The development of women's entrepreneurship has positive implications for societal and economic growth. In this study we examine the effects of culture and, more specifically, collectivism on women's businesses. With a mixed-method and multilevel approach, we conducted a quantitative...

In an attempt to explain why some new organizations are established faster than others we adopted a perspective according to which a timely organizational emergence can be understood and predicted by viewing it as conditioned by the initial decisions of nascent entrepreneurs regarding the...

Non-profits and social enterprises face significant financing challenges that include problems in securing public funding, unpredictability and discontinuities in grant funding from foundations and charities, and the difficulty of generating earned income. Crowdfunding has emerged as a promising...

Entrepreneurial opportunity recognition is an increasingly prevalent phenomenon. Of particular interest is the ability of promising technology based ventures to recognize and exploit opportunities. Recent research drawing on the Austrian economic theory emphasizes the importance of knowledge,...

High growth new firms are of considerable interest, in no small part due to their disproportionate contribution to overall job growth; among the 13 million nascent entrepreneurs present in the US in 2001, the 675,000 that aspire to provide 50 or more jobs five years after the firm birth would...

The purpose of this research paper is to explore what constitutes being quot;born global.quot; The authors approach the born global phenomenon by applying ideas presented in existing international entrepreneurship, business, and marketing literatures. In addition, the paper illustrates how...

We contribute to entrepreneurship research through a 3.5 year follow-up of young biotechnology ventures that have been established to develop and commercialize science based innovations. We want to understand why some of these promising ventures end up as the living dead as a part of an acquired...

This research examines the innovation process that includes sources, development, and uses of innovation in the field of modern biotechnology. Based on existing literature and primary qualitative data collected from 39 young, small American biotechnology firms we show how biotechnology...