This introductory, non-technical, article offers a reflective overview of what Economics adds to our understanding of entrepreneurship. It is designed primarily to showcase to young entrepreneurship scholars several interesting research questions and a toolbox of methods to answer them. First, I will illustrate the kinds of questions that can be posed and answered using Economics. Then I will p...

Many researchers have discussed the relation between entrepreneurship and innovation based on the process, structure, and strategy of either entrepreneurship or innovation (Littunen, 2000, Cornwall and Perlman, 1990, Caird, 1988; Casson, 1982). While others have touched on the conceptual relationship between entrepreneurship and innovation (Schumpeter, 1934, Drucker, 1994, Legge and Hindle, 199...

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 ...

This study aims to investigate the relationships between human resource management and entrepreneurship in the view of owner-managers and employees, and among employees with in the SME in Thailand. The research method used qualitative method to confirm the phenomenology interest with top management position which women are regarding their career path by using purposive sampling method. The resu...

Prior Work: Two broad perspectives reconceptualise entrepreneurship as social change, namely the movements spearheaded by Hjorth and Steyaert (2003, 2004, 2006, 2009), and the feminist perspectives of Calás et al., (2009). In the former case, empirical examples have been cited to illustrate the activity of ‘public entrepreneurship’ and the ways in which individual citizens have created new civi...

The fact of growth of inequality in distribution of income both inside the national economies and between the countries is confirmed by many empirical studies. In particular, these are annual reports of the World Bank, UNIDO and European Commission. The growth of inequality in distribution of income causes social tension inside the countries and promotes conflicts between the countries. Entrepr...

Entrepreneurship and Economic Organization Because entrepreneurs in many ways personify market forces, one might expect them to be the central figures in economics. Similarly, because most entrepreneurial ventures somehow involve a firm, entrepreneurship would seem to be a core element of the economics of organization (represented, for example, by Milgrom and Roberts). However, entrepreneurship...

In a synthesis of the relevant social cognition, human resources, stakeholder, and entrepreneurship literatures, this article explores how perceptions about entrepreneurship affect entrepreneurial behavior and job security seeking. Definitions and reasons for the apparent incompatibility of entrepreneurship and job security are analyzed, with the impact of cognitions about the two terms being a...

Currently much importance is given to entrepreneurship in the economic development of the countries. Also, in the educational system (from primary school to college) value is given to the teaching of entrepreneurship concepts through many initiatives spread throughout the world. However, in primary school these initiatives are still rare, and this is a context where we consider the existence of...

This study focuses on the supplemented strategies of microfinance institutions (MFIs), in which the MFI offers nonfinancial services, such as entrepreneurship related knowledge, in addition to financial services to impoverished borrowers at the bottom of the pyramid (BoP). We examine two contextual factors–foreign direct investment (FDI) and loan defaults–to better understand the relationship b...