Entrepreneurship depends on the decisions that people make about how to undertake that process; however, in recent years, entrepreneurship research has focused largely on the environmental characteristics influencing firm founding and the characteristics of entrepreneurial opportunities, ignoring the role of human agency. This book, therefore, focuses on how human motivations influence the entrepreneurial process. It argues that the attributes of people making decisions about the entrepreneurial process influence the decisions that they make. The book particularly investigates whether entrepreneurial role models, social valuation of entrepreneurship, perceived knowledge of entrepreneurial support and barriers to starting a business, entrepreneurial intention, and its determinants are related to entrepreneurial motivation.

Featuring case studies that analyze the motivations that researchers have suggested should influence the entrepreneurial process, this book is beneficial to students, scholars, and practitioners in entrepreneurship.

Explores how human motivations influence the entrepreneurial process Examines entrepreneurial motivation issues in different economic sectors Features case studies analyzing the motivations that influence the entrepreneurial process

Autorentext

Marco Valeri is a Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behavior in the Faculty of Economics at Niccolo Cusano University (Rome, Italy). He is also a Lecturer in Applied Organizational Behavior at Xenophon College (London, UK); Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Leisure Management, at the School of Hospitality, Tourism, and Events, at Taylor's University (Malaysia); Associate Researcher in Strategy at the Magellan Research Center in the Iaelyon Business School at Jean Monet University (Lyon, France); and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Pannonia (Hungary). His teaching and consultancy fields include strategic management, leadership development, cross-cultural management, and international hospitality management. His research areas include sustainability and green practices, strategy implementation, knowledge management, family business, crisis management, information technology, and network analysis.

Inhalt
Focusing on entrepreneurial motivation from a bibliometric perspective.- Researchers' intention and motivation engaging in academic entrepreneurship (university spin-offs).- Integrating Social Media Marketing on Branding Local Gastronomic Entrepreneurship.- The role of motivation and academic preparation for the students' entrepreneurial potential.- Kick Starting the economies after Covid.- 19 Pandemic: Assessing the role of Gig Players in boosting entrepreneurial ventures and suggesting policy interventions.- Entrepreneurial motivations: Case Studies.- The relationship between motivation and destination characteristics as drivers of tourism entrepreneurship: insights from the Central Region of Portugal.- Development of Entrepreneurship in Mozambique: Challenges and Opportunities.- Determining Entrepreneurial Motivations of Business School Students in India.- Entrepreneurial Motivations of Women in the Middle East.- Sustainable and feasible? Exploring motivation factors contributing to the success of tourism village development in Indonesia.- The circular social entrepreneur's drivers in romanian experience.