Yes / Although literature on entrepreneurship has increasingly focused on intention-based models, not much emphasis has been laid on understanding the combined effect of contextual and situational factors along with support of university environment on the formation of entrepreneurial intention among students. In an effort to make up for this shortfall, by taking Theory of Planned Behavior as basic framework, the present study seeks to understand the influence of three of the most important factors, viz. (a) endogenous barriers, (b) exogenous environment, and (c) university environment and support on the entrepreneurial intention among management students. The study sample consisted of 1,097 students, wherein 526 students were from India, 252 from Singapore, and 319 were from Malaysia. The results indicates that along with positive attitude and perceived behavioral control that directly influences entrepreneurial intention, university environment and support and exogenous environment also have an indirect but significant impact on shaping of entrepreneurial intention among students. With this, it was found that exogenous environment was found to have a negative relationship with both attitude towards behavior and perceived behavioral control for all three countries. / The full-text of this article will be released for public view at the end of the publisher embargo on 2 Jun 2018.

The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), with its potential to be either highly beneficial or detrimental to humanity, is driving the rapid evolution of digital technologies, significantly impacting the business world and fostering new entrepreneurial opportunities. AI, characterized by its ability to learn, adapt, and make decisions, optimizes crucial elements such as time and resources, which are essential for entrepreneurial success. Generative AI (GenAI), a subset of AI, has gained unprecedented traction, exemplified by the rapid adoption of tools like ChatGPT, which democratize access to advanced technology previously limited to large corporations. The proliferation of GenAI across various business functions is ushering in a new era of entrepreneurship, where leveraging AI's efficiencies can determine a venture's success and longevity. This thesis examines GenAI's role in entrepreneurship by addressing the lack of empirical evidence through an explorative approach using interview data. It develops a framework to understand GenAI's role in different stages of the venture creation process (VCP) and offers a practical guide for entrepreneurs to leverage GenAI technologies effectively. Focusing on German tech entrepreneurs, the research uses the External Enabler (EE) framework to provide empirical evidence of GenAI's benefits in the VCP. This thesis employs an exploratory research design with semi-structured interviews to gather qualitative data. A purposive and snowball sampling strategy was used to select 5 experts and 9 entrepreneurs of the software industry with relevant experience, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of GenAI's application in the VCP. Data was analyzed using qualitative content analysis, combining deductive and inductive methods to develop a robust category system. Triangulation of data sources enhanced the credibility of the findings, validating insights through referencing and consistency checks. This thesis identifies key enabling mechanisms of GenAI in the VCP. Additionally, it highlights inhibiting factors such as technical knowledge, trust, data security, and ethics of GenAI. The findings bridge the gap between theoretical models and practical applications, offering valuable insights for entrepreneurs, policymakers, and other stakeholders. The research underscores the importance of empirical evidence and the transformative potential of GenAI in enhancing operational efficiencies and achieving competitive advantages.

<p>Being entrepreneurial is pathly being creative. This Master thesis presents a business plan of BEFCO Trading Ltd geared towards solving a problem in the Cameroonian Economy. The English speaking Cameroonians of South West and North West provinces of Cameroon are presently underserved with car sales offerings as there is presently no registered Company in this section of the Country.</p><p>An attempt is presently being made through this business plan thanks to the peaceful and favourable circumstances sorrounding the entrepreneurs and the opportunity gap of a niche market. The business plan shows a win to win situation in which the founding entrepreneurs become self employed by solving a problem in the market through novel business combinations.</p>

Purpose The purpose of this thesis is to explore how students at Jönköping University can establish a new business and to what extent Science Park Jönköping is involved throughout the business creation process. Background Numerous researches have been done on new venture creation and business incubation. However, these two areas of research are rarely combined. When it comes to venture creation, most theories focus either solely on the start-up process or on the entrepreneur and the environment. The novelty of this thesis lies in combining those two different fields of research and at the same time focusing on the entrepreneur, the environment and the start-up process. The authors aim at investigating the start-up process in connection with the business incubator Science Park Jönköping. This paper is opposing new venture creation process theory with empirical findings and further examining the influence of the business incubator Science Park Jönköping. Method The authors of this paper followed a qualitative approach which was implemented in the form of personal interviews. The participants of this study are entrepreneurs who created their venture in cooperation with Science Park Jönköping as well as one representative from Science Park Jönköping. Conclusion Contrary to previous research, the participants of this study do not perceive the business creation process and its stages as linear. Moreover, influential factors like the attributes of the entrepreneur and the environment have to be taken into account when speaking about the start-up of a company. Science Park Jönköping offers services at all stages of the process whereas the most intense contact between the business incubator and the entrepreneur takes place in the very beginning.

<p><strong>Purpose</strong></p><p>The purpose of this thesis is to explore how students at Jönköping University can establish a new business and to what extent Science Park Jönköping is involved throughout the business creation process.</p><p><strong>Background</strong></p><p>Numerous researches have been done on new venture creation and business incubation. However, these two areas of research are rarely combined. When it comes to venture creation, most theories focus either solely on the start-up process or on the entrepreneur and the environment. The novelty of this thesis lies in combining those two different fields of research and at the same time focusing on the entrepreneur, the environment and the start-up process. The authors aim at investigating the start-up process in connection with the business incubator Science Park Jönköping. This paper is opposing new venture creation process theory with empirical findings and further examining the influence of the business incubator Science Park Jönköping.</p><p><strong>Method </strong></p><p>The authors of this paper followed a qualitative approach which was implemented in the form of personal interviews. The participants of this study are entrepreneurs who created their venture in cooperation with Science Park Jönköping as well as one representative from Science Park Jönköping.</p><p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p><p>Contrary to previous research, the participants of this study do not perceive the business creation process and its stages as linear. Moreover, influential factors like the attributes of the entrepreneur and the environment have to be taken into account when speaking about the start-up of a company. Science Park Jönköping offers services at all stages of the process whereas the most intense contact between the business incubator and the entrepreneur takes place in the very beginning.</p>

Being entrepreneurial is pathly being creative. This Master thesis presents a business plan of BEFCO Trading Ltd geared towards solving a problem in the Cameroonian Economy. The English speaking Cameroonians of South West and North West provinces of Cameroon are presently underserved with car sales offerings as there is presently no registered Company in this section of the Country. An attempt is presently being made through this business plan thanks to the peaceful and favourable circumstances sorrounding the entrepreneurs and the opportunity gap of a niche market. The business plan shows a win to win situation in which the founding entrepreneurs become self employed by solving a problem in the market through novel business combinations.

Most entrepreneurs have families that highly influence their business­ activities. However, scholars have paid limited attention to how the family as a specific social context impacts entrepreneurial outcomes, such as new venture creation, firm growth, and exit from entrepreneurship­. This thesis investigates how the family influences such outcomes at different levels of analysis: the individual level, the firm level, and the regional level.  The theoretical framework is developed by integrating the theory­ of social embeddedness with literature on family business and entrepreneurship­. Empirical evidence is based on a unique multi-level­ Swedish database combining individual-, firm-, and regional-level data. By providing an in-depth understanding of whether the family influence pertains to the whole entrepreneurial process or only to particular entrepreneurial outcomes, this thesis contributes to a new understanding of the family’s role in entrepreneurship. / <p>Diss. Stockholm :  Stockholm School of Economics, 2014.</p>

Abstract The entrepreneurship phenomenon is connected to the creation of new business activity. The object of research, a one year study module, was carried out in Merikoski Commercial School during the school years 1993 to 1997 five times. The main research aim was to model and depict partner-based practice enterprise activity as a whole and as a learning method. Secondly, the aim was to increase understanding of students’ orientation towards the creation of a new venture as an activity as a whole. Thirdly, the aim was to study the constructed quality of the models created by the students and to study their and a bank manager’s conceptions of the learning method in question. The data included an interview with the bank manager and the student-produced subject matter from the partner-based practice enterprise. In addition, research data was acquired via an open questionnaire directed to four student groups which had completed the teaching process. The qualitative case study method was used as research methodology. The research results show that partner-based practice enterprise is well suited as an entrepreneurship learning method. Students build and construct new “business” activity as a whole in a learning process within a learning network in the operating area of the partner enterprise, where they function as if in an actual enterprise. Learning is realized through the division of labour, active knowledge acquisition about the object of learning, transformation of the operational environment and investigation of the enterprise’s reason for existence. Project-based learning involves combining knowledge from different sources by students groups in learning networks in which work life representatives have an important pedagogical role to play. Creating a new business activity system entails a division of labour based on object oriented learning activity in a learning method. The learning activity meant continuous reorientation through students’ division of labour by common modelling and developing business plans through critical evaluation. The quality of the students’ business plans was critically analyzed by the bank manager. The bank manager considered the students work to be of high quality. The students considered the strengths of the learning method to be the following: Learning to work in a group, independent and self initiated learning, learning about work life environment, better and higher quality of learning, learning business activity as a whole and utilization of the learning network. The modelling of business activity has a positive influence on learning business activity in a more holistic way. The models created by the students are algorithmic and systematic models by nature. According to the students the fact the learning activity focused on a real school external environment through a learning network strengthened their connections to work life. / Tiivistelmä Yrittäjyys liittyy ilmiönä uuden liiketoiminnan luomiseen. Tutkimuksen kohteena on Merikosken kauppaoppilaitoksessa viisi kertaa vuosina 1993–1997 toteutettu lukuvuoden kestävä opiskelukokonaisuus. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli mallintaa ja kuvata partneriperustainen harjoitusyritys toimintakokonaisuutena ja oppimismenetelmänä. Lisäksi tavoitteena oli lisätä ymmärrystä opiskelijoiden orientoitumisesta uuden toimintakokonaisuuden luomisessa sekä tutkia opiskelijoiden luomien mallien rakenteellista laatua ja opiskelijoiden sekä koulun ulkopuolisen rahoituspäällikön käsityksiä oppimismenetelmästä. Tutkimusaineisto sisälsi pankinjohtajan haastattelun ja opiskelijoiden tuottamat aineistot opiskelukokonaisuudessa sekä opiskelukokonaisuudesta valmistuneille opiskelijoille suoritettu kysely. Tutkimusmetodologiana käytettiin tapaustutkimusta. Tutkimustulokset osoittavat, että partneriperustainen harjoitusyritys soveltuu hyvin yrittäjyyskoulutukseen. Opiskelijat rakensivat ja konstruoivat opiskelukokonaisuudessa yhdessä oppimisverkon kanssa uuden toimintakokonaisuuden koulun ulkopuolella toimivan partneriyrityksen toimialalle, jossa he toimivat kuten oikeassa yrityksessä. Oppimisessa toteutui työnjaollinen aktiivinen tiedonhankinta kohdetoiminnasta ja muuttuvasta toimintaympäristöstä, yrityksen olemassaolon perustan tutkiminen, tietoja yhdistävä projektimainen työskentely opiskelijaryhmissä ja oppimisen verkossa, jossa koulun ulkopuolisilla edustajilla oli tärkeä pedagoginen rooli. Orientoitumisessa keskeisellä sijalla oli oppimisen kohteen tutkiva mallintaminen, liiketoimintaidean ja liiketoiminnan suunnitelmien kehittäminen ja arviointi. Toimintakokonaisuuden rakentaminen oli työnjaollista kohdeorientoitunutta toimintaa ja toiminta oli uudelleenorientoitumista mm. mallien ja liiketoimintasuunnitelmien yksilöllisen ja yhteistoiminnallisen kehittämisen ja arvioinnin kautta. Liiketoimintasuunnitelmien laatua arvioi yritysrahoituksen parissa toimiva pankinjohtaja, joka piti opiskelijoiden laatimia aineistoja korkeatasoisina. Opiskelijoiden käsityksissä oppimismenetelmän vahvuuksina painottuivat ryhmätyön oppiminen, itsenäinen ja oma-aloitteinen oppiminen, käytännön työelämän oppiminen, laadukkaampi ja parempi oppiminen, yritystoiminnan kokonaisuuden oppiminen ja oppimisverkon hyödyntäminen. Rakennettavan toiminnan mallintamisella oli myönteinen vaikutus yritystoiminnan kokonaisvaltaiseen oppimiseen. Mallien rakenteellinen laatu kohdistui algoritmisiin ja systeemisiin malleihin. Koulun ulkopuolisen todellisuuden kytkeminen oppimistoimintaan työelämäyhteyksien avulla vahvisti opiskelijoiden mukaan oppimisen todellisuuskytkentää.

Syfte: Syftet med studien är att berika litteraturen kopplad till hur etablerade företag kan överkomma de svårigheter som är förknippade med organisationsstrukturerna under implementeringsfasen av Internal Corporate Venturing. För att uppnå syftet undersöker vi följande forskningsfrågor: RQ1: Hur och varför skapar organisationsstrukturer svårigheter under implementeringsfasen för de etablerade företagen när de bedriver Internal Corporate Venturing RQ2: Hur kan etablerade företag övervinna svårigheter med organisationsstrukturer när de deltar i implementeringsfasen för Internal Corporate Venturing? Metod: Studien är en kvalitativ enskild fallstudie, där ett etablerat företag inom fordonsindustrin i Göteborg, Sverige har undersökts. Sammanfattningsvis har 31 intervjuer genomförts under tre vågor och analyserats via en tematisk analysmetod. Resultat: Resultatet av denna studie är ett ramverk och en färdplan som illustrerar svårigheter, konsekvenser och åtgärder avseende organisationsstrukturer under implementeringsfasen av Internal Corporate Venturing. De mest framträdande svårigheterna är bristen på lack of internal support systems och organizational behavior obstacles. De mest kritiska konsekvenserna är venture strategy obstacles och innovation failure. De viktigaste åtgärderna är att create a supportive culture och develop a learning organization. Implikationer: Denna studie bidrar med insikter i den bristande litteraturen om organisationsstruktursvårigheter under implementeringsfasen av Internal Corporate Venturing. För chefer bidrar den här studien med ett ramverk för hur företaget kan upptäcka och överkomma svårigheterna med hjälp av specifika åtgärder vid implementering av Internal Corporate Venturing. Slutligen presenterar studien en konceptuell färdplan för hur etablerade företag kan utveckla sin Internal Corporate Venturing process, vilket kan nyttjas av företagets chefer. Begränsning och framtida forskning: Denna studie är begränsad till att undersöka implementeringsfasen av Internal Corporate Venturing på ett enskilt företag, i en specifik bransch, vilket indikerar att framtida forskning kan undersöka andra branscher.  Nyckelord: Corporate Venturing, Internal Corporate Venturing, New Venture Creation, Organizational structures / Purpose: The purpose of the study is to enrich the literature connected to how incumbent firms can mitigate the difficulties connected to the organizational structures during the implementation phase of internal corporate venturing. To fulfill the purpose, we examinethe following researchquestions: RQ1: How and why doorganizational structures create difficulties during the implementation phase for incumbent firms when engaging in internal corporate venturing? RQ2: How can incumbent firms overcome difficulties with organizational structureswhen engaging inthe implementation phase of internal corporate venturing? Method: The study is a qualitativesingle case study, where one incumbent firm within the automotive industry situated in Gothenburg, Sweden has beeninvestigated. In sum, 31interviews havebeen conductedduring three waves and were analyzed via a thematic analysis approach. Findings: The result of this study is a framework and aroadmap illustrating the difficulties, consequences and mitigating actionsregardingorganizational structures during the implementation phase of internal corporate venturing. The most prominent difficulties are lack of internal support systemsand organizational behavior obstacles.The most critical consequences are venture strategy obstacles and innovation failure. The most important actions would be to create a supportive culture and develop a learning organization. Implications: This study contributes with insightsto the scarce literature on organizational structure difficultiesin the implementation phase of internal corporate venturing. For managers this study contributes with a frameworkon how to detect andmitigate the difficulties with specific actions that emergewhen implementing internal corporate venturing. Lastly, this study assist managers with a conceptual roadmap for how incumbent firms could develop theirinternal corporate venturingprocess, the roadmapcould be improved and refined over time. Limitation and future research: This study is limited to investigate theimplementation phase of internal corporate venturing on a single company, in a single industry, indicating that future research could investigate other industry settings. Keywords: Corporate Venturing; Internal Corporate Venturing; New Venture Creation;Organizational structures

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