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...

Successful entrepreneurship is an emergent outcome in a fundamentally economic sense that is distinguishable from emergence understood more generally. Successful entrepreneurship entails a process of forming innovative capital combinations that result in the enhancement of value. Value may be seen to have been created, to have emerged from the process. Successful entrepreneurship occurs within ...

Many researchers have discussed the relation between entrepreneurship and innovation based on the process, structure, and strategy of either entrepreneurship or innovation (Littunen, 2000, Cornwall and Perlman, 1990, Caird, 1988; Casson, 1982). While others have touched on the conceptual relationship between entrepreneurship and innovation (Schumpeter, 1934, Drucker, 1994, Legge and Hindle, 199...

Successful start-ups require a number of organizational, efficient and systematic entrepreneurial actions. In addition to the acquisition and the successful use of resources, especially the identification and development of ideas to business models play an important role for the company's success. In this context, creativity exhibits a major importance and creativity support in the phase entrep...

With the globalizing trends, innovative approaches have stood out in tourism sector. In line with these approaches, number of entrepreneurships increases and a significant association is formed between entrepreneurship terms sustainability. Tourism activities, which an important role regional development, can make contributions to economy region activities carried by local people. This study se...

the objective of the current study is to identify the role of professional development components in developing organizational entrepreneurship in agricultural extension management of kermanshah province. the study was fulfilled by using correlation method and relational-causal model. all the agricultural extension agents in kermanshah province equal to 456 people formed the population of this ...

Innovation and entrepreneurship are no longer two words that only assist in describing societal phenomena of “newness”, “change” and “diffusion”; they have also grown into important policy areas for assisting the European Union Member States to establish conditions for creating economic growth, new jobs and social cohesion. Our interest lies in understanding the gender dimension of innovation a...

during the last one hundred years, the organizational and management knowledge have undergone fundamental changes. at the beginning of the 1980s, organizations paid great attention to creativity and innovation. today, organizations should be creative, so that they would continue to survive: therefore, the best way is to encourage creative people to be entrepreneurs in the organizational structu...

Innovation system studies devote a key role to organizational actors in the development of new technologies. However, little effort has been made to incorporate a conceptual understanding of e.g. resources, capabilities and strategy making at the organizational level into the systems framework. In this conceptual paper, we explore the linkages between resource based reasoning in the field of ma...