the aim of this research was to investigate the role of formal education and extra curricular programs of physical education and sport sciences (msc courses) in providing entrepreneurial skills for postgraduates from senior students' viewpoint. statistical population of this research consisted of all senior students of general physical education (msc level) of all state universities of ira...

Purpose – Entrepreneurial learning is an important area of enquiry which is not well understood in either the academic study of entrepreneurship or the practical development of new entrepreneurs. The article aims to explore two questions: first, how do people learn to work in entrepreneurial ways – are there significant processes and experiences in their learning, which can be related to existi...

during the last one hundred years, the organizational and management knowledge have undergone fundamental changes. at the beginning of the 1980s, organizations paid great attention to creativity and innovation. today, organizations should be creative, so that they would continue to survive: therefore, the best way is to encourage creative people to be entrepreneurs in the organizational structu...

Most research on new product and service development by entrepreneurial firms takes an individual-level, pre-launch perspective or firm-level post-launch perspective. Our study examines two components of the new product and service introduction process: how entrepreneurs’ prior knowledge underpins (1) firm technological innovation prior to the introduction of new products and services (pre-laun...

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...

Opportunity identification is a core concept in entrepreneurship research and it is considered by many to be the most distinctive and fundamental of entrepreneurial behaviors (e.g., Gaglio, 1997; Venkataraman, 1997, Shane and Venkataraman, 2000). Opportunity identification researchers have assumed that opportunity identification is a cognitive task and cognitive explanations of opportunity iden...