The reasons that university students perceive to create an enterprise are diverse, as well as the motivations or barriers. The purpose of the research was analysis of the motivations and obstacles towards the entrepreneurial ...

Innovation is often seen as essential for ventures to succeed. High business failure rates in entrepreneurship, however, suggest that innovations are frequently driven by entrepreneurs blinded by overconfidence. Thus, ...

Rationality is an elusive and increasingly debated concept in entrepreneurship research. We offer a novel conceptualization of rationality based on reasoning motivations. We posit that logical, probabilistic, and heuristic ...

Purpose – This study proposes a model suggesting that innovation may act as a motivating force that increases entrepreneurs’ growth expectations, where entrepreneurs’ growth expectations are shaped by their subjective ...

This study examined relationships of the dark triad personality characteristics (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism) with entrepreneurial intentions and motives. Results from samples of business undergraduates ...

This study examined relationships of the dark triad personality characteristics (i.e., narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism) with entrepreneurial intentions and motives. Results from samples of business undergraduates ...

This paper presents the use of innovative educational methodology, by the CDEE-ICESI, to spread entrepreneurial education and assistance to young entrepreneurs living in different cities of Colombia. Web CT ...

The objective of this study was to compare motivations for entrepreneurship, business planning, and risk management between two groups of university students: those who already had a business (experienced entrepreneurs) ...