...Dimitris Polychronopoulos; Kevin Reuther; Yngve Dahle; Anh Nguyen-Duc Purpose The aim of this article is to explore which forms of capital (financial, human and social) and their combinations constitute sufficient conditions for migrant entrepreneurs to start transnational ventures (maintaining...

...Ree Jordan; Terrance W. Fitzsimmons; Victor J. Callan Purpose This paper explores the phenomenon of organizational maverickism, proposing that mavericks, alongside innovators and entrepreneurs, play a crucial role in driving transformational change. While the actions of innovators...

.... Firm‐level entrepreneurship Corporate entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial orientation Top management leadership Organizational context Entrepreneurial culture Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurialism Managers © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Some internal organisational environments...

...Domingo Ribeiro Soriano; Mariel Fornoni; Iván Arribas; José E. Vila Purpose The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of an entrepreneur's social capital on their access to information, and how such access improves the performance of their entrepreneurial project. Design/methodology...

... the SERCREA+ model to facilitate change management of enterprises in Mexico in order to allow the emergence and formation of high‐quality entrepreneurships to enhance Mexican business activities. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Change management Mexico Entrepreneurs Information...

...Domingo Ribeiro Soriano; Jorge Alberto Gámez Gutiérrez; José Manuel Saiz Álvarez Purpose The objective of this paper is to propose new management techniques applied to Colombian entrepreneurs in displacement situation (EDS) based on education, solidarity, financial aid and social inclusion...

... 121 Romanian entrepreneurs, 69 before and 52 after Romania's ascension to the EU and used cognitive mapping to elicit their cognitive schemas about this macro‐IC. Similarities and differences between cognitive structures are explored and the aggregated cognitive maps before and after the IC...

...Domingo Ribeiro‐Soriano; David Urbano; Carlos Rueda Armengot; Frances Solé Parellada; Joaquín Rieta Carbonell Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the ethnic profile of the entrepreneur in relation to business activity, the reasons for creating the firm and the creation process. The aim...

...Charalampos Mainemelis; Yochanan Altman; Sandra King Kauanui; Kevin D. Thomas; Cynthia L. Sherman; Gail Ross Waters; Mihaela Gilea Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the differences between entrepreneurs who see a connection between spirituality and work and those who do...

... and enables us to perceive the entrepreneurial identity as fluid and emergent. Design/methodology/approach A female entrepreneur's life‐story collected through a narrative interview is applied in the study. In this paper identities, organizations and societies in change form the basis for entrepreneurship...

... of many participants (Burgleman, 1983) and have provided that intangible extra which enabled innovation to survive (Prasad, 1993). Being part of an established organization, the intrapreneur encounters barriers and facilitators very different from those faced by the traditional entrepreneur (Lakshmanan...

...Attila Bruni; Silvia Gherardi; Barbara Poggio Uses the neologism “entrepreneur mentality” – paying implicit homage to Foucault's govermentality – to highlight how an entrepreneurial discourse is mobilized as a system of thinking about women entrepreneurs which is able to make some form...

... and environmentally sustainable. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Economy Entrepreneurs Environment Green issues Values 1. In spite of my claim we should recognise that the entrepreneurial concept has been used effectively in mutual situations such as community development by authors such as Flora and Flora...

...Astad Pastakia Business entrepreneurs contribute to socio‐economic development and change through their commercial enterprises. Enterprising individuals seeking to change society or address social issues through an organized initiative have often been referred to as social entrepreneurs. The past...

... industry becomes accountable. Who is the principal to which the industry reports? Which stakeholders could make or break Treadsoftly? © MCB UP Limited 1998 Ecology Entrepreneurs Environmental risk assessment Stakeholders Treadsoftly, An Environmental Education Company Inc...

... changes have been accumulating in the last half of the twentieth century, however, and suggest that such behaviour is becoming less acceptable. Whereas the social incentives for entrepreneurs used to be unmitigated in their encouragement of the elimination of wetlands, evolving values suggest a radical...

... technique by such organisations as banks (Goudy, 1981), insurance companies (Ancipink, 1981) and by managers, supervisors and entrepreneurs (Lessem, 1979). There is a theoretical basis for game theory (Von Neumann and Morgenstern, 1944), but this refers to strategies for winning rather than ability...