Bai, W. 2017. The Best of Both Worlds. The Effects of Knowledge and Network Relationships on Performance of Returnee Entrepreneurial Firms. Doctoral thesis / Företagsekonomiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet 184. 105 pp. Uppsala: Företagsekonomiska institutionen. ISBN 978-91-506-2616-2. In an increasingly globalized business world, international human mobility and its association with entre...

Entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) is often included in entrepreneurial intentions models to explain why some individuals are more likely than others to become entrepreneurs. An unsettled question among researchers is whether ESE differs between men and women. While early studies seem to suggest that men have higher ESE than women, more recent studies are inconclusive. Lacking empirical suppor...

The current analysis introduces human capital investments which – as all other investment projects – must be carried out given ex-ante uncertain returns. This return uncertainty reflects that particular ex-post ability realizations may or may not induce the possibility to engage in profitable entrepreneurial activity. Managed firms which recruit randomly while offering a certain wage-income can...

Objective: Purpose of this study was to determining the share of self-efficacy, achievement motivation and self-esteem in predicting entrepreneurial behavior in physically disabled females. Method: The design of the present study was a predictive correlation. The sample consisted of 80 female members of Disabled Community in Isfahan City who had 18-36 years old and participated in questionnaire...

We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Researchers have stressed the role of new firm activity and economic dynamism on growth. Yet, the empirical effects of international capital mobility on entrepreneurial activity have received little attention in the literature albeit the ambiguous theoretical predictions a...

Entrepreneurial networking has been a relatively under-researched area in the field of entrepreneurship. The apparent avoidance of this topic by researchers could be attributed to a multitude of speculative reasons, such as the multi-disciplinary nature of the topic; uncertainty with regard t o the nature and operation of entrepreneurial networking; disagreement among scholars on critical succe...

Research universities continually struggle with issues related to commercialization of faculty research. Increasingly, they must hire and support faculty conducting cutting-edge science, but also facilitate commercialization of their research. Many universities provide resources to faculty through venture labs and/or entrepreneurial sabbaticals. The topic has been front and center for decades, ...

Purpose – In 2008, the world had undergone a global economic crisis. Since women always face greater difficulties in obtaining capital than men, the economic crisis had a greater effect on them. The purpose of this paper is to examine the implications of the global crisis for women’s entrepreneurship, from the perspective of equality, diversity and inclusion. Design/methodology/approach – The p...

Using internal data of a leasing company in Germany, we examine the determinants of the probability and use of leasing by small firms. We find that small and young firms are likely to be constrained on the leasing market but use leasing to increase their debt capacity. Beyond contractand firm-specific characteristics, demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the entrepreneur matter. Ol...