Background Community pharmacy has been a lucrative area of practice for pharmacists in Jos, Nigeria, until about the turn of the millennium where a decline in viability of the business has been observed. Objective This study assessed the entrepreneurial skills of community pharmacists, the business performance of community pharmacies and the impact of their entrepreneurial skills on business ...

Investing in new projects and technologies by mature firms is a challenging endeavour that often fails to create lasting significant growth for firms (Jensen, 1993). Investments in entrepreneurial ventures by outsiders such as venture capitalists that often rely on new technology can, however, be even more challenging (Christensen, 2000). Venture capitalists have found ways to reduce the risk a...

Venture creation is an entrepreneurial process initiated by nascent entrepreneurs to identify and exploit opportunities. Beliefs of opportunity feasibility are found facilitate new venture emergence in developed economy contexts. This paper examines how beliefs influence emerging context. The results the Chinese Panel Study Entrepreneurial Dynamics show that negatively related speed resource ac...

The prevailing theories of entrepreneurship have typically revolved around the ability of individuals to recognize opportunities and then to act on them by starting a new venture. This has generated a literature asking why entrepreneurial behaviour varies across individuals with different characteristics while implicitly holding the external context in which the individual finds herself to be c...

Résumé : We study the specific rationale governing entrepreneur-investor relations in young ventures which raise equity capital from different investor types in pursuit of a strong growth strategy. Special emphasis is put on the governance process through which investors and entrepreneurs interact in a complex setting, where an entrepreneur faces at least two distinct investor types (business a...