In recent years the topic of entrepreneurship has become a major focus in the social sciences, with renewed interest in the links between personality and entrepreneurship. Taking a socioecological perspective to psychology, which emphasizes the role of social habitats and their interactions with mind and behavior, we investigated regional variation in and correlates of an entrepreneurship-prone...

This paper tests a model in which entrepreneurship-specific human capital accumulation through learning-by-doing is the key factor behind entrepreneurial dynamics. I derive testable predictions of the theory that allow it to be distinguished from alternatives. I then exploit the 1997-98 Indonesian financial crisis as a natural experiment that provides exogenous variation in entry into self-empl...

This study, based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), assesses the impact of entrepreneurship education programs (EEPs) on entrepreneurial intentions of 205 students following entrepreneurship courses at six Iranian universities. Data were collected by a questionnaire before and after completing EEPs. Result indicated that EEPs significantly influence perceived behavioral control and subj...

A growing number of studies on entrepreneurial motivation, intentions, and behavior include entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) as an explanatory variable. While there is broad consensus among researchers on the importance of including ESE in an intentionality model, there remain inconsistencies in the definition, dimensionality, and measurement of ESE. This study takes an important step toward...

This paper presents a qualitative study of high-technology entrepreneurial networks conducted in Beijing, China. In pursuing the question of what kind of entrepreneurial networks is especially conducive to performance in the context of emerging economies, we have developed a new construct called network extensibility, grounded in qualitative evidence collected from field research. Extensibility...

A career in health education or health promotion (HE/HP) can be developed in many ways. In past editions of this department, career development has been discussed in relation to distance (Balonna, 2001), consulting (Bookbinder, 2001), certifications (Hayden, 2005), graduate school (Cottrell & Hayden, 2007), and many other topics. This article looks at a less traditional means of career developm...

Should responsibility for strategic planning and execution be assigned to the same manager? Should a firm have a chief operating officer with responsibilities distinct from those of the chief executive officer? How does the division of labor affect managerial opportunism? This paper uses a formal agency-theoretic model to address these questions and present a new theory of the division of manag...

Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) can generate substantial gains and losses, exhausting firm resources straining a firm’s ability to sustain its activities. We develop test resource exhaustion theory of failure, conceptualizing conditions under which EO increases the risk failure by generating unsustainable amounts entrepreneurial entropy. Using panel data on 804 large U.S. high-technology firms...

A pressing question in entrepreneurial research is where opportunities come from. Prior research indicates that some opportunities stem from known parameters and outcomes; some are discovered through engagement with unknown but knowable factors; and others are unknowable until brought into being through a creative process. This paper explores the second and more prevailing view in entrepreneuri...

This paper studies radical innovation and its internal managerial control modes from the perspective of entrepreneurial orientation; then proposes a conceptual model and theory hypotheses. On analyzing the effective sample data from 682 enterprises of different industries across 10 provinces and cities in China, we have confirmed the theoretical model. The results indicate that entrepreneurial ...