Volume 8(1) • 2015
INTRODUCTION: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FACTORS AFFECTING THE PERCEPTION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITIES
ABSTRACT. McMullen and Shephard (2006) point out that while economists may not care who acts as to as long as someone does, entrepreneurship scholars care about the actors. We care about ways in which actors perceive the world. It is not only differing motivations and differing worlds, but different..
ETHICAL HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FAMILY OWNERSHIP
ABSTRACT. We examine whether a controlling family’s influence in their family business relates to the business’s human resources management practices and how the ethical perspectives of those in control of the business affects this relationship. We find family influence is positively related to hiri..
AN EXPECTANCY THEORY MODEL OF INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS
ABSTRACT. In this paper, we present an argument for the application of expectancy theory to the decision take a privately held firm public. Expectancy theory is well suited as the foundation for the creation of a theory to describe or understand the motivation for a privately held firm to go public...
THE DIVERSITY OF LEGACY MOTIVATION: SUCCESSION PLANNING OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN, MEXICAN-AMERICAN, AND KOREAN-AMERICAN BUSINESS OWNERS
ABSTRACT. Using data from the 2003 and 2005 National Minority Business Owners Surveys (NMBOS), this study profiles succession planning and examines the effect of ethnicity on succession planning in small family firms. The evidence suggests that only about 25 percent of family firms in the sample wou..
WHO BECOMES AN ENTREPRENEUR? THE DISPOSITIONAL REGULATORY FOCUS PERSPECTIVE
ABSTRACT. The following research examines how personality traits affect entrepreneurial intention. The study employs a survey completed by 175 undergraduate students and an experimental study examining 62 entrepreneurs. This research demonstrates that a person’s dispositional (i.e. stable across tim..