...Natasha Saqib; Faseeh Amin; Shuchi Gupta Purpose Entrepreneurship is a key driver of social and economic development. While previous studies have extensively explored the direct impact of personality traits on entrepreneurial intention (EI), limited research has examined the mediating role...

...Lukman Raimi Purpose This study reviews the literature on shadow and gig economy models to highlight their effects on entrepreneurship and business development in emerging markets. In particular, it examines how these models create opportunities for income generation and employment while operating...

...Divya Mishra; Gopika Mangla; Nidhi Maheshwari Purpose This research investigates the barriers hindering women from pursuing entrepreneurship as a career choice, particularly in the Indian context. Design/methodology/approach The study employs rigorous data analysis techniques, including...

...Toan Khanh Tran Pham Purpose The impacts of institutional quality on entrepreneurship are well established. However, the effects of an external factor, such as the shadow economy, that moderates this relationship have largely been neglected in existing literature. As such, this paper investigates...

... contexts. Women entrepreneurship Push factor Pull factor Entrepreneurship Startup motivations Startup challenges Micro small and medium enterprises The economic progress of any state or region is driven to a great extent by the ideas, innovations, passion and actions of entrepreneurs...

... between income inequality and entrepreneurship, while moderating for institutional quality. The greasing effects suggest that income inequality can promote entrepreneurial activity, while the sanding effects disincentivise it. Design/methodology/approach The authors examine this relationship using...

... is provided on crisis management from a social entrepreneurship perspective with the goal of understanding the social benefits of collective action resulting from the covid-19 pandemic. This approach offers a novel way to understand the social policy implications derived from the covid-19 crisis...

...Swati Shastri; Shruti Shastri; Abhishek Pareek Some of the literature suggests that men are inclined to start businesses because of financial considerations and are more likely to be pulled into entrepreneurship. Conversely, women are likely to start business because of lifestyle issues...

...Vanessa Ratten; Kayhan Tajeddini Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on women’s entrepreneurship and internationalization in order to build an understanding about future trends. There is increasing interest in the role of women in entrepreneurship yet little research has...

.... Findings The paper focusses on risky shuttle trade as well as crime-related risks of business, as poignant illustrations of problems of entrepreneurship linked with informal economy. The risks are seen as social facts, objective or constructed, in some cases pointing out also how people speak about them...

...Mohammad Saud Khan; Chelsea Rowlands Historically, it was believed that individuals had identical motivations for becoming entrepreneurs, regardless of their gender (Cromie, 1987). However, in the 1990s research on female entrepreneurship began to emerge (Jennings and Brush, 2013), ending...

... used in the research is presented. In the following section, the main results are provided followed by the discussion and implication of results. The paper ends with a brief sketch of the limitations and future directions of research and final conclusions. Entrepreneurship Marketing...

... education system in several means including attraction of new actors to this arena. Miri Yemini can be contacted at: miriye@post.tau.ac.il © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Entrepreneurship Schools NGO The increasing involvement of third-sector organizations in the public...

... sustained. Entrepreneurship Informal economy Informal microenterprises (IMs) – very tiny businesses – are commonly featured in most developing countries. They are seen as income-generating-activities for majority of the population and as sources of socio-economic growth. This sector, often...

...Robert Smith Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the industrial exploitation of fishing quotas as a case of organized criminal entrepreneurship. Seldom is consideration given to the existence of informal and criminal entrepreneurship within the fishing industry. Consequentially...

... policy can stimulate entrepreneurship in rural places. We define animateurs as those members of communities who, largely in either an honorary or voluntary capacity, have vision can spot opportunities, and through their networking capability can create change through the mobilisation of resources...