In the present paper it will be pointed out that entrepreneurial caliber plays an important role in the occupancy rate of the hotel industry. The contribution of this paper is that it enables researchers to evaluate the impact of an estimate of entrepreneurial caliber on hotel industry...

The present paper deals with the perceptions about market conditions and public policies related to enhance entrepreneurial activities at regional levels. This is the first academic research at regional level in Chile and one of the few in Latin America to study this issue. The main results seem...

Empowerment is one of the most important social value creation activities performed by social enterprises (SEs). Despite the burgeoning research on SEs, there is limited research on the meaning and aspects of empowerment from the SE perspective, or the so-called SE-as-Empowerment research. In...

Spanish Abstract: El estudio se basó en un análisis descriptivo y de correlación de la actividad emprendedora temprana y el índice de competitividad en el Ecuador durante el período 2009-2014. El objetivo es identificar el aporte de esta actividad en los factores que sustentan el índice de...

Intellectual Capital (IC) has been argued to be the key element of value creation in the contemporary economy. According to the results obtained in [Molnar, 2004] in the 1980s the share of tangible assets accounted for about 62% of market capitalization of companies on developed markets....

Business angels (BAs) and venture capitalists (VCs) are important sources of finance for entrepreneurs in emerging markets for raising start-up and growth capital. Recognising that entrepreneurial investment evaluation decision-making is a highly complex process, and that there are limited...

Innovation is the essence of humanity’s progress. Well-known internal corporate R&D and innovation centers like AT&T Bell Labs and Xerox PARC have been quite prolific in generating innovations in the post-World War II era and even received several Nobel prizes. Interestingly, it is often...

In the present paper an empirical analysis will point out that austerity measures due to high levels of government debt as a percentage of GDP have (among others) a positive impact on social unrest measured by the number of strikes. The empirical findings of the present paper support the view of...

In the present paper an empirical analysis will point out that government debt as a percentage of GDP has a negative impact (among others) on banking profitability. This impact will be even worse when this debt as a percentage of GDP exceeds a certain critical level. The sample covers during the...

In the present paper an attempt will be made to show econometrically with panel data that as globalization increases, banking risk goes also up but not by as much. Panel data are elaborated by means of Eviews software package. The sample covers during 1999–2007 Western Europe and the United States