The present work addresses how and to what extent the personal and professional relationship networks of small-scale local entrepreneurs help improve their scarce resource endowments. Adopting a mechanistic and functioning oriented view of social capital, the paper suggests the existence of two...

The theme of the global Entrepreneurship Summit –‘Women First, Prosperity for All', highlighted that if women do better, countries do better. According to the Women's Financial Network, women start businesses at two times the rate of men. Traditional cultural perception perceived the roles...

We study the role of diversity and performance in entrepreneurial teams. We exploit a unique dataset of MBA students who participated in a required course to propose and start a real micro-business that allows us to examine horizontal diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical...

In the 1980s, the cumulative impact of a host of technical-economic and macro-social trends began to fundamentally alter value creation dynamics at the workplace and organizational reality. Rapid social change has relevant implications at all levels of social reality. Via a comprehensive review,...

This study aims to assess how the role of entrepreneurial identity and self-efficacy in mediating the relationship between the role model and entrepreneurial performance. The population selected in this study is students of Universitas Ciputra who have been running start-up business for 2 to 3...

This paper gives an account of the Consultancy in 15 schools of Female Entrepreneurship, conducted for the National Women Service SERNAM, Chile's state agency, as part of Support Social Cohesion EU-Chile, coordinated by the Agency International Cooperation, AGCI, which is an organization of the...

Research on strategy in new ventures has increasingly drawn upon resource-based theory, and thus has emphasized intangible factors that confer sustainable competitive advantage. These include dynamic and combinative capabilities, networks, routines, and knowledge as resources of new ventures....

The exploratory research method was used and designed to explore the relationship between entrepreneurial management and diversification for sustainable development in Nigeria. Since the discovery of oil in Nigeria in the 1950s, attention has been directed away from other critical sectors of the...

Leadership is a process through which an individual influences other members of the group, with a view to achieving organizational or group goals.In this article aims to address the theme of inspirational leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship.The article is divided into three points: the...