This paper provides a theory of credit-driven housing bubbles in an infinite-horizon production economy. Entrepreneurs face idiosyncratic investment tax distortions and credit constraints. Housing is an illiquid asset and also serves as collateral for borrowing. A housing bubble can form because houses command a liquidity premium. The housing bubble can provide liquidity and relax credit constr...

This paper provides a key driver-based conceptual framework that can be used to improve a firm’s success in commercializing technology and in new product innovation resulting from collaboration with other organizations through strategic alliances. Based on a qualitative study using an interview approach, strategic alliances of entrepreneurs in the food processing industry in Thailand are explor...

To complement the previous attempts to define the elusive concept of entrepreneurship, this study examines the impact of firm origin on small business owners/entrepreneurs and the characteristics of their firms. A review of previous typologies is presented along with a categorization of the groups of business owners/entrepreneurs from those typologies into three basic groupings: 1) Creators, mo...

This article explores the characteristics of venture business and entrepreneurs in Korea to (1) identify technology transfer activities, (2) analyze the differences between technology transfer in linear and nonlinear venture businesses, and (3) guide more effective venture business policy and strategy. This empirical assessment reveals that entrepreneurs have insightful evaluations about their ...

This paper clarifies the causal paths from complex dynamic interactions among young entrepreneurs, social networking sites (SNSs), and smart devices to new SNS-based business model (BM) creation. The empirical data are collected through interviews with 102 CEOs in Korean SNS-related venture companies. Using these data, we employ the triple helix model and business model concepts to analyse how ...

Support for entrepreneurship is widely seen as a mechanism to facilitate prosperity and peace in a growing number of post-conflict states. In this paper I critically evaluate this view. I argue that entrepreneurship is a ubiquitous quality in post-conflict states but not necessarily always for the good. Unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship may inhibit the resurgence of the private sect...

The policy shift of United Arab Emirates (UAE) from dependence on oil resources to other sources for the growth of its economy is opening opportunities for Entrepreneurship as a career. In this context, it is important to understand the factors that would facilitate the process of entrepreneurial value creation. The process model of entrepreneurship is used as the basis to understand the variou...

This paper is to explore the characteristics of venture business and entrepreneurs to identify technology transfer activities in venture and to analyze the differences between technology transfer in linear and non-linear venture businesses to guide more effective future venture business policy and strategy. The empirical assessment reveals that entrepreneurs have accurate evaluations and realis...

When overarching ideas such as that of eGovernment begin to travel (through different types of policy documents), this causes the operative leaders to play a specific role in translating the ideas into their own division’s “language” (Røvik, 2000; Latour, 1996; Czarniawska & Joerges, 1996). Local authorities are placed in the role of institutional mediators between global megatrends and local c...