point for important debates in the entrepreneurship field, that the creation view is diverse and should not be referred to … advancing from existing reviews of the opportunity concept in entrepreneurship. This furthers our understanding of the role of …

in entrepreneurship. It argues that ABM allows entrepreneurship researchers (i.e. the designers) to find better ways in …/methodology/approach – This paper begins with an overview of ABM, and discusses the shared conceptual foundations of entrepreneurship and ABM as … the motives for the adoption of ABM as an appropriate methodology to study entrepreneurship. It offers a roadmap in using …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the insights of founding entrepreneurs to understand what they … research, the concept of entrepreneurial success was explored with ten founding entrepreneurs. Themes emerged from this enquiry … factor analysis in a subsequent study, comprising 213 founding entrepreneurs. The result is an early attempt to produce a …

Purpose Whether opportunities are discovered or created by entrepreneurs is a foundational question in entrepreneurship … research. The purpose of this paper is to examine women entrepreneurs in high-growth new ventures and explore the cognitive … women entrepreneurs in high-growth new ventures, K-means clustering was used to determine three approaches to opportunity …

performance and has a number of other positive results, such as increasing motivation, success, and perceptions of entrepreneurs … focus on women entrepreneurs in other parts of Vietnam, other developing countries, and on male entrepreneurs, to help …

Ethnic entrepreneurs’ networks are analysed on the basis of three complementary dimensions: intensity and complexity of … networks; power relations; and entrepreneurs’ horizons of awareness. The analysis is based on two theoretical propositions …

evidence from entrepreneurs and venture capitalists to examine the rationale for such transactions. The quantitative data … for venture capitalists, though they provide a means by which entrepreneurs can maintain the enterprise’s independent …

This research explores the learning process of entrepreneurs in relation to the parallel processes of personal and …. The findings emphasise the complexity of the concept of “critical incident” and demonstrate that entrepreneurs often face … support programmes designed to help entrepreneurs to interpret critical incidents as learning experiences, in order to …

strategy approaches of entrepreneurs who had studied on a Graduate Enterprise programme that aimed to help them to start a … case study methods. The formation of strategy by these entrepreneurs relied more on emergent than planning approaches, but … entrepreneurs found ways of enacting their visions – the essence of their strategy process. Implications for curriculum and course …

research from a support programme using previous or existing entrepreneurs as mentors to support and advise new …‐start entrepreneurs. The paper discusses the issues around learning, entrepreneur development, mentoring and the matching of mentors to … client entrepreneurs. In particular the paper considers the role of life‐cycle development approaches in planning …