...Juha Sakari Soininen; Kaisu Puumalainen; Helena Sjögrén; Pasi Syrjä; Susanne Durst Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the antecedents of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and also apply the values-attitudes-behavior framework in the context of entrepreneurial behavior. Design...

...Desislava Ivanova Yordanova; Matilda Ivanova Alexandrova‐Boshnakova Purpose The research objective of the study is to investigate the gender effects on risk propensity, risk perception, and risk behaviour of entrepreneurs distinguishing between direct and indirect gender effects. The study seeks...

... and ultimately the survival of the organisation. Originality/value It is argued that the approach taken in this paper promotes more theory‐driven research with a strong focus on process and context, and can build on both the behaviour‐based and learning‐based approaches by allowing multi‐level analysis...

...Robert L. Engle; Nikolay Dimitriadi; Jose V. Gavidia; Christopher Schlaegel; Servane Delanoe; Irene Alvarado; Xiaohong He; Samuel Buame; Birgitta Wolff Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the ability of Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior to predict entrepreneurial intent in 12 countries...

... entrepreneurs, in a new venture creation, acquire business and technical knowledge utilizing proactive help‐seeking behaviour. Social competence is operationalised as a construct dependent on a number of psychological and behavioural factors. As such, proactive help‐seeking behaviour suggests that individuals...

...Kelum Jayasinghe Dennis Thomas; Danture Wickramasinghe Purpose The purpose of this paper is to advocate the employment of “bounded emotionality”, as borrowed from organisational studies on emotionality, as an alternative framework to examine and understand entrepreneurial behaviour and practice...

... light on the profile of the variant clusters of owner‐managed small firms, the paper briefly examines the inter‐relationship of small business strategic orientation with structure (e.g. size, age, sectoral distribution), behaviour (e.g. legal form, family business control) and performance (e.g. growth...