This study analyzes the effect of conditional mediation of environment-absorptive capacity in international entrepreneurial orientation of family businesses. Results involve data from 218 Spanish family businesses, analyzed with SmartPLS 3.2.7 software. This paper presents a relevant contribution both to the academic field and the performance of family firms, helping to understand the process o...

A review of entrepreneurship literature suggests that entrepreneurial activities are the most important drivers for economic growth and corporate success, regardless of size, age or industry. Nevertheless, so far, only a few studies, if any, have considered entrepreneurship as a success factor for construction enterprises, although the importance of the construction industry to the nation’s eco...

an explanatory survey was carried out in 2008 to investigate the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (eo), environmental factors, human capital and organizational characteristics vs. entrepreneurial performance among entrepreneurial firms in iranian agricultural sector. data were obtained from a sample of 120 iranian agricultural establishments, using an interview-oriented question...

Today, no company is safe from forces and pressures, which are exerted on it, because of a significant number of the requirements in particular as regards competitiveness, the need for change, or the crises, the deregulations and the cost of energy. To face this news gives, the company must reconsider its behaviors and its practices to renew itself, to open out and reinforce its international p...

The presented study focused on different stages of the entrepreneurial process. The first group comprised those starting a new business and the second group those who have been through the whole process of creating a new business and have now been operating in the market. The general aim of the article was to examine the relationship between action orientation, hope, goal commitment, entreprene...

Managers of large technology firms are routinely expected to improve the performance of their development projects. This expectation arises because of the need for firm competitiveness and because externalization of technology development through outsourcing and acquisition is an alternative to internal product projects (Granstrand and Sjölander, 1990; tinyurl.com/mhtrv77). Improvements can tak...