Current Issue : January - March Volume : 2016 Issue Number : 1 Articles : 6 Articles
In the context of an unstable economic, social and political environment, SMEs in Romania are\nvery vulnerable. It requires careful study of the causes that generate problems, major obstacles\nin developing their business objectives and setting priorities for supporting this sector. The\nsuccess of an organization, the ability to adapt to economic variables and maintain an upward\ntrajectory are determined largely by the quality of its leaders. The entrepreneur�s personality\ncharacterized by strong motivation gives to an organization a powerful entrepreneurial\ndimension. The model developed allows to determine the degree of entrepreneurship qualities\ndepending on business risk and the management performance of entrepreneurs. It has a great\ninfluence on economic and social activity, the organizational climate of each economic unit. The\nproposed model can be successfully used in practice to calculate the entrepreneurial qualities\nfor different categories of entrepreneurs for which a performance evaluation has been\nconducted, according to specific evaluation criteria....
This article aims to identify factors fostering e-entrepreneurship acceptance in a developing country, Morocco. It suggests a model based on Technology Acceptance Model (Davis et al.,1989) extended by three added constructs ââ?¬Å?Trustââ?¬Â, ââ?¬Å?Imageââ?¬Â and ââ?¬Å?Riskââ?¬Â. The study was conducted at national school of business and management located in Agadir city, south of Morocco. It concerned 56 students, considered as future entrepreneurs, representing 62% of the target population (90 students). Results showed that the suggested model explained 40% of total variance in the intention to accept e-entrepreneurship by these entrepreneurs. They also revealed that Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, Trust, Image and Risk influenced significantly the Moroccan future entrepreneursââ?¬â?¢ intention to accept e-entrepreneurship. However, Attitude showed no significant impact on this intention. Furthermore, this research work generates a useful knowledge on e-entrepreneurship that could help policymakers to succeed information technology (IT) strategies, and support future entrepreneurs to succeed their investment in projects based on IT....
It is widely believed that entrepreneurship is an engine of nowadays economic and that\nentrepreneurial activities should be supported as much as they can be. As one of their\nsupport way have been recognized business incubation models. Business incubators are\nconsidered as a valuable source of nurture of new entrepreneurial ventures. Especially,\nfresh entrepreneurs are in focus of major support program politics because each start-up is\nvery delicate and risky matter and should be supported by special business development\nservices. It is clear, that it is spoken primarily about small and middle sized enterprise\n(SME) sector that has emerged as the most dynamic and turbulent part of national\neconomics. Therefore, SME entrepreneurial activities are seen as the main source of\neconomic development and global competitiveness. Naturally, SME activities are so in the\ncenter of business incubation focus. However, an essential question should be asked: Does it\nwork? Is the incubation support system well-structured and helpful for entrepreneurship\nactivities? There has been observed a slight tendency to let incubation activities escape by\nsystematic review due to lack of data. To clarify this issue, an observation of chosen\nincubator samples was carried out. The cornerstone of this observation was structured on\nthe existing body of knowledge of the area of business incubation and its relation to\nentrepreneurship. This study uses a two-ways approach: first approach is focused on\ndiscussing gained data from the carried out observations and its comparison to the already\nexisting data. Second approach is focused on demonstrative examples of best practices....
The idea of owning personal businesses has been of serious contention between the young\ngraduates and the government globally due to high rate of unemployment in most economies of\nthe world and it has been argued that contextual factors in relation to educational support,\nstructural and informal networks have contributed enormously to the development of\nentrepreneurial intention. As such, this study tried to ascertain whether there is significant\nrelationship between perceived educational supports and entrepreneurial intention of\nuniversity students and also to determine the effect of informal networks on entrepreneurial\nintention of university students. Four hundred copies of questionnaire were administered to 2\nselected universities in Lagos and Ogun state to get the primary data. The study found that\nentrepreneurial educational support has significant relationship with the entrepreneurial\nintention of university students. Also the study discovered that informal network have positive\nsignificant effect on entrepreneurial intention of university students to start their desired\nbusinesses. The study recommends that universities should establish entrepreneurial\ndevelopment centers that will serve as a platform where students with entrepreneurial\nintentions can start expressing their intentions and that parents, friends and relations of these\nstudents should provide necessary supports thereby helping the nation to reduce its\nunemployment and crime rate....
‘Make in India’, a major national initiative which focuses on making India as a global manufacturing hub and manufacturing leader in a field of global production network because India’s economy in the world is gearing up for growth. Key thrust of this program is bring about sustainable development on manufacturing projects clearance, develop adequate infrastructure and make it easier for companies to do business in India. The key sectors identified under the program include automobiles, auto components, bio-technology, chemicals, de-manufacturing, electronic systems, food processing, leather, mining, oil and gas, ports, railways, ports and textile. The objective of the mega program is to ensure that manufacturing sector would connect with global production which contributes around 15% of the country’s Gross Domestic Products is increased to 25% in next few years. Five major types of connective nodes in supply networks: Local integrator, Export base, Import base, International spanner and Global integrator....
In the past decade, a lot of educational programs for entrepreneurship have shown an increased\ninterest in competences development, using innovative learning approaches. Some of them are\nbased on educational simulations. The increasing availability of the simulation platforms and\naccess to them, also contribute to the improvement of simulation in entrepreneurship education.\nThe aim of this paper is to presents an architectural model for e-learning in entrepreneurship using\nagent-paradigm based simulations. The architecture of the e-learning platform was defined using\nARCHIMATE model and language. The business, information and technology levels were\ndesigned. The defined architecture model includes the most important structural elements and also\nthe main dynamic elements of the e-learning platform, offering information about the development\nof the agent-based platform. Taking into account the proposed model, the authors identified\nfurther directions for development....
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