Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment? This paper undertakes an analysis of the motivating factors cited by the self-employed in the UK as reasons for choosing self-employment. Very limited previous research has addressed the question of why individuals report that they have chosen self-employment. Two questions are addressed using large scale labour force survey data for the UK. The first ...

This study aims to elaborate on the entrepreneurship development in China and the role of China’s economic transition in Chinese entrepreneurial activities. We address China’s institutional transition environment, which is argued as the necessary condition of entrepreneurship development and the ‘incubator’ of three generations of entrepreneurial activities. We make use of a panel dataset from ...

in recent years, entrepreneurship in it industry has been viewed as a prime factor of economic development. since opportunity recognition is a critical step in entrepreneurship, identification of effectual factors in opportunity recognition is of great significance. the main objective of this study is to examine the effects of individual and social factors in opportunity recognition in it indus...

Complexity science is used to describe innovation and entrepreneurship. Context is addressed by positioning entrepreneurship at the nexus of two categories of constraints: The rate that resources can be appropriated creates tension to organize to exploit opportunities, and the rate that information becomes available challenges organizing efforts in an evolving, specialized, and distributed envi...

This study, based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), assesses the impact of entrepreneurship education programs (EEPs) on entrepreneurial intentions of 205 students following entrepreneurship courses at six Iranian universities. Data were collected by a questionnaire before and after completing EEPs. Result indicated that EEPs significantly influence perceived behavioral control and subj...

The literature on national systems of innovation (NIS) has neglected the issue of entrepreneurship because of several incompatibilities between the two notions. The Schumpeterian legacy, the current person-centric view of entrepreneurship, and methodological problems related to treating entrepreneurship at the macrolevel, have made it difficult to integrate entrepreneurship into the NIS perspec...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate the factors causing the rural underdevelopment in iran. to fulfill this objective, delphi technique, as a method of refining group opinions and substituting computed consensus for an agreed-upon majority opinion, was used. the study used a series of three steps questionnaires. findings indicated that lack of a coherent strategy for sustainable r...

To most, opportunity recognition and exploitation are the key activities of entrepreneurship. In their 1989 paper on the subject the authors identified a factor structure useful in explaining the process. The present work compares the 1998 results with the 1989 results. Evidence is provided that there is a stable temporal model of opportunity recognition and exploitation.