Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies: Volume 11 Issue 4

New entrepreneurial worlds: Can the use of role models in higher education inspire students? The case of Nigeria

Sola Adesola, Birgit den Outer, Sabine Mueller

The purpose of this paper is to determine if and how role models presented in entrepreneurship education can influence students’ entrepreneurial activity given that the lack of…

Delay of gratificationand business performancein least developed countries: Evidence from Lao PDR

Dalivone Xayavongsa, Piriya Pholphirul

Does delay of gratification affect the probability of engaging in self-employment and does it contribute to business performance? This paper aims to quantify impacts of delay of…

Exploration of the initiation and process of business model innovation of successful Chinese ICT enterprises

Peng Liu, Robin Bell

This paper aims to investigate four successful Chinese ICT enterprises to determine what initiated their business-model innovations and the process they went through by exploring…

Earliness of SME internationalizationand performance: Analyzing the role of CEO attributes

Channappa Santhosh

The purpose of this paper is to understand the mediating effects of Chief Executive officer (CEO) attributes on the earliness of internationalization and performance in context of…

To bridge or buffer? A resource dependence theory of nascent entrepreneurial ecosystems

Philip T. Roundy, Mark A. Bayer

Vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems, systems of inter-related forces that promote and sustain regional entrepreneurship, are increasingly viewed as sources of innovation, economic…

Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems in Mexico: a comparative analysis

Allan Oswaldo Villegas Mateos, José Ernesto Amorós

The entrepreneurial ecosystem approach tries to understand the mechanisms underlying new business creation and helps develop tools, governmental policies and support systems that…

Entrepreneurship competencies in energy sustainability MOOCs

Martha de Jesús Beltrán Hernández de Galindo, Luis M. Romero-Rodriguez, Maria Soledad Ramirez Montoya

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have been gaining popularity as non-formal lifelong learning educational platforms. However, they have been criticized for their low completion…