The relationship between institutional change and entrepreneurship is poorly understood. We build the theory in this area by tracing institutional change in the US electric power industry over a 40-year period. Our analysis shows that environmental jolts mobilize actors to reformulate institutions, resulting in increased entrepreneurial opportunity. When the institutional environment is stable,...

entrepreneurship is considered as an appropriate approach to accelerate economic development and provide employment opportunities. with this regard, entrepreneurial intention is the main determinant factor in deciding to be an entrepreneur. in order to obtain sufficient knowledge about entrepreneurship and its determinants, entrepreneurial intention of payame noor university students was studie...

Startups and established firms in service sectors mostly fall into the supplier dominated or information intensive categories of Pavitt’s taxonomy. Entrepreneurs these are not isolated from technological environment because they can also be innovative (at least) by adopting technologies outside. However, it has hardly been studied whether entrepreneurial intention pre-entrepreneurs influenced h...

the increase in the number of university graduates, especially at ma level, in the recent years on one hand and the disproportionate growth of employment on the other hand, has made graduates unemployment one of the major challenges of the country. most students prefer to be employed, while employment capacity in society and increase in the number of students do not match closely. entrepreneurs...

There has recently been a growing interest in IS innovation research regarding how institutional influences affect organizations’ adoption decisions under the label “organizational institutionalism”. However, there has been a lack of research regarding institutional influences on individual adopters in non-organizational adoption settings, although institutional theory's foundations apply to de...

Entrepreneurship has long been perceived as a crucial determinant for economic growth. There has been a considerable upsurge in researches trying to determine the main elements driving entrepreneurship and the channel through which entrepreneurship generates economic growth; however, a global consensus has not been reached yet on theoretical, methodological and empirical levels.  The basic prob...

Increasing rate of unemployment among the graduates of Iranian higher agricultural education system has been developed into one of the major socio-economic problems of the nation. Entrepreneurship is one of the most important factors contributing to economic and social development, that is, it is a main driver for employment creation. As such, many policy initiatives in Iran attempt to pull agr...

opportunity recognition is a key focal point of research in the entrepreneurship domain in recent years. the purpose of this study was to incorporate individual and environmental factors into a research model in order to investigate the moderating effect of entrepreneurial environment on the relationships between creativity, entrepreneurial experience and entrepreneurial role models and opportu...

This study examined the relationships between Big Six personality and entrepreneurial intention, inclusive of the mediating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy in the Chinese context. Survey data from 280 college students reveal that Emotional Stability, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Interpersonal Relationship were positively associated with entrepreneurial intention. Agreeableness and...