This study examined the dispositional optimism and entrepreneurial intent of undergraduate American and Canadian entrepreneurship students. It was found that American entrepreneurship students had lower levels of dispositional optimism (one’s positive expectation for the future), a defining characteristic of successful entrepreneurs, when compared to Canadian entrepreneurship students. Moreover...

Policy interest since the early 1980s has focused in different ways on the creation of a large, productive, taxable economy – in which entrepreneurship plays a role for employment, income growth and innovation. The current understanding of various forms of entrepreneurship remains incomplete, focusing largely on productive and unproductive entrepreneurship. However, destructive entrepreneurship...

Social entrepreneurship is a growing phenomenon, both in practice and in the scientiÞ c community. The main goal of this research is to examine speciÞ c personal characteristics that might support one’s decision to pursue social entrepreneurship as a career choice. The research sample consisted of 114 students of two graduate entrepreneurship programs: Economics of Entrepreneurship at the Facul...

Entrepreneurship education has two effects: it improves students’ entrepreneurial skills and provides impetus to those suited to entrepreneurship while discouraging others. While entrepreneurship education helps students to make a vocational decision its effects may conflict for those unsuited to entrepreneurship. We show that vocational and skill formation effects of entrepreneurship education...

Guided by the Triple Bottom Line theory, this study aims to acquire a deeper understanding of passion and challenges that entrepreneurs face in developing their sustainable apparel businesses. Qualitative data were collected via personal interviews with research goal giving thematic description experience entrepreneurs. Purposive sampling was used select five Southeastern U.S. Four themes emerg...

Authentic leadership has emerged as a positive approach that stimulates psychological and ethical safety in the work environment to enhance organizational outcomes. Grounded on authentic three- factor model, purpose of this study was develop fuller understanding from lived experiences nascent entrepreneurs. Applying phenomenological research method, we explored 10 founder-CEOs Information Techn...

Purpose The main purpose of this research is to investigate factors influencing rural women entrepreneurship development and sustainable livelihoods in Manicaland province Zimbabwe. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative was conducted Data were collected through structured questionnaires from 400 entrepreneurs various sectors. participants vegetable vending, operating clothing flea markets ...