Purpose: Research on entrepreneurial ecosystems has advanced over recent years and has become a popular topic. Despite the interest, previous work has focused on entrepreneurial ecosystems in large cities in the United States. Ecosystems in small cities, underpopulated rural areas, university...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore trends in entrepreneurship spaces developed by universities to support entrepreneurship education. It identifies characteristics that make a space conducive to innovation and explains whether current spaces adequately conform to those...

This paper has analysed the impact of the South East Asian crisis on the recruitment strategies of multinational hotel companies. In the paper a brief review of expatriate recruitment is conducted. From this review a number of strategies of recruitment are identified. The paper proceeds to use...

Purpose – To analyse the philosophies underlying economic studies in entrepreneurship and to explain how they contribute to the understanding of entrepreneurial behaviour. Design/methodology/approach – A range of historical studies is reviewed that examine entrepreneurship from an economic...

Purpose – This paper aims to introduce current debates on assessment practice in higher education and to explore educational research on assessment. Design/methodology/approach – The paper progresses by exploring a number of outcomes and highlights their role in helping one to understand the...

This paper analyses buyer‐supplier relationships from the perspective of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). Preliminary results show that actors within a supply chain are not homogeneous in terms of their size, resources and business motives, and this brings into question the...

Purpose – This paper aims to identify criteria for assessing the viability of institutional strategies for enterprise education and to develop models that describe methods of organising enterprise education. Design/methodology/approach – The paper identifies and explains a number of key...

This paper presents research with small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owners who have participated in a leadership development programme. The primary focus of this paper is on learning transfer and factors affecting it, arguing that entrepreneurs must engage in 'action' in order to 'learn'...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of human and intellectual capital on start-ups’ attainment of government venture capital (GVC). It is theorized that as a result of government predisposition toward enhancing knowledge spillover and certifying underinvested start-ups,...