This paper explores the morality associated with entrepreneurship. It has been argued that there is no moral space in entrepreneurship, but such instrumental views may the miss out much of the nature of enterprise and how it is understood. Consequently we propose that a social constructed perspective, based upon the meanings of entrepreneurship, may help to understand the morality of entreprene...

This paper, based on the results of a multi-country study, emphasises on the development and growth of a culture specific and customized entrepreneurship education within universities so as to make them powerful engines of economic development. Taking the example of the University of the South Pacific (covering 12 Pacific Island Countries having different languages and diverse cultures), a few ...

The topic of entrepreneurship, i.e. the process surrounding the identification and exploitation of opportunities by an individual, has received a great amount of interest from scholars throughout the last decades. Theoretical lenses from disciplines as varied as psychology, economics, strategy and sociology have been successfully employed in entrepreneurship research, greatly increasing our und...

Despite mounting interest in entrepreneurship education (EE), innovative approaches such as multimedia, web-based toolkits including entrepreneurial storytelling have been largely ignored in the EE discipline. Therefore, this conceptual contribution introduces eight propositions as a fruitful basis for assessing a 'learning-through-real-multimedia-entrepreneurial-narratives' pedagogical approac...

This paper presents new results obtained from investigating the data from a 2015 Vietnamese entrepreneurs' survey, containing 3071 observations. Evidence from the estimations using multinomial logits was found to support relationships between several sociocultural factors and entrepreneurship-related performance or traits. Specifically, those relationships include: (a) Active participation in e...

Li, Lixing, and Wu, Xiaoyu—Housing price and entrepreneurship in China Housing price has increased dramatically in China during the past decade. The appreciation of house value could relax credit constraint and thus encourage entrepreneurship. However, a house serves as both an important investment channel and a prerequisite for marriage in China. The continuous high return of investment in hou...

This paper is a reflection of the author’s views on recent research developments at the interface of entrepreneurship and regional economic development and growth. The paper begins with an overview of the recent rise of interest in entrepreneurship in general and, in particular, with respect to its influence on regional economic growth and development. Following an introduction the formation an...

ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS PETER G. KLEIN, JOSEPH T. MAHONEY*, ANITA M. MCGAHAN, and CHRISTOS N. PITELIS Division of Applied Social Sciences, and Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A. Department of Business Administration, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. Rotman School of Mana...