Bai, W. 2017. The Best of Both Worlds. The Effects of Knowledge and Network Relationships on Performance of Returnee Entrepreneurial Firms. Doctoral thesis / Företagsekonomiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet 184. 105 pp. Uppsala: Företagsekonomiska institutionen. ISBN 978-91-506-2616-2. In an increasingly globalized business world, international human mobility and its association with entre...

AIMS Entering entrepreneurship (i.e. becoming an entrepreneur) is known to be a demanding activity with increased workload, financial uncertainty and increased levels of stress. However, there are no systematic studies on how entering entrepreneurship affects the people involved. METHODS The authors investigated prescriptions of psychotropics for 6,221 first-time entrepreneurs from 2001-2004 ...

Since the 1980s and increasingly since the 1990s entrepreneurship has become to stand for growth, prosperity, and employment. It has become one of the most publicly acclaimed and strategic areas of national and regional business policy, supported by interest towards entrepreneurship in policymaking. The high levels of unemployment have led policy makers to seek solutions, and one of the most pr...

The experience of work in an entrepreneurial context is saturated with emotional experiences. While the literature on the relation between affect and entrepreneurial performance (EP) is growing, there was no quantitative integration of the results so far. This study addresses this gap and meta-analytically integrates the results from 17 studies (N = 3810) in order to estimate the effect size fo...

Despite globalization and assumed institutional convergence, regions remain distinctive in its rules, norms, business practices, and regional culture. This paper examines the role of regional legacy for information technology entrepreneurship, with a survey of two regions in Japan. The study of Hamamatsu and Kyoto, both considered entrepreneurial seedbeds in contemporary Japan, indicate that ev...

This paper develops an analytical framework, namely the concept of entrepreneurial propensity of innovation systems by integrating knowledge intensive entrepreneurship (KIE) and innovation system (IS) concepts. It first uses a composite index methodology to measure knowledge intensive entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial opportunities at the national level. It then assesses the influence of the...

This article presents a review of research on entrepreneurship in Spain, paying particular attention to its beginnings, nature and main focus of interest. We have developed a database based on the review of 471 works produced between 1977 and 2009, including articles published in national and international journals and dissertations (read in Spain) that allowed us to extract the following resul...

This paper examines digital entrepreneurship in born digital and grown digital firms. Of late, digital entrepreneurship has garnered renewed attention from national leaders, practitioners, and academics due to the phenomenal success of a number of digital startups and the radical disruptions brought by the innovative use of technologies. Despite the significance and the promises of digital tech...