Understanding Necessity Entrepreneurship

Necessity Entrepreneurship and Job Insecurity: The Hidden Face of Entrepreneurship

Our research explores an understudied topic in the field of entrepreneurship: the insecurity experienced by a group of entrepreneurs known as necessity entrepreneurs. Although little attention has been paid to this phenomenon, in the entrepreneurship literature, necessity entrepreneurs, more than ever, represent a very important social group in an increasingly tough economic and social climate....

Necessity as a Driver of Women’s Entrepreneurship

Role of Entrepreneurship in Economic Development With special focus on necessity entrepreneurship and opportunity entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs are people who create new businesses, which help create new jobs for people. They help in intensifying competition, with the help of technology they master in increasing productivity and thus contributing in the development of the country, followed by economic growth. So it can be said that entrepreneurship is good for economic growth .The paper will justify how far this stands tr...

Female Entrepreneurship in China: Opportunity- or Necessity-Based?

The paper investigates the inequalities within entrepreneurship which are hindering Chinese socio-economic development. We take an institutionalist and gender-based approach. We establish the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development and create a historical framework from which we examine contemporary female entrepreneurship. We find that females in China often engage in en...

Ethical Public Entrepreneurship: a Necessity for the 21 Centry

Public entrepreneurship is a management approach developed by the reinventing government movement. Reinvention is a response to more than two decades of conservative attacks on the efficacy of government. The Proposition 13 property tax revolt in California in the early 1970s started a relentless public and media fueled campaign for government to do more with less. The administrations of Ronald...