Knowledge of factors that determine the transition from nascent entrepreneurship into real entrepreneurship is of major importance for policies aiming to effectively stimulate start-ups. Whereas scholars concentrated on person-specific factors to explain transition probabilities, environmental characteristics have been fairly neglected. Given that entrepreneurship is a strongly localized phenom...

This study examined the relationships between Big Six personality and entrepreneurial intention, inclusive of the mediating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy in the Chinese context. Survey data from 280 college students reveal that Emotional Stability, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Interpersonal Relationship were positively associated with entrepreneurial intention. Agreeableness and...

This paper examines empirically the link between the post-entry strategies of new entrepreneurs and the duration of the firm. We use a sample of French entrepreneurs that have set up or taken over a firm during the first six months of 1994. For firms that are still alive at least four years later we have information both on the individual pre-entry motives of the entrepreneurs and on the post e...

Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality: New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research What makes the entrepreneurial personality is the key question we seek to answer in the special issue of the Journal of Economic Psychology on “Personality and Entrepreneurship”. The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the linkage between personality, socio-economic factors and entrep...

Entrepreneurship allows nurses to design models of in-hospital nursing practice which would benefit patients, nurses, physicians, and the hospital. Article: There is a growing interest in nursing in designing professional practice models that "work," that is, models that promote benefit both to nurses and to the clients they serve. But devising hospital models of nursing practice that are satis...

This paper explores the formation and growth of entrepreneurship in three different types of business venture under market socialism in China. It reveals how key contingency factors interacting in different types of firm shape the 'Chinese Characteristics' of entrepreneurial processes in 'China' type of market economy and explains its impact on firm's growth or failure. It emphasizes the import...

Abstract Firms that partake in export activity are entrepreneurial in nature because exporting firms would benefit by proactively seeking new markets, engaging in innovative action to meet local market’s needs, and be able and willing to take risks by venturing into previously unknown markets. While prior studies have looked at the importance of entrepreneurial orientation, organizational learn...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Entrepreneurship research has identified a number of personal characteristics believed to be instrumental in motivating entrepreneurial behavior. Two frequently cited personal traits associated with entrepreneurial potential are internal locus of control and innovativeness. Internal locus of control has been one of the most studied psychological traits in entrepreneurship rese...

Entrepreneurial activity di ers substantially across countries. While cultural di erences have often been proposed as an explanation, measuring a country's cultural characteristics su ers from various problems. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that cultural factors in uence entrepreneurial behavior by looking at di erences in self-employment rates between immigrant groups within the same m...