in the beginning of 1980s named as entrepreneurship decade, a large number of entrepreneurship researchers attempted to determine certain characteristics that distinguished entrepreneurs from non-entrepreneurs by identifying certain characteristics inherent in potential entrepreneurs in order to predict entrepreneurial behavior. among the characteristics identified, little empirical research ha...

A mediation model of the cognitions and behaviors that successful nascent entrepreneurs (vs. quitters) use to start “promising” companies was derived from psychological theories about the causality among situation (environment), person (cognition), and behavior. Entrepreneurship, leadership and social cognition research concepts that offer successful responses to uncertain resource-poor dynamic...

Women entrepreneurship research in the developing world relies on theoretical perspectives derived elsewhere. Hence, understanding original business-development approaches adopted by women entrepreneurs economies remains elusive. Accordingly, we collected and analyzed rich data generated through 31 in-depth interviews artifacts of Nigerian garment manufacturing business. Our analysis revealed d...

E-government is a popular topic in the political agenda, but often the e-services have been made more from the government point of view and are technology driven. Thematic developments which would take into account the special needs of entrepreneurs and would therefore help to reduce their administrative burdens are missing. The current analyses used customer-oriented approach to understand wha...

in value creation process via finding and exploiting opportunities, entrepreneurs have to create and use social networks to gain access to resources and information and benefit from their social capital. the entrepreneurs’ activities, contacts and performance can influence the social capital of a society. this research reviews the previous research regarding the effect of sex segregation on soc...

BACKGROUND Swaziland has the highest HIV prevalence in the world - 32% of adults are currently living with HIV - and many Swazis are chronically food insecure - in 2011 one in four Swazis required food aid from the World Food Programme. In southern Africa, food insecurity has been linked to high-risk sexual behaviors, difficulty with antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence, higher rates of mothe...