We document the presence of multiple and varied constraints to small and medium firm growth. This presents both a practical problem for business training programs and a challenge to academic economists trying to identify mechanisms though which these programs may affect outcomes. External...

This paper analyzes effectiveness of coping strategies that entrepreneurs use to daily manage work related stress. Coping is the process of expending efforts to solve personal and interpersonal problems and reducing stress induced by unpleasant and stressful situations. Two broad strategies of...

The terms innovation and entrepreneurship are commonly used - but not always with the same understanding. There is an obvious strong relationship of both areas, however, barely articulated. Moreover, so far there is few consensus among researchers regarding innovative and entrepreneurial...

This article views social entrepreneurship as a relatively new model for achieving sustainable development. It also identifies development narratives that social entrepreneurs (SEs) construct to represent and promote their work as an important research gap in development studies. Drawing on the...

The motivation to implement activity-based costing (ABC) in service and academia-oriented institutions are identical to other institutions; to assign indirect costs to products and services based on activities. This study presents and discusses the attempt to develop an ABC stimulation model...

In the present paper it will be pointed out that in Eritrea banking entrepreneurship has not yet a significant positive impact on banking profitability. This is attributed to the barriers to entrepreneurship existing there, as well as to the conclusion that financial systems are still relatively...

This study clarifies the association of entrepreneurial orientation with the diverse characteristics of a firm. Descriptive, cross sectional research design has been adopted in a survey of 457 key informants from Indian organizations. Second order CFA has been used for the measurement of the...

Entrepreneur s cognitive biases have emerged as one of the central themes in understanding the performance of entrepreneurial firms. Research has shown that entrepreneur s overconfidence and optimism bias help firm creation, but also contribute to firm failure. Prior studies using cognitive...

This research uncovers the lesser-known side of Russian business: the entrepreneurial stratum of dynamic, innovative and successful companies in the non-oil sector. It provides an account of 15 Russian companies that have grown to outperform or at least challenge international players not only...

In this study, we examine new drivers that generate a disposition toward entrepreneurial activity in family firms and how the strategic involvement of the board of directors (SIBD) moderates the relationships between these drivers (image of the firm, willingness to change, and access to...