International Review of Entrepreneurship: Recent submissions
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Alliance for Social Enterprise: A Framework to Develop Social Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2013)This research proposes a novel framework, an alliance for social enterprise, as a model for developing social entrepreneurial initiatives in emerging economies. The alliance for social enterprise levrages the alliance ... -
A General Framework for Classifying Spin-offs
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2013)Spin-offs without resources or a strong relational structure to support their activity and those that lack developmental support because they are created outside of high-tech clusters tend to remain small and do not become ... -
Examining the Leadership Molecule: An Empirical Study of Key Leadership Roles in Rapidly Growing Entrepreneurial Businesses
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2013)Previous theory and research has focused upon opportunity seeking behavior as the essence of entrepreneurial leadership, and neglected the role of advantage-seeking behavior by leaders. However opportunity seeking behaviors ... -
International Entrepreneurship: Where Do We Go From Here?
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2013)The importance of international entrepreneurship is recognized by academics, business people, and government officials all over the world from developing to developed economies. Entrepreneurship has been shown to have a ... -
The "Good Job" Trap: Opportunity Cost as a Deterrent to Immediate Venture Creation
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2012)This paper explores the relationship between opportunity costs and the decision to pursue entrepreneurship among undergraduates as their first career choice. Our hypothesis is that undergraduate students from highly ranked ... -
Elder Alert: Building a Business Model for Home Healthcare
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2012)The case study provides an opportunity for entrepreneurship students to address decision making regarding a business model while also learning about doing financial projections -
Developing a Methodology to Evaluate Enterprise Education Programmes
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2012)The contribution of this research to existing entrepreneurship theory is to present a conceptual model for understanding enterprise potential in young people in an educational context, and to demonstrate how enterprise ... -
Dispositional Optimism and Entrepreneurial Intent: An Exploratory Cross-Cultural Investigation
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2012)This study examined the dispositional optimism and entrepreneurial intent of undergraduate American and Canadian entrepreneurship students. It was found that American entrepreneurship students had lower levels of dispositional ... -
Choosing the Most Viable Research Methodology for Studying Entrepreneurial Success Factors
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2012)The meaning of entrepreneurial success can vary, depending upon whom you ask. Further, a majority of entrepreneurial success factors are directly related to the entrepreneur's human experiences. Thus, research specific to ... -
Legal Aliens in Entrepreneurship - An Analysis of Humanistic Students and Entrepreneurship Education
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2012)The article challenges an identified tendency within the research community of Entrepreneurship Education to conceptualize entrepreneurial students as either business students or non-business students despite the strategic ... -
Evaluating Introductory Lectures in Entrepreneurship: Empirical Implications Based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2012)Based on Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behaviour, this paper evaluates an introductory class on entrepreneurship in terms of its impact on students' entrepreneurial intentions. Results of an empirical study with 73 students ... -
Effectuation 10 Year Waypoint
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2012)As a concept, effectuation celebrated its tenth birthday in 2011. We use the milestone to look back at the work done to date and to look forward to new questions and issues. What we see is an idea that has added shape to ... -
Moonpig.com - Do MBA Business Plans Really Work? Case Study Part 3: Bringing Home the Bacon
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2011)The case study is the final part of the three part case study series of Moonpig.com one of today's most successful Internet-based greeting card businesses. Following a strong marketing campaign, high customer retention as ... -
Moonpig.com - Do MBA Business Plans Really Work? Case Study Part 2: Over the Moon
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2011)The case study continues the story of Moonpig.com, a fast-growth entrepreneurial success story started in 1999 by Nick Jenkins. Part 2 describes the growth of Moonpig.com from 2003 to 2009. On his journey Nick was faced ... -
Do Entrepreneurship Courses Change an Individual's Attitude Toward New Venture Creation? Results of a Quantitative Assessment of The Cornell Entrepreneurship Program
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2011)Does enrollment in entrepreneurship classes actually impact venture creation? Our findings indicate that entrepreneurship classes have not only had a statistically significant impact on new venture creation, but are also ... -
Moonpig.com - Do MBA Business Plans Really Work? Case Study Part 1: Against All the Odds
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2011)The case study is the first part of a three part case study series that tells the story of Moonpig.com, a UK innovative high-growth company that started in 1999 when Nick Jenkins progressed from writing his first MBA ... -
Entrepreneurial Leadership: What is it and How Should it be Taught?
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2011)We offer a comprehensive review of the literature relating to entrepreneurial leadership, noting that there are diverse understandings of the concept and little exploration of how best to teach it. We next present empirical ... -
The Leadership Molecule Hypothesis: Implications for Entrepreneurial Organizations
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2011)The topic of leadership in entrepreneurial organizations has received relatively little attention. The prevailing view is that leadership is an individual phenomenon. This paper proposes that the conventional notion of a ... -
Fostering Entrepreneurship among Finnish Business Students: Antecedents of Entrepreneurial Intent and Implications for Entrepreneurship Education
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2011)In Finland, the institutional environment is highly conducive to engaging in entrepreneurship, the costs and complexities of starting a business are low, and Finnish Universities play a significant role in educating future ... -
The Entrepreneurship Role of Freelancers - Theory with Evidence from the Construction Industry
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2011)In the entrepreneurship literature freelance workers are often categorised as a small and underperforming version of entrepreneurial owner managers. By contrast, in the industrial relations literature they are often depicted ...
