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...

Ebusiness is used as a term that embraces e-commerce, its commercial exchange or transaction component. Both are subsets of a larger concept, e-venturing. E-business is a major disruptive innovation that is rapidly changing many of the accepted norms of effective management. So the paper revisits and reassesses several established principles of economics, strategy and entrepreneurship to place ...

Research about the combination between strategy and entrepreneurship is in the early stages. While the benefits of combining entrepreneurship and strategy are well established, specific details and relations between common elements of strategy and entrepreneurship as a concept remain under-developed and unsubstantiated. This paper explores the relation between entrepreneurship and strategy. The...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of entrepreneurship on organizational outcomes agricultural extension in the context of agricultural sustainable development. this paper aimed to identify the key dimensions of entrepreneurship and determine how these dimensions influence the outcomes of agricultural extension organizations in the context of agricultural sustainable dev...

The experience of work in an entrepreneurial context is saturated with emotional experiences. While the literature on the relation between affect and entrepreneurial performance (EP) is growing, there was no quantitative integration of the results so far. This study addresses this gap and meta-analytically integrates the results from 17 studies (N = 3810) in order to estimate the effect size fo...

In contrast to traditional strategic approaches that are based on complexity reduction, this paper aims to develop an alternative way of understanding entrepreneurial strategy and managing complexity from a processual perspective. The new perspective is developed from a processual perspective integrating insights from an understanding of complexity to engage with philosophical accounts of Chine...

Using data from a large European financial services firm which engaged in an entrepreneurial initiative to enhance its competitiveness, this paper explores the strategic role of middle managers in the context of corporate entrepreneurship and its link to multiple dimensions of performance. The findings indicate that middle managers’ role can be decomposed along four reliable and stable dimensio...