Entrepreneur’s creativity and firm-level innovation performance: bricolage as a mediator

Prior literature focuses on the direct influence of entrepreneur’s creativity on firm-level innovation performance, but it ignores the intermediate mechanism of how. This study examines the role of bricolage in mediating the relationship between entrepreneur’s creativity and innovation performance. We propose that in SMEs, entrepreneur’s creativity can facilitate bricolage, which in turn influences innovation performance. Furthermore, the extent to which entrepreneur’s creativity can influence bricolage depends on firm age. Survey data from 249 SMEs indicate that bricolage functions as a mediator in the relationship between entrepreneur’s creativity and innovation performance. Entrepreneur’s creativity has a stronger effect on bricolage for young firms than for old firms.     

创业者经验对创业机会识别影响模型构建

基于现有创业经验学习研究文献,清晰地界定了创业机会识别、创业者经验、创业学习和创业自我效能的概念,划分其维度,深入探讨了创业者经验对创业机会识别的作用机制,提出相关理论命题,构建了创业者经验-创业学习、创业自我效能-创业机会识别理论模型,为创业者经验实证研究奠定了必要的理论基础。在此基础上,指出研究局限,并对未来创业者经验研究方向进行了展望。     

Gender and entrepreneurial success: evidence from survey data

A wealth of studies have contributed to the literature on gender differences in entrepreneurial success, but most lack key controls that aid in determining that success. Scale of the entrepreneur’s business is often not accounted for, and no studies to the author’s knowledge approach the gender comparison by specifically utilizing a sample of entrepreneur-only managed businesses. This allows for a direct comparison between individual entrepreneurs’ performance by gender, without the confounding heterogeneity that workforces may introduce. Data are taken from a national US survey of individuals, and model specifications include a number of important but oftentimes unavailable controls that have never before been used in conjunction. Female and male entrepreneurial success are statistically equal after controlling for risk preferences, intelligence, start-up capital, prior industry experience and hours worked at the business. Alternative specifications and sensitivity checks confirm and expand on these results.     

基于创业投资视角的创业企业家资源禀赋模糊综合评价

创业企业家的资源禀赋是影响创业企业绩效的重要因素,是进行创业投资决策的关键依据。基于创业投资视角,从心理资本、人力资本与社会资本3个方面构建了创业企业家资源禀赋评价指标体系,并选择模糊综合评价法对创业企业家的资源禀赋进行了评价,将定性评价转为定量评价,为创业投资决策提供了重要参考。     

Self-ignorance: Towards an extension of the Austrian paradigm

This article argues for an extension of the Austrian paradigm of the ignorance of actors. The idea that will be defended here is that actors are not only confronted with their lack of knowledge of the other person but also with their lack of self-knowledge. From this perspective, the article seeks to understand the implications of this phenomenon in terms of infra-individual coordination and to account for the mental processes mobilized by the individual mind so as to deal with that self-ignorance.

Making real money in virtual worlds: MMORPGs and emerging business opportunities, challenges and ethical implications in metaverses

Today, millions of people from around the globe play online role playing games (MMORPG), in which a large number of players interact with one another in a virtual world, either using their existing identities in the physical world, or more often than not, through new virtual identities that might not even be remotely linked to the identities of the players in the physical world. The number of users is growing at an exponential rate and we are probably on the verge of a new development that is going to be as significant as the Internet itself. This positioning paper will discuss the business opportunities and challenges of such a virtual world, that of Second Life, and will examine the resultant corporate social responsibility implications focusing on the ethical and policy-related ones. This will help to identify important research questions that need to be systematically addressed.     

The booster function and the entrepreneurial quality: an application to the province of Seville

The objectives of this paper are two-fold. First, to elaborate a theoretical model that shows the characteristics of an entrepreneur of quality and the factors that influence them. Second, to apply the model to entrepreneurs in the province of Seville, one of the least developed areas in the European Union. The purpose is to show the importance of entrepreneurship for business success and, more importantly, in economic development. In summary, the model shows that entrepreneurs of quality possess an intrinsic motivation and, as consequence of this, they adopt some energizer behaviours, such as the capacity for innovation, ambition and co-operation with others. The model also takes into account factors that influence these characteristics, including the personal context of the entrepreneur, such as experience, education and family, and the global context, such as productive opportunities, socio-cultural factors and political-institutional factors. In the analysis of the entrepreneurs of Seville, the paper mainly focuses on the motivation and the energizer behaviours and their interdependence. The empirical findings indicate that the model is valid.     

对我国企业家制度的几点思考——基于国有企业的视角

企业家是稀缺资源,是推动国民经济发展的主要力量。企业家制度及企业家队伍建设是我国国企改革中一个重要的环节。2003年国务院国资委成立以来,对企业家制度进行了一系列的设计和安排,企业家队伍建设也取得了一定的成效,通过对这些制度的思考提出一些看法。     

企业家“成本发现”、比较优势演化与产品空间结构转型——基于江苏经济发展的案例研究

外贸产品的空间结构可以反映一个国家或地区的动态比较优势、核心竞争力、产业演化等经济元素。产品空间结构转型的过程是渐进式，在市场经济体制中是由企业家成功地探索出了新产品的成本结构来推动的。本文在对比较优势演化与产品空间结构转型进行理论回顾的基础上，对江苏经济发展过程中的产品空间结构转型进行了实证分析，依据此实证分析，进一步归纳其产品空间结构动态演进的特点及其成因，最后对江苏如何实现产品空间结构进一步转型提出了若干的政策建议。     

Stereotypical Notions of the Entrepreneur: An Analysis from a Perspective of Gender

The principal objective of this paper is an analysis of the stereotypical figure of the entrepreneur in the Spanish context, from a perspective of gender. We provide evidence that the characteristics largely associated with an entrepreneurial individual are stereotypically male or androgynous, with a notable absence of female typologies. Our findings suggest that this relationship has an influence on the continued predominance of male entrepreneurial activity. This study contributes to the growing empirical literature on female entrepreneurship from an understudied perspective; gender stereotyping, demonstrating that socially constructed gender stereotyping persists in contemporary Spanish culture.