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...

This paper presents new empirical evidence on the existence of cognitive divergence among actors in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. These cognitive disjoints among the actors were examined on the 9 entrepreneurial framework conditions (hereinafter referred to as EFCs), which were developed in the...

The existing literature identifies a number of antecedent factors that positively influence the propensity of individuals to become entrepreneurs. Key among these is self-efficacy, knowledge of other entrepreneurs and the perception of opportunities. At the same time, current research shows that...