Crowdfunding, a new financing method for funding ideas or ventures through a large number of relatively small contributions from many individuals has witnessed the phenomenal development over the past decade. It involves bypassing traditional financial intermediaries and using online web-based platforms to connect users of funds with retail funders. This research first explores in greater detai...

Vol. LI (February 2014), 14–26 *Laura J. Kornish is Associate Professor of Marketing, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado (e-mail: [email protected]). Karl T. Ulrich is CIBC Professor of Entrepreneurship and e-Commerce, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (e-mail: ulrich@wharton. upenn.edu). The Mack Center for Technological Innovation at Wharton and the Deming ...

In order to explain the success of entrepreneurial firms, it is necessary to identify the conditions that generate new business opportunities. Emerging economies such as China are perceived as high risk environments due to fundamental institutional transformations. Yet, there’s no conclusive evidence how the contextual nature of emerging economies impact the conditions for entrepreneurial firms...

The experience of work in an entrepreneurial context is saturated with emotional experiences. While the literature on the relation between affect and entrepreneurial performance (EP) is growing, there was no quantitative integration of the results so far. This study addresses this gap and meta-analytically integrates the results from 17 studies (N = 3810) in order to estimate the effect size fo...

The article analyses the dynamics of technological catch-up through entrepreneurship in latecomer firms to emerging markets. With this aim, introduces Vietnam’s experience and illustrates result three case studies Vietnamese technology at different stages their evolution. Insights from cases reveal all follow an incremental innovation model based on business ‘soft’ innovations, mainly customer-...

Abstract Organizations are constantly looking for a new formula for success in business. Factors such as using technological plan and hire the most skilled workers have been announced as success factors in research and industry reports. The aim of this study is to investigate the influence of "knowledge management" on the "organizational entrepreneurship". The selected sample of this study has...

A major shift in the organization of developed economies has been taking place: away from what has been characterized as the managed economy towards the entrepreneurial economy, or what Kirchhoff (1994) has called dynamic capitalism. However, the factors underlying this observed shift have not been identified in a systematic manner. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the main factors leadi...

This paper examines an individual’s entrepreneurial adoption decisions to use mobile banking for both business and social reasons. A conceptual model based on social cognitive theory is developed to explain an individual’s propensity to adopt mobile banking. The theoretical framework examines how advertising, experience, perceived risk, learning inclination, and entrepreneurial proclivity influ...

Higher education plays a very important role in the development of entrepreneurship as one of the most important concepts in the present era. Higher education, through the transfer of applied knowledge, the creation of skills and abilities required in the field of entrepreneurship, cultural context and research development and support, introduces the concepts of entrepreneurship into the univer...