Entrepreneurial Performance Construct, Its Dimensions, Measures and Issues

Performance and its Link to Entrepreneurial Behavior

Problem statement: This study investigates the effects of Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) on firm performance. In recent times, especially with the growth of globalization and other such factors, the performance measurement standards and parameters have changed. This has also led to a significant change in the factors that are now used within the operational sphere of an organization in order ...

Theorizing on Entrepreneurial Performance

In the present paper main streams of research in the field of entrepreneurship are identified and discussed. The purpose is to find out what theoretical perspectives could be used to build a framework for explaining performance in small and medium enterprises. Strengths and weaknesses of population ecology, behavioural, resource-based and strategic-adaptation theoretical perspectives in explain...

Cultural Diversity in Management, Firm Performance, and the Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation Dimensions

Extending previous theorizing on cultural diversity’s organizational effects by integrating value-in-diversity and social identity perspectives with the framework of Blau’s (1977) theory of heterogeneity, we hypothesized curvilinear relationships between racial and gender diversity in management and firm performance. We evaluated relationships within the context of firm-level entrepreneurial or...

P59: Internet Addiction: A Clinically Valid Construct and its Correlates

Although the internet has become one of the most important information resources for university students, excessive internet use can be defined as uncontrolled and harmful use of the internet, in other words, Internet Addiction. Internet addiction (IA) can be described as a maladaptive preoccupation with internet use impairing social, occupational and other areas of a person’s functioning. Rece...

The Roles of Performance Measures and Monitoring in Annual Governance Decisions in Entrepreneurial Firms*