Abstract: Entrepreneurship is divided into personal entrepreneurship and corporate entrepreneurship. The personal entrepreneurship is influenced by personal characteristic, cognitive mode, education and experience. The organizational and strategic variables such as firm strategy, organizational structure, organizational support and environment are more important influences on corporate entrepreneurship. Finally, the article discusses performance appraisal of entrepreneurship and suggests accurate performance measurement is critical to entrepreneurship research.

Key words: entrepreneurship, influences, performance appraisal.