We examine how individual entrepreneurial orientation dimensions influence the relationship between competitive strategy and firm performance. The findings, based on a data set of 115 entrepreneurial firms, show the different impacts that the individual dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation...

Entrepreneur’s cognitive biases have emerged as one of the central themes in understanding the performance of entrepreneurial firms. Research has shown that entrepreneur’s overconfidence and optimism bias help firm creation, but also contribute to firm failure. Prior studies using cognitive...

Entrepreneur s cognitive biases have emerged as one of the central themes in understanding the performance of entrepreneurial firms. Research has shown that entrepreneur s overconfidence and optimism bias help firm creation, but also contribute to firm failure. Prior studies using cognitive...

Habitual entrepreneurs are a frequent and important phenomenon in entrepreneurship and for the economy. We lack, however, a systematic understanding of the advantages or disadvantages of multiple business ownership and specifically if portfolio and serial entrepreneurs are different in detecting...

In the entrepreneurship literature, the phenomenon of industry emergence has been largely investigated from an institutional perspective. Appropriate institutions would allow then a group of individual entrepreneurs ("the heroes") to create an industry through innovative ventures. New ventures...