this research aims to design the portfolio entrepreneurship model and to analyze the effect of social capital, prior experience and knowledge, the entrepreneur’s financial resources, as well as human capital on portfolio entrepreneurship and also to investigate the effect of portfolio entrepreneurship on recognition of new opportunities, as well as business growth and development. the research ...

Acknowledgments First and foremost, I would like to thank Rob Reich for his unconditional support as my advisor for the past year and a half. His insightful thoughts and constructive criticism have challenged me to develop my arguments more fully and with his recent and well-deserved tenure, I'm sure that he will continue to have a positive and meaningful influence in many students' lives as he...

Our research begins with a theoretical critique of the social capital literature, and then focuses on Old Harbor, Alaska. In this remote outpost, mainly populated by Alutiiq people, all entrepreneurs self-identified as Euro-Americans or multi-ethnic, not Alutiiq. Although Alutiiq people have abundant social capital, which they employed for economic purposes, they did not employ their social cap...

This paper analyzes the evolution of African American entrepreneurship by comparing the patterns of development of African American entrepreneurship and immigrant entrepreneurship. Whereas most literature focuses on African American culture as the reason for limited entrepreneurial success compared to certain immigrant groups, this paper examines how social, economic, and political forces have ...

the aim of this study was to analyze the components of social capital among agricultural students with emphasis on entrepreneurship. this survey was descriptive and correlational study. statistical population consisted of agricultural students in tarbiat modares university (n=468) which 181 student was selected as samples by bartlett table. samples were studied via using simple random sampling ...

knowledge-based firms play a critical role in economics of developing countries. innovation and entrepreneurship are two important factors for sustainable development of these firms. corporate entrepreneurship and recognizing factors impacting them have become important in recent years. the purpose of this paper is to examine the relations between corporate entrepreneurship, market orientation ...

In the context of the Rio Earth Summit numerous international regimes, national policies and organizational guidelines have appeared that help translate the normative demands of sustainable development into political reality. The implementation of these instruments, however, often runs into difficulties or fails entirely. An example is the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), a progressive appro...

organizational entrepreneurship is the total efforts which directly or indirectly affects the performance of an organization. in municipalities, because of financial independent conditions, organizational entrepreneurship has a high value in order to increase the quality of urban services. based on the main need of the municipalities to organizational entrepreneurship, this study aims to explor...