the purpose of this research was to study deterrent factors for entrepreneurship in relation with personality and environmental characteristics for graduates of agriculture. the statistical population of the research is composed of graduates (n=98) have been able to establish a business in the field of agricultural production, in boushehr province (one of the southern provinces of iran). validi...

Article history: Received 26 August 2015 Received in revised form 6 April 2016 Accepted 6 April 2016 Available online xxxx Venture creation generates value in a variety of forms both for the entrepreneur him or herself and the venture's stakeholders. Recent research explores entrepreneurial action as a vehicle for personal transformation and development for the individual, especially as it pert...

Crowdfunding has emerged as a prominent way for entrepreneurs to secure funding without sophisticated intermediation. In crowdfunding, an entrepreneur often has to decide how to disclose the campaign status in order to collect as many contributions as possible. Such decisions are difficult to make primarily due to incomplete information. We propose information design as a tool to help the entre...

Background: To determine the relationship between sexual satisfaction and marital satisfaction according to personal characteristics. Materials and Methods: This is Cross sectional study. 200 volunteer healthy 45-65 years old men, who were met in the public centers of well socioeconomic district in North of Tehran, were interviewed. The questioner had two main parts: 1) Personal Characteristics...

It has been found that design creativity is closely related with personal characteristics and design-related abilities. To verify this fact systematically, I inspected personal characteristics and learning styles. Moreover I assessed spatial perceptual ability, constructive perceptual ability and visual reasoning ability as design-related ability. Also, students were received several designrela...

We develop a real options perspective to explore how an entrepreneur-friendly bankruptcy law can encourage entrepreneurship development at the societal level. If bankrupt entrepreneurs are excessively punished for failure, they may let inherently high-risk but potentially high-return opportunities pass. We suggest that a more entrepreneur-friendly bankruptcy law, informed by a real options logi...

Vesting of equity payments to an entrepreneur, which is a form of time-contingent compensation, is very common in venture capital contracts. Empirical research suggests that vesting is used to help overcome asymmetric information and agency problems. We show in a theoretical model that vesting equity to an entrepreneur over a long period of time acts as a screening device against a bad entrepre...