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...

How employee entrepreneurship spreads through interpersonal influence (interaction between coworkers and employee) in organization becomes an important issue which remained unsolved. Drawing on social learning theory, the purpose of this study is to test verify how former coworkers’ entrepreneurial performance impact current entrepreneurship, what role does employee’s self-efficacy play will be...

Despite the central role played by human capital in entrepreneurship, little is known about how employees in entrepreneurial firms are compensated and incentivized. We address this gap in the literature by studying 18,935 non-CEO compensation contracts across 1,809 privately-held venture-backed companies. Our key finding is that employee compensation varies with the degree to which VCs versus f...

A common phenomenon in entrepreneurship is that employees turn away from employment to found their own businesses. Prior literature discusses the former employers’ characteristics that influence the creation of entrepreneurial ventures. An investigation of whether these characteristics also affect the success of the spawned ventures is missing so far. This paper contributes to the literature by...

20 AbstrAct. In this paper we outline the status quo of ethics and social responsibility in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the European Union (EU). Social issues and SMEs is an established topic of research and subject of policy-making in Europe, and thus in this paper we are able to draw on existing activities to summarise what we know about the topic. We describe the important p...

Future undergraduate Computer Science and Software Engineering curricula need to be revitalized. This revitalization is based on promoting and practicing computational thinking. Computational thinking could seed entrepreneurship if we provide our computer science and software engineering students with entrepreneurial skills and discover potential entrepreneurs among them. Entrepreneurship devel...

One way to overcome the problem of unemployment is change mindset that in meeting needs life, one does not have work as an employee or employee, but able play a role business pioneer. This study aims find out contribution level entrepreneurship education and creativity taking into account factors support entrepreneurs’ intents. type investigation was ex post facto with quota sampling technique ...