"This second edition of the highly acclaimed The Entrepreneurial Personality carefully weaves together the arguments and views from economists, sociologists and psychologists in order to develop a strong conceptual foundation. It discusses the inferences that these experts have made about the...

chapter 1 Who is an entrepreneur? -- chapter 2 The economists view of the entrepreneur -- chapter 3 The socio-economic environment -- chapter 4 The search for entrepreneurial traits: The Big Three -- chapter 5 New entrepreneurial traits -- chapter 6 Interactionism and cognitive approaches to...

This article examines the relevance of the two main theories used to understand business format franchising - resource scarcity theory and agency theory - for social venture franchising through an in-depth case study of one of the United Kingdom's first and most high-profile social franchises....