Business angels are a vital source of capital for innovative startup firms. However, even of those startups that have the potential to fulfill angel investors’ expected return on investment, most are rejected during the angel’s investment decision process. Information asymmetry, risk and...

A failure in providing human rights is generally due to at least four factors: bad governance, vested interests, cultural factors and poverty. We cannot eliminate human rights violations without a local countervailing power sustained by good governance. Local entrepreneurs, who are essential for...

It is widely accepted by both practitioners and academics that in modern economies entrepreneurship in general and innovation based entrepreneurship in particular are maybe the most important drivers of economic growth and that economic success is highly correlated with the existence of an...

The paper elaborates on succession planning among Polish family businesses. Research survey was conducted on a random sample of 496 family enterprises in first quarter of 2009 (first phase, survey) and 61 family enterprises in third quarter of 2009 (second phase, in-depth-interview). The main...

When credit application experiences are examined, minority-owned small firms are not the discouraged borrowers that credit outcome studies generally suggest. This paper examines repeated application for credit by small firms. Univariate statistical analysis reveals that persistence is necessary...

Este artículo tiene como objeto presentar un análisis sobre la importancia de los juegos gerenciales como herramienta pedagógica en algunos programas de Administración de Empresas en Bogotá D.C. Para ello se realiza una revisión bibliográfica de trabajos desarrollados sobre juegos...

The paper examines the video game industry in the perspective of being the paradigm of innovation in digital media and content. In particular, it analyses the response to two main factors that have impacted this industry over the last decade. First, it tracks the evolution of its global market...

The unfavoured Portuguese regions have a level of life and economic growth rates lower than favoured regions, and the mean of European Union and hence have less entrepreneurial activities. The adoption of strategies of sustainable development driven by entrepreneurship phenomena could be a...

El objetivo del presente artículo es identificar los posibles desafíos por ser superados para desarrollar el emprendimiento por oportunidad del Perú. Para ello, se consultan expertos para diseñar escenarios futuros sobre la base de tres fuerzas del entorno que afectan la actividad de...

Trotz eines stetigen Anstiegs der Anzahl von selbstständigen Frauen in Deutschland hat sich der sogenannte Gender-Gap kaum verringert. Die vorlie-gende Studie untersucht auf Basis des Nationalen Bildungspanels (NEPS), ob bzw. inwieweit familienbedingte Erwerbsunterbrechungen, die aus...