Who is the Good Entrepreneur? An Exploration within the Catholic Social Tradition

Entrepreneurship is a critical need in society, and an entrepreneur's life can be a life wonderfully lived. However, most of the literature examining entrepreneurship takes an overly narrow financial viewpoint when examining entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success. Our paper surveys the current entrepreneurial literature on what constitutes successful entrepreneurship. We then engage key conceptual ideas within the Catholic social tradition to analyze what we see as an undeveloped notion of success. We then move to construct a richer notion of success through the framework of virtue.     

How do lifestyle hospitality and tourism entrepreneurs manage their work-life balance?

This study uses border theory to explore how lifestyle hospitality and tourism entrepreneurs manage their work-life balance. This research utilizes in-depth interviews and observations from Dali and Lijiang, China. Three types of findings emerged. First, for lifestyle entrepreneurs, work and personal life are not divided; business is considered a style of living, not work. Second, lifestyle entrepreneurs’ boundary management tactics include temporal tactics, physical tactics, and psychological tactics. Third, the factors influencing the work-life balance of lifestyle entrepreneurs include personal factors and the contextual factors related to tourism destinations. This paper contributes to border theory by indicating how an individual’s psychological borders have a decisive effect on work-life balance perception, and how both the tourism and Chinese contexts moderate the psychological borders of work-life balance to some extent.     

Impact of assertive and defensive impression management tactics on recruiter evaluation: The case of post-failure entrepreneurs in employment interviews

This study investigates how human-resource professionals examine, during a job interview, the application of post-bankruptcy entrepreneurs seeking to rebound as salaried workers. We assume that the way candidates talk about their failure (impression management tactics—IM) impacts the assessment of the recruiter. Thanks to an experimental methodology we compare the impact of three distinct IM tactics on the assessment of the hiring manager (a defensive IM tactic based on excuses, a defensive IM tactic based on justification, and an assertive IM tactic). We demonstrate that recruiters are more inclined to recruit the post-bankruptcy entrepreneur if the candidate has been able to turn the ordeal into an element of self-valorization.     

企业家——企业文化创立的关键

作为企业家,在企业文化的培育发展过程中既是倡导者、决策者,又是推行者、表率者,对企业文化的形成从内容到过程都起着决定作用。为了适应当前的企业改革和市场经济发展的需要,培育一支高素质的企业家队伍,创立积极进取、求真务实的企业文化就成了一项刻不容缓的重要工程。     

市场经济条件下企业家思想道德素质的价值探析

企业家思想道德素质是企业家素质的核心内容之一,在市场经济条件下加强企业家思想道德素质更具有重要的意义。文章针对目前对企业家思想道德素质重视不够的现状,探讨了企业家思想道德素质对企业发展的价值。     

关于企业资本运营战略的思考

从生产经营模式到资本经营模式的转变是目前我国国有企业面临的一次革命性的飞跃。资本经营实际上是企业发展到一定规模和一定阶段时通常要采取的战略选择 ,通过资本经营 ,企业可以改善自身的资本结构 ,吸纳外部资源 ,剥离不良资本 ,进行组织和制度创新 ,从而达到低成本高效益扩张的目的。本文运用系统科学的思想 ,对资本经营的基本理论及我国企业资本经营的现状进行阐述、考察和分析 ,试图提出发展我国国有企业资本经营所应该采取的对策     

个人地位、企业发展、社会责任与制度风险:中国民营企业家政治参与动机的研究

以浙江省民营企业家为例,本文考察了影响民营企业家参政水平的各种动机,从而检验了有关企业家政治参与动机的个人地位论、企业发展论、社会责任论以及制度风险论。Logistic回归结果显示,提高个人社会地位和促进企业发展动机都会显著提高民营企业家的参政水平,履行社会责任动机对提高民营企业家的参政水平起到了负面作用,规避制度风险不是民营企业家参与政治的动机因素。研究发现支持了个人地位论和企业发展论,不支持社会责任论和制度风险论。政策含义强调了解和把握参政动机的多元化特征对于规范民营企业家参政行为的重要性,同时也指出了民营企业家对我国经济和政治领域改革的信心和支持。     

企业家内部社会网络与技术创新绩效：跨功能知识整合的中介效应

文章以长三角科技型中小企业为对象,对企业家内部社会网络是否以及如何通过跨功能知识整合影响企业技术创新绩效进行了实证分析。研究结果表明企业家内部社会网络对跨功能知识整合、企业创新绩效有显著影响;跨功能知识整合在企业家内部社会网络与企业创新绩效间起着部分中介作用。企业家应努力在内部建设稳定的关系网络,创设利于跨功能知识整合的内部环境,以提升企业技术创新绩效。     

社会创业国际化：基于Schwab Foundation的实证研究

文章基于Schwab Foundation的207家成功社会企业的数据,通过列联表分析、对应分析的方法,从组织和个人两个层面探讨并归纳出社会创业国际化的各种影响因素。研究发现:社会企业及其国际化进程在全球范围内的发展速度越来越快;社会企业的国际化与创办国的经济发展水平有重要关系;社会企业的组织模式以及社会创业者的海外经历和其个人早期的特殊经历均会影响所创企业的国际化进程。