This study adopts the push-entrepreneurship perspective and develops a conceptual framework grounded in prospect theory, in order to investigate whether source of sunemployment, layoff in particular, and duration of unemployment stimulate entrepreneurial intent. We also propose that fear of failure and risk propensity moderate the source/duration–entrepreneurial intent relationships. We test ou...

The question of how universities can most effectively contribute to student entrepreneurship remains important. Integrating theory planned behavior and person-environment fit theory, we investigated perceived university support relates students’ attitudes toward entrepreneurship, subjective norms, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, which in turn impact intentions. Moreover, moderating effects were ...

The purpose of this paper is to suggest that a fundamental shift in Europe, along with the other OECD countries, is taking place. This shift is from the managed economy to the entrepreneurial economy. While politicians and policy makers have made a plea for guidance in the era of entrepreneurship, scholars have been slow to respond. The purpose of this paper is to make a first step identifying ...

Knowledge of factors that determine the transition from nascent entrepreneurship into real entrepreneurship is of major importance for policies aiming to effectively stimulate start-ups. Whereas scholars concentrated on person-specific factors to explain transition probabilities, environmental characteristics have been fairly neglected. Given that entrepreneurship is a strongly localized phenom...

Studies of entrepreneurial orientation tend to examine its three most common features only (risk-taking, innovativeness, and proactiveness), merging these into a gestalt construct of entrepreneurial orientation and then analyzing its effect on business performance. This is in contrast to Lumpkin andDesswho stressed an entrepreneurial orientation is best characterized by five dimensions which ca...

We study market ine¢ ciencies and policy remedies when agents choose their occupations, and entrepreneurial talent is subject to private information. Untalented entrepreneurs depress the returns to entrepreneurship because of adverse selection. The severity of this problem depends on the outside option of entrepreneurs, which is working for wages. This links credit, product and labour markets. ...

Objective: The present study aims to investigate the role of institutional support structure in shaping intention form a social business using model Mair and Noboa (2006). Research Design & Methods: This utilized Structural Equation Modelling with sample 516 students Vietnam examine hypotheses. Findings: finding shows that is positively associated empathy, entrepreneurial self-efficacy perc...