Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the pathways to success of Arab American entrepreneurs in the Detroit Metropolitan Area, and how Arab American businesses impact the local Detroit economy. Design/methodology/approach – The authors conducted extensive search of literature and...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to shed light on Latino informal immigrant entrepreneurs within a specific border zone in South Texas. Three research questions inform this study: What is the demographic profile of the Latino informal immigrant entrepreneur? What is the occupational...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to shed light on Latino informal immigrant entrepreneurs within a specific border zone in South Texas. Three research questions inform this study: What is the demographic profile of the Latino informal immigrant entrepreneur? What is the occupational...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine corporate political activities (CPA) by migrant entrepreneurs to improve business performance in a host developing country. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use a cross‐sectional analysis of 97 Chinese migrant entrepreneurs with...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the social origin of an entrepreneurial cognitive model of the innovation process. Design/methodology/approach – The specific research question is how an entrepreneur's social capital diversity influences the characteristics of his/her...

Purpose – One of the most notable enterprises designed to accelerate the successful development of entrepreneurial companies through an array of business support resources and services is the business incubator. There are many key components to developing a successful business incubator....

Purpose: Business incubation is an important strategy to foster entrepreneurship and innovation; it has gained enormous popularity in China since the mid-1990s. The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the perceived value of business incubators from the perspective of start-up...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the inhibiting factors of partnership creation between social entrepreneurs in the business, government, public and non-profit sector. Design/methodology/approach – This paper examines four cases of social entrepreneurship in the start-up...

Purpose – This paper sets out to present a detailed empirical investigation of the entrepreneurial intentions of business students. The authors employ the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), in which intentions are regarded as resulting from attitudes, perceived behavioural control, and...