This paper focuses on differences in male and female early-stage entrepreneurship in Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia. The analysis was performed on two levels: cross-country analysis and inter-country analysis. The paper focuses on three main characteristics of early-stage entrepreneurial activity among adults: entrepre-neurial capacity, analysed through entrepreneurial awareness and risk aversio...

Entrepreneurship fosters economic development of a country. This appears more crucial and absolute necessity in emerging country context. The efforts have been laid for entrepreneurship development with the collaboration of academic institutions and industries. These collaborations try to transform academic based research into commercialized products to develop a knowledge based society. Govern...

We conceptualise life course pathways to entrepreneurship embedded in the resource-based view of the small enterprise. As a partial test, we propose a specific pathway structured by class and mediated by gender relations. This is operationalized employing 18 waves of the British Household Panel Survey and event history random effect logistic regression modelling. Findings suggest a primary, cla...

We examine entrepreneurship in multigenerational family firms. Specifically, we employ theoretical lenses drawn from both entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial orientation) and strategy (resource-based view) to develop an integrated model of transgenerational entrepreneurship. Following a review of the literature in these fields we develop propositions that articulate connections between a family f...

Public entrepreneurship is a management approach developed by the reinventing government movement. Reinvention is a response to more than two decades of conservative attacks on the efficacy of government. The Proposition 13 property tax revolt in California in the early 1970s started a relentless public and media fueled campaign for government to do more with less. The administrations of Ronald...

“Der Noth gehorchend, nicht dem eignen Trieb” – Nascent Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs in Germany: Evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM) Using a large recent representative sample of the adult German population this paper demonstrates that nascent necessity and nascent opportunity entrepreneurs are different with respect to some of the characteristics and attitudes ...