Although organizational contexts have an influence on leadership, and some of their characteristics may facilitate (through weak structures) or inhibit (through strong structures) the leaders' behaviors, the extent of their influence has rarely been studied. Indeed, research of the influence of some types of contexts (entrepreneurial vs. non-entrepreneurial) on the emergence of certain variable...

As radical innovations facilitate communication, create new industries and make others obsolete, the established ways of organising society are being questioned. Over the last few decades, a theoretical framework and a worldview labelled the entrepreneurial society, has emerged. The entrepreneurial society is based on theoretical models, empirical observations and a belief in the importance of ...

The policy shift of United Arab Emirates (UAE) from dependence on oil resources to other sources for the growth of its economy is opening opportunities for Entrepreneurship as a career. In this context, it is important to understand the factors that would facilitate the process of entrepreneurial value creation. The process model of entrepreneurship is used as the basis to understand the variou...

This research examines the affect of overconfidence on the entrepreneurial investment choices of individuals. We argue that individual overconfidence is associated with more aggressive entrepreneurial investment decisions. We show that the propensity of an individual to begin startup activities is positively associated with the individual's level of overconfidence. Furthermore, overconfidence i...

This paper is part of a broader program that is opening up a new area of research, namely: institutional preparedness for entrepreneurial economic development. In particular , it examines the preparedness of industry associations for economic development. The membership of these associations is predominantly made up of entrepre-neurial firms that are trading globally (Obrecht 2000: p. 185). Thi...

Growth has been described as the essence of entrepreneurship. Organizational ecologists theorize an inevitable progression from growth through maturity, revival, and eventually decline. During the organizational life cycle entrepreneurs choose between growth, stability, or retrenchment strategies to overcome deteriorating trends in performance. Using survey data, this study tests a contingency ...

— Many policy-makers believe that strong university–industry relationships and hightechnology clusters are the keys to development. The Korean experience suggests that the most important contribution of universities to economic development was not through the transfer of research results, rather it was indirect and through the preparation of high-quality graduates. Korean universities and resea...

This study extends research on entrepreneurial behavior by investigating the relationship between the marketing strategy innovativeness (MSI) and new product performance in technology-based new ventures in China. Specifically, premised on contingent resource-based view we argue that MSI is a firm capability that must be bundled with external managerial relationships and be deployed in the appro...