Recently added articles from New England Journal of Entrepreneurship:
From the Editors
Oct 01, 2008; ... Entrepreneurship, as you know, is an interdisciplinary field of study, but many of the academics who study the field have our "homes" in a specific discipline; the editor's "smoke stack" is management. In December 2007 the Academy of Management Journal celebrated its 50th anniversary. For such ...
Separated at Birth: An Inquiry on the Conceptual Independence of the Entrepreneurship and the Leadership Constructs
Oct 01, 2008; ... Entrepreneurship and leadership may flow from the same genealogical source and the appearance of separation of the two constructs may be due to differences in the contexts through which the root phenomenon flows. Entrepreneurship and leadership are figuratively different manifestations of the ...
Integrity and Values
Oct 01, 2008; ... Dr. Jim Sinegal Costco Wholesale Corporation In the spring 2007 issue of The New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, my coauthor and I explored the intersection of faith and business practices with S. Truett Cathy, founder and chairman of Chick-fil-A. Mr. Cathy is a devoted ...
Are You an Innovator or Adaptor? The Impact of Cognitive Propensity on Venture Expectations and Outcomes
Oct 01, 2008; ... In this study we confirm the often assumed but largely untested belief that entrepreneurs think and behave differently than others. We examine a group of more than 700 nascent entrepreneurs and 400 nonentrepreneurs. We determine the entrepreneurs' cognitive style propensity for problem solving ...
The Influence of Family Business Size on Management Activities, Styles and Characteristics
Oct 01, 2008; ... This is an empirical study of family firm size, as measured by the number of employees, and the relationship of a firm's size to a variety of management activities, styles, and characteristics. A statistical analysis of data drawn from 159 American family businesses indicates significant ...
Growing Pains
Oct 01, 2008; ... Growing Pains Eric G. Flamholtz and Yvonne Randle, Growing Pains: Transitioning from an Entrepreneurs hip to a Professionally Managed Firm, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007.472 pages, $50. The vast majority of books on entrepreneurship seem to focus on the start-up process. But what ...
Case Study TransLighting Group, Inc. A Small Town, Family Business
Oct 01, 2008; ... TransLighting Group, Inc. consists of two companies all centered around the transportation industry. The original company, TransLighting, was started in 1962 by Henry Phillips. Henry was an engineer with Ford Motor Company specializing in braking wiring systems. Over an eight-year period, he ...
Entrepreneurship as Social Change
Oct 01, 2008; ... Entrepreneurship as Social Change Chris Steyaert and Daniel H]orth,eds.Entrepreneurship as Social Change. A Third Movements in Entrepreneurship Book, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006. 327 pages, $120. Grounded in the theme of "earth," Entrepreneurship as ...
The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship Mark Casson, Bernard Yeung, Anuradha Basu, and Nigel Wadeson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. 790 pages, $155. A book that takes "stock of what has been achieved" in the past 20 years of ...
From the Editors
Apr 01, 2008; ... In only a few days from this writing, Associate Editor Joshua Shuart and Editor Herbert Sherman will be conducting a seminar on entrepreneurial education at the Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management's 15th Annual Meeting in Reno, Nevada (October 4-6, 2007). This is the second stage of ...
The Impact of Screening Criteria on Entrepreneurship Research
Apr 01, 2008; ... Entrepreneurship researchers use various types of screening criteria to select samples for study. In that selecting these criteria is, in effect, choosing a definition or model of entrepreneurship, the consequences are immense and have had a direct impact on the generalizability of research and ...
Awakening the Entrepreneurial Spirit: Exploring the Relationship Between Organizational Factors and Perceptions of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Desirability in a Corporate Setting
Apr 01, 2008; ... While efforts at understanding how the entrepreneurial spirit is awakened (e.g., unwrapping the cognitive "black box") have been productive in the new venture context, it remains largely unexplored in a corporate setting. This study extends previous research by investigating the relationship ...
Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment: The State-of-the-Art and Directions for Future Research
Apr 01, 2008; ... This survey overviews the literature on entrepreneurship and self-employment. The author catalogs the main contributions of this body of research and makes a distinction between issues on which there is now widespread agreement and those for which no consensus has yet emerged. This latter set of ...
Entrepreneurship Education
Apr 01, 2008; ... Entrepreneurship Education Patricia G. Greene and Mark P. Rice, eds., Entrepreneurship Education, Cheltenham, UK: Edgar Elgar Publishing Limited, 2007. 543 pages, $225. Marguerite R. Faulk Entrepreneurship Education is the ninth book in the series entitled The International ...
Utilization of Problem-Based Learning in an Entrepreneurship Business Planning Course
Apr 01, 2008; ... This article demonstrates the implementation and efficacy of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in an undergraduate entrepreneurship business planning course. Throughout the course, ill-structured problems arise that require independent thinking and ongoing problem solving with students taking ...
Some Entrepreneurship Pitfalls
Apr 01, 2008; ... All of us have at some point thought how great it would be to be the boss of our own destiny and build a new business. For some it's a dream that won't stop until we try. In the old days, all it would have taken was two months' rent after we built our leasehold improvements. Oh, how times have ...
New England Journal of Entrepreneurship
Oct 01, 2007; ... From the Editors: A recent report from the Consortium of Entrepreneurial Education 0ittp://wwwentre-ed.org/_entre/whitepaperfinal.pdf) seems to have very well captured the spirit of entrepreneurship in the United States as well as the mission of this Journal: If you ask a group ...
The Black Box: Unraveling Family Business Succession
Oct 01, 2007; ... Using the family business succession, resource-based view of firms, familiness, and organizational clan literatures, this article develops a model based on the ability of the family business to use familiness, a specific bundle of attributes deriving from a family's culture, as a competitive ...
Toward a Typology of New Venture Creators: Similarities and Contrasts Between Business and Social Entrepreneurs
Oct 01, 2007; ... This article advances a conceptual typology delineating the differences and similarities between business- and social-sector new venture creators. Our classification scheme differentiates business and social entrepreneurs, considering characteristics of social entrepreneurs in a larger ...
The Tale of Iranian Entrepreneurs in the United States
Oct 01, 2007; ... In practice and in theory, as the findings of this research reveal, the Iranian business community is a new and different, nonconforming immigrant group in the United States. This study explores certain aspects of the Iranian business community in light of a survey done by the author. The ...