while promoting rural economic enterprises and businesses can contribute to create and strengthen entrepreneurship, this as a crucial strategy will accelerate rural development process. through extending these businesses and strengthening entrepreneurship among rural people proper solutions can be found to combine resources both inside and outside the village. it can also assist to provide both...

an explanatory survey was carried out in 2008 to investigate the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (eo), environmental factors, human capital and organizational characteristics vs. entrepreneurial performance among entrepreneurial firms in iranian agricultural sector. data were obtained from a sample of 120 iranian agricultural establishments, using an interview-oriented question...

Background Psychological climate has been shown to be significantly linked to performance in large service businesses; however, no corresponding research has been conducted in small businesses. Purpose – The purpose of the current study is to identify the dimensions relevant to psychological climate in small service businesses and to develop the first psychological climate instrument tailored t...

This study on German utilities' business models for renewable energies provides new insights into the thinking of Germany's leading utilities about future business models. Two generic business models are derived from the literature and are subsequently analyzed based on a series of in-depth interviews. A core result is that utilities clearly favor large scale projects over small scale projects ...