A growing conversation has emerged linking ostensibly dark or pathological individual-level characteristics to entrepreneurship. Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) emerged as a proof-of-concept phenomenon. Recent studies in entrepreneurship journals have made great strides –...

Drawing on Bem's psychological theory of self-perception, this paper presents and tests a model that examines the impact of gender and entrepreneurial activity on entrepreneurial self-perception. Based on a sample of alumni of a large Midwestern U.S. university, regression techniques are used to...

The Eclectic Theory of entrepreneurship isintroduced.The purpose of the theory is to provide a coherent,interdisciplinary framework for understanding and analyzing what determinesentrepreneurship.The determinants of entrepreneurship in Europeancountries are compared with those in the United...