In this study, we extend the expert information processing theory approach to entrepreneurial cognition research. Through an empirical exploration of the new transaction commitment mindset among business people in the Canada, Mexico and the US. Using ANCOVA, MANOVA and Hierarchical Regression analysis of data from a cross-sectional sample of 417 respondents, our results provide a foundation for...

This paper illustrates how theory and evidence have been, and may be, quantitatively linked in the historical study of entrepreneurship, thereby allowing judgements about entrepreneurship’s causes and effects with increasing precision. First is considered the implications of identifying entrepreneurs with business founders, and the corresponding measure of entrepreneurship, the number of new fi...

Software startups face with multiple technical and business challenges, which could make the startup journey longer, or even become a failure. Little is known about entrepreneurial decision making as a direct force to startup development outcome. In this study, we attempted to apply a behavior theory of entrepreneurial firms to understand the root-cause of some software startup’s challenges. Si...

Kirzner’s (1973) theory of entrepreneurship emphasizes the equilibrating role of entrepreneurship. When the market is not in equilibrium, profit opportunities exist, and entrepreneurs discover and act on these profit opportunities to equilibrate the market. Because Kirzner focuses on entrepreneurial actions when profit opportunities exist, and does not describe where they come from, one could i...

In emerging economies, political institutions (i.e., government and its agencies), act as a major force in defining and mobilizing resources. IT entrepreneurial firms endeavor to obtain resources from political institutions, named as political institutional resources (PIRs), to overcome insurmountable handicap of resource deficiency. However, how PIRs matter remains unclear. Acknowledging this ...

Sciascia S., Mazzola P. and Chirico F. (2013). Generational involvement in the top management team of family firms: Exploring non-linear effects on entrepreneurial orientation. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. GENERATIONAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE TOP MANAGEMENT TEAM OF FAMILY FIRMS: EXPLORING NON-LINEAR EFFECTS ON ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION ABSTRACT The present study contends that an inverted ...

Governments keep subsidizing R&D of IT entrepreneurial firms greatly. However, the effect of these grants remains unclear. Acknowledging this gap, this study provides a nuanced perspective to understand the influence of government R&D grants on IT entrepreneurial firm performance. Based on the literature on organizational learning, we categorize government R&D grants into two types: explorative...

This paper considers how marketing can be made more appropriate in entrepreneurial contexts by proposing a conceptual model of the processes of marketing as undertaken by entrepreneurs. Although marketing is a key factor in the survival and development of business ventures, a number of entrepreneurial characteristics seem to be at variance with marketing according to the textbook. These include...