Entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity are considered key factors of the economic growth because they usually bring on behaviors aligned with the market development, productivity and social cohesion. This study aims to analyze the factors that influence the entrepreneurial role, and provide a better understanding of this behavior from a dynamic perspective, in order to support policies for...

Entrepreneurship education (EPE) plays a vital role to enhance employment creation and reduce poverty. Marketing audit is a main tool for evaluating and improving the marketing performance in a manufacturing or service sector. Despite the vast amount of literature which emphasizes entrepreneurship education, no empirical studies address the marketing audit model for EPE in the higher education ...

Background: Entrepreneurship as a pillar of the development process in society derives from a socio-cultural context and ethics as a dimension of culture has a vibrant role in entrepreneurship. Therefore, the present study was designed to identify the factors that influence ethical entrepreneurial intention.  Method: A qualitative research approach was conducted using the data base method. The...

To complement the previous attempts to define the elusive concept of entrepreneurship, this study examines the impact of firm origin on small business owners/entrepreneurs and the characteristics of their firms. A review of previous typologies is presented along with a categorization of the groups of business owners/entrepreneurs from those typologies into three basic groupings: 1) Creators, mo...

School of Management, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Department of Business Administration, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain; Wolfram Research, Champaign, USA; Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota...

The study of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship has recently undergone a metamorphosis as scholars from diverse fields such as sociology, anthropology and business strategy apply their disciplinary concepts to the antecedents and consequences of new venture creation. Much of the impetus has derived from the growing acceptance of the idea that entrepreneurship, both within the context of existin...