We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) study for 42 countries to investigate how the effects of individual's self-efficacy and of fear of failure on entrepreneurial entry are contingent on national...

A model is created and tested that suggests that thecreation of social capital is not exogenously determined but is influenced bystructural conditions, and that social capital and subsequent resource exchangeand value creation are influenced by the extent to which structural incentivesexist for...

The 2005 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) reportfocuses on high-expectation entrepreneurship on a global scale.High-expectation entrepreneurial activity refers to entrepreneurial firms, bothnascent and new, that expect to achieve rapid growth in employment size. Data were collected from 44...

The article by Oviatt and McDougall threw thespotlight on international entrepreneurs, on international new ventures, and ontheir importance in the globalising world economy. Recognising the richtheoretical implications of this phenomenon, they mounted a challenge toreceived internationalisation...

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) programfocuses on entrepreneurship and the impact it has on a nation's economic growthand employment opportunities.The process through which GEM was created isdescribed, including details regarding data collection. For the GEM, entrepreneurs are defined...

Because it is difficult to define empirically the role of the entrepreneur, little empirical evidence exists regarding entrepreneurship and economic growth.The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) defines entrepreneurship as a process of forming new businesses.Using the GEM's outcome data...

Entrepreneurial ecosystems command increasing attention from policy-makers, academics, and practitioners, yet the phenomenon itself remains under-theorized. Specifically, the conceptual similarities and differences of entrepreneurial ecosystems relative to, e.g., clusters, ‘knowledge...

This paper contributes to the literature on corporate venture capital (CVC) by examining the management of CVC investments from the perspective of the investee firm. We focus on the trade-off between social interactions and relationship safeguards and examine their effects on the twin...