No is No, Maybe is No, Yes is Maybe: Issues of authenticity and accuracy from interviews with Vietnamese and Mongolian entrepreneurs

The following examines the challenges of cross-cultural entrepreneurship research, with a specific focus on the interview method. Challenges of the interview method are explained with guidelines for conducting cross-cultural research interviews. Examples are taken from the authors’ research experiences while interviewing Vietnamese and Mongolian entrepreneurs. Risks and problems as well as solutions associated with qualitative research methods are discussed in an effort to acquire authentic and accurate results through a transparent and scientifically rigour process.

The Effect of Religiosity, Spirituality and Family Power Influence on Family Business Sustainable Values

Family businesses are distinct from non-family businesses due to the families’ involvement in managing and influencing the business. The influence can take several forms. This study examines if religiosity, spirituality and power influence of the owning family business affect the family businesses’ corporate social responsibility towards their customers, employees, shareholders and societies. The study hypothesises positive effects of religious belief, religious practice, spirituality and power influences on family business corporate social responsibility. Data was collected among 251 family members from 84 small to medium-sized family businesses in the North Island of New Zealand. The relationships were significant for spirituality and religious practice (negative effect). Ultimately, discussion and practical implications are discussed.

The role of the international community in preventing conflicts and establishing peace in North Macedonia

This article discusses the role of the international community in preventing conflicts and establishing peace, especially after the Macedonian-Albanian conflict in 2001. This article also reviews the process and aid of North Macedonia’s integration into the Euro-Atlantic structures. The strong presence of the United States and European Union has been needed to maintain inter-ethnic cohesion in Macedonia. The presence has also worsened the aggravated political situation in the absence of genuine democracy such as the cessation of the Russian and Turkish influences that threatens to turn the country back to the dark past of a perpetual authoritarianism and will guarantee the country a widespread and deserved integration in the great European family to which it belongs.

Assessing Employees' Perception Related to Entrepreneurial Climate in their Organization & its Impact on their Perception Related to Organization's Potential Success

Corporate entrepreneurship plays an important role in stimulating innovations and giving a competitive edge to the organization in the long run. Positive and vibrant entrepreneurial climate within the organization is one of the building blocks of corporate entrepreneurship. . This study tries to assess the perception of entrepreneurial climate amongst the employees of Indian organizations. It covers perception of the employees on 13 different parameters of entrepreneurial climate and attempts to find out the employees’ related factors and organization related factors affecting entrepreneurial climate. The paper also tries to assess the impact of perception of entrepreneurial climate of employees on their perception related to potential success of their organization. The study uses primary data collection from 633 employees from the corporate sector. It uses descriptive and inferential analysis such as One Sample T-test, ANOVA and Regression analysis to arrive at the conclusions. The study concludes that employees’ perception related to entrepreneurial climate in their organizations is affected by their age-group and their seniority in the management cadre. Employees belonging to manufacturing and engineering sectors have more positive outlook towards entrepreneurial climate than other sectors. The study also found that there is a positive and significant relationship between employees’ perception related to the entrepreneurial climate within their organizations and their perception related to potential success of their organizations.

Seeking for a relevant and contextual approach to economic development, an entrepreneurship model for Africa

Africa as a continent occupies one fifth of the earth’s land surface but possesses the largest natural resources on the earth’s surface. The continent is endowed with large deposits of coal, iron ore, asbestos, copper, gold, diamonds, uranium, emeralds, silver, chromium, cobalt, crude oil, quartz, aluminum, zinc, nickel, and platinum, to say the least. Together with this are large fresh water resources that labyrinth the continent pouring their contents into the inland lakes and oceans that surround the continent. The arable land is full of flora and fauna that attracts millions of tourists from around the world who pay large sums to see what the African takes for granted. Yet, the continent is home to millions reeling under chronic poverty, under nourished and under fed with unprecedented high levels of illiterate, unskilled, economically underdeveloped and unbankable populace. The Asian Tigers, China, India and Latin America have emerged as shining stars on the path to sustainable development, but Africa, the storehouse of natural wealth, lingers behind. This paper argues that the failure of Africa is a result of the failure of African leadership to come up with policies and programs specific to the context of the continent. Africa needs sustainable empowerment of the disadvantaged chronically poor millions that languish in poverty on the continent. The model suggests a developmental policy that uses “deliberate structures” to “deliberately empower” the indigenous African as fundamental to the economic development of the continent. Entrepreneurship as a developmental vehicle is modeled to provide in-built-solutions to the 21 causes of the failure of businesses. A model of projectised entrepreneurship using Africanized colonial resources is constructed with special emphasis on South Africa and its unique past. This will be supported deliberately by increasing start-ups at a reduced failure rate in place of perpetual handouts.