Exploring Entrepreneurship Phenomena from Theoretical/Conceptual Aspects

Abstract

This issue covers rich entrepreneurship-related topics in variety. The first article, "Absorptive Capacity in the Context of Accelerators - Gaining Competitive Advantages through Knowledge Absorption" illuminates the role of knowledge absorption for accelerators, which represent a novel form of entrepreneurial support organizations. The second article, "Towards Understanding Culture in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems", deals with entrepreneurial ecosystems a "hot" topic, which has recently received rapidly growing attention from both regional policymakers and entrepreneurship scholars. By applying the framework of organizational culture, this author group investigates how we can understand the cultural aspect of entrepreneurial ecosystems. The third paper, "Entrepreneurs I Poverty through the Lens of Bricolage", takes a closer look at the way entrepreneurs in penurious environments can respond to resource constraints, which emerge through three different types of poverty: social, psychological, and political poverty. The fourth article is "Student Entrepreneurship: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior" observes students' entrepreneurial activities by paying particular attention to the context in which students are embedded and how they influence their attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control. The final article, "Resources of Transnational Entrepreneurs Achieving Competitive Advantages", analyzes entrepreneurs who conduct business in transitional settings from the resource-based view. They highlight three types of resources, networks, experience, and knowledge, which transnational entrepreneurs can build through their dual embeddedness in their country of origin and residence.