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Administrative Sciences, Volume 9, Issue 2

2019 June - 19 articles

Cover Story: Studying the variability of entrepreneurial attitudes and beliefs using a cross-national framework is important as it allows identifying where attempts to increase entrepreneurial spirit and activity should focus as well as provides a reference structure that can be useful for new policy creation in each. This paper studies the differences of three personality variables: Perceived behavioral control, subjective norm, and entrepreneurial motivations between four different countries, as well the causal relationship with entrepreneurial intention within each. We used a sample of university students from Argentina, Chile, Panama, and Spain. We used regression and ANOVA as statistical methods for our analyses. Results showed variability in all attitudes between countries, with Panama rating the highest in most, while Spain was the lowest. Future policies and each country’s situation are discussed. View this paper
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Articles (19)

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
11,297 Views
16 Pages

Tourism causes important environmental impacts and can generate great pressure on local resources, such as land, water, energy and food, generating large amounts of waste, as well as problems of congestion, noise and air pollution. The circular econo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tourism Destination Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
27,388 Views
22 Pages

Sustainability is one of the most important challenges of our time. As the role that projects play in sustainable development is still developing, the integration of the concepts of sustainability into project management is an important trend in proj...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,496 Views
17 Pages

Many providers in adventure travel promote organised hiking and trekking tours. Such guided tours shall be engaging for the tourists and evoke positive attitudes towards enjoying nature. We present the Trekking Engagement Profile as a tool to evaluat...

(This article belongs to the Section Leadership)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,053 Views
14 Pages

International Branch Campuses as an Entry Mode to the Foreign Education Market

  • Egle Girdzijauskaite,
  • Asta Radzeviciene,
  • Arturas Jakubavicius and
  • Audrius Banaitis

Higher education institutions (HEIs), especially latecomer institutions, continue to regard exporting education services by creating a commercial presence in a foreign country with caution. The purpose of this paper is to investigate ways of creating...

(This article belongs to the Section International Entrepreneurship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
9,545 Views
29 Pages

Green information technology systems (Green ITS) are proposed as a strategy to reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions and other environmental impacts while supporting ecological sustainable development. The Green ITS concept combines both Green inf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industrial Ecology and Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,185 Views
23 Pages

Tourists’ decisions on selecting their destinations are driven by their imagination of available offers, rather than by the real offers. The special role of the image of tourism destination in the process of building a competitive position resu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tourism Destination Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,865 Views
19 Pages

Departing from the normative formulation of stakeholder theory and building upon the current body of knowledge, this study aims to advance understandings on the benefits and challenges towards a more holistic approach to stakeholder management at the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,392 Views
27 Pages

In order to capture the value of cultural creativity, this study explored regional cultural creativities with different creative forms to understand how people interpret and interact with various regional cultural creative images. This was done by an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tourism Destination Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,900 Views
17 Pages

This paper attempted to calculate the market risk in the Tehran Stock Exchange by estimating the Conditional Value at Risk. Since the Conditional Value at Risk is a tail-related measure, Extreme Value Theory has been utilized to estimate the risk mor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rational Decision Making in Risk Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,222 Views
15 Pages

The paper seeks to introduce the definition and to specify the characteristic features of “non-routine entrepreneurs”. Using the notion of entrepreneurship by Shane and Venkataraman (2000), it explains “non-routine entrepreneurs&rdq...

(This article belongs to the Section International Entrepreneurship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,852 Views
13 Pages

Entrepreneurial Intentions in Students from a Trans-National Perspective

  • Alexander Ward,
  • Brizeida Hernández-Sánchez and
  • Jose C. Sánchez-García

Studying the variability of entrepreneurial attitudes within different countries is important in order to identify where attempts to increase entrepreneurial spirit and activity should focus. This article analyzes differences within multiple countrie...

(This article belongs to the Section International Entrepreneurship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,700 Views
11 Pages

Growth Intention and Growth in Small Accounting Firms

  • Lars Kolvereid and
  • Bjørn Willy Åmo

30 April 2019

Previous research has found that owner/manager growth intention is related to subsequent firm growth, but growth intention alone only explains about 4–5% of the variance in actual firm growth. The purpose of this study is to investigate factors...

(This article belongs to the Section International Entrepreneurship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,833 Views
21 Pages

16 April 2019

To increase competitiveness, a country has to outperform its competitors in terms of research and innovation, entrepreneurship, competition, and education. In this paper, we aim to test the relationship between the quality of entrepreneurial activity...

(This article belongs to the Section International Entrepreneurship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,145 Views
11 Pages

Entrepreneurship Education and Disability: An Experience at a Spanish University

  • Rosa Maria Muñoz,
  • Yolanda Salinero,
  • Isidro Peña and
  • Jesus David Sanchez de Pablo

10 April 2019

The European Commission considers the following groups of entrepreneurs: females, family businesses, liberal professions, migrants, and seniors. Disabled people are not included, and this paper could, therefore, open up a new field of research and an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entrepreneurship Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,885 Views
22 Pages

Psychological and Biographical Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intention: Does the Learning Environment Act as a Mediator?

  • Mateo M. Córcoles-Muñoz,
  • Gloria Parra-Requena,
  • María José Ruiz-Ortega,
  • Pedro M. García-Villaverde and
  • Francisco J. Ramírez-Fernández

The aim of this research is to study the mediating role of the learning process in explaining the relationships between certain psychological and biographical characteristics and entrepreneurial intention. The findings suggest that the effect of psyc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entrepreneurship Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,967 Views
14 Pages

Growing acceptance of passive bond exchange traded funds (ETFs) and actively managed bond mutual funds has exposed the need to find a divide between these two comparatively similar types of instrument. This paper provides a comparative analysis of ac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rational Decision Making in Risk Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
17,404 Views
12 Pages

The aim of this study is to explore the critical success factors (CSFs) of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Saudi Arabia. A questionnaire was developed using 28 factors/indicators identified from the previous researches. From 500 responde...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Theory, Research and Practical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,654 Views
17 Pages

This paper explores the decision to become a mother among women in the technology industry, particularly if there is an “optimal context” regarding startup development (business stage and size). Eighteen interviews were conducted with an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Women in Business)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,258 Views
16 Pages

Dynamic Impact Modeling as a Road Transport Crisis Management Support Tool

  • David Rehak,
  • Michal Radimsky,
  • Martin Hromada and
  • Zdenek Dvorak

28 March 2019

Crisis management must provide data to allow for real-time decision-making. Accurate data is especially needed to minimize the risk of critical infrastructure failure. Research into the possible impacts of critical infrastructure failure is a part of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rational Decision Making in Risk Management)
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