An individual's motivation to become entrepreneur: evidences from a mineral based economy

Garg, Ankit; Matshediso, I.B.; Garg, Dhruv

doi:10.1504/ijesb.2011.037343

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“…The main attributes discussed within the realm of psychology include creativity, self-efficacy, the propensity to assume risks, the need for achievement, the need for independence, and locus of control (Ardichvili et al 2003;Baron 2006;Tominc and Rebernik 2007;Nicolaou et al 2009;Garg et al 2011). Tominc and Rebernik (2007) identified that self-efficacy motivates entrepreneurs to set higher goals and achieve them (Wood and Pearson 2009;Kickul et al 2010).…”

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A systematic literature review of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition: insights on influencing factors

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In the last three decades, research studies investigating how individuals recognize entrepreneurial opportunities have advanced rapidly and have become a key topic in the modern entrepreneurship literature. To advance this important concern further, we present a systematic literature review of the entrepreneurial opportunity research field and its status. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this research suggests that the field is fragmented and empirically underdeveloped. A comprehensive literature analysis shows that only a handful of authors have contributed specifically to developing dialogues related to opportunity recognition and that the topic is considered primarily as an ancillary issue by many authors and academic journals. Based on analyzing 180 articles, we classify existing contributions into six influential factors: prior knowledge, social capital, cognition/personality traits, environmental conditions, alertness, and systematic search. Moreover, by developing a framework, we communicate critical insights regarding the opportunity recognition process. The contribution of individual articles to the proposed factors is presented in a research synthesis table. We conclude by presenting several directions for future research related to opportunity recognition. Int Entrep Manag J

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“…Section D: This section explored students’ attitudes towards entrepreneurship in general using scale items adapted from Souitaris, Zerbinati and Al-Laham (2007) and Muofhe (2010). Section E: This section explores the general self-efficacy of students to engage as entrepreneurs using scale items adapted from Pihie (2009), Souitaris et al (2007) and Garg, Matshediso and Garg (2011). …”

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“…Section E: This section explores the general self-efficacy of students to engage as entrepreneurs using scale items adapted from Pihie (2009), Souitaris et al (2007) and Garg, Matshediso and Garg (2011).…”

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Entrepreneurial-related Programmes and Students’ Intentions to Venture into New Business Creation: Finding Synergy of Constructs in a University of Technology

Matsheke¹,

Dhurup²

2017

Science, Technology and Society

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Entrepreneurial education has received a fair amount of attention locally and internationally. Interestingly, disparities continue to exist in the quality of entrepreneurship education programmes on offer, particularly in curriculum design, delivery methods and forms of assessment within higher education institutions in South Africa. We examined the relationship between the entrepreneurial content of the curriculum (ENTCC), attitude towards entrepreneurship, general self-efficacy and students' intentions towards entrepreneurship. The study is located within a quantitative research paradigm and the sample of 263 was drawn from final year students from the Faculty of Management at a South African university of technology (UoT) who were studying various business-related programmes in 2014. Data were analysed using correlation and regression analysis. The results indicate that the ENTCC, students' attitude towards entrepreneurship and students' self-efficacy exhibit significant predictive relationships with students' intentions to venture into new business creation. Our study makes two major contributions: (i) it fills the gap in entrepreneurship education in order to revisit our curriculum to make the module/s more 'hands on' and (ii) it provides an avenue to further explore the feasibility for a fully fledged entrepreneurship programme with mandatory, elective and incubation start-up practical training in conjunction with the Science Park, Technology, Transfer and Innovation Centre within the university.

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“…In addition to their weak entrepreneurial ability, lack of start-up capital, low entrepreneurial mental energy, and difficulty in obtaining entrepreneurial information, new start-ups also have a fatal weakness (Ratelle et al, 2004 ; Garg et al, 2011 ; Kadile and Biraglia, 2017 ). That is, they cannot establish a high-quality transaction network with low transaction costs in the short term (Yli-Renko et al, 2012 ).…”

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The effects of social capital on entrepreneurial resilience of SME from China: A moderated mediation model of entrepreneurial passion and Confucian traditional golden-mean thinking

Shan

Tian

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Small and medium-sized startups play a crucial role in a country's sustainable development. SMEs are at an early development stage, which means weaker institutional norms and successful paradigms, tending to suffer from exceptionally high failure rates because of many constraints, including a lack of resources and credit to access the core information. The higher the environmental uncertainty, the more likely that new start-ups rely on all kinds of social links for acquiring resources. As a critical ability to withstand and overcome obstacles, entrepreneurial resilience is an essential personal characteristic to ensure the sustainability of new ventures. The purpose of this study is to investigate the internal mechanism through which SME entrepreneurs' social capital affects entrepreneurial resilience. To reveal the internal mechanism, we propose a moderated and mediation model. Using survey data from SEM entrepreneurs in China, hierarchical regression analysis and bootstrapping model are adapted to test and verify mediation and moderation effects. The results show that social capital indeed positively influences entrepreneurial resilience directly and partly through the mediating effect of harmonious entrepreneurial passion and obsessive entrepreneurial passion. Moreover, findings suggest golden-mean thinking negatively moderates the relationship between obsessive entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial resilience yet positively moderates the relationship between social capital and entrepreneurial resilience. Based on these findings, we conclude that entrepreneurial resilience may be achieved more effectively through the complex internal process of social capital, entrepreneurial passion, and golden-mean thinking. Finally, the study proposes the theoretical and practical implications and suggestions for follow-up research.

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An individual's motivation to become entrepreneur: evidences from a mineral based economy

Cited by 10 publications

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A systematic literature review of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition: insights on influencing factors

A systematic literature review of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition: insights on influencing factors

Entrepreneurial-related Programmes and Students’ Intentions to Venture into New Business Creation: Finding Synergy of Constructs in a University of Technology

The effects of social capital on entrepreneurial resilience of SME from China: A moderated mediation model of entrepreneurial passion and Confucian traditional golden-mean thinking

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