Participants in a business plan competition organized by a Singapore university are studied in order to determine the degree to which team diversity influences external evaluation of the team's business ideas.Following a review of the literature on team diversity, it is hypothesized that the...

This study proposes a multi-dimension, multi-contingent bfitQ perspective for examining different practices adapted by entrepreneurial firms in acquiring human resources. We position that while environmental constraints are important considerations for adapting recruitment practices through...

Prior studies have found that knowledge gained from work experience is a way to gather insights for business opportunity recognition. However, little is known about the specific types of knowledge that lead to business founding. Utilizing concepts from knowledge spillovers and from the...

This study examines the role of perceptions of the firm's reward system as a moderating factor in attitude's impact on patenting intensity. Applied in an Ramp;D context, attitude is defined as attitude towards Ramp;D work and attitude towards the impediments to Ramp;D work. We hypothesise that...

Current years have witnessed the ongoing interest in entrepreneurship, which is essentially understood as the emergence and growth of new businesses (Rosa et al., 1996). A wide range of factors have contributed to the revival of interest in entrepreneurship in USA, Europe and many other...