This book analyses the opportunities and barriers for youth entrepreneurship amid systemic change in Central and Eastern Europe. The authors cover different aspects of youth entrepreneurship and its ...contribution to the debate on youth unemployment in transition economies. The book discusses the wide-spread over-optimism regarding youth entrepreneurship, self-employment, and its impact on economic innovation and job creation, resulting from a disregard of critical contextual features and the characteristics of young entrepreneurs themselves. The authors give due acknowledgment of the importance of both factors and so fully understand the impediments to youth entrepreneurship, especially in a transition context. Furthermore, they seek to assess the opportunities and constraints of promotion policies in transition economies. Most importantly, the book provides the first empirical contribution to youth entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe by offering a representative number of case studies. The book will be invaluable reading for scholars and students of transition and developing countries, particularly those with an interest in entrepreneurship.
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a useful tool for effective organizational, social, and environmental functioning. This study expanded CSR and green research streams by examining ...the positive effect of employee's perceived CSR on pro‐environmental behaviour through mediation of organizational identification, as well as the moderation mechanisms of corporate entrepreneurship and employees' environmental consciousness for such an effect. The study drew on a survey sample of 479 employees and 122 department managers from various hotels in Pakistan. Key findings showed that CSR had both a direct and an indirect influence, through organizational identification, on pro‐environmental behaviour. The results lent support for the interactive effect of corporate entrepreneurship and environmental consciousness with CSR in predicting pro‐environmental behaviours. This is the first study of its kind to study a comprehensive model linking perceived CSR with employee's pro‐environmental behaviours in hotel industry through intervening variables.
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Imagine being born into a family so large that the number one question people ask you is: "do you remember all of your siblings' names?" Calvin Wayman grew up in a strict fundamentalist religion-he ...had 1 dad, 4 moms, and 44 brothers and sisters. Let's face it. Entrepreneurs are often the weird, awkward, "crazy ones" that don't fit in. And being 1 in a family of 50, Calvin Wayman felt that "out of place" feeling all too well. He grew up on a family farm but knew that he was destined for more. After never stepping foot inside a public school, he ultimately left everything he ever knew to pursue his dream of being an entrepreneur and making his mark on the world. This remarkable story shows that you can turn your biggest obstacles and can turn that into your greatest opportunity.
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