Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the emerging practice of social entrepreneurship by exploring the historical and theoretical antecedents of social enterprise and its contemporary practice. By exploring key theoretical concepts, the paper draws comparisons between “for-profit” and social entrepreneurs. The paper seeks to discuss the contemporary practice of social entrepreneurs...

An important challenge for the future is focusing on sustainability in life and business. The three elements of (economic, environmental, social), defined 17 factors by United Nations (UN) as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), may, therefore, be main drivers business competitiveness opportunity recognition. aim article to identify awareness level sustainable development goals context areas a...

This research aimed to examine the role of knowledge management practices in sustainable entrepreneurship performance. study also investigated relationships between six concepts: sharing behavior, innovative capacity, absorptive dynamic capability, opportunity recognition, and entrepreneurship. A self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection from 486 entrepreneurs randomly select...

Opportunity identification is emerging as an important content area in entrepreneurship education. We propose that opportunity identification is a competency that can be developed as are other unique competencies and that the entrepreneurship classroom is an appropriate venue for developing the skills necessary to improve the ability to identify opportunities. Using a variation of a Solomon Fou...

In seeking to better understand strategic entrepreneurship in the 21 st Century, this paper develops an agent-based simulation model that allows researchers to study different opportunity recognition strategies in a globalized knowledge economy. The simulation takes account of international knowledge spillovers and shows the comparative payoffs of each entrepreneurial strategy, with distinctive...

The present analysis examines the initiation of necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship ventures in Canada from late 1980s until more recent times, to determine how these activities relate with business cycle. definitions mirror those Fairlie Fossen (2018). Unlike previous results for other countries, I find that Canada, both appear be procyclical, new increasing as unemployment declines. Th...

Objectives and Prior Work The relationship between self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intentions, opportunity recognition and career persistence is well established in the entrepreneurship literature. In addition to being a predictor of entrepreneurial behaviour, an individual's level of entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) has repeatedly been shown to have a lasting legacy on venture growth and ...

We continue the conversation in SO! about possible beneficial relationships between the fields of entrepreneurship and strategic organization, consistent with SO!’s ambition of reducing the distances currently separating fields that share research phenomena (Baum et al., 2003). We do so with a focus on how entrepreneurship (ENT) – as a field with a central focus on dynamic, complex, disequilibr...