When reasoning with implicitly deened contexts or theories, a general notion of proof in context is more appropriate than classical uses of reeection rules. Proofs in a multicontext framework can still be carried out by switching to a context, reasoning within it, and exporting the result. Context switching however does not correspond to reeection or reiication but involves changing the level o...

This paper consists of an introductory survey of two fundamental questions regarding the link between entrepreneurship and economic growth. The first one deals with the endogenous relationship between entrepreneurship and growth. In particular, we suggest that, while more entrepreneurship could mean more economic growth, economic growth in turn could affect the individual arbitrage between diff...

This paper asks how we can predict entrepreneurship, an individual’s participation in the founding of a new organization. We advance a model that combines aspects of two distinct perspectives on entrepreneurship: the social structural view that sees context as the driving force in new venture formation, and the perspective that each founding is an idiosyncratic event attributable to the charism...

Complexity science is used to describe innovation and entrepreneurship. Context is addressed by positioning entrepreneurship at the nexus of two categories of constraints: The rate that resources can be appropriated creates tension to organize to exploit opportunities, and the rate that information becomes available challenges organizing efforts in an evolving, specialized, and distributed envi...

Theory development and testing are central to the advancement of entrepreneurship as a scholarly field. For nearly three decades now, researchers have borrowed popular theories from other disciplines and adapted them to the study of diverse entrepreneurship phenomena. This has enhanced the rigor of research findings. Future studies can achieve greater rigor and relevance by paying more attentio...

Many governments around the world seem to have openly accepted the functional economic theory of entrepreneurship as a pathway toward economic development (Hannon 2006; Minniti and Lévesque 2008, p. 605). This response by governments is consistent with the argument that a shift in the economic base toward knowledge requires a context and environment supportive of entrepreneurship (Audretsch & T...

This six-year study of new venture growth continues renewed research about the effects of entrepreneurs’ personal characteristics. I applied goal theory and social-cognitive theory to propose that entrepreneurs’ personal traits and general competencies cause new venture growth indirectly through situationally specific motivation mediators. Data about traits (passion and tenacity), competencies ...

Context-awareness is an important feature in Ambient Intelligence environments including in pervasive middleware. In addition, there is a growing trend and demand on self-management capabilities for a pervasive middleware in order to provide high-level dependability for services. In this chapter, we propose to make use of context-awareness features to facilitate self-management. To achieve self...