organization’s obligation for responding to demand changes and creating strategic opportunity, drives focus toward entrepreneurship, so that scholars’ attention turns toward influential factors on entrepreneurship more and more. the objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of human resource flexibility on entrepreneurship at research institute of petroleum industry (ripi). research ...

Entrepreneurship often involves independent firms that compete with one another. In this article, we discuss an alternate entrepreneurship strategy, one involving symbiosis – an approach that allows entrepreneurs and their firms to benefit from a multi-polar distribution of power and control. We believe that this is especially helpful in the process of internationalisation. Rather than focusing...

The OTOP Entrepreneurship that used to create substantial source of income for local Thai communities are now in a stage of exigent matters that required assistances from public sectors due to over Entrepreneurship of duplicative ideas, unable to adjust costs and prices, lack of innovation, and inadequate of quality control. Moreover, there is a repetitive problem of middlemen who constantly co...

Social entrepreneurship—the process of employing market-based methods to solve social problems—continues to grow in popularity but remains poorly understood. Researchers have justifiably expressed a growing desire to leave behind definitional debates regarding social entrepreneurship and instead focus on its antecedents and consequences. Arend’s (2013) response to our article (Miller, Grimes, M...

The challenge of the current study is to introduce entrepreneurship into Microeconomics theory for greater extendability and realism yet capture its unique aspects in a manageable analytical model. The model starts with a perfectly competitive market and then adds a subset of agents with unique skills, capabilities, startup savings, and risk preferences, called entrepreneurs. These profit-seeki...

Todd is a PhD Student in Engineering Education at Purdue University who's research is focused on en-trepreneurship education and entrepreneurship education as a component of modern engineering education efforts. He is a CAPES grantee and also professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Technology at the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia. He is a mechanical...

Entrepreneurship capital refers to the factors of a region that drives new businesses (Audretsch and Keilbach, 2004). This study considers industry growth and performance in manufacturing, retail and service as components of entrepreneurship capital to drive the long-term growth of new establishments. Using a panel data of 2,940 counties from 2002–2007, our results support the notion that the o...

A growing number of studies have examined the relationship between corporate governance and corporate entrepreneurship, with most finding that corporate governance has a significant influence (Zahra, 1996, Zahra et al., 2000b). However, the question of which ownership structure and governance mechanism most significantly drives corporate entrepreneurship in transitioning economies is still unde...

Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that matters for economic growth. Using panel data on 60 countries spanning the period 2003-07 this paper establishes that (i) opportunitymotivated entrepreneurship (as opposed to necessity-motivated entrepreneurship) drives economic growth; (ii) governance and the start-up costs are ...

identifying the factors affecting entrepreneurship has always been one of the concerns of scientists. the emphasis has been changed from external and hard factors to internal and hard drives. accordingly, the present paper will investigate the effect of social capital on organizational entrepreneurship with the moderating role of job motivation. this paper, from objective point of view and type...