The most effective way to synthesise the insights of transactions cost-based and resource-based theories of the firm is to build the theory of the firm around the personality of the entrepreneur. The theory of entrepreneurship has a long tradition, going back to Cantillon and Say, but its contribution to the theory of the firm is often ignored. An entrepreneur is someone who specialises in iden...

The growing popularity of the Internet, accompanied by falling access costs, is provoking an increase in the number of users and buyers on the net, and the appearance of new organisations that commercialise their products and services exclusively on the net. At present, this type of firms, known as dot.coms or cyber-traders, is playing an increasingly significant role on the internet, although ...

in iran, entrepreneurship is a new phenomena and the research in this subject especially on women entrepreneurship is very limited. in spite of the fact that most of the iranian women cooperate in economic, social aspects and especially in higher education, the society is not rewarding their contribution and efforts in economic affairs. in this national and broad research, all the factors effec...

Who Values the Status of the Entrepreneur? Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes people’s occupational preferences and thus their choice behavior. The current study focuses on the determinants and consequences of the group status of a profession, entrepreneurship in particular. If the group status of entrepreneursh...

The aim of this article is to evaluate the importance of innovation for entrepreneurship environment in the context of current economic conditions. Throughout the last century, industry leaders learnt to master the production process to such an extent that now it no longer functions as a significant competitive advantage. Every entrepreneur is now facing a harsh and highly competitive business ...

Many people envy entrepreneurs and want to emulate them as a road to wealth, fame, and freedom. A large number of works have argued about what makes a person act entrepreneurially, and various traits and characteristics of entrepreneurs have been enthusiastically discussed. This study focuses on one particular point: how to facilitate a person’s efforts to become a small firm entrepreneur throu...

The present study aimed to explore and explain maturity of employee based on quality of work life. This work used Delphi survey through a researcher- made questionnaire to collect data. Confirmatory factor analysis and descriptive statistic are used to survey the data. In comparison with the present standards, both factors have a good statue. For components 'quality of working life' and ' matur...