Microcredit programs have a positive socioeconomic impact on the rural female borrowers of Bangladesh. This study suggests that the microcredit programs do not help the borrowers to develop any entrepreneurial capabilities other than survival. Thus, this paper aims at identifying the factors related to the development of entrepreneurship among rural women through the microcredit programs of providers. A multivariate analysis technique (Factor Analysis) was conducted to identify the factors related to entrepreneurship development. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to identify the relationship between microcredit programs and the development of rural female entrepreneurship in Bangladesh. Results show that financial management skills are the most important factor and have a sign...
While entrepreneurship is linked with innovation, entrepreneurial firms often imitate competitors rather than offering new substitute products or services. This research examines the conditions under which entrepreneurs utilize an imitation versus a substitution strategy by integrating entrepreneurial orientation with resource-based view of the firm in considering entrepreneurs' resource accumulation decisions. We apply this integration to the managerial decision of whether to imitate competitors or create substitute products or services.
Entrepreneurship researchers use various types of screening criteria to select samples for study. In that selecting these criteria is, in effect, choosing a definition or model of entrepreneurship, the consequences are immense and have had a direct impact on the generalizability of research and theory development in our field. The purpose of this study is to help entrepreneurship researchers better understand these consequences and, thereby, improve our understanding of entrepreneurial phenomenon. Four of the most commonly used screening criteria are included in this study: firm age, firm size, firm growth, and innovation. Based on a sample of 368 manufacturing firms, the results indicate that few firms fit all or even most of the considered screening criteria and independent-dependent ...
We develop a process framework of entrepreneurship covering exploration and exploitation of the opportunity as well as the entrepreneur's exit, and suggest that dialectic process theories have the potential to explain the transitions between these phases of the entrepreneurial process. In addition, we apply theories from the fields of sociology, economics, and strategy to better understand and explain various salient activities within the entrepreneurial process. A particular contribution is to increase awareness of the exit phase of the entrepreneurial process, the transition into this phase, as well as the link between entrepreneurial exit and re-entry decisions.
This article presents a novel approach to measuring entrepreneurial optimism and realism and their relationship to expectations and outcomes of new venture creation. We have discovered that many entrepreneurs are optimistic and realistic. Further analysis shows that there is no significant relationship between optimism and entrepreneurs' expectations that the new venture will improve personal and family well being. Being realistic, however, does seem to relate to positive expectations among some entrepreneurs. After creating and running their own businesses, being optimistic or realistic does not seem to have a significant relationship with positive outcomes.
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