This article describes the process undertaken to make the transformation from a small entrepreneurial venture to an entrepreneurially-oriented, professionally-managed organization. It is a case study involving a company that grew from a small, independent mortgage company into a large, complex organization, offering a full array of financial products and services. The case focuses, in particula...

This conceptual paper introduces a dynamic learning perspective of entrepreneurship that builds upon existing ‘dominant’ theoretical approaches to understanding entrepreneurial activity. As many aspects of entrepreneurial learning remain poorly understood, this paper presents key conclusions from in-depth empirical work and synthesises a broad range of contributory adult, management and individ...

Entrepreneurial ventures rely not only on founders, but also on “joiners” – startup employees who are attracted to entrepreneurship but do not want to be founders themselves. Drawing upon both individual and contextual-level perspectives of entrepreneurship, we examine how interests in being a founder or a joiner form prior to the first career transition. We find that individuals with founder a...

Purpose – Entrepreneurial learning is an important area of enquiry which is not well understood in either the academic study of entrepreneurship or the practical development of new entrepreneurs. The article aims to explore two questions: first, how do people learn to work in entrepreneurial ways – are there significant processes and experiences in their learning, which can be related to existi...

This paper develops an analytical framework, namely the concept of entrepreneurial propensity of innovation systems by integrating knowledge intensive entrepreneurship (KIE) and innovation system (IS) concepts. It first uses a composite index methodology to measure knowledge intensive entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial opportunities at the national level. It then assesses the influence of the...

This article focuses on entrepreneurship in economic geography and aims at a systematic investigation of regional variation in knowledge-based entrepreneurial activity. We develop and test a three-phase structural model for regional systems of entrepreneurship after introducing a systems approach to entrepreneurship. The model is built upon the absorptive capacity theory of knowledge spillover ...

While the existing entrepreneurship literature has identified various antecedent factors that influence the intention and propensity of individuals to become entrepreneurs, there has been relatively few empirical studies covering the three East Asian NIEs of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, which have achieved among the highest average economic growth rate in the world over the last 30 years. A...

This paper reviews 51 international entrepreneurship articles gleaned from the ABI / Inform database of business citations. It divides the articles into four categories: (a) individual entrepreneurs and their traits, (b) entrepreneurial processes, (c) environmental factors, and (d) small and entrepreneurial ventures. It suggests that there is much room for further research, particularly in cros...

corporate entrepreneurship channels the efforts of an organization to create a series of sustainable competitive advantages as the basis for growth and profitability. corporate entrepreneurship seeks the basic goals of identifying and following opportunities to create new ventures and strategic renovation (recreation). this research is aimed at investigating the impact of the organizational ent...