The role of personality traits in the decision to start a business and to maintain it successfully is discussed controversially in entrepreneurship research. Our meta-analyses builds upon and extends earlier meta-analyses by doing a full analysis of personality traits that includes a comparison of different traits from a theoretical perspective and by analyzing a full set of personality predict...

The role of personality traits in the decision to start a business and to maintain it successfully is discussed controversially in entrepreneurship research. Our meta-analysis builds upon and extends earlier meta-analyses by doing a full analysis of personality traits that includes a comparison of different traits from a theoretical perspective and by analysing a full set of personality predict...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to develop and preliminarily evaluate the reliability and validity of the Symptom-Management Self-Efficacy Scale-Breast Cancer (SMSES-BC) related to chemotherapy. METHODS The study included three stages. This paper presents the results of stage 2 and stage 3. In total, 34 items in the SMSES-BC were found during stage 1 from qualitative findings, a literat...

In developing countries, Short Messaging Service (SMS) is one of the most widely used and cheapest modes of communication. Hence, this medium is often exploited by advertising companies to reach masses. The unsolicited (spam) SMSes consume user attention and have become a reason of annoyance for most of the mobile phone users, as not many of them use the information from these SMSes. We conduct...

This study addresses the resources and performance of start-ups in a rapidly changing market. Using data from Taiwanese high-tech firms, this investigation demonstrated that dynamic capabilities were significantly helping to leverage entrepreneurial resources to benefit start-up performance, and moreover demonstrated that dynamic capabilities mediated between entrepreneurial resources and perfo...

Entrepreneurship is a crucial approach to country's economic development. Instilling Entrepreneurial personality, skills should begin in educational institutions. qualities must be systematically developed among students attain the desired results. Many research demonstrated that present education system has failed miserably developing entrepreneurial students. Some institutions offer explicit ...

Based on previous studies a model was formulated of the determinants of the use of eMarketplaces by nascent entrepreneurs for the purpose of business start-up. Factors concerned with self-efficacy, personality traits, internet usage habits, facilitating conditions, and behavioural intention were included and the model was tested and developed using data collected by questionnaire from 379 nasce...

unemployment among rural youth and agriculture graduates has increased in recent years and has caused a variety of challenges in social and economic fields and having the entrepreneurial spirit could facilitate the solving problem process. therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify factors affecting the development the farmer's entrepreneurial spirit. statistical population of thi...

a r t i c l e i n f o The scientific study of youth entrepreneurship is truly in its infancy, with research on the development of entre-preneurship constrained by theoretical foundations that rely on static, trait-like approaches that equate entrepre-neurship with stable personality characteristics. In this article, we define entrepreneurship as a fluid process that relies on the bidirectional ...