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Abstract Purpose – In response to calls to critically analyse and conceptually advance social enterprise, we examine narratives and models representing a spectrum of social enterprise from the ‘social’ to the ‘economic’. We test these against the experience of practitioners who were either employees in social organisations or support workers tasked with promoting social enterprise. This is timely...
Abstract Purpose – Postmaterialist values (autonomy, self-expression, fulfilment of personal goals) have been shown to predict entrepreneurship at the country level. In this paper we aim to expand previous research by testing the relationship between postmaterialism and entrepreneurship at the individual level across 39 countries. Similar Products: Powered by Global Entrepreneurship and...
The market now is emerging and growing to the point that not a single person can do it alone. If you have a dream, you better share it. - Amr AbdelRahman, co-founder of MIMV The Giza sun elicited hot topics last Saturday as emerging entrepreneurs and experienced experts shared challenges and strategies for new business in the Middle East and North Africa. Similar Products: Powered by Entrepreneurship:...
Entrepreneurs are a unique group of people, but they behave in patterns. In fact, as I recently wrote here on HBR, my firm’s research shows that most serial entrepreneurs display persuasion, leadership, personal accountability, goal orientation, and interpersonal skills. But in that same study, we also discovered a set of skills they do not possess. ...
Abstract Purpose – The purpose of the study was to advance and clarify conceptualisations of innovative and entrepreneurial individuals through the analysis of their personality traits.Design/methodology/approach – This study has elements of both theory testing and theory creation, which led us to choose the case study as our research strategy. Our ‘case’ is an innovative and entrepreneurial...
When a whale dies, the 30-100 ton body — or “whale fall” — slowly, silently sinks to the ocean bottom where it becomes the wellspring of a complex new microcosm of seabed flora and fauna that can thrive for well over half a century. These new ecosystems with their hundreds of species from flesh-eating sharks to sulphur-metabolizing worms also include “innovative start-ups” — previously...
Startup operations and problems of honey bee entrepreneurs: experience from India Khushdeep Dharni; Deepak Goel International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 18, No. 3 (2013) pp. 332 – 348 Present study is an attempt to study the profile and start up operations of the honey bee entrepreneurs in Punjab. Findings of the study are based on a sample of 50 respondents. Results obtained...
