entrepreneurship is considered as an appropriate approach to accelerate economic development and provide employment opportunities. with this regard, entrepreneurial intention is the main determinant factor in deciding to be an entrepreneur. in order to obtain sufficient knowledge about entrepreneurship and its determinants, entrepreneurial intention of payame noor university students was studie...

Background Community pharmacy has been a lucrative area of practice for pharmacists in Jos, Nigeria, until about the turn of the millennium where a decline in viability of the business has been observed. Objective This study assessed the entrepreneurial skills of community pharmacists, the business performance of community pharmacies and the impact of their entrepreneurial skills on business ...

entrepreneurial passion has been shown to have important effect on starting and persistence of entrepreneurial behavior, however its causes has not yet been studied. this paper is aimed at investigating the effect of sq on three types of passion including passion for inventing, founding and developing with the mediating role of ideal entrepreneurial identity centrality. this descriptive survey ...

From the resource-based perspective, entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation are two separate but complementary strategic orientations that emphasize the business philosophy and behavior in proactively detecting industrial environment, including market information and competitors strategy, in order to innovate and respond to the customers needs timely. Empirical studies have separate...

ACADEMIC ABSTRACT A contingency based model shows that firm performance for technology services organizations (TSOs) is positively related with entrepreneurial autonomy and technology intensity; and negatively related with environmental hostility. Further, firm size is found to have a moderating effect on the relationship of TSO performance with entrepreneurial autonomy, technology intensity an...

In contrast to traditional strategic approaches that are based on complexity reduction, this paper aims to develop an alternative way of understanding entrepreneurial strategy and managing complexity from a processual perspective. The new perspective is developed from a processual perspective integrating insights from an understanding of complexity to engage with philosophical accounts of Chine...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of self-efficacy in the development of students' intentions to become entrepreneurs. The authors used structural equation modeling with a sample of 265 master of business administration students across 5 universities to test their hypotheses. The results showed that the effects of perceived learning from entrepreneurship-related co...

In spite of the application of high-tech approaches, tools, and methodologies, there is a common point in all of the organizations: human beings make most of the important decisions, and they operate and use systems. Experience shows that improper application of this human factor can cally most advanced systems. The lowest level of connection among systems is made through protocols; the highest...

The study assessed the entrepreneurial behaviour of smallholder cassava farmers in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was employed in the selection of 108 cassava farmers across the agricultural zones in Ebonyi state using pretested and structured questionnaire from which data and information were elicited. Analytically, the study employed entrepreneurial behavioural index (EB...