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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

positive neuroscience --- flourishing --- well-being --- character strengths --- neuroimaging

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This open acess book extends recent work on entrepreneurship in response to adverse events to explore entrepreneurial responses by people who face chronic adversity more deeply. Instead of focusing on the sort of responses intended to destroy the institutions that create and sustain chronic adversity, the authors are interested in how individuals use entrepreneurial action to find a way within these adverse constraints to improve their lives. They explore the positive outcomes arising from these entrepreneurial actions for the entrepreneurial actor and their family members as well as the negative consequences of these entrepreneurial responses to chronic adversity—outcomes that diminish others’ well-being. The book relies on the lived experiences of those facing chronic adversity to provide insights into the bright—and dark—sides of entrepreneurship and the complexity of these relationships. It will serve as a valuable resource to scholars seeking to understand how entrepreneurial action is conceived and implemented by those facing challenging resource-poor environments.

Entrepreneurship --- Organizational theory & behaviour --- Business strategy --- poverty alleviation --- innovation --- resource scarcity --- human exploitation --- resilience --- refugees --- corruption --- illegal entrepreneurship --- flourishing --- identity --- corporate entrepreneurship

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In his 2010 book What Is a Person?, Christian Smith argued that sociology had for too long neglected this fundamental question. Prevailing social theories, he wrote, do not adequately "capture our deep subjective experience as persons, crucial dimensions of the richness of our own lived lives, what thinkers in previous ages might have called our 'souls' or 'hearts.'" Building on Smith's previous work, To Flourish or Destruct examines the motivations intrinsic to this subjective experience: Why do people do what they do? How can we explain the activity that gives rise to all human social life and social structures? Smith argues that our actions stem from a motivation to realize what he calls natural human goods: ends that are, by nature, constitutionally good for all human beings. He goes on to explore the ways we can and do fail to realize these ends-a failure that can result in varying gradations of evil. Rooted in critical realism and informed by work in philosophy, psychology, and other fields, Smith's ambitious book situates the idea of personhood at the center of our attempts to understand how we might shape good human lives and societies.

Persons. --- Motivation (Psychology) --- Good and evil. --- evil, failure, motivation, human goods, sociology, identity, individualism, personhood, agency, subjectivity, soul, psychology, society, philosophy, social situationism, action, flourishing, success, ambition, desire, passion, need, striving, nonfiction, durkheim, goffman, marx, humanism, critical realism, affect, personalism, ethics, religion, self.

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The Religious Freedom Institute’s FORIS project, an initiative made possible by funding from the John Templeton Foundation, proudly presents, with the assistance of MDPI, this Special Issue of Religions with a focus on the “Freedom of Religious Institutions in Society.” Its strengths lie in its global perspective, the acumen of its authors, and the wide range of subjects and complex factors addressed. This Special Issue volume consists of a series of articles written by leading religious freedom scholars and advocates, including Jonathan Fox, Roger Finke, Paul Marshall, Chad Bauman, Byron Johnson, Timothy Shah, Robert Hefner, Lihui Zhang, Rebecca Supriya Shah, Dane Mataic, Mariz Tadros, and Akram Habib. It contributes to the overall scholarship revolving around religious freedom by placing greater and well-deserved attention upon the crucial nature of institutional religious freedom and its key capacity to enable the enjoyment of religious freedom and human rights in general. Religious liberty is not an individual right alone, but rather includes the right of religious communities to gather in synagogues, churches, mosques, temples, and other houses of worship. Freedom of religion also includes the right of faith communities to establish religious institutions such as schools, hospitals, ministries to the poor, universities, and countless others that seek to embody the teachings of their respective religious traditions. Institutional religious freedom encompasses this full range of congregational and organizational expressions of religious faith.

Religious freedom --- religious institutions --- human rights --- religious freedom --- rights --- institutions --- organizations --- for profit --- jurisdiction --- vocation --- Hindu --- Christian --- law --- restriction --- religion --- India --- minority --- majority --- legal --- regulation --- temples --- churches --- mosques --- freedom --- volunteerism --- prosocial --- crime --- positive criminology --- desistance --- identity transformation --- rehabilitation --- religious liberty --- religious organizations --- institutional religious freedom --- religious autonomy --- church autonomy --- freedom of the church --- W. Cole Durham, Jr. --- Indonesia --- religion in law --- citizenship --- institutional religious restrictions --- international human rights organizations --- religious restrictions --- Erastianism --- secularism --- Jawaharlal Nehru --- Hinduism --- Hindu nationalism --- culture --- economy --- human flourishing --- religion institution --- education --- pandemic --- COVID-19 --- minorities --- discriminaiton --- Copts --- equal citizenship --- Coptic movements --- Egypt

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Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship have become a vehicle that offers solutions for social, environmental, and economic problems. Even though the level of entrepreneurial activity and its diversity have been motivated through public policies, social support has also played an important role in encouraging people to think of entrepreneurship as a desirable career choice. This book brings together analyses of those elements required for entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial intention and action, which ultimately become important leverages of development. Chapters highlight the importance of rural, urban, university, organizational, and family environments for a bunch of intentions and behaviors such as green, sport, social, corporate, innovative, traditional, and gender entrepreneurship. This entrepreneurial diversity is translated into higher development through the empowerment of women, environmental consciousness, and efficient production. Policymakers, scholars, and practitioners can find different examples and cases useful for decision-making, learning, and practice in this book.

entrepreneurial intention --- attitude --- social norm --- subjective personal variables --- motivation --- beliefs --- values --- entrepreneurial team --- cognition characteristics --- behavior characteristics --- venture performance --- sustainable entrepreneurship --- tourism students --- gender comparison --- Innovation --- DEA Methodology --- Relative efficiency --- green entrepreneurship --- sustainable entrepreneurial activity --- culture --- institutional approach --- developing countries --- Saudi Arabia --- soccer --- football --- innovation --- entrepreneurship --- bibliometric analysis --- performance --- entrepreneurial intentions --- self-employment --- entrepreneurship education --- entrepreneurial family background --- entrepreneurial personality traits --- students --- hierarchical multiple regression analysis --- ecotourism --- women entrepreneurship --- self-determination theory --- psychological empowerment --- flourishing --- growth mindset --- social entrepreneurial intention --- social entrepreneurship --- COVID-19 --- theory of planned behavior --- time in self-employment --- gender --- regional development --- rural and urban areas --- age --- UK --- administrative process --- community-based tourism enterprises --- financial process --- tourism enterprises --- SMEs --- entrepreneurial orientation --- IMC capability --- organizational performance --- competitive advantage --- inter-country analysis --- entrepreneurial competencies --- sustainability --- higher education --- entrepreneurial university --- organisational change --- entrepreneurial mindset --- college students --- engineering --- educational experience --- measurement invariance --- latent mean comparisons --- institutions --- intrapreneurship --- national growth --- firm growth --- economic development --- social change --- gender equality