In order to identify the effect of academic entrepreneurial orientation on scientific activity, this work compares the publication performance of entrepreneurial scientists (Edison and Pasteur-scientists) with that of traditional scientists (Bohr and Other-scientists). The majority of contributions found in the literature have generally conveyed that entrepreneurial academics show a better and ...

Entrepreneurial aspiration and transition into selfemployment: evidence from British longitudinal data Andrew Henley To cite this article: Andrew Henley (2007) Entrepreneurial aspiration and transition into self-employment: evidence from British longitudinal data, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 19:3, 253-280, DOI: 10.1080/08985620701223080 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10...

Entrepreneurial orientation and the franchise system: organisational antecedents and performance outcomes Type Article URL http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/6073/ Date 2013 Citation Dada, Olufunmilola and Watson, Anna (2013) Entrepreneurial orientation and the franchise system: organisational antecedents and performance outcomes. European Journal of Marketing, 47 (5/6). pp. 790-812. Creators ...

This thesis sets out to develop a model of entrepreneurial action that takes its point of departure in entrepreneurs’ experiences of risk-taking, opportunity identification and the role of self. By focusing on what entrepreneurs experience as relevant aspects of their life worlds the goal is to attain a better understanding of the drivers and motivations of venture creation and development. Act...

Funding information Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto; SSHRC Research Summary: We evaluate a technology entrepreneurship training program by comparing career decisions among applicants accepted into the program with unaccepted applicants who are program finalists. We fin...

Entrepreneurial Couples We study possible motivations for co-entrepreneurial couples to start up a joint firm, using a sample of 1,069 Danish couples that established a joint enterprise between 2001 and 2010. We compare their pre-entry characteristics, firm performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find evidence that ...

the main purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of entrepreneurial characteristics of members of technical and engineering companies and agricultural advisory services on their willingness toward entrepreneurial activities. entrepreneurship development plays an important role in job creation process which can eventually lead to the achievement of sustainable development goals in ag...

In this paper we study the labour market behavior of employed individuals that have entrepreneurial aspirations in addition to aspirations to switch job. We analyze empirically these two “search processes” and, inspired by Lazear’s (2002) recent jack-ofall-trades hypothesis, focus specifically on the effects of varied experience on them. We report three main findings. First, entrepreneurial asp...

From a meta-model linking a firm’s corporate governance system to managerial discretion (Charreaux, 2008), this article presents a specific corporate governance model for the high growth entrepreneurial firm. A survey of the empirical literature on the governance of entrepreneurial firms confirms the plausibility of this theoretical framework, especially with respect to the cognitive dimension ...