Purpose – This purpose of the paper to examine the interplay of constraints and opportunities affecting female entrepreneurship in developing countries. The paper integrates salient microand macro-level perspectives and provides a rounded account of opportunities and constraints as part of a holistic interdependent system. Design/methodology/approach – The paper adopts an integrative multi-leve...

Scientists and engineers in small firms are far more likely than their large firm counterparts to enter entrepreneurship, a phenomenon we label the small firm effect. We explore the origins of this small firm effect, identify four classes of explanations—preference sorting, ability sorting, opportunity cost, and the possibility that workers in small firms develop entrepreneurial human capital—a...

Engineering is a meticulous and methodical neat freak, frowning on anything short of success. To Engineering, failure is not an option. Engineering was not always like that, but the decade long relationship with Quality Improvement left him in knots. Entrepreneurship is a compulsive gambler who thrives on trying new and untested things. To Entrepreneurship, failure is mark of progress. Engineer...

Entrepreneurship is considered as a key factor on the growth and development of economy are at the center of international competition in which comparative sharp edge of them take account the organizational flexibility and continuous changing strategy at the process, product and design. During few past years, governments are encouraged seriously entrepreneurship, because entrepreneurship lead t...

This research has two main objectives. Firstly, this research contributes to defining the concept of export entrepreneurship from a theoretical point of view, and this is a contribution taking into account the scarce and fragmented literature published about this topic. Furthermore, the authors explain export entrepreneurship dimensions – speed, degree, and scope. Thirdly, we empirically analyz...

We draw on the construct of a country institutional profile to identify normative, cognitive, and regulatory institutional structures that may influence a country’s entrepreneurial activity. Results show that these three dimensions of the institutional profile, as well as economic factors such as per capita GDP, play distinct roles in promoting entrepreneurial activity in a country. Normative i...

This paper argues that it is crucially important to differentiate between two very distinct sets of entrepreneurs: subsistence and transformational entrepreneurs. Recent evidence suggests that people engaging in these two types of entrepreneurship are not only very distinct in nature, but that only a negligible fraction of them transition from subsistence to transformational entrepreneurship. T...

This is a theoretical paper in which we attempt to present an economic and sociological theory of entrepreneurship. We start from Schumpeter’s idea in Theory of Economic Development that the economy can be conceptualized as a combination and innovations as new combinations. Schumpeter also spoke of resistance to entrepreneurship. By linking the ideas of combination and resistance, we are in a p...

There is ongoing debate and some confusion about definitions and the use of the terms ‘entrepreneur’ and ‘entrepreneurship’ both in academia and in the media. The authors argue that this is likely to be a result of latent historical meanings for the terms, which have subsequently been debunked by academia, prevailing in public perceptions. Measurements of business start-up rates, self employmen...

This study confirms that the level of entrepreneurship in a given country has a significant positive effect on the level of economic growth in that country. Contrary to some established theories, this study has found evidence that the level of entrepreneurship in a given country is not explained by the levels of the traditional causes of economic growth in that country (specifically the amounts...