While e-business has been playing an increasingly role in facilitating firms to conduct businesses, there is a dearth of research examing the antecedcents and outcomes of e-business use in the entrepreneurial small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs). Drawing upon the technology-organizationenvironment (TOE) framework and resource-based view (RBV) of the firm theory, we develop, theorize, and test an ...

the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between entrepreneurial personality characteristics and small and medium-sized sport enterprises start-up (smses). the methodology of this study was descriptive-correlation. population consisted of small and medium-sized sport enterprises (n=1500) and their owners and/or managers were randomly selected as the sample (n=258). for data colle...

This research as a practical, quantitative, and descriptive survey was conducted with the aim of studying the impact of leadership styles and organizational culture on employees' entrepreneurial orientation. The statistical population included 110 employees of Saveh educational organization. By using the method of random sampling, 68 people were selected as the sample. Data analysis was conduct...

This research as a practical, quantitative, and descriptive survey was conducted with the aim of studying the impact of leadership styles and organizational culture on employees' entrepreneurial orientation. The statistical population included 110 employees of Saveh educational organization. By using the method of random sampling, 68 people were selected as the sample. Data analysis was conduct...

Gendered relations in resource access and farming are two important intersecting themes of gender studies in a northern rural context. However, conventional analysis and perceptions of the economy conceal the contribution of women within families, in businesses and in the labor market. This article demonstrate the significance of capital to farming women’s engagement with agriculture using a Sw...

The enterprise culture is founded on the premise that entrepreneurship is the engine that drives the economy. One aspect of this cultural pervasion is the increase in the numbers of educational institutions teaching entrepreneurship courses. Yet this hegemony of the encouragement of new business start-up, almost for its own sake, needs to be critically reviewed. One aspect is the enigmatic natu...

By reflecting on the polymorphous aspects of firms’ strategic responses to environmental dynamics, we differentiate two distinctive types of agility, namely, entrepreneurial agility (anticipating and proactive) and adaptive agility (sensing and reactive). In this light, we investigate how and why firms’ IT and operational capabilities can enable these two types of agility, thereby leading to su...

A new liaison role between Information Systems (IS) and users, the relationship manager (RM), has recently emerged. Accolding to the prescriptive literature, RMs add value by deep understanding of the businesses they serve and technologyleadership. Uttle is known, however, about their actual work practices. Is the RM an intermediary, filtering information and sometimes misinformation, from clie...

Entrepreneurial orientation as a concept has gained the attention of scholars over last decade. It also became interesting to find out its relationship with business performance in South-West Nigeria. This study set any measure influence that entrepreneurship well entrepreneurial may assert on medium size businesses, Nigeria sample location. The results showed pro-activeness (β = 0.145), compet...