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Entrepreneurial Metaphors and Concepts: An Exploratory Study
1999
IN THE PAST RESEARCH THERE HAS BEEN continued controversy over the definition of entrepreneurship and the identification of entrepreneur. By combining the ideas of entrepreneurship and linguistics, this paper takes a new approach to examining the definitions. An exploratory analysis of entrepreneurial metaphors and concepts is conducted to achieve this goal. In a quantitative analysis of entrepreneurial concepts respondents defined the terms 'entrepreneur' and 'entrepreneurship' with suggested conceptual equivalents. In an analysis of metaphor, informants formed metaphoricalexpressions of entrepreneurship. The sample consisted of 751 respondents from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Canad…
No Entrepreneurship without Opportunity: The Intersection of Return Migration Research and Entrepreneurship Literature
2019
Abstract The article proposes a theoretical discussion at the crossroads of the return migration scholarship with the entrepreneurship research. Its main goal is to build an analytical framework in which entrepreneurial experiences of international return migrants are conceptualized. The fertile theoretical legacy within the study of entrepreneurship along with an idealized view of the positive effects of migration constitute essential premises for understanding the biased outputs of the empirical studies of entrepreneurship upon return to the origin country. Firstly, the article draws on the main lines of theorising opportunities within the Weberian and Schumpeterian theoretical traditions…
Diagnóstico y políticas de promoción del emprendimiento en estudiantes
2015
La cada vez más saliente necesidad de contar con medidas tanto socio-económicas como educativas para desarrollar una cultura del emprendimiento hace imprescindible contar con una definición detallada del constructo, así como con una medida que permita disponer de una línea base del emprendimiento en estudiantes que facilitaría la evaluación de las intervenciones que desde el marco europeo y el gobierno estatal se propongan. El objetivo del estudio es proporcionar un conocimiento de las actitudes emprendedoras en el contexto educativo español, a partir del cual podrán realizarse implementaciones y evaluaciones de programas dedicados al fomento de la cultura y la educación emprendedora. 524 e…
Entrepreneurial optimism and survival
2012
This paper uses entrepreneurs’ survival expectations around the time of market entry and subsequent venture exits to study entrepreneurial optimism. Using data on a large number of nascent entrepreneurs in the US and start-ups in Finland, we find that new entrepreneurs survival beliefs are on average optimistic but heterogeneous: Some are excessively optimistic, whereas a small subset holds unbiased beliefs. Entrepreneurial optimism is increasing in the relative (interpersonal) optimism and decreasing in entrepreneurs level of education and industry experience in both countries. At least in Finland, those holding optimistic views are more likely to transit into entrepreneurship.
Model For Testing The İmpact Of Motivational Factors Of Nascent Entrepreneurs On Business Surviving Success
2016
The development of founded companies is influenced by a wide variety of factors. In order to predict the chance of success for entrepreneurship, the relationship between these factors and the business surviving success has to be analyzed. Research indicates an influence of the motivation of entrepreneurs and financial success. The object of this paper are nascent entrepreneurs and the subject is the motivational structure of nascent entrepreneurs. Methods of the paper are literature review, factor analysis and calculated model. Aim of the paper is building a relationship between the motivation of entrepreneurs and the business surviving success of the founded companies. The result of the pa…
Services supporting female entrepreneurs
2010
There are many public initiatives that fund services which support women entrepreneurship. In order to help them improve, this paper takes a closer look at the characteristics of female entrepreneurs, their motivations, and the difficulties they face in their ventures. Through a literature review and the results of a Delphi study with 25 technicians from an EU-funded support programme, this research concludes that policies for the support of women entrepreneurs should aim at strengthening pull motivators and concentrate in designing programmes specifically tailored to the type of business, focusing on long-term policies rather than short-term initiatives.
Some Insights on the World’s Most Innovative Companies and their Defining Characteristics
2019
Abstract As time went by, innovations have not only accompanied, but also shaped the evolution of humankind, while being its loyal source of progress; and they have played the same leading role at organizational (firm/company) level – although, if moving beyond the cumulative (global) outputs, a thorough (unit based) analysis would reveal that (the same) innovations have always distinguished between first movers and followers, innovators and imitators, winners and losers. Thus, the most innovative companies have had the opportunity of capitalizing on their realized innovation potential as industry innovation leaders, while the other companies have had to search for other types of strategic …
Entrepreneurship Pedagogy
2021
With Latvia's education reforms, the demand for transversal skills in the education process has increased. Although there has been a growing call to educate pupils and students in a way that develops entrepreneurial skills, there is no defined methodology for how to do it, and the definitions of entrepreneurial skills and entrepreneurship pedagogy have no common foundation. This study, therefore, compiles research from various scientific publications and offers a theoretical framework for the concepts of entrepreneurial skill and entrepreneurial pedagogy. It also reviews the noble practices of diverse European countries and analyzes Latvia's higher education experience and examples of entre…
Socio-cultural factors and transnational entrepreneurship
2011
This article addresses theoretical and empirical issues concerning the emergent field of transnational entrepreneurship. We discuss issues regarding the antecedents of transnational entrepreneurship focusing specifically on the socio-cultural factors affecting this phenomenon in the Spanish context. Entrepreneurship, ethnic and transnational entrepreneurship literature is combined with institutional approach to explain what and how different socio-cultural factors influence the emergence and development of transnational entrepreneurship in Catalonia (in the north-east of Spain). We do this by looking at four case studies of transnational entrepreneurs with different ethnicity (Ecuadorian, …
Leading Trends in Technology Transfer
2021
The Journal of Technology Transfer (JOTT) published its first issue in 1977. Since this first issue, the JOTT has made major contributions to its field. This chapter uses dynamic bibliometric techniques and the Scopus database to analyze all JOTT issues published between 1977 and 2018. Citations are considered up to and including September 30, 2019. The primary objective is to determine the leading research trends in technology transfer by analyzing the most influential studies published in the JOTT and studying their evolution. The evolution of these research trends suggests that entrepreneurial universities, university-industry collaboration, and knowledge management have become the leadi…