Medical tourism is one of the major sectors amongst the trade in services that has been growing significantly the world over particularly with the establishment of General Agreement of Trade in Services (GATS) under WTO. This sector falls under Mode II - known as “Consumption Abroad” of...

A recent literature has emerged providing compelling evidence that a major shift in the organization of the developed economies has been taking place: away from what has been characterized as the managed economy towards the entrepreneurial economy. In particular, the empirical evidence provides...

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,...

We draw upon the economics literature, and the literature on knowledge spillovers in particular, to examine to what extent a country's level of foreign direct investment (both inward and outward) and international trade (export and import) influence the export orientation of its entrepreneurs....

Although researchers in such diverse fields as economics and organizational sociology have explored firm exit, little research has explored entrepreneurial exit - the decision by the majority - owner founders of privately-held firms to harvest their profits and remove themselves from the primary...

The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly established as the leading Prize for outstanding research contributions in the area. Thanks to a generous donation from the Swedish entrepreneur Rune Andersson it has been...

This paper unveils one of the secrets of success of the Greek shipping industry: informal networking of families of entrepreneurs with long strong ties imbued in mutual trust and immersed in 'love for the sea' tradition that allow Greek shipping firms to address the peculiarities and specificity...

This study examines how institutional conditions provide assurances founders seek when creating businesses. Classical theories predict legal institutions promote supportive conditions that foster business creation. We develop an alternative theory for why this relationship is not as...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between independence, risk taking, creativity, and entrepreneurial activity at the country level, in the light of institutional economics, concretely using the cultural-cognitive dimension. The main findings demonstrate through a...

In recent years, there has been a growing view that universities could and should play a larger and more direct role in assisting industry and promoting national competitiveness. This review of the literature on university patenting and licensing activity is based on 125 papers published between...