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Book Review: Paul D. Reynolds, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: The Global Scope of Business Creation Elgar Impact of Entrepreneurship Research Series The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Satyanarayan Rath
Paul D. Reynolds, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: The Global Scope of Business Creation Elgar Impact of Entrepreneurship Research Series (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022), 272 pp.
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The Two Sides of Crowdfunding Success: Attributes and Motivations of Backers and Entrepreneurs—Evidence from Israel The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Dana Nayer, Mosi Rosenboim, Miki Malul
Using two studies of the same leading Israeli crowdfunding platform—‘Headstart’—various aspects of the fundraising method discussed in this article were explored. The first study identifies the factors that impact the amount of investment in crowdfunding projects. Using data from 517 backers who invested in ‘Headstart’ projects, direct correlations were established between the age of the backers, the
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Students’ Sustainable Entrepreneurship Intentions: The Role of Sustainable Values and Culture The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Daniela Gimenez-Jimenez, Martina Harc
Sustainable values have been enforced in societies, given individuals’ awareness of the societal challenges faced by current and future generations. Building upon the theory of planned behaviour and the value literature, this article examines whether and how sustainable values, specifically pro-environmental and solidarity values, influence sustainable entrepreneurial intentions in two different cultural
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Uncovering Determinants of Entrepreneurial Behaviour in a Transitioning Economy: A Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Rebean Al-Silefanee, Niels Bosma
The purpose of this research article is to explore the determinants of entrepreneurial behaviour among university students in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The study uses a novel approach of fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to depart from traditional assumptions that causal mechanisms apply equally to all individuals within a group. The study examines how shared characteristics may
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Differently Abled Entrepreneurs: A Systematic Literature Review on Fifty Years of Research—Exploring Thoughts and Debate with Reference to Entrepreneurship The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Simran Sodhi, Amit K Dwivedi
Entrepreneurship in disadvantaged sections of society has always been in focus. Researchers have explored the entrepreneurship development phenomenon in various disadvantaged groups, namely tribal, rural, native, women, differently abled and other backward sections of society. There is an emergent stream of literature that explores the phenomenon among people with disabilities. Though in its infancy
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Micro-entrepreneurship, Institutional Environment and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparison of Weaving Clusters in West Bengal, India The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Indranil De, Saswata Narayan Biswas, Devleena Dey
This article compares micro-enterprises’ performance and the entrepreneurial ability of weavers as perceived by the weavers themselves under two different institutional environments: one dominated by a cooperative society and the other dominated by private traders. Weavers in the private trader-dominated institutional environment are more likely to introduce new designs, develop new products and usher
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Serious Games in Entrepreneurship Education: A Learner Satisfaction and Theory of Planned Behaviour Approaches The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Izaias Martins, Juan Pablo P. Perez, Diana Osorio, Jorge Mesa
This study aimed to understand whether serious games in entrepreneurship education can improve the antecedents and entrepreneurial intention. Serious games are defined as tools designed to educate ...
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The Effect of Entrepreneur Attributes on Investment Evaluations in Pitch Competitions The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Adi Hoorvitch Lavi, Eyal Yaniv
Investment in early-stage ventures entails significant risk and uncertainty; for this reason, most investment pitches do not result in investments. Whereas the literature in entrepreneurial financi...
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Analysing the Antecedents of Entrepreneurial Bootstrapping and Bricolage: A Modified Total Interpretive Structural Modelling and MICMAC Approach The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Mansi Singh, Sanjay Dhir, Harsh Mishra
This article seeks to systematically identify and model antecedents of entrepreneurial bootstrapping and bricolage to determine and interpret the relationships and hierarchy between them. Entrepren...
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Configurations of Business Model Innovation: Unpacking the Practice Adopted by Firms in an Emerging Market Context The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Chamindika Weerakoon, Sarath S. Kodithuwakku
Building on the strategy-as-practice perspective, this exploratory study addresses an overlooked line of inquiry into the forms, differentiators, and performance differences of micro-activities und...
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Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Organisational Propensity to Innovate in a Public-Sector Context The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Iuliia Iliashenko, Fragkoulis Papagiannis, Patrizia Gazzola, Nataliia Cherkas, Daniele Grechi
The importance of innovation, in both private and public entrepreneurial fields, is the basis of all companies’ strategic choices. This study examines entrepreneurship and innovation, as well as th...
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Action in Complexity: Entanglement and Emergent Order in Entrepreneurship The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2023-04-07 David Leong
When properly understood in the context of entrepreneurship, entanglement explains the complex ingredients in the tangled relations required for entrepreneurial success. However, in examining entre...
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An Experimental Investigation of Perceived Differences in Personality and Leadership Attributes of Social Entrepreneurs Compared to for Profit Entrepreneurs and Non-Profit Organisations Leaders The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Philipp Kruse, Florian Rosing
Social enterprises (SEs) strive for the fulfilment of a social mission based on an elaborated income strategy. Consequently, they are largely conceptualised as hybrid enterprises combining logics o...
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A Machine Learning Assisted Study Exploring Hormonal Influences on Entrepreneurial Opportunity Behaviour The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Tahseen Anwer Arshi, Asfia Ambrin, Venkoba Rao, Swapnil Morande, Kanwal Gul
The study explores the hormonal influences on entrepreneurial opportunity persuasion decisions (OPD). It also analyzes how behavioural psychology influences the entrepreneurial opportunity recognit...
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Using Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modelling to Advance Entrepreneurship Research: A Study on the Liabilities of Newness and Smallness The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Luiz Antonio de Camargo Guerrazzi, Fernando Antonio Ribeiro Serra, Manuel Portugal Ferreira, Vanessa Vasconcelos Scaziotta
The current literature examining factors related to age and size leading organisations to underperform is vast and has employed multiple theoretical lenses. However, the evidence is fragmented and ...
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The Nonlinear Relationship Between Entrepreneurship and Natural Resource Rents The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Canh Phuc Nguyen, Sangho Kim, Thanh Dinh Su
To examine a nonlinear relationship between entrepreneurship density and natural resource rents, this study applies the panel-corrected standard errors (PCSE) estimator to a sample of 87 countries ...
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Book review: Unni Jeemol, Yadav Vanita, Naik Ravikiran and Dutta Swati, Women entrepreneurship in the Indian middle class: Interdisciplinary perspectives The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Neha Sharma
Unni Jeemol, Yadav Vanita, Naik Ravikiran and Dutta Swati, Women entrepreneurship in the Indian middle class: Interdisciplinary perspectives. Orient BlackSwan, 2021, 292 pp., ₹1,075 (Paperback) ISB...
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Entrepreneurship and Culture: What Determines the Differences Within Switzerland? The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Anneli Kaasa, Rico Baldegger
This article aims to investigate the differences in entrepreneurship activity and entrepreneurship-related perceptions and intentions within Switzerland and to shed light on the explanations of tho...
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Organizational Antecedents of Corporate Entrepreneurship: A Quantitative Investigation from Portugal The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Luís Marques, João J. Ferreira, Sascha Kraus, Raj Mahto
Corporate entrepreneurship (CE) is a critical tool for fostering innovative behaviour and obtaining competitive advantage in firms. This study examines various organizational factors that are criti...
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Influence of Entrepreneurship Manifestation Factor on Organisational Innovation: The Role of Corporate Entrepreneurship and Imperative Innovation Culture The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Jiyeon Kim, Min Jae Park
The importance of corporate entrepreneurship is continuously highlighted as a crucial potential corporate growth strategy that seeks continued growth opportunities. Corporate entrepreneurship is pe...
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Book review: Rebecca J. White, See Do Repeat: The Practice of Entrepreneurship The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Baishali Mitra
Rebecca J. White, See Do Repeat: The Practice of Entrepreneurship. NOW SC Press, 2021, 158 pp. + guide book.
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Book review: Heidi M. Neck and Yipewng Liu, Innovation in Global Entrepreneurship Education: Teaching Entrepreneurship in Practice The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Ashutosh Mishra
Heidi M. Neck and Yipewng Liu, Innovation in Global Entrepreneurship Education: Teaching Entrepreneurship in Practice. Edward Elgar Publication, 2021, 305 pp.
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Book review: Rajiv G. Agarwal, Family Business Management The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Umesh Shrivastava
Rajiv G. Agarwal, Family Business Management. SAGE Publications, 2022, 270 pp.
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Book review: Aseem Chauhan, Manoj Joshi, Ashok Kumar and Suhayl Abidi, How to Thrive as a Start-up in an Uncertain World: VUCA in Start-ups The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Koustav Das
Aseem Chauhan, Manoj Joshi, Ashok Kumar and Suhayl Abidi, How to Thrive as a Start-up in an Uncertain World: VUCA in Start-ups. Jaico Publishing House, 2022, 300 pp., ₹395 (paperback). ISBN-10: 939...
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How to Use Simulation Games in the Classroom? The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-07-22 Ernest R. Cadotte
An enhanced, new venture simulation can be a game changer within a school’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, providing students with a holistic vision of a new venture and skills relevant to its potentia...
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Re-thinking Content: Teaching Students About Entrepreneurship Versus How to Be an Entrepreneur The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Michael H. Morris
The discipline of entrepreneurship has witnessed significant progress over the past 25 years in terms of the introduction of new courses and degree programmes in universities across the globe. At t...
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Inclusiveness and Intrapreneurial Behaviours in Organisations The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Liat Ramati-Navon, Abraham Carmeli, Gila Menahem
A growing interest has recently been directed to the ways by which organisations and leaders can drive individual intrapreneurship (intra-organisational entrepreneurship). However, this research ha...
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Digital Transformation Taking Centre Stage: How Is Digital Transformation Reshaping Entrepreneurial Innovation? The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Hasirumane Venkatesh Mukesh
The digital transformation has a profound implication for entrepreneurial innovation. In contrast, scholarly attention is mainly towards entrepreneurial innovation in pure digital businesses at th...
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The Creative Classroom The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Ray Smilor
How can entrepreneurship teachers unleash the creativity of each one of their students so that their students actually think and act entrepreneurially? This article emphasises that entrepreneurship teachers must implement three requirements for a creative classroom: develop an experimental attitude, practice improvisational behaviour and implement an unconventional structure. An experimental attitude
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Teaching Opportunity Recognition: Meeting the Challenges of Message, Method and Measurement The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Rebecca J. White, Giles T. Hertz
The efficacy of experiential entrepreneurship education is often dependent upon students’ ability to identify a viable entrepreneurial opportunity early in the class or programme. Yet students ofte...
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Entrepreneurship Teaching in India and the Region The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Sunil Shukla, Amit Kumar Dwivedi, Satya Ranjan Acharya
Economies across the globe believe in entrepreneurship as an important component for economic development because it is helping countries to solve problems like unemployment or underemployment. As ...
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Novel and Creative Ways to Use Case Studies to Teach Entrepreneurship The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-07-03 Greg Fisher
Case study teaching is important in entrepreneurship classrooms. The typical way to use a case study to teach is to require students to read a written case study before class and then facilitate a discussion in class about the issues in the case study. However, there are innovative means beyond using case studies in this traditional way. An entrepreneurship classroom is the ideal setting to experiment
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Creating Student-centred Experiences: Using Design Thinking to Create Student Engagement The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-07-03 Stacy Landreth Grau, Tracey Rockett
Design thinking (also known as human-centred design) is a creative problem-solving framework that focuses on developing user-centred, effective solutions to well-defined problems. Given the focus in entrepreneurship education on factors like idea generation and opportunity recognition, design thinking is especially important. While popular in several fields such as engineering, business and computer
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Risk Perception as a Mediator in Explaining the Relationship of Cognitive Biases and New Venture Creation The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-07-01 S. Riasudeen, Himmat Singh Ratnoo, M. Kannadhasan, Pankaj Singh
The study investigates the role of risk perception in mediating the association of certain important cognitive biases such as overconfidence, illusion of control, optimism and planning fallacy with new venture creation. The study collected responses through questionnaires from 375 entrepreneurs in Central India. Partial least squares path modelling has been used to gauge the way these variables are
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Social Impact: The Role of Authentic Leadership, Compassion and Grit in Social Entrepreneurship The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Louise Kelly, Vernita Perkins, Abdelrahman Zuraik, William Luse
This study examines the influence of leadership on social entrepreneurs; specifically, the impact of authentic leadership, compassion and grit on entrepreneurial processes and performance outcomes with a sample of Americans social entrepreneurs (n = 284). Entrepreneurial process dimensions include individual innovation, opportunity recognition and social networks, and performance outcomes encompass
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Exploring the Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Their Entrepreneurial Engagement The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Adesuwa Omorede, Karin Axelsson
This study explores how immigrants perceive their entrepreneurial selves and their strategies to find opportunities when migrating to a new country. It focuses on their journey to find these opportunities and their experiences from the endeavour. Thus, it focuses on the conditions of immigrant entrepreneurs and their experiences by capturing entrepreneurs’ experiences across different phases of their
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The Predictive Power of Turkish Middle School Students’ Entrepreneurial Competencies on STEM Attitudes The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-07-01 I˙sa Deveci, Fatma Zehra Konus¸
The aim of this study was to investigate the correlational and causal relationship between middle school students’ entrepreneurial competencies and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) attitudes. A total of 648 middle school students (seventh and eighth grade) participated in this study. STEM attitude scale and two entrepreneurial competency scales that were developed in different
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Book review: Prabhat Kumar, Public Service Ethics—A Quest for Naitik Bharat The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Baishali Mitra
Prabhat Kumar, Public Service Ethics—A Quest for Naitik Bharat. IC Centre for Governance, 2021, 225 pp.
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A ‘Dark Side’ of Humane Entrepreneurship? Unveiling the Side Effects of Humane Entrepreneurship on Work–Life Balance The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Rocco Palumbo
Humane entrepreneurship postulates an innovative strategic posture assuming that entrepreneurs should concomitantly focus on the enterprise, the human and the societal cycles of the firm to achieve organisational excellence. Scholars have stressed the economic and societal gains triggered by humane entrepreneurship. However, little is known about its implications for work–life balance (WLB). The article
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Effects of Entrepreneurial Competence and Planning Guidance on the Relation Between University Students’ Attitude and Entrepreneurial Intention The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-01-30 Aleciane da Silva Moreira Ferreira, Elisabeth Loiola, Sônia Maria Guedes Gondim, Cícero Roberto Pereira
The objective of this article is to analyse the effect of entrepreneurial competence and planning guidance on the relations between university students’ entrepreneurial attitude and entrepreneurial intention. In this correlational study, the empirical model was tested through Structural Equation Modeling on a sample of 2,771 university students via an online survey at a federal higher education institution
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Factors Influencing to Choose Social Entrepreneurship as a Career: A Study on Social Entrepreneurship Students from India The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-01-30 Sasmita Swain, Sri Krishna Sudheer Patoju
The present research is designed to evaluate factors influencing the decision of youth in India to choose social entrepreneurship as a career option. A sample of 200 students pursuing a master’s in social entrepreneurship was drawn from three Indian universities offering social entrepreneurship courses. Based on literature review and in-depth interview data, 16 measured variables were identified, and
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Constituents and Drivers of Mission Engagement for Social Enterprise Sustainability: A Systematic Review The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-01-30 Reeti Kulshrestha, Arunaditya Sahay, Subhanjan Sengupta
Social entrepreneurship as a prosocial phenomenon focuses on the upliftment of the vulnerable and marginalised through entrepreneurship. Social enterprises are mission-oriented often suffering from mission-related challenges that accompany duality in its form. This in turn raises concern over sustainability for social enterprises as they begin to focus more on the economic objectives rather than the
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Experiencing Live Action of Business: Reflections on an Immersive Course in Entrepreneurship The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-01-26 Neharika Vohra, Supriya Sharma, Nobin Thomas
This article describes an experiential, immersive course in teaching for entrepreneurship in a business school. The course requires the students to set up and operate a business, build on their experiences, reflect upon it regularly and relate it to concepts in business and entrepreneurship. The design of the course, allowing for an immersive experience and reflection, is guided by Kolb’s experiential
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Entrepreneurial Self-efficacy and Financial and Calculation Skills Can Shape Different Profiles of Venture Intentions The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Elisabet Ruiz-Dotras, Josep Lladós-Masllorens
The complexity of finances and access to financial markets is one of the main challenges facing an entrepreneur. However, not many studies examine the effect of financial skills on entrepreneurial intentions. Our research describes venture intentions, considering motivations, contextual factors and personal traits in different clusters, based on the strong sense of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and
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Book review: Mohammad Mustafa. Demystifying Venture Capital: How it Works and How to Get It The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2021-08-26 Amit Kumar Dwivedi, Sanjay Kumar Randhar
Mohammad Mustafa. Demystifying Venture Capital: How it Works and How to Get It, Simon & Schuster India, 2020, 400 pp.
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Book review: John Chambers and Diane Brady. Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Start-up World The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2021-08-26 Ajay Arora
John Chambers and Diane Brady. Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Start-up World, Harper Collins Publishers, 2018, 320 pp.
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Do Entrepreneurship Skills Improve Project Performance? A Project-Based Learning Perspective The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2021-07-02 Mansoor Shekarian, Mahour Parast
This study examines the effect of entrepreneurship skillsets on project performance. Building upon the theory of planned behaviour, we examine the impact of individual entrepreneurship orientation (IEO) and entrepreneurship self-efficacy (ESE) on project performance, using a sample of 243 observations from students’ projects in areas of science, engineering and technology. We examine our research questions
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Entrepreneurial Finance in the Twenty-first Century, a Review of Factors Influencing Venture Capitalist’s Decision The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Ashish Vazirani, Titas Bhattacharjee
Investments in new ventures are risky due to lack of conventional form of quantitative information and untested products. Venture capitalists (VCs) are seen to target such new ventures for high-risk premium but with little success. Existing research has investigated and identified a variety of qualitative factors that impact VCs’ investment decisions; however, many research gaps still exist. Works
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Making Entrepreneurs? Makerspaces and Entrepreneurial Intent Among High School Students The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2021-06-27 Eric Joseph van Holm
Makerspaces have grown over the last two decades and provide a potentially important resource to entrepreneurs. One area where the expansion of makerspaces has been the largest is in educational settings, at both K-12 schools and colleges. However, scant research to date has analysed whether students visiting a makerspace have any relationship with their professional goals or intentions. This study
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Attitude and Alertness in Personality Traits: A Pathway to Building Entrepreneurial Intentions Among University Students The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2021-06-27 Abhijeet Biswas, Rohit Kumar Verma
The entrepreneurial intentions of individuals play a phenomenal role in establishment of new ventures, which in turn facilitates economic development. The study aims to identify the various dimensions of personality traits along with several other precursors of entrepreneurial intentions and investigates impact of the identified factors on entrepreneurial intentions of top five university students
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When the Quest for the Best Pays Off: How Maximising Entrepreneurs Improve Performance by Creating Entrepreneurial and Market Oriented Businesses The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2021-06-23 Brandon William Soltwisch
New research in the behavioural sciences has identified that some individuals consistently strive to make the best choice through extensive information search (maximisers), while others are inclined to select options that are good enough (satisficers). The purpose of this study is to investigate how these decision-making styles impact the entrepreneurial process. It is predicted that maximising entrepreneurs
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The Role of Entrepreneurial Finance in Corporate Social Responsibility and New Venture Performance in an Emerging Market The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2021-06-23 Muhammad Sualeh Khattak, Muhammad Anwar, Thomas Clauß
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has over the past decades transformed from a philanthropic attribute to something compulsory. It has become the imperative duty of organisations, irrespective of their size, nature of business and age. However, because of poor financial capabilities and lack of support, newly established ventures too often fail to voluntarily participate in social and environmental
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Gender Diversity Effects in Investment Decisions The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2021-03-15 Lennard Hohl, Peter M. Bican, Carsten C. Guderian, Frederik J. Riar
This study examines the gender gap in investment decisions in a prominent setting: the American TV show Shark Tank. Our study is based on a sample of 895 pitches from 10 seasons comprising 222 episodes from 2009 to 2019. Contradicting prior research, our findings suggest that female entrepreneurs are not discriminated against in pitch success rates, independent of their respective industrial settings
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Book review Stuart Cunningham and Terry Flew (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Creative Industries The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2021-03-15 Amit Kumar Dwivedi
Stuart Cunningham and Terry Flew (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Creative Industries (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019). pp. 184, HB £72.00. ISBN: 9781788118566.
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Economic Policy Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: A Bad for a Good? The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2021-02-22 Bach Nguyen, Christophe Schinckus, Nguyen Phuc Canh, Su Dinh Thanh
The study examines the influences of the global/domestic economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on entrepreneurship in a sample of 23 economies over the period 2006–2016. Employing the two-step system General Method of Moment estimation for unbalanced panel data, our study provides surprising evidence, indicating that EPU may not always be harmful to entrepreneurship. Precisely, in contrast with existing
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The Sleep Paradox: A Retrospective Exploration into Sleeplessness and Aberrant Sleep Patterns to Gain Insights into Entrepreneurial Psychology and Behaviour The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2021-02-11 William P. Racine
The need for sleep has important implications for entrepreneurship. Researchers have come to understand that sleep insufficiency affects creativity, innovation, self-control and operational efficacy. Yet quality sleep often eludes an entrepreneur because of the demands from the business environment, fear of failure and job insecurity, among other things. Hence, a sleep paradox exists where aberrant
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Entrepreneurial Intentions: Moving the Field Forwards The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2021-02-11 Colin Donaldson, Francisco Liñán, Joaquin Alegre
The purpose of this article is to articulate reasoning as to why there is a pressing need for a contextually based temporal approach towards the study of entrepreneurial intentions. Having done so, a potential means by which this can be achieved is put forth through assuming a socially situated perspective that links intentions, the entrepreneurial process of new venture creation, and a model of action
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Analysis of Effect of Microfinance on the Performance of MSEs in Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2021-02-11 Abiot Animaw Semegn, Narendra Kumar Bishnoi
This article examines the effect of microcredit on the performance of the micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia. A total of 340 MSEs were randomly selected, and a survey method was used. Average Sales volume was used to measure performances of MSEs. The findings suggested that the majority of MSEs in Ethiopia were engaged in manufacturing and urban agriculture
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Macro-economic Factors Influencing Tourism Entrepreneurship: The Case of Kazakhstan The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2021-01-22 Aizhan Tleuberdinova, Zhanat Shayekina, Dinara Salauatova, Stephen Pratt
Tourism development contributes to economic development. In emerging economies like Kazakhstan, tourism development needs active entrepreneurship. As the country emerges from the post-Soviet era, there has been an increase in economic development and prosperity. Entrepreneurship in the tourism sector can drive economies forward through the creation of new tourism and hospitality businesses. The macroeconomic
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Personality Traits and Social Entrepreneurial Intention: The Mediating Effect of Perceived Desirability and Perceived Feasibility The Journal of Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2020-12-25 Luc Phan Tan, Lan Xuan Pham, Trang Thanh Bui
This study aimed to investigate the effect of personality traits on social entrepreneurial intention by extending Mair and Noboa’s (2006) model. Data were collected from a sample survey of 503 individuals. The four-step method suggested by Baron and Kenny (1986) was followed to test the mediational roles of perceived desirability and perceived feasibility in the relationship between six personality