Familiness has become widely accepted as the appropriate construct representing the unique bundle of resources arising out of family involvement in business. However as yet we do not fully understand the types of familiness or the conditions that give rise to them and as such familiness remains...

Chapter One, introduction and research methodology. Chapter Two presents a review of the research domain and the parent literature related to the research problem. The foundation theories, entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurship education literature is reviewed with the research boundaries...

Everyone experiences failure at some point in their lifetime. Entrepreneurs, especially, have a high incidence of failure, with estimates that over sixty percent fail within six years. Yet, a high percentage of failed entrepreneurs recover and persevere to start another business. Sometimes, they...

Entrepreneurial actions, such as new product introductions, infuse new information and drive the market process by moving the market either toward or away from existing market conditions. These products cause uncertainty for market participants, who engage in discourse as a sensemaking mechanism...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. January 2010. Major: Business Administration. Advisor: Harry J. Sapienza. 1 computer file (PDF); viii, 166 pages, appendices A-B.

The organizational experience that members of the founding teambring to new ventures can influence how new business opportunitiesare pursued and their ultimate success; and yet, little is knownabout how the importance of such experience varies acrossentrepreneurial contexts. In this...

Almost 150 of the approximately 200 universities in Turkey have a faculty of management, which is also commonly named as faculty of administrative sciences and economics. Approximately 500 thousand students graduate from these departments each year and they step into the business life. The...