Socio-cultural factors and entrepreneurial activity: An overview

PH Thornton, D Ribeiro-Soriano… - … small business journal, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Scholars who study entrepreneurship have lent great value by exploring the factors that
explain how entrepreneurs create new businesses and thus, how societies and economies …

Do different institutional frameworks condition the influence of local fear of failure and entrepreneurial examples over entrepreneurial activity?

Y Vaillant, E Lafuente - Entrepreneurship and Regional …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
This paper analyses how different institutional frameworks condition the influence of
selected social traits: the social stigma to entrepreneurial failure and the presence of …

Exploring the normative context for women's entrepreneurship in Pakistan: a critical analysis

MA Roomi, S Rehman, C Henry - International Journal of Gender and …, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose The role of women in Pakistani society–largely embedded in its patriarchal socio–
cultural environment–has important implications for women's entrepreneurial activity in the …

Reasons for the relatively lower entrepreneurial activity levels of rural women in Spain

O Driga, E Lafuente, Y Vaillant - Sociologia ruralis, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the impact that selected institutional factors have upon the
entrepreneurial activity of women and men in rural areas. To do so, the results of the Adult …

Location decisions of knowledge-based entrepreneurs: why some Catalan KISAs choose to be rural?

E Lafuente, Y Vaillant, C Serarols - Technovation, 2010 - Elsevier
Entrepreneurship has currently become an important element of economic development and
innovation policy. In this context, the promotion of knowledge-based firms has become the …

Promoting entrepreneurial mindsets at universities: a case study in the South of Spain

N Toledano, D Urbano - European Journal of International …, 2008 - inderscienceonline.com
This study analyses an entrepreneurial learning initiative developed in the south of Spain
through a partnership approach between a high-level educational institution–the University …

[BOK][B] Public Policies for Fostering Entrepreneurship A European Perspective

J Leitão - 2009 - Springer
One of the main challenges facing the member states of the European Union (EU) is the
fundamental need to accept the strategic importance of entrepreneurship as a force for …

Networks and corporate entrepreneurship: A comparative case study on family business in Catalonia

N Toledano, D Urbano, M Bernadich - Journal of Organizational …, 2010 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to analyse in‐depth collaboration as a process that
emerges from interactions among individuals in order to develop entrepreneurial actions …

[HTML][HTML] Monitorización del proceso emprendedor a través del modelo de negocio

RM Batista-Canino, A Bolívar-Cruz, P Medina-Brito - Innovar, 2016 - scielo.org.co
El presente trabajo aborda un doble objetivo: desde un punto de vista teórico, profundizar
en el conocimiento del proceso emprendedor en la fase incipiente y, desde un punto de …

Location decisions of new 'Knowledge Intensive Service Activity'firms: The rural–urban divide

Y Vaillant, E Lafuente, C Serarols - The Service Industries Journal, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
This paper analyses the variables that influence the decision to locate knowledge-intensive
service activity firms (KISA firms, hereafter) in a rural or an urban area in Spain. The results …