Decision-making processes cross all sequential managerial functions. The quality of outcomes from these processes is decisive for the prosperity and viability of the managed (entrepreneurial) entity (unit). It depends on the quality of the information available and its use for making a decision. For the sake of decision-making process quality, a manager should not – particularly if the manageme...

Economie research in the past decade has paid much attention to the motives of entrepreneurial behaviour in a Neo-Schumpeterian spirit. Entrepreneurial decisions are by definition characterized by uncertainty regarding future events. Rational expectations theories have become a major new line of thought in dealing with future uncertainty. In the literature we find mainly attempts to estimate in...

The high capacity of the agricultural sector in Kermanshah Province needs more attention for some reasons including weather and climate conditions, access to fertile lands, and ready-made labor force. The current research seeks to achieve a major strategy for the development of entrepreneurship activities in the agricultural sector of Kermanshah Province. To reach end a mixed research method wa...

Successful start-ups require a number of organizational, efficient and systematic entrepreneurial actions. In addition to the acquisition and the successful use of resources, especially the identification and development of ideas to business models play an important role for the company's success. In this context, creativity exhibits a major importance and creativity support in the phase entrep...

In this paper, we examine the duality gap between the robust counterpart of a primal uncertain convex optimization problem and the optimistic counterpart of its uncertain Lagrangian dual and identify the classes of uncertain problems which do not have a duality gap. The absence of a duality gap (or equivalently zero duality gap) means that the primal worst value equals the dual best value. We f...

The topic of entrepreneurship has been the subject of a considerable amount of academic interest over the last twenty years. Despite a vast amount of published work there have been very few attempts to study the entrepreneurial process. In other words, we know little of the what happens as an entrepreneur moves from idea to the objective reality of a fully functioning business. A more recent ph...