This paper asks how we can predict entrepreneurship, an individual’s participation in the founding of a new organization. We advance a model that combines aspects of two distinct perspectives on entrepreneurship: the social structural view that sees context as the driving force in new venture formation, and the perspective that each founding is an idiosyncratic event attributable to the charism...

The main purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding, within the field of corporate entrepreneurship, of the various factors that enable technology entrepreneurship in established firms and its principal effects on customers and society. The paper reports on a case study regarding technology entrepreneurship in a Spanish company whose activity is pharmaceutical distribution. This compa...

This paper highlights three aspects in order to assist understanding of ethical entrepreneurship. First, it points out that ethical considerations enter at the individual and macro level of society, to impact on the running of business. Second, ethical imperatives are examined within a constrained entrepreneurship framework. Operating ethically presents opportunity albeit within constraint. Thi...

We continue the conversation in SO! about possible beneficial relationships between the fields of entrepreneurship and strategic organization, consistent with SO!’s ambition of reducing the distances currently separating fields that share research phenomena (Baum et al., 2003). We do so with a focus on how entrepreneurship (ENT) – as a field with a central focus on dynamic, complex, disequilibr...

a r t i c l e i n f o The scientific study of youth entrepreneurship is truly in its infancy, with research on the development of entre-preneurship constrained by theoretical foundations that rely on static, trait-like approaches that equate entrepre-neurship with stable personality characteristics. In this article, we define entrepreneurship as a fluid process that relies on the bidirectional ...

Due to worldwide social, political, and economic change (Silbereisen & Chen, 2010), entrepreneurship has become a key topic of our time (Hisrich, LanganFox, & Grant, 2007). We understand entrepreneurship as starting and growing one’s own business (or, more broadly, as the identification, evaluation, and exploitation of opportunities, Shane, 2012). Globalization, post-industrial society, rapid t...

Community-based enterprises have been implemented in a wide range of circumstances in the US and around the world. Community-based enterprises relate to a variety of areas including social entrepreneurship, economic development, empowerment zones, grass roots enterprises, and collective entrepreneurship. Varied initiatives can be found in Indian nations in the U. founding. The current paper dev...

This chapter examines the phenomenon of diaspora entrepreneurs and the degree to which they have internationalised their businesses. This is achieved through a tri-component conceptual framework of individual, firm, and environmental factors. Through a case study methodology, it was revealed that analysis on the micro, meso, and mega levels is better suited for in-depth understanding of the phe...