this paper provides a critical perspective on entrepreneurial characteristics and gives an input to the discussion on the influence of entrepreneurial leadership, communication skills, determination and motivation on sales and customer satisfaction. it also presents the findings from an empirical study examining the structural effect of these four entrepreneurial characteristics on performance....

The aim of the research is to investigate the factors influencing entrepreneurial behavior of individuals within a corporation. We define entrepreneurial behavior as “discovery, evaluation and exploitation of opportunities in order to create future goods and services”. Corporate entrepreneurial behavior, in its turn, is subject to a number of constraints and opportunities imposed by the organiz...

To fulfill their growth aspirations, entrepreneurial ventures depend on shortterm, liquid sources of debt financing such as bank loans. However, because of the twin problems of information asymmetry and moral hazard, banks make their lending decisions by considering the venture’s creditworthiness score provided by private information exchanges. Using theoretical arguments grounded in venture fi...

Given entrepreneurs’ special role in the economic growth and development, many developed and developing countries are attempting to motivate more number of people who have entrepreneurial characteristics towards entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial activities. The purpose of this research was to study the effectiveness of entrepreneurship training courses in Ilam Province, Iran. In this researc...

Object-relations theory explains human behavior in terms of a person's inner experiences of others, which are called objects. Internalization of relationships, projective identification, and containment are concepts within object-relations theory that help to explain the confusing and frustrating behavior of acutely psychotic patients. These concepts also provide a framework for understanding t...

The concepts of free modules, projective modules, injective modules and the likeform an important area in module theory. The notion of free fuzzy modules was introducedby Muganda as an extension of free modules in the fuzzy context. Zahedi and Ameriintroduced the concept of projective and injective L-modules. In this paper we give analternate definition for projective L-modules. We prove that e...

The study investigated the psychological characteristics of entrepreneurship of 829 college students in China by questionnaire. The psychological characteristics include five aspects: entrepreneurial capacity, entrepreneurial belief, entrepreneurial consciousness, entrepreneurial motivation, and entrepreneurial determination. In the five factors, the entrepreneurial consciousness of college stu...

This study examined the relationships between Big Six personality and entrepreneurial intention, inclusive of the mediating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy in the Chinese context. Survey data from 280 college students reveal that Emotional Stability, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Interpersonal Relationship were positively associated with entrepreneurial intention. Agreeableness and...