Although research has emphasized cognition and the use of heuristics and biases by entrepreneurs, the process by which available information influences one's decision to start a business has yet to be clarified. In this study, we test a model where changes in the available information concerning...

Previous research provides unequivocal evidence that women-owned businesses start with both lower levels of overall capitalization and lower ratios of debt finance. Structural dissimilarities between male-owned and female-owned businesses explain most, but by no means all, of these contrasting...

The argument of this paper is that there is nothing new about the political connection made between development and security. This has characterized US relations with Latin America grounded in the Monroe Doctrine (giving the US right to intervene) that dates back to 1823. The focus here is on...

We sketch out two basic paradigms informing banking practice: the economistic paradigm focusing on profit maximization and the humanistic one, serving the common good. We then highlight paradigmatic cases to explore how each of these business models fared during the quasi-natural experiment of...

The process through which entrepreneurial firms plan and achieve strategic growth and innovation often reflects a complex set of internal organizational challenges and opportunities. This paper specifically focuses on how entrepreneurs build internal cultures in order to stimulate and drive...

More detailed knowledge of the differences and similarities between social entrepreneurs and "traditional" entrepreneurs is critical to the advancement of the field of social entrepreneurship. We use Discrete Choice Modeling (DCM) approach to map the mental prototypes of "opportunity", and to...