Climate change is one of the most important challenges of the current century, affecting agriculture more than other ones, an entrepreneur farmer perceives environmental challenges and changes as an opportunity. In this regard, this study aims to analyze the effects of climate change dimensions on Entrepreneurial Opportunities Recognition(EOR) intheagricultural sector of Kermanshah Province, Ir...

Entrepreneurs can make an impact on reducing environmental and societal problems. This study empirically explores when entrepreneurs become more likely to identify sustainable opportunities. How do their existing business arrangements enable or constrain the identification of sustainable opportunities and how is this influenced by interactions in the entrepreneurial team? We find that some perc...

entrepreneurship has been known as a method of identifying new opportunities, allocating resources in the situation of uncertainty and creating an organization to manage resources. this paper describes religious learning approaches in which entrepreneurship is beneficial to society and individuals through its economic advantages. the benefits are gained through innovation, productivity and new ...

Researchers and practitioners are increasingly interested in entrepreneurship as a means to fight youth unemployment and to improve financial stability at higher ages. However, only few studies so far have examined the association between age and entrepreneurial activity. Based on theories from the lifespan psychology literature and entrepreneurship, we develop and test a model in which perceiv...

A pressing question in entrepreneurial research is where opportunities come from. Prior research indicates that some opportunities stem from known parameters and outcomes; some are discovered through engagement with unknown but knowable factors; and others are unknowable until brought into being through a creative process. This paper explores the second and more prevailing view in entrepreneuri...

We examine how the social structure of existing organizations influences the entrepreneurial process and suggest that resources accrue to entrepreneurs based on the structural position of their prior employers. We argue that information advantages allow individuals from entrepreneurially prominent prior firms to identify new opportunities. Entrepreneurial prominence also provides reputation ben...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, it intends to analyze the influence of human capital and social capital on the second of the stages in the process of entrepreneurial creation established by Shane and Venkataraman (2000), the discovery of opportunities for creating a business. Secondly, it aims to analyze the existence of gender differences both in the discovery of o...

Key words Strategy implementation Managing large traditional organizations Entrepreneurial behavior 2 ABSTRACT Innovative use of resources to pursue opportunities has become vital for all—even large traditional—organizations. While traditional management literature has identified contextual features to foster entrepreneurial behavior, little research has looked at why—in the same organizational...

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 ...