Indigenous entrepreneurship is an emerging field of study within the broader field of entrepreneurship. While it is acknowledged that indigenous entrepreneurial activity comes from a particular cultural context, what is not so well understood is how it emerges and how historical context and cultural heritage inform the activity (Peredo & Anderson et al 2006). This was addressed briefly within E...

despite wide-range of studies in the theories of the entrepreneurship field, few studies have offered a pervasive conceptual model or a general consensus of the existing theories. hence, this paper attempts to extend a comprehensive principle on entrepreneurship. in general, there are two common interpretations of the term ‘entrepreneurship’. one of the common views is schumpeterian, emphasizin...

A stylized fact of economic development is the structural transformation of countries from traditional, mainly agricultural societies to modern economies dominated by manufacturing and services. In this paper we provide an endogenous growth model to illuminate the role of entrepreneurial start-up firms in structural economic transformation. We follow the Lewis-model’s distinction between a trad...

This paper draws on a single longitudinal case study of Trend Micro, a leading anti-virus company, to examine its entrepreneurial, value-creating trajectory. Applying and extending an entrepreneurship perspective, the paper manifests positive effect, rather than negative effect, of environmental jolt on entrepreneurial actions including opportunity identification and opportunity exploitation. W...

why, when and how are some people more capable of recognizing opportunities while others lack such ability? this is a key question to pose in the field of entrepreneurship and opportunity recognition. the answer to this question can open up a new window before researchers. the aim of this research is to examine the factors that are effective in determining opportunities among entrepreneurs. to ...

The problem that this chapter tries to solve, is to find the relation between entrepreneurship, university research, and economic growth. The contribution of the present analysis is that, we aim to underline a) the role of university entrepreneurship in economic growth, b) to identify the reasons why this role is underdeveloped in the European South compared to the European North and c) to sugg...

This paper focuses on differences in male and female early-stage entrepreneurship in Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia. The analysis was performed on two levels: cross-country analysis and inter-country analysis. The paper focuses on three main characteristics of early-stage entrepreneurial activity among adults: entrepre-neurial capacity, analysed through entrepreneurial awareness and risk aversio...

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...

Entrepreneurship is an important economic process in both developed and developing worlds. Nonetheless, many of its concepts appear to be difficult to 'operationalize' due to lack of empirical data; and this is particularly true with emerging economy. The data set described in this paper is available in Mendeley Data׳s "Vietnamese entrepreneurs' decisiveness and perceptions of the likelihood of...