This study differentiates female entrepreneurs from male entrepreneurs using the Big-Five Personality Model. The five factors include adjustment, sociability, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and intellectual openness. Adjustment determines confidence versus instability. Sociability measures extraversion versus introversion. Conscientiousness determines impulsiveness versus cautiousness. Agree...

This article argues that the diffusion of concepts and theories from one culture or society to another requires the active engagement of a category of agents which I identify as ‘intellectual entrepreneurs’. Two historically contrasting cases of the transmission of ideas are examined in order to explain the processes whereby alien concepts are diffused across cultures. Foreign ideas and concept...

Third-party providers as entrepreneurs boost technology platforms. Yet, despite increasing interest in technological platforms, existing research offers little predictive insight into how firms can identify individuals who are likely to become entrepreneurs. We take the strategic perspective of a platform owning company, asking how to pinpoint those individuals who transition into entrepreneurs...

At first blush, values such as diversity appear to be worth striving for. The question is whether or not values—which have become increasingly prevalent in university mission statements—are such, which ask they are things of moral (Value, n.d.), something else altogether. My unpopular suspicion leans toward the latter. Personal opinions, course, hardly a justification for an impassioned critiqu...

Authentic leadership has emerged as a positive approach that stimulates psychological and ethical safety in the work environment to enhance organizational outcomes. Grounded on authentic three- factor model, purpose of this study was develop fuller understanding from lived experiences nascent entrepreneurs. Applying phenomenological research method, we explored 10 founder-CEOs Information Techn...

The authors wish to thank Deepak Hegde for sharing data for this project. Abstract: As part of the recent interest in serial entrepreneurship, studies have investigated the presence (or absence) of learning benefits from a first to a second venture. We extend this literature by integrating behavioral concepts on attribution and learning from failure that highlight the differences in behavioral ...

We integrate insights from the social embeddedness perspective with research on immigrant entrepreneurship to theorize on how family resources influence exit from entrepreneurship among previously unemployed immigrant entrepreneurs. Results from a cohort study of immigrant entrepreneurs in Sweden reveal that family resources are important for immigrants to integrate economically into a country....

one of the most difficult and the most common behavioral problems in people with mental retardation, from mild to severe, that adversely affect interpersonal behavior and unpleasant effect on people's moods and mental self. social skills is a process that individuals understand and predict the behavior of others and also control their behavior and regulate social interactions.quasi-experimental...