This chapter aims to define a coherent theoretical framework enabling a broader understanding of the strategic entrepreneurial orientation (SEO) and to evaluate their effects on small firm growth. A sample made up of 211 small Portuguese firms from various different sectors of activity was surveyed by questionnaire. The results demonstrate how the life-cycle of companies, their resources, capac...

In Philosophy, the term awareness is often associated to theories of consciousness and self-referential behavior. In computer science, the awareness is a topic of increasing relevance in both Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, being closely related to autonomy and proactiveness. We can distinguish two orders of awareness: the first order is the awareness of the environment also k...

The paper proposes a scheme, referred to as proactive server roaming, to mitigate the effects of denial of service (DoS) attacks. The scheme is based on the concept of ‘‘replicated elusive service’’, which through server roaming, causes the service to physically migrate from one physical location to another. Furthermore, the proactiveness of the scheme makes it difficult for attackers to guess ...

Services in pervasive computing systems must evolve so that they become minimally intrusive and exhibit inherent proactiveness and dynamic adaptability to the current conditions, user preferences and environment. Context awareness has the potential to greatly reduce the human attention and interaction bottlenecks, to give the user the impression that services fade into the background, and to su...

What is agent? Just like Artificial Intelligence (AI), there are multiple definitions to it, however not a single definition could be agreed upon by all researchers and developers in the world. We could view Agent and Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) as a new programming paradigm that has evolved itself from Object Oriented Software Engineering (OOSE). AOSE has placed greater emphasis...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate the level of agricultural extension entrepreneurship in the process of sustainable agricultural development. the statistical population of the study was composed of agricultural extension experts (n=2882). the method of sampling was a systematic random sampling one. questionnaire was the means employed for data collection. questionnaire validati...

In this paper we study non-geographical and mobile multi-hop ad hoc routing in a Underwater Sensor Network (UWSN), which is a novel network paradigm for ad hoc investigation of the world below the water surface using a wireless acoustic channel. However, the large propagation latency and very low bandwidth of the acoustic channel could potentially generate ubiquitous collisions and thus, any pr...

Purpose This study aims to examine the influence of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) dimensions (innovativeness, risk-taking, proactiveness, competitive aggressiveness and autonomy) on export performance (EXP) small medium enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach In this a cross-sectional survey design was used data were collected from 250 managers manufacturing-exporting SMEs in Tanzani...

in the current age, having entrepreneur approach to public administration in public organizations is one of the critical issues that affect the output of the organizations, especially in developing and less developing countries. although the approach is vital for public organizations, but unfortunately, few studies focused on it. the nature of the study is quantitative and based on applied and ...

In prior studies, several researchers have adopted entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in determining students’ intention toward entrepreneurship, although the application of EO is scant social entrepreneurship existing literature. Hence, consideration this research gap, current study empirically examines influence dimensions (SEO): vision, proactiveness, innovativeness, and risk-taking motive on ...