We demonstrate the presence of two distinct aspects of VCs' evaluation: that of the venture and that of the entrepreneur, and find that the gender of the entrepreneur influences evaluations most when the person, rather than the venture, is the target of evaluation.
Can entrepreneurs (political) influence the political regime in a country?
NPOs are best identified as "policy entrepreneurs" that influence policy-making and execution (Najam 2000).
While many entrepreneurs are influenced by a mentor or someone they admire, Wood reveals an unlikely role model who inspired him to succeed - martial arts star Bruce Lee.
This research studied the role of personal qualities, management skills, and opportunity recognition skills of entrepreneurs in influencing the venture performance.
Entrepreneurs are influenced by the external environment through their motivations and perceptions, generating attitudes and intentions, which, in turn, determine behavior.
According to Morris et al. (2012) cumulative exposure and reaction to a wide array of novel, distinctive events surrounding the entrepreneurial process serve to form the entrepreneur and influence development of an entrepreneurial mind-set.
The findings also show that, consistent with the theory of mixed embeddedness, whilst the entrepreneurs are influenced by social, economic and institutional forces, online businesses allow them to exert their own agency and provide opportunities to uniquely shape these forces.
Pseudo R2 of 60.2% was also above the statistical threshold of 20% thus confirming that, total amount of credit, total dividends, total income, experience of practicing entrepreneurship and education levels of women entrepreneurs positively influenced the changes in net profits of the enterprises.
Policy entrepreneurs were influenced by a number of simultaneously occurring challenges including problems within the existing programme; a perceived mismatch between patient needs and the existing TB treatment model; and the TB-HIV co-epidemic.
