Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore if and to what extent the competency portfolio of entrepreneurs affects firm's performance, controlling for a set of individual and organizational variables. Design/methodology/approach – Applying nonparametric statistical analysis on data...

This chapter provides an overview of entrepreneurship clubs. It charts the development of these organizations, as a form of extracurricular activity. It introduces different forms of entrepreneurship club, such as Junior Achievement and Enactus, and explains how they grew from 1919 to the...

In this paper we analyze the role of the individual competencies of a sample of entrepreneurs of small and medium-sized Italian firms and their impact on business performance. First, we focus on the measurement of entrepreneurial competencies by using a variety of tools and then we try to find a...

A classical approach to collecting and elaborating information to make entrepreneurial decisions combines search heuristics such as trial and error, effectuation, and confirmatory search. This paper develops a framework for exploring the implications of a more scientific approach to...

Entrepreneurs making decisions under uncertainty are encouraged to evaluate their initial ideas through hypothesis testing, but entrepreneurial approaches vary in their emphasis on ex-ante theory development prior to collecting evidence. In this paper, we examine whether and how entrepreneurs...