Developing a Creative-Cognitive Model of Entrepreneurial Alertness to Business Opportunities

Developing an entrepreneurial typology: the roles of entrepreneurial alertness and attributional style

This study develops an entrepreneurial typology employing nvo dimensions, high versus low entrepreneurial alertness and internal versus external attributional styles that helps illustrate why entrepreneurs start new businesses. The resulting 2 x2 typology of entrepreneurs identifies four entrepreneur types based on these nvo dimensions: the true believer, clueless, practical, and reluctant. Usi...

Entrepreneurial Creativity as Discovery and Exploitation of Business Opportunities

An Entrepreneurial Decision-Making Model: A Case Study of‏ ‏the ‎Electronic Business of Tehran

E-businesses play a critical role in today's knowledge-based economies. Despite their ‎increasing portion, e-businesses experience high rates of failure. Therefore, it is of prime ‎importance to identify their decision-making activities encountering outer competitive forces ‎and their internal structural events. In this study, through using the Grounded Theory approach, we ‎analyze interviews c...

A Business Model to Detect Disease Outbreaks

Introduction: Every year several disease outbreaks, such as influenza-like illnesses (ILI) and other contagious illnesses, impose various costs to public and non-government agencies. Most of these expenses are due to not being ready to handle such disease outbreaks. An appropriate preparation will reduce the expenses. A system that is able to recognize these outbreaks can earn ...

Providing a Home Business Model with a Focus on Entrepreneurial Knowledge (Grounded Theory Approach)

in this study, we have sought to provide a comprehensive conceptual model of the concept of success in the field of home business. In this regard, we have adopted a qualitative approach based on grounded theory (GT) as a comprehensive method for collecting data with 18 home-based business owners (in the field of kilim weaving, pottery and packaging). And key informants of such businesses underw...