Growth has been described as the essence of entrepreneurship. Organizational ecologists theorize an inevitable progression from growth through maturity, revival, and eventually decline. During the organizational life cycle entrepreneurs choose between growth, stability, or retrenchment strategies to overcome deteriorating trends in performance. Using survey data, this study tests a contingency ...

organization’s obligation for responding to demand changes and creating strategic opportunity, drives focus toward entrepreneurship, so that scholars’ attention turns toward influential factors on entrepreneurship more and more. the objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of human resource flexibility on entrepreneurship at research institute of petroleum industry (ripi). research ...

  An entrepreneurial organization is always ready and able to adapt too many essential changes in the external environment, and plan their programs for changing environmental needs.This research has been done to identify the effect of job satisfaction on organizational entrepreneurship in the municipality. The methodology of the research in terms of the main strategy is a quantitative met...

In the context of the Rio Earth Summit numerous international regimes, national policies and organizational guidelines have appeared that help translate the normative demands of sustainable development into political reality. The implementation of these instruments, however, often runs into difficulties or fails entirely. An example is the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), a progressive appro...

This paper sketches the contours of a theory of entrepreneurship focusing on the nature of entrepreneurship as intermediation under information asymmetries. While entrepreneurship, strategy, and finance researchers have studied the relationship between entrepreneurs and intermediaries, they tend to treat intermediaries, such as venture capitalists, as a separate organizational form that is para...

We develop a subjectivist theory of entrepreneurship that focuses on individuals, their knowledge, resources and skills, and the processes of discovery and creativity, which constitute the heart of entrepreneurship. First, we establish the fundamental importance of subjectivity in entrepreneurial discovery and creativity that lead to economic change and to influencing organizational learning. S...

The purpose of this research is to determine the manner of interaction and the prioritization among effective factors on corporate entrepreneurship by the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory approach. Factors examined in this study include factors related to human resource management, organizational structure and culture. The statistical population of this study consists of twenty m...

the ongoing research was conducted to have the organizational learning development designed in iranian agricultural extension organization as based on entrepreneurship components and was implemented as a correlational research by using casual model. the statistical sample was comprised of 2768 extension employees in iran, one out of each six regional groups of provinces (n= 25) was randomly sel...

Entrepreneurship, which is the process of identifying, evaluating and developing opportunities, has been recently identified as the most important element in the economic development of countries in various areas and industries, including banking industry. Since opportunity identification is the first step in entrepreneurship, the present research attempts to investigate and prioritize the indi...