entrepreneurship, as a general concept, has a history since time immemorial. however, theoretically this concept has recently been explored as an academic disipline whereby various research programs have been conducted on the positioning of entrepreneurship education and effectiveness of the study materials. so far some models have been presented by researchers, but far from reaching a global c...

entrepreneurship in the world, especially in western developed countries, the much interest in recent years the concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems and integrating the separation of infrastructure services needed by entrepreneurs and governments innovative citizens, industrialists and entrepreneurs to create. a person apart from the idea of an entrepreneur, long way to run and deliver it to t...

The main purpose of this descriptive-correlative study was to design the structural equation model of agricultural entrepreneurship development in villages of Kamfiruz district, Marvdasht County in Iran. The population of the study consisted of all 3106 families of 20 villages. According to the Bartlett et al. table, a sample of 197 households was selected using stratified random sampling techn...

Philanthropic and humanitarian organizations are increasingly turning to business models to achieve their social objectives. ‘‘Market-based approaches,’’ says the Acumen Fund, ‘‘have the potential to grow after charitable dollars run out, and they must be a part of the solution to the big problem of poverty.’’ Virginiabased Ashoka seeks to achieve social objectives by investing in individual en...

This paper contributes to a recent movement to reframe entrepreneurship theory into a more critical and reflexive mode. It builds on the processual notion of entrepreneuring-asemancipation to theorise a balanced conception of agency and constraint rooted in the notion of power rituals. We develop a micro-sociological analysis of power rituals that conceives power reproduction and entrenchment a...

We study how the trade-off between being an entrepreneur and investing in the financial markets is affected by cognitive ability and social skills. We test these hypotheses using a unique dataset that has available information on individual characteristics and choices for a representative sample of the Swedish population over 1966-2006. We show that social skills – i.e., willingness to assume r...

We compare the success of startup entrepreneurs and innovators with their social networking behaviour. In particular, we analyse the LinkedIn, Facebook, and e-mail networks of swissnex Boston, Switzerland’s science and technology outpost in Boston, connecting Swiss and US entrepreneurs and academics. In our analysis, we focus on the participants of two Swiss entrepreneurship-coaching programmes...