Many scholars have noted that there has been a leadership crisis in both the political and business worlds. It may not be a coincidence that leaders have tended to be males. Throughout recorded history women have participated in important leadership roles – even during antiquity. This paper...

We conceptualize the nascent process of becoming an entrepreneur as a role identity transformation and investigate the factors that influence an individual's decision to assume an entrepreneurial identity. We collected more than 70 hours of interview data in addition to a survey of 796...

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 examines the impact of internet technology on emerging businesses and its contribution to the development of entrepreneurship in Greece. It emphasizes the importance of start-ups in the business ecosystem and the creation of favorable conditions for the development of innovative...

We examine whether impact investing is more effective in fostering business venture success and social impact when investments are directed toward ventures located in disadvantaged urban areas (that is, areas with high crime, unemployment, and poverty) compared to similar investments directed...

The present paper deals with the perceptions about market conditions and public policies related to enhance entrepreneurial activities at regional levels. This is the first academic research at regional level in Chile and one of the few in Latin America to study this issue. The main results seem...

This paper examines the question of whether the initial stock of resources of new ventures that enter an industry differs based on the whether they enter before or after a technological discontinuity occurs. We draw on the theoretical foundations of the resource-based view of the firm, and those...