Intention among Students Bushehr Agricultural Education Center Using Cognitive-Social Theory and Planned Behavior

An entrepreneurial environment is conformed by factors that play a favourable role in the development of entrepreneurship. Economic literature on innovative milieus identifies those elements that are decisive in improving the competitive performance of companies. We analysed whether Barcelona Activa’s specific environment promotes the development of an innovative milieu, which favours entrepren...

Despite globalization and assumed institutional convergence, regions remain distinctive in its rules, norms, business practices, and regional culture. This paper examines the role of regional legacy for information technology entrepreneurship, with a survey of two regions in Japan. The study of Hamamatsu and Kyoto, both considered entrepreneurial seedbeds in contemporary Japan, indicate that ev...

We define cultural entrepreneurship as the process of storytelling that mediates between extant stocks of entrepreneurial resources and subsequent capital acquisition and wealth creation. We propose a framework that focuses on how entrepreneurial stories facilitate the crafting of a new venture identity that serves as a touchstone upon which legitimacy may be conferred by investors, competitors...

Abstract Although entrepreneurial intention has been regarded as one of the most important drivers creativity, innovation, and performance in firms, a comprehensive framework that integrates relevant influential factors yet to be developed. Drawing on theory planned behavior social cognitive career theory, this study investigates critical antecedents, mediators, moderators intention. A meta-ana...

Developing people’s interest towards starting a business plays a vital role in the former socialist countries in which, for a very long time, private property and free initiative were almost completely annihilated. Therefore, countries like Romania cannot design a sustainable growth model without taking into account the necessary improvements in the human capital factor, through the entrepreneu...

We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Researchers have stressed the role of new firm activity and economic dynamism on growth. Yet, the empirical effects of international capital mobility on entrepreneurial activity have received little attention in the literature albeit the ambiguous theoretical predictions a...