**Meet the editor**

Silvio Brito holds a degree in Human Resources Management and Work Psychology from ISLA, a master's degree in Management in the area of organizational behavior from the Lusíada University, and a PhD degree in Psychology from the University of Extremadura, Spain. He is an effective member of the Portuguese Society of Psychology, INFAD (Spain), an investigator of Psyche

EX (Spain), a member of CITUR (Portugal), the chair of Entrepreneurs (Spain), and the founder and general secretary of AFIDE (Spain). He is a teacher of Human Resources at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (Portugal) and a teacher of master's course in Portugal and abroad and a member of its jury commissions in Portugal and abroad and an advisor of several scientific research papers. He has published several scientific, national, and international publications in the field of human resources, management, and psychology.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Introductory Chapter 1**

**Challenge 3**

**Section 2 Entrepreneurship Trends 9**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Entrepreneurship as a Trend and as a**

Chapter 2 **Arts and Entrepreneurship: Disentangling the Literature1 11**

Orlando Lima Rua, Alexandra França and Rubén Fernández Ortiz

Sílvio Manuel da Rocha Brito Brito

Francesca Rivetti and Mirella Migliaccio

Chapter 4 **The Digitalisation of Rural Entrepreneurship 37**

Chapter 5 **Micro-Finance: A Driver for Entrepreneurship 71**

Chapter 6 **A Practical and Theoretical Approach to Social Venturing**

Chapter 7 **From Entrepreneurial Intentions to Behaviors: Wandering In-**

**Between and Wondering about Challenges and Avenues 105**

Lawrence Mpele Lekhanya

**Section 3 Entrepreneurship Challenges 81**

**Entrepreneurship 83**

Asma Salman

Moulen Siame

Wassim J. Aloulou

Chapter 3 **Entrepreneurial Orientation and Firm Performance 23**
