Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies: Volume 11 Issue 3

Supporting Ghanaian micro-entrepreneurships: the role of mobile technology

Emmanuel Mensah Asiedu, Susan Shortland, Yehia Sabri Nawar, Paul J. Jackson, Laura Baker

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of mobile technology and related service platforms in supporting informal micro-entrepreneurships in rural Ghana. It aims to…

Entrepreneurial education program motivations in shaping engineering students’ entrepreneurial intention: The mediating effect of assimilation and accommodation

Minjung Kim, Min Jae Park

This study aims to draw on Piaget’s theory of assimilation and accommodation (absorptive capacity) as having mediating roles to examine the effect of motivational factors in…

The emergence of Chinese entrepreneurs: social connections and innovation

Shuanping Dai, Yuanyuan Wang, Yang Liu

This paper aims to explore empirically the emergence of entrepreneurs in China’s transition context since the 1980s.

An extended model of theory of planned behaviour: Entrepreneurial intention, regional institutional infrastructure and perceived gender discrimination in India

Sushil Kumar, Satyasiba Das

The purpose of this study is to provide an extended model of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and examine how institutional infrastructure and two social factors – peer…

Socioemotional wealth and performance in private family firms

Mohammad Rezaur Razzak, Raida Abu Bakar, Norizah Mustamil

Socioemotional wealth (SEW) has emerged as a defining concept that distinguishes family-owned business organizations from businesses that are not exclusively controlled by family…

Extending the potential of Baumol’s entrepreneurial allocation theory: Toward the entrepreneur-institution nexus

Zeynab Aeeni, Mahmoud Motavaseli, Kamal Sakhdari, Mehrzad Saeedikiya

The underlying assumptions of Baumol’s theory of entrepreneurial allocation limits its potential to answer some key questions related to the entrepreneurship allocation. Hence…

Marketing management and optimism of Afghan female entrepreneurs

Manizha Wafeq, Omar Al Serhan, Kimberley Catherine Gleason, S.W.S.B. Dasanayaka, Roudaina Houjeir, Mohamad Al Sakka

For the present generation of entrepreneurs, the operating environment in Afghanistan has been among the most tenuous in the world. Numerous regime changes, civil unrest and war…