This multi-method study investigates the effects of entrepreneurs’ interpersonal networking style on the initiation of interorganizational exchange ties. I use inductive theorizing to make a distinction between interpersonal networking actions aimed at adding new contacts (network broadening actions) versus managing existing contacts (network deepening actions). I reason that because networking...

This study focuses on the role of entrepreneurs in the private sector in sub-Saharan Africa. Using data from the Regional Program on Enterprise Development (RPED) and controlling for various factors, our analysis compares growth rates of indigenously owned African firms with firms owned by entrepreneurs of Asian or European descent, in Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania. We find that after c...

This empirical study which is based in Malta seeks to characterize the personality/psychological profile of Maltese entrepreneurs (business owners and self-employed persons) and employed managers. The characteristics investigated in this study are the need for achievement, locus of control, tolerance towards ambiguity, self-confidence, creativity/innovativeness, risk-taking propensity and self-...

The article highlights a marketing study of the preconditions for starting business by young entrepreneurs polling existing and potential under age 35 on social networks. problems development enterprises during introduction quarantine restrictions due to coronavirus (COVID-19) are considered. Obstacles at beginning their willingness adapt analyzed (COVID-19). One in two is found be partially af...

This research examines two groups of young Western entrepreneurs’ experiences leaving China during the Covid-19 pandemic, either due to business failure or being stuck abroad when closed its border international travelers. Based on semi-structured long-distance interviews with twenty white entrepreneurs who had previously worked in different Chinese cities, this article highlights impacts crisi...

Financial literacy refers to the skills and measures of objective knowledge individual expertise related management decisions personal finance. The complexity financial instruments development information technology are increasing. Many studies find that individuals, in general, have limitations a lack on basic principles. study aims test analyze influence literacy, technology, risk perception,...

We consider how government-owned enterprises affect privately owned rivals. Specifically, we compare the types of markets that municipally owned telecommunications providers in the United States serve to the types of markets that competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) serve. We find that CLECs focus on potential profitability while municipalities appear to respond to other factors, such as...

Examining American fitness entrepreneurs from the 1930s, this article examines efforts to reform young, and white, masculine identities through new bodybuilding systems. Centred on Mark Berry, Bob Hoffman Charles Atlas, three of decade’s most successful entrepreneurs, communities, methods discourses used attract customers create a highly specified form self-fashioning. In doing so, highlights c...