This paper focuses on differences in male and female early-stage entrepreneurship in Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia. The analysis was performed on two levels: cross-country analysis and inter-country analysis. The paper focuses on three main characteristics of early-stage entrepreneurial activity among adults: entrepre-neurial capacity, analysed through entrepreneurial awareness and risk aversio...

ear Editor, As we know, individual differences play an important role in entrepreneurship ability (Zhao & Seibert, 2006). Some studies have found significant correlations between individuals' personality and entrepreneurship (White, et. al., 2006, 2007; Furnham and Nederstrom, 2010). Personality characteristics such as tolerance for risk, preference for autonomy, and innovativeness are importan...

The influence of the industrial sector is a longstanding assumption in entrepreneurship studies, yet the mechanisms through which the industrial sector shapes entrepreneurial phenomena and the processes through which entrepreneurial actors interact with sectors to prospect, develop and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities remain largely under-theorized and little understood. We critically re-e...

In this introduction to the Handbook of Entrepreneurial Cognition, we briefly review recent developments in social cognition and entrepreneurial cognition and the context in which these developments have arisen. Firstly, we present a high-level historical review of research done in social cognition more generally. Secondly, we review the roots of entrepreneurial cognition and the current state ...