Entrepreneurship is gaining prominence in schools and colleges across the world. Almost all management post graduate degree program in our country teach the subject through lecture, experiential or a combination of both the methods. The purpose is to make the student aware about the subject and may be to make their entrepreneurial intention stronger. It has been found that individual’s intentio...

As healthcare organizations rely more heavily on IT, there is a growing need to understand innovative IT use in these organizations. First, this research introduces the concept of ehealth absorptive capacity which consists of e-health entrepreneurial alertness, assimilation and exploitation, based on Cohen and Levinthal (1990)’s absorptive capacity theory. We then address the theoretical neglec...

E-businesses play a critical role in today's knowledge-based economies. Despite their ‎increasing portion, e-businesses experience high rates of failure. Therefore, it is of prime ‎importance to identify their decision-making activities encountering outer competitive forces ‎and their internal structural events. In this study, through using the Grounded Theory approach, we ‎analyze interviews c...

Recent work links entrepreneurship to the economic theory of firm using the Knightian concept of entrepreneurship as judgment. When judgment is complementary to other assets, and these assets or their services are traded in well-functioning markets, it makes sense for entrepreneurs to hire labor and own assets. The entrepreneur’s role, then, is to arrange or organize the human and capital asset...

Contrary to the neo-liberal thesis that entrepreneuring is an open and accessible endeavour where personal effort alone determines reward and status, it has been demonstrated that there is a persistent, but occluded, gender bias within the entrepreneurial discourse. Accordingly, women are positioned as lacking and incomplete men; however, despite calls to employ feminist theory as an analytical...

The most effective way to synthesise the insights of transactions cost-based and resource-based theories of the firm is to build the theory of the firm around the personality of the entrepreneur. The theory of entrepreneurship has a long tradition, going back to Cantillon and Say, but its contribution to the theory of the firm is often ignored. An entrepreneur is someone who specialises in iden...

This paper models the entrepreneurial process as both creation and discovery composed of an iterative two-step process where entrepreneurs create social networks based on subjective expectations about the future effectiveness of those networks, and then choose the innovation to pursue and map a search process to discover how to bring the innovation to fruition. Critical to this process is the m...

Regulatory focus theory delineates how people engage in self-regulation, the process of bringing oneself into alignment with one’s standards and goals. At any given point in time, people may engage in self-regulation with a promotion focus or a prevention focus. When promotion-focused, people’s growth and advancement needs motivate them to try to bring themselves into alignment with their ideal...