Their perceived entrepreneurial self-efficacy has various implications for nascent entrepreneurs. Those effects range from causing overconfident entrepreneurs to set unattainable goals, to overchallenged entrepreneurs being deterred by complex opportunities. We propose that entrepreneurs' social...

This research asks how a strong personal relationship (strong tie) between a small business ownermanager and their professional or informal advisor affects the relationship between the advisor's recent performance and the owner-manager's perceptions of the advisor's trustworthiness in terms of...

This study sheds light on the so-called, "entrepreneurial event," which is of utmost importance within the entrepreneurial process. We develop a framework describing the occurrence of such an event in terms of characteristics of the business opportunity as well as in terms of characteristics of...

The entrepreneur can be viewed as the source that implements his entrepreneurial capabilities to recognize, pursue and successfully exploit viable business opportunities. However, it is at the beginning of the entrepreneurial process, that the pre-nascent entrepreneur is confronted with various...

Human resource flexibility is important in entrepreneurial ventures that need to respond to the changing challenges of growing the new business. This research investigates the impact of previously well-known people (strong ties) as entrepreneurial team members on the human resource flexibility...