Economic reform and liberalization in China have affected many institutional obstacles constraining the development and growth of Chinese small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). Using a firm-level data set that comprises all “above-scale” Chinese industrial enterprises for the period of 1995 to 2003, I investigate the patterns of entry and exit of Chinese SMEs and relate these patterns to the...

from the proposal: “Although goal striving is important in people’s lives, little research has examined goal striving. In the motivation literature focus has been on goal setting and, to a much lesser degree, goal attainment. No published study has examined entrepreneurs’ goal striving, which constitutes the purpose of the study. A sample of entrepreneurs will provide the data for the study. Th...

For several decades, marketing researchers have stressed that firms can achieve competitive advantage by creating superior value for customers through innovation. However the literature on entrepreneurship and innovation based competitive strategy is deficient in several important respects. First, entrepreneurship has been poorly measured in the past. Next, research on innovation is biased towa...

Through entrepreneurship education, engineering students are increasingly being prepared to work for startup companies or launch their own ventures. Understanding and utilizing the language relevant to entrepreneurship is essential to establish legitimacy and participate fully in the entrepreneurial community. Identifying the entrepreneurship-related lexicon in which engineers should be fluent ...

The relationship between institutional change and entrepreneurship is poorly understood. We build the theory in this area by tracing institutional change in the US electric power industry over a 40-year period. Our analysis shows that environmental jolts mobilize actors to reformulate institutions, resulting in increased entrepreneurial opportunity. When the institutional environment is stable,...

Sustainable growth and technological development are achievable. This is possible when there is good governance striving for a vibrant entrepreneurship, with innovation at its very centre. In this regard, North African countries’ records are strikingly lagging. Progress has been made, but remains far from expectations and potentialities. As globalization has now pushed innovation to the top of ...

College entrepreneurship education relatively lags behind in china at present. The main reason is that the lack of qualified teachers. For the construction of teachers' team training, firstly analysis the characteristics of the entrepreneurship education level, and then divide into two relatively independent levels which are basic entrepreneurship education theory and comprehensive practice. Ac...

This paper introduces a case study of the entrepreneurship studies in the Faculty of Telecommunication and e-Business at Turku University of Applied Sciences. There are three levels of entrepreneurship studies in our faculty: a) What is entrepreneurship? –to raise the awareness and motivation towards entrepreneurship, b) Student co-operatives and Support centres for training the students with t...

Metaphors are powerful tools for sensemaking, sensegiving and theory development, but they are often concealed in academic writing. This paper uncovers two metaphors underlying entrepreneurship discourse and research – elixir and mutagen. The elixir metaphor is uncovered by examining critiques of entrepreneurship research and serves as a compact description of problematic aspects entrepreneursh...