the purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of entrepreneurship on organizational outcomes agricultural extension in the context of agricultural sustainable development. this paper aimed to identify the key dimensions of entrepreneurship and determine how these dimensions influence the outcomes of agricultural extension organizations in the context of agricultural sustainable dev...

Research suggests that there are cross-cultural variations in entrepreneurial entry rates (Autio et al., 2013) and it seems that this in part stems from differences in cultural values. Hayton et al (2002) argue that differences in cultural values may mean that the extent to which entrepreneurial behaviours, such as risk taking and independent thinking are considered desirable will differ betwee...

WHAT IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP? The Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of entrepreneur is “one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise.” Each of these words is important. Entrepreneurship occurs in a business context, meaning the objective is to sell a product or service and make a profit. In business, risk is associated with uncertainty, which most commonly arise...

Entrepreneurs have been traditionally epitomized as rugged individuals garnering creative forces of innovation and technology. Applying this traditional, limited, and narrow view of entrepreneurship to ethnic firm creation and growth is to ignore or discount core cultural values of the ethnic contexts in which these firms operate. It is no longer possible to depend solely on human capital theor...

in spite of the importance of academic entrepreneurship, universities and higher education institutions lack accurate information and measures to monitor and evaluate activities of academic entrepreneurship. indicators of academic entrepreneurship could be used as units of strategic information for planning entrepreneurial university development.  thus, this research aimed to identify and valid...

Drawing on institutional economics, this article investigates how different contexts condition the prevalence of export-oriented entrepreneurship, which affects economic growth. We place emphasis differences between developed and developing countries through interaction effects that allow us to test for differential validity. Using simultaneous equation panel data models a sample 43 (2004–2012)...

Entrepreneurship is influenced by many factors and environments such as institutions. Institutions have an important role to play in the individual's tendency toward necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper was to examine the impact of institutional quality (property rights) on opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship. The results, based on unbalanced panel data f...