This paper explores that application of evolutionary approaches to the study of entrepreneurship. It is argued an evolutionary theory of entrepreneurship must give as much concern to the foundations of evolutionary thought as it does the nature entrepreneurship. The central point being that we must move beyond a debate or preference of the natural selection and adaptationist viewpoints. Only th...

Today’s global social-political environment leads many to elevate entrepreneurship as a vehicle facilitating economic development. Even though different regions have similar new firm formation rates, there is a variation in terms of the contribution to economic development. Building on the resource based-view and Hofestede’s cultural dimensions, this paper proposes three factor view of the qual...

Purpose – In 2008, the world had undergone a global economic crisis. Since women always face greater difficulties in obtaining capital than men, the economic crisis had a greater effect on them. The purpose of this paper is to examine the implications of the global crisis for women’s entrepreneurship, from the perspective of equality, diversity and inclusion. Design/methodology/approach – The p...

s ta n da r d t o o l s f o r t e ac h i n g entrepreneurship generally include case studies, business plans and computer simulations. The article presented here reports on classroom experimentations conducted in different European contexts using repertory grids, the methodological tool of Personal Construct Theory (p c t) in entrepreneurship teaching. The innovative entrepreneurship pedagogy i...

Unemployment among the youth is a significant problem in South Africa. Large corporations and the public sector simply cannot create enough jobs. Too many youths in South Africa currently do not consider entrepreneurship as an option in order to become independent. Unlike the youth of the Netherlands, South African youth prefer to find employment in the public or private sector. The Netherlands...

This paper considers the general equilibrium and welfare effects of a linear progressive income tax with entrepreneurship and moral hazard. A competitive intermediation sector diversifies risk associated with entrepreneurial activity, but full risk consolidation is prevented by moral hazard. Since effort is not observable, risk bearing of entrepreneurs is required for incentive reasons. The ext...

The OTOP Entrepreneurship that used to create substantial source of income for local Thai communities are now in a stage of exigent matters that required assistances from public sectors due to over Entrepreneurship of duplicative ideas, unable to adjust costs and prices, lack of innovation, and inadequate of quality control. Moreover, there is a repetitive problem of middlemen who constantly co...

The area of Social entrepreneurship has become an important issue of contemporary relevance in academic literature and research. The paper puts forward a view of social entrepreneurship as a process that brings social change or addresses important social needs. Social entrepreneurship is seen as differing form other forms of enterprise where a high priority is given to promote social value and ...

According to Extenics principle, analyzed several contradictions that exist in entrepreneurship education in China. Using conjugate reasoning and transforming methods to convert the conjugated of issues dealing with conflicts, and propose effective alternatives evaluation to develop new strategies to enhance the level of entrepreneurs education. © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Se...