The aim of the research is to investigate the factors influencing entrepreneurial behavior of individuals within a corporation. We define entrepreneurial behavior as “discovery, evaluation and exploitation of opportunities in order to create future goods and services”. Corporate entrepreneurial behavior, in its turn, is subject to a number of constraints and opportunities imposed by the organiz...

Foreign investors in developing countries are exposed to comparatively high levels of environmental uncertainty and often use political activities to manage this uncertainty. At the same time, international entrepreneurs seek out uncertain environments, because of the potential opportunities and upside potential associated with uncertain situations. We investigate the interplay between politica...

Objectives Even though entrepreneurial education is quite a new phenomenon in higher education, as a field of inquiry it is one of the most rapidly growing areas of research. However there is a wide spread consensus that traditional pedagogical methods of learning alone are insufficient to adequately develop entrepreneurs to deal with the complexities of running and creating innovating business...

Objectives Even though entrepreneurial education is quite a new phenomenon in higher education, as a field of inquiry it is one of the most rapidly growing areas of research. However there is a wide spread consensus that traditional pedagogical methods of learning alone are insufficient to adequately develop entrepreneurs to deal with the complexities of running and creating innovating business...

Growth is an important consideration in any business and more so for entrepreneurial firms. Many fast growth firms are considered entrepreneurial and pursue growth using innovative strategies (Das & He, 2006; Larson, 1992). However, there is anecdotal evidence that some firms achieve growth because of favourable circumstances such as being in the right industry at the right time. The purpose of...

Knowledge of factors that determine the transition from nascent entrepreneurship into real entrepreneurship is of major importance for policies aiming to effectively stimulate start-ups. Whereas scholars concentrated on person-specific factors to explain transition probabilities, environmental characteristics have been fairly neglected. Given that entrepreneurship is a strongly localized phenom...

Prior research on middle managers has emphasized their vital role in the strategic and entrepreneurial process of established organizations. Yet we still know relatively little about how their actual behavior translates into superior performance. In this paper I examine how entrepreneurial behavior of middle managers—defined as innovative use of resources to explore and exploit opportunities—af...

extended abstract 1. introduction so far, different strategies have been proposed for rural development in different periods of time. based on international experiences and the current conditions in iran, this country needs to use a new approach to rural development. in this regard, rural entrepreneurship development strategy can be pointed out. there is a growing consensus that entrepreneurshi...