There is a well established correlation between initial entrepreneurship and subsequent employment growth across metropolitan areas. This relationship is true when modelling entrepreneurship through average establishment size or through the prevalence of startups; the relationship also holds at the industry level within cities. These patterns are often taken as evidence that entrepreneurship pr...

This paper provides an introduction into the field of international entrepreneurship. A definition of international entrepreneurship and associated key concepts is given and the research domain of international entrepreneurship is described. A substantial part of the international entrepreneurship literature concentrates on the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) a...

As an important economic activity, entrepreneurship greatly contributes to economic development. This paper aims to investigate the relationship between Chinese culture and entrepreneurship. From a psychocultural perspective, Chinese culture is considered from the following five aspects – self-construal, self-evaluation, communication style, public attitude toward business failure, and the lega...

Entrepreneurship is a missing component of several leading theories of the firm. Entrepreneurship is key to the growth and survival of firms in a volatile environment, because ent repreneurial judgement is necessary to success in making complex decisions under uncertainty. The addition of entrepreneurship is not a minor refinement of the theory of the firm, but represents a radical change. The ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the emerging practice of social entrepreneurship by exploring the historical and theoretical antecedents of social enterprise and its contemporary practice. By exploring key theoretical concepts, the paper draws comparisons between “for-profit” and social entrepreneurs. The paper seeks to discuss the contemporary practice of social entrepreneurs...

This paper explores the morality associated with entrepreneurship. It has been argued that there is no moral space in entrepreneurship, but such instrumental views may the miss out much of the nature of enterprise and how it is understood. Consequently we propose that a social constructed perspective, based upon the meanings of entrepreneurship, may help to understand the morality of entreprene...

Work on social entrepreneurship constitutes a field of study that intersects a number of domains, including entrepreneurial studies, social innovation, and nonprofit management. Scholars are beginning to contribute to the development of this new discipline through efforts that attempt to trace the emergence of social entrepreneurship as well as by comparing it to other organizational activities...

Successful entrepreneurship is an emergent outcome in a fundamentally economic sense that is distinguishable from emergence understood more generally. Successful entrepreneurship entails a process of forming innovative capital combinations that result in the enhancement of value. Value may be seen to have been created, to have emerged from the process. Successful entrepreneurship occurs within ...

The question of how new organizational forms are created remains an unsolved problem in new institutional theory. We argue that one important way that new organizational forms emerge is through a process of bridging institutional entrepreneurship, which involves an institutional entrepreneur combining aspects of established institutional logics to create a new type of organization underpinned b...