http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12721 2026-05-15T14:23:47Z 2026-05-15T14:23:47Z Racine, William P. http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12731 2021-04-07T10:02:24Z 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Sleep Paradox: A Retrospective Exploration into Sleeplessness and Aberrant Sleep Patterns to Gain Insights into Entrepreneurial Psychology and Behaviour Racine, William P. The need for sleep has important implications for entrepreneurship. Researchers have come to understand that sleep insufficiency affects creativity, innovation, self-control and operational efficacy. Yet quality sleep often eludes an entrepreneur because of the demands from the business environment, fear of failure and job insecurity, among other things. Hence, a sleep paradox exists where aberrant sleep patterns or sleeplessness undermine success. However, aberrant sleep patterns and sleeplessness are a necessary part of successful entrepreneurial experiences. The current research used a qualitative design to understand how successful entrepreneurs retrospectively perceive aberrant sleep patterns or sleep restriction (i.e., sleeplessness); but, more importantly, how they implement coping mechanisms to overcome this paradox to achieve positive outcomes for their business. Successful entrepreneurs of the current research were seen to self-regulate their actions to address the vagaries of entrepreneurial experience. They manage aberrant sleep patterns or sleeplessness by taking steps to develop adaptative tools (i.e., coping mechanisms such as mental, physical and behavioural shortcuts) to aid decision-making in an uncertain business environment and to facilitate the sustainability of their entrepreneurial endeavours.

2021-03-01T00:00:00Z Donaldson, Colin Liñán, Francisco Alegre, Joaquin http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12730 2021-04-07T09:57:25Z 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z

Entrepreneurial Intentions: Moving the Field Forwards Donaldson, Colin; Liñán, Francisco; Alegre, Joaquin The purpose of this article is to articulate reasoning as to why there is a pressing need for a contextually based temporal approach towards the study of entrepreneurial intentions. Having done so, a potential means by which this can be achieved is put forth through assuming a socially situated perspective that links intentions, the entrepreneurial process of new venture creation, and a model of action abstractness. A conceptual model is proposed taking into consideration the entrepreneurial intention domain ‘as is’, ‘as should be’ and ‘as could be’. Value of current practice is assessed and challenged in a bid to stimulate new thinking in the area. The dynamic model provided contributes to contemporary scholarship through aligning entrepreneurial intentions with the accepted conception of entrepreneurship as a temporally embedded process. It moves beyond the artificial closure of an inherently open phenomenon.

2021-03-01T00:00:00Z Tan, Luc Phan Pham, Lan Xuan Bui, Trang Thanh http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12729 2021-04-07T09:52:37Z 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z

Personality Traits and Social Entrepreneurial Intention: The Mediating Effect of Perceived Desirability and Perceived Feasibility Tan, Luc Phan; Pham, Lan Xuan; Bui, Trang Thanh This study aimed to investigate the effect of personality traits on social entrepreneurial intention by extending Mair and Noboa’s (2006) model. Data were collected from a sample survey of 503 individuals. The four-step method suggested by Baron and Kenny (1986) was followed to test the mediational roles of perceived desirability and perceived feasibility in the relationship between six personality traits (need for achievement, risk-taking propensity, innovativeness, proactiveness, empathy and moral obligations) and social entrepreneurial intention. The results showed that the two mediators fully mediated the effects of proactiveness on social entrepreneurial intention, whereas both the mediators were found partially mediating the impact of moral obligation on social entrepreneurial intention. In addition, only perceived feasibility fully mediated the effects of innovativeness on social entrepreneurial intention and partially mediated the effects of empathy. These research results are expected to trigger a change in social entrepreneurship education by cultivating personality traits towards sustainable development. This study’s originality lies in its exploration of potential social entrepreneurs’ personality traits as a combination of general entrepreneurial and social entrepreneurial traits.

2021-03-01T00:00:00Z Nguyen, Bach Schinckus, Christophe Canh, Nguyen Phuc Thanh, Su Dinh http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12728 2021-04-07T09:46:42Z 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z

Economic Policy Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: A Bad for a Good? Nguyen, Bach; Schinckus, Christophe; Canh, Nguyen Phuc; Thanh, Su Dinh The study examines the influences of the global/domestic economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on entrepreneurship in a sample of 23 economies over the period 2006–2016. Employing the two-step system General Method of Moment estimation for unbalanced panel data, our study provides surprising evidence, indicating that EPU may not always be harmful to entrepreneurship. Precisely, in contrast with existing literature emphasising the negative impact of the uncertainty on entrepreneurship, our article suggests that EPU seems to boost pro-entrepreneurial social and cultural norms (i.e., encouraging actions for creation of new businesses). As such, we suggest that uncertainty may serve as an exogenous shock, filtering ‘good’ business ventures from ‘not-so-good’ ones.

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