The strategy and entrepreneurship literatures suggest that an entrepreneurial orientation (EO) improves firm performance, but the empirical results are mixed. In this article, we investigate the EO of small businesses and find that a main-effects-only analysis provides an incomplete picture of performance. Access to capital and the dynamism of the environment are important to small businesses, ...

Due to the importance of technology entrepreneurs’ competencies in the creation and development of technological businesses, a distinct stream of research has been dedicated to this subject. However, given the nature of suchlike studies, it is difficult to reach a common understanding of the competencies. In fact, there is a need to provide some systematization to achieve advancements in the fi...

This study investigates the association between SEW and EO, considering moderating role of generation that is involved in family businesses, EO might benefit from entrepreneurial affective attitudes first generations. We collected a survey with final sample 107 firms textile clothing manufacturing industry Brazil. As data analyses, we employed variance-based structural equation modeling using S...

The purpose of the study was to assess impact innovation on business performance informal small traders in Zimbabwe. Open Theory Innovation informed whilst data for gathered using structured questionnaires where 175 medium enterprises (SME) offered validated responses. A causal, quantitative approach assumed and analyzed SPSS 22 software identify association, strength direction determinants SME...

In the debate on why firms exist, the question of who chooses between firms and markets and on what basis is rarely addressed. This paper argues that the choice is a core element of the entrepreneurial pursuit of visions or conceptions of business opportunities. To successfully organize resources into the envisioned businesses – be it via firms or markets – resource owners must be coordinated o...

By conducting a structural equation modeling analysis, the present study tested a model of entrepreneurial intentions. We examined the effect of motivational factors and entrepreneurial exposure on students’ intentions to new venture creation through the mediating role of work attitudes and self-efficacy. Data were collected among 171 undergraduate students from three universities. On the one s...