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ABSTRACT Purpose: The study aimed to verify whether there is a difference of entrepreneurial potential between successful entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs who have failed; and whether there are variables that may work as a means of prediction to the success or failure of an entrepreneur. Originality/gap/relevance/implications: It brings up an innovative approach to the entrepreneurship researches, which main content is in the empirical operationalization of success and failure on business for the testing of specific hypothesis and the identification of the antecedents and consequences of entrepreneurial potential. Key methodological aspects: The research was conducted on a descriptive and quantitative approach. We applied the scale of entrepreneurial potential in 246 entrepreneurs, which 100 correspond to the analysis criteria, operationally, as successful entrepreneurs (n = 50) and entrepreneurs who failed (n = 50). Data were analysed by statistics techniques of logistic regression and Student's t test. Summary of key results: Results show that the successful entrepreneur has higher scores in entrepreneur potential scale than the entrepreneur who failed, in which the main convergence between entrepreneurial potential and business success is the setting business goals. In the investigated sample, the gender showed being a strong predictor of business success, indicating that men have 2.8 times greater chance of success in business than women. Key considerations/conclusions: In our opinion, the results found shed light on crucial elements to the explanation of business success and corroborate recent results brought by research on entrepreneurship and gender.

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Includes abstract. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 124-138). ; This study investigated the factors influencing the success of business-IT alignment in South African firms while taking into consideration the coverage of the requisite dimensions and paradigms of business-IT alignment. The impacts of the South African business operating environment and the industry sector of firms on the success factors for business-IT alignment were also examined. Data was gathered through semi-structured interviews with 10 CIOs of major firms in five industry sectors - major retail, food and beverages, higher education, governmental organisation, and financial services.

This article focuses on Russian traders operating in China, particularly in Yiwu, the major commercial hub for the 'small commodity' trade, and explores the idea of the 'Russian merchant' prevalent in Russia today. Rather than examining the new commercial culture from the perspective of global neoliberalism, it deals with Russia's pre-Soviet merchant estate (soslovie) and its present-day political-ideological evocations. While there is no direct cultural-professional continuity between pre-Soviet and post-Soviet merchants, some similarities have come to the fore and have been encouraged by the state and the Church. This is due to the promotion of a particular moral economy wherein the 'Russian merchant' figures as a positive category. Using a case study of a Russian trader in Yiwu, the article illustrates the new ways in which mistrust as well as 'traditional' merchant attributes such as patriotism and patriarchal authority, have been harnessed to create a successful Russian transnational business.

Anchored on Empowerment theory, the study adopted a crosssectional research design on the Relationship between entrepreneurial process and success of business of entrepreneurs with disability in Western Kenya, Kenya. The target population was 73 registered businesses of entrepreneurs with disability. Saturated sampling was used in this study. The respondents were 69 business owners, out of which 4 were used for piloting, being 5-10% of sample size considered as a sufficient representation. Primary data were collected using structured questionnaires while secondary data were obtained through document review. The findings revealed that Entrepreneurial processes significantly contributed to business success (β=.609, t(69)=6.285, p=.000) and accounted for 37.1% change in business success (R 2=0.371, F(1,67=39.496, p=.000. The study concluded that an increase in entrepreneurial processes and procurement affirmative action practices will lead to improved business success. The study recommends that entrepreneurship stakeholders and the government assist in improving procurement practices for the persons with disabilities so as to help them improve on their businesses. The study is expected to inform policy makers both entrepreneurship stakeholders and the government on how entrepreneurial process can be used as a tool in improving persons with disabilities access to procurement opportunities and how to empower them.

According to Citizenship and Immigration of Canada, Canada has been competing with the United States, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand and the emerging economics, especially in the Asian Pacific region to attract the limited number of active entrepreneurial talents to Canada, in order to bring in people with business skills and investments. However, business immigrants came under various Canadian immigrant investor schemes that have been underperforming according to recent governmental reports. Policymakers expect newcomers under the investor and entrepreneur scheme to boost Canadian economy, to help Canada integrate into the global economy and assimilate into Canadian society. However, the inferior economic performance of business immigrants indicates that the policy making might have certain limitations and a boundary. Such boundary and limitations are caused by the generalization and lack of understanding of the business immigrant population. Business immigrants emigrate from their home country with different motivations and diverse pre-migration backgrounds (industry, language fluency, local connections to host country, etc). Currently, immigration entrepreneurship research dominantly focuses on the post-migration adaptation and overlooks the pre-migration backgrounds and motives. It is widely identified in the field that the post-migration adaptation and acculturation is correlated to the business immigrants' pre-migration settings. However, very little research has been conducted in both pre-migration and post-migration settings collectively. In this thesis, I argued that (1) immigration motives and pre-migration backgrounds of business immigrants are critical to predict the success in the post-migration setting; (2) development of four prototypes of business immigrants based on empirical data where the prototypes emerged resulting from in-depth interviews with the local business immigrants in Manitoba; 3) conceptualized dynamic transformation process of business immigrants based on three ...

Michael J. Coles, the cofounder of the Great American Cookie Company and the former CEO of Caribou Coffee, did not follow a conventional path into business. He does not have an Ivy League pedigree or an MBA from a top-ten business school. He grew up poor, starting work at the age of thirteen. He had many false starts and painful defeats, but Coles has a habit of defying expectations. His life and career have been about turning obstacles into opportunities, tragedies into triumphs and poverty into philanthropy. In 'Time To Get Tough' Coles explains how he started a $100-million company with only $8,000, overcame a near-fatal motorcycle accident, ran for the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, and set three transcontinental cycling world records. His story also offers a firsthand perspective on Georgia's business, political, and philanthropic climate in the last quarter of the twentieth century and serves as an important case study for anyone interested in overcomng a seemingly insurmountable challenge. Readers will also discover practical leadership lessons and unconventional ways of approaching business