Patricia G. Greene

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed an entrepreneurial self-efficacy construct (ESE) to predict the likelihood of an individual being an entrepreneur, which refers to the strength of a person's belief that he or she is capable of successfully performing the various roles and tasks of entrepreneurship.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that there are five distinct types of resources applicable to small firms: human, social, organizational, physical and financial resources, and an exploratory study of 76 firms examines the relative importance of these resource types and analyzes relationships between resources and characteristics of the owner/founder and organization.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined two methods of business implementation, the formal business incubator and a minority business community, and found that major differences between the two implementation means are the motivations prompting the business initiations and some variety in services offered, reinforcing the necessity of understanding the institutional underpinnings of various types of business creation processes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the substance of these attacks is a difference in theoretical perspectives even though the researchers claim to focus on methodological differences, and they explain the two underlying economic theories and then review the job creation research to demonstrate the relationship between theory and methodology.