... entrepreneurs towards governmental agencies, financiers, clients and unions and their associations for well-being (career satisfaction, self-rated health) and self-rated job performance. Design/methodology/approach A survey study with solo entrepreneurs in Sweden at T1 (N = 485) and a follow-up six...

... of Cameroonian, Lebanese, Mexican and Assyrian origins who founded their businesses in Sweden. The study relies on process-oriented theory building and develops an inductive model of integration as an opportunity creation process. Findings The suggested model shows immigrants’ acculturation into the host...

...Kave Edin; Darush Yazdanfar; Peter Öhman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate determinants of social entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach The study uses a large-scale database covering Sweden’s 290 municipalities over the 1990-2014 period. The theoretical...

... collection includes a questionnaire with a total sample of 392 responding entrepreneurs in Sweden. Statistical analyses are made between entrepreneurs with academic entrepreneurship education respectively previous start‐up experience. Findings The findings show that entrepreneurs with experience from...

... Publishing Limited 2009 Careers Experience Experiential learning Business failures Sweden Enterpreneurs There is a strong success bias in contemporary entrepreneurship research, where many studies focus on identifying successful entrepreneurs or “best practice”. Failure in the context...

... Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurialism Learning processes Capital ventures Mobile communication systems Sweden With respect to personnel resources, it has been observed that many managers (as distinct from entrepreneurs) feel a responsibility to employ the resources they have already acquired...