Contents

#### **Preface XI**


Wassim J. Aloulou


Preface

counter cycle.

Entrepreneurship—Trends and Challenges! This is the purpose for which this book has been

In the first section, the authors focus on the entrepreneurship trends, especially those related to teaching principles and tools that students must have when they decide to undertake, and the necessary changes to the schools' curricula. In addition, increasing functional conflicts between entrepreneurial and creative teams, developing operative knowledge of entrepre‐ neurship in schools, and researching questions at work are also an interesting approach as well as the conciliation of the factors of opportunity and the need to undertake in favor and

In the second section, we focus on the entrepreneurship challenges, for example, the ubiqui‐ ty and the nonexistence, which can submerge entrepreneurship through technology itself and transversality in different disciplines, without a true evaluation of its foundations and theories, the role of women in entrepreneurship, and business dealing with the concepts of

The first section begins with a chapter about the development of entrepreneurship litera‐ ture, where Prof. Francesca Rivetti talks about a new area of entrepreneurship investigation called "arts and literature". The purpose of this study is to shed light on arts entrepreneur‐ ship literature, outlining the most significant issues emerged on the phenomenon and their trajectories for the future development. The second chapter is about the entrepreneur orien‐ tation and the firm's performance, where Prof. Orlando Lima Rua focuses on the firm's en‐ trepreneurial performance strategies and its values and successes in the face of opportunities and risks. Entrepreneurial orientation influences the firm's performance when firms strategically acquire, develop, and leverage resources for opportunity exploitation in order to gain a competitive advantage. Dr. Lawrence Lenkhanya, as the author of the third chapter, brings us an example of digitalization in rural entrepreneurship as an idea that will assist entrepreneurs operating in the rural locations to survive and grow beyond the future shock on agriculture. The unleashing of entrepreneurship requires an environment that ena‐ bles entrepreneurs to create, operate, manage, and, if necessary, close their businesses with‐ in a context, where compliance with the rule of law governing disclosure, licensing, and registration procedures and the protection of physical and intellectual properties is guaran‐ teed. The existing regulatory environment should encourage people to launch their own businesses, attempt new business ideas, and take calculated risks while keeping administra‐ tive burdens to the minimum required supporting sustainable public policy and develop‐ ment objectives. Traveling to Emirates, we encounter the fourth chapter, where Dr. Asma Salman gives us microfinance as a driver for entrepreneurship and its response to the devel‐

written and is structured in two sections: trends and challenges.

start-ups, hackathons, and advances in our behavior.
