this research aims to design the portfolio entrepreneurship model and to analyze the effect of social capital, prior experience and knowledge, the entrepreneur’s financial resources, as well as human capital on portfolio entrepreneurship and also to investigate the effect of portfolio entrepreneurship on recognition of new opportunities, as well as business growth and development. the research ...

regarding the importance of small & medium enterprises (smes) in economical and social growth process as well as the special attention of planners and policy-makers to this significant issue, it is necessary to take radical initiatives to improve the conditions of different enterprises. in various studies, connoisseurs and researchers have found that unchallengeable treatment of making small & ...

Background. This research aimed at identifying the consequences of strategic entrepreneurship in sports business. Objectives. The objective of the research is to identify the consequences of deployment of strategic entrepreneurship in sports business. Method. A qualitative research approach was employed. Data collection was done through interview as well as research background. The population...

Entrepreneurship and Economic Organization Because entrepreneurs in many ways personify market forces, one might expect them to be the central figures in economics. Similarly, because most entrepreneurial ventures somehow involve a firm, entrepreneurship would seem to be a core element of the economics of organization (represented, for example, by Milgrom and Roberts). However, entrepreneurship...

development of modern economy without private sector and high vigilance entrepreneurs is vital to identify opportunities and use of opportunities around the world. in this regard, identifying the influencing factors on emergence and development of entrepreneurship culture can be effective to promote entrepreneurship in our country. for this purpose, the main issue in this study is to identify t...

Entrepreneurship is seen as a viable and powerful job engine for the U.S. economy. In 2008, 18.7% of workers 18-64 were either an owner-manager of an established business or involved in early-stage entrepreneurial activity For many women, entrepreneurship has been hailed as a welcoming workplace with great opportunity. Studies and growth projections by government and trade organizations such as...

the corporate entrepreneurship (ce) of firms and enterprises is the subject of current research in the fields of management and business. however, analyses on this subject in agricultural firms are lacking. the purpose of this research was to study the relationships between corporate entrepreneurship and firm performance in agricultural small and medium-sized enterprises (asmes) in iran. specif...

Entrepreneurial Marketing (EM) is a theoretical construct at the nexus between marketing and entrepreneurship, with a relatively long existence – over thirty years but insufficiently developed. Entrepreneurial thinking, which is nonlinear, creative and avoids predictions, contradicts the traditional marketing model. Thus a “divorce” appears between marketing theory which emphasizes managerial m...

This paper examines the impact of government guaranteed small business loans on economic growth, and whether government guaranteed loans crowd out new businesses financed through the market. OLS estimates indicate a significant and positive relation between the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) guaranteed loans and metropolitan growth between 1993 and 2002. However, endogeneity hinders caus...