In the context of desperate poverty, characterized by households at subsistence level that experience economic loss and social fracture, explanations for why individuals undertake entry into entrepreneurship are limited. We find that individuals rely on their social relationships to enable entrepreneurial activities that have the potential to create a reasonable income gain. In a sample of 1,04...

Entrepreneurial networking has been a relatively under-researched area in the field of entrepreneurship. The apparent avoidance of this topic by researchers could be attributed to a multitude of speculative reasons, such as the multi-disciplinary nature of the topic; uncertainty with regard t o the nature and operation of entrepreneurial networking; disagreement among scholars on critical succe...

We examine entrepreneurship in multigenerational family firms. Specifically, we employ theoretical lenses drawn from both entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial orientation) and strategy (resource-based view) to develop an integrated model of transgenerational entrepreneurship. Following a review of the literature in these fields we develop propositions that articulate connections between a family f...

This paper discusses the characteristics and determinants of entrepreneurial behaviour in Uganda. It is based on a recent survey of urban and rural entrepreneurs, executed in May 2008. The main dependent variables are business success, gestation activities and innovative performance. The paper focuses in particular on the interplay of human and social capital in determining entrepreneurial perf...

regarding competitive world, economic factors and socialfactors could be effective on business. the social network has animportant role as social characteristics, propulsion and basic force forsocial cohesion in internet business activities. the purpose of this paper isto examine the impact of social networks on the internet businesssustainability by intermediation of entrepreneurial intention....

a measurement of entrepreneurial intention and locating factors that nurture it are among one of the determining factors that lead to the emergence of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, provide a better understanding of the quality of circumstances that bring about free enterprise and thus contribute to a more accurate prediction of the possibility of its occurrence. among factors that are inf...