http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/7831 2026-05-15T14:20:09Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/7888 Start-up Culture and Skill Development Driving Force of the Jobless Economy to Lucrative New Enterprise Creation and Employment Generation in India Acharya, Satya Ranjan; Dhochak, Monika; Jain, Ankita Jobless growth is a major challenge around the world; hence Start-up culture is most feasible alternative welcomed with open arms by the Indian Government with various sustenance schemes in last decade for creating jobs for youth. For such broader global context this paper attempts to understand unemployment issues in India and reviews different policies/schemes of skill development that enables the youth to adapt to changing requirements and also offers new opportunities for the next generation. Current study also describes major forces impacting shifts towards employment generation through globalization, domestic Indian markets, and adaptation of exponential technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, incubators and Internet-of-Things (IoT) by Indian industries. In conclusion the study offers the causes and ways and means to address the unemployment and underemployment issues. Thirteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Sasi Misra, Sunil Shukla, Ganapathi Batthini 2019-02-22T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/7887 French Touch in the Development of Entrepreneurship Research: A Review of French Research in the Development of Entrepreneurship Istifanous, ADO Even if it is not necessary to make a comparison between the Anglo-Saxon and Francophone works in entrepreneurship, the fact remains that the latters have made and shown a considerable dynamism of scientific productivity since soon three decades. According to Katz (2003), growth in entrepreneurship research has reached the peak of its maturity in the United States and he hopes that this growth will continue outside the United States. Indeed, this growth continues in France, where researchers show more and more craze to conduct research in entrepreneurship. This craze can be verified through the number of theses defended which grows from year to year but also by the productions and scientific events more and more numerous (Fayolle et al., 2011). According to Bruyat (1993, p.3), research on business creation in France began to arouse interest only at the end of the Thirty Glorious Years. That is why Paturel et al. (2001) and Saporta (2003) conclude that the field of entrepreneurial research in France is relatively young. Indeed, studying entrepreneurship as an academic field in Business, the French-speaking world in general, and France in particular have lagged behind for a while. This delay is being caught up through serious research in French Universities with more and more original methodology of research different from the Anglo-Saxons ones. The purpose of our communication is to show the singularity of French research in entrepreneurship and how their growing work is paving the way toward a “French School of Entrepreneurship”. Thirteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Sasi Misra, Sunil Shukla, Ganapathi Batthini 2019-02-22T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/7886 Entrepreneurial Service-Orientated Dimensions: Impact on Promoting the Level of Employees' Job Satisfaction and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Case Study of Omid Entrepreneurship Fund in Iran, Tehran Azarloo, Mitra; Pourabbasi, Seyed Hessamodin; Eshghiaraghi, Mahtab; Noorollahzadeh, Asghar As concept of service orientation (SO) aimed to provide the best service in competitive environment has attained more attention among organizations, combination of SO with entrepreneurship can produce a jump towards qualified service and gaining competitive advantage and employees’ positive feeling on their job more. However, this combination has received limited research attention. Thus, this paper is to investigate impact of three dimensions of SO combined with entrepreneurship namely servant entrepreneur leadership, employee's entrepreneurial empowerment and customer focus on job satisfaction (JS) and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) in Tehran-Omid Entrepreneurship Fund. Data were collected through questionnaires. By drawing on data through questionnaires from 120 managers and experts working there, it is observed that unlike servant entrepreneur leadership, customer focus has no positive effect on JS and OCB. Besides, employees' entrepreneurial empowerment has no impact on JS while it affects OCB. Finally the impact of JS and OCB was confirmed. Thirteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Sasi Misra, Sunil Shukla, Ganapathi Batthini 2019-02-22T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/7885 Are Dotcoms VUCA Ready with a Foresight? Chauhan1, Aseem; Joshi, Manoj; Kumar, Ashok; Abidi, Suhayl Dotcom start-ups have braved their existence, maneuvering their existence, sailing through rough waters, in the jargon of turbulence i.e. volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous termed as VUCA (Bennet & Lemoine, 2014; Abidi & Joshi, 2015). They have been constantly challenged with ‘the innovators dilemma (Christensen, 2000), attempting to create ‘the anticipatory organisation’ (Burrus, 2017), with ‘deep simplicity’ (Gribbon, 2004) and a ‘20/20 foresight’ (Courtney, 2001). To supplement the theoretical basis, the idea of ‘entrepreneur-manager’ (Chauhan et al., 2018) was also conceived. The purpose of this study, which has been qualitatively administered with an exploratory research designed approach, is to discover the VUCA challenges that the dotcom firms have undergone in the last one decade, keeping in mind the ontological and epistemological perspectives. Secondly, it attempts to illustrate the anticipatory framework, and the foresightedness necessitated for survival in chaos. A powerful, story-telling methodology has been adopted to bring complex understanding of the subject to simplicity. To understand the phenomenology, authors incorporated methodological pluralism, involving brainstorming, open dialogue and collaboration with likeminded researchers. The discussions recommended to demonstrate the purpose with a case study. An influential case selection technique was administered, where one case was selected that influenced the identified findings among a set of similar cases (Seawright & Gerring, 2008). Book My Show (BMS), as the incumbent entrepreneurial firm, from the dotcom space was chosen for the study. This study reflects, that in ‘the age of turbulence’ (Keegan, 2008), dotcom-based start-ups (or entrepreneurial firms) must ‘think like a futurist’ (Sommers, 2012; Hines & Bishop, 2015), engaging ‘foresight and innovation’ (2013), while moving swiftly acquiring a ‘strategic foresight’ (Lustig, 2017). Thirteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Sasi Misra, Sunil Shukla, Ganapathi Batthini 2019-02-22T00:00:00Z