GUZMÁN CUEVAS , Joaquín J. (Coordinador)

In recent years Social Economy has become more accepted in the current Economic System because capitalist economic system has been shown to be imperfect. In fact, in Spain a Social Economy Law was passed last March, and Andalusia is expected to sign up to the III Pact for Social Economy. Thus, this sector is seen as a possible alternative to...

Entrepreneurship"s research field focuses on how, by whom and by what means business opportunities are discovered, evaluated and exploited (Shane & Venkataraman, 2000; Baum, Frese, Baron & Katz, 2007). In this study we intend to understand how individuals use the business opportunity prototype (Baron and Ensley, 2006), in different stages of...

Entrepreneurship education has acquired a great importance in higher education for the development of entrepreneurial thinking, acquiring knowledge and skills for the development of entrepreneurial initiative among students. However, there is a need to study more profoundly the input as well as outcome of entrepreneurship training courses,...

Firms engage in corporate entrepreneurship to increase competitiveness and sustain performance through rejuvenation, renewal, and redefinition of their organizations, markets, or industries. This is challenging to most firms, since it often involves new relations to customers, suppliers and contact with less familiar industries. The reward...

The health care sector is one of the most prominent economy sectors in the European Union. Demand for health care services is growing due to longer life expectancies and changed lifestyles. Although a great share of health care professionals are employees, many also operate as entrepreneurs. Increasing the share of entrepreneurs in the...

Well-established corporations relied more and more on open innovation approach such as the corporate venture capital in order to identify new business opportunities outside their boundaries. The pursuit of new business opportunities is an important source of value creation and competitive advantages in terms of technology and market. The...

The main objective of this research is to analyze the impact and effects of formal teaching of entrepreneurial programs on master's degree students at the High Institute of Business Administration of Sfax (ISAAS) in Tunisia considering the long-term perspective. The study focused on two main aspects of impact when considering: * Entrepreneurial...

Guided by the joint dependency approach this study analyzes how emerging community ventures engage into mutually dependent relationships with community resource holders in the community to be able to mobilize the community into collective action. I conducted qualitative, longitudinal case studies of three music festivals in rural communities in...

The current financial crisis coupled with the pressure on the environment create the increasing need to deliver creative disruptions in the global economy if sustainable development is to be achieved. For this to happen, a regional environmental management system needs to be put together through the coordination of strategic local plans that...

The present study proposes an entrepreneurial potential theoretical model and scale. Connecting the previous research evidences from entrepreneurs' literature, we define entrepreneurial potential as the individuals' readiness to engage on entrepreneurship typical activities, and we propose that the entrepreneurial potential includes four...

The aim of this qualitative study is to identify how the perceptions of the entrepreneur on the nature of the opportunity (objective reality / social construction) and his/her cognitive style (analytical / intuitive) influence the process of commitment to opportunity (analytic process / intuition-based process). Our findings indicate that...

Recent development in the global economy from the manufacturing business to the service business has generated increasing interest in the research of services. This paper is a theoretical analysis of the service business and its requirements to the management of organizations in entrepreneurial firms. Identified requirements have direct links...

The role of opportunities in becoming an entrepreneur is undeniable. Gaglio and Katz (2001) argue that understanding the opportunity identification is one of the core intellectual challenges for the entrepreneurship. However, despite an extensive research on opportunity, the question what opportunities are and how to identify, develop...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual background and definitions helpful for further research of growth oriented artistic entrepreneurship. Creative industries are becoming increasingly important to the economy of developed countries. This fact is starting to affect the creative arts sector both as a source of creative...

The revolution in communications and information technology has played an important role in changing people's day to day life, this in fact has reflected on the way people performing business. Nowadays, modern business is being shifted from paper-based, and people-intensive systems toward electronic-based procedures using new communication...

The paper clarifies the concept of innovative capability by identifying five measurable dimensions constituting it. An empirical framework is constructed from related configurations integrating transactional, social, and knowledge based networks determining innovative capability. The framework is tested using Hierarchical and Standard...

The main aims of the present project are develop a training programme to enhance employability and entrepreneurship skills to final year students; promote entrepreneurial culture, self-employment, and economic independence; and capacity building among staff at the University of Ibadan. Twenty final year students participated in the training...

The main aim of our research study was to find out the most important issues around which entrepreneurship education (EE) in EU-countries should be constructed. That way we are able to propose some values of EE. The quantitative survey data (N 124) were collected in 16 EU-countries in December 2010-April 2011 through an internet-based...

Intellectual Capital encompasses most areas of an organisation. Although many activities are not labelled as either the pursuit of Intellectual Capital measurement or its realisation, they are integral to the understanding of this area. It is generally accepted that Intellectual Capital consists of Human Capital, Structural Capital and...

The failure of new ventures in their early stages of development is a common occurrence (Hackett and Dilts, 2004; Watson et al., 1998; Zacharakis et al., 1999). One of the key factors of failure identified in the literature is the lack of experience and skills of nascent entrepreneurs. This often results in the lack of long-term vision and...

The aim of our paper is to present practices Finnish teachers take as entrepreneurship and enterprise educators. The empirical study builds on a survey including responses from 167 teachers working in basic and secondary schools. The survey was conducted as a web-based questionnaire and the quantitative data was analyzed by SPSS software. We...

The aim of this paper is to illustrate and model the construction of a Measurement Tool for Entrepreneurship Education where the tool itself is targeted toward Finnish teachers working in primary and secondary education. This study represents participatory action research (Argyris 1993) as the research context has been facilitated and provided...

Despite different views on opportunities and opportunities identification, there seems to be consensus about the significant role of opportunities in the entrepreneurship process and for the success of the entrepreneur (Shane & Venkataraman 2000, Eckhardt & Shane 2003, Gaglio & Katz 2001). However, even though opportunities, depending on...

Purpose- Entrepreneurship is usually considered only subject of business students. Due to lack of knowledge of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial skills engineering and technology education students are left behind in entrepreneurial activities. In order to add to literature on forecasting entrepreneurial intentions this research paper aims...

Principal Topic - This paper presents findings from an empirical survey of Junior Enterprise members and alumni in Central Europe. The study aims to examine the linkages between developmental networks and professional identity when alumni undergo career changes to embark on entrepreneurship. Our paper argues that the developmental network...