The study reports the dispositions towards responsibility and decision making of 80 male and 104 female copreneurs in jointly owned and managed ventures. While the husband still tends to be the boss, the wife is an equal partner, since such relationships are based on a clear division of responsibilities and on mutual trust and confidence.
Entrepreneurship is one of the most researched topics in business research. Findings have been mixed regarding the traits of entrepreneurs, and interest has grown in examining the behavioral aspects and business operations elements necessa y for effective entrepreneurship, branching out from the focus on personality traits that has dominated the literature. W e explored the area of entrepreneurship with the goal of developing a useful framework for viewing this domain. Content analysis was used to build the framework from business owner-managers' observations of entrepreneurial effectiveness. The construct categories and the overall dimensions and their relationships to entrepreneurship are reported. The result is the beginning of a process to describe an entrepreneurship system. Suggestions for future research and the continuation of entrepreneurship model development are offered.
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