International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research
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Hidden stories and the dark side of entrepreneurial commitment
Laetitia Gabay-Mariani, Bob Bastian, Andrea Caputo, Nikolaos PappasEntrepreneurs are generally considered to be committed in order to strive for highly desirable goals, such as growth or commercial success. However, commitment is a…
Awareness of enterprise finance support programmes: the role of networks, gender and ethnicity
Samuel Mwaura, Stephen KnoxThis paper investigates how gender, ethnicity, and network membership interact to influence how small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owner-managers become aware of finance…
Beyond the land of the living death: early-stage transformational entrepreneurs in digital healthcare as liminality navigator
Edoardo Trincanato, Emidia VagnoniThe lean startup approach (LSA) is extensively utilized by early-stage entrepreneurs, with “pivot” serving as a key pillar. However, there is a research gap concerning the…
Exploring the ascendancy of social capital in entrepreneurial behavior: new insights from mix model perspective in digital healthcare
Azfar Anwar, Abaid Ullah Zafar, Armando Papa, Thi Thu Thuy Pham, Chrysostomos ApostolidisDigital healthcare manages to grab considerable attention from people and practitioners to avoid severity and provide quick access to healthcare. Entrepreneurs also adopt the…
Defying the odds? Multiple disadvantage as a source of entrepreneurial action
Sundas Hussain, Natalia Vershinina, Charlotte CareyThe link between entrepreneurial intention and positive attitudes towards entrepreneurship for established and nascent entrepreneurs has been well documented in the extant…
Religion, personality traits and the nature of entrepreneurial activities: insights from Scottish Muslim entrepreneurs
Md Zillur Rahman, Farid Ullah, Piers ThompsonPrevious studies have shown how the nature of businesses and the strategies pursued by their owners are affected by the personality traits of their owners. These personality…
Unravelling the entrepreneurial ecosystem conditions spurring the global value chains: a configurational approach
Jonathan Mukiza Kansheba, Clavis Nwehfor Fubah, Mutaju Isaack MarobheDespite the popularity of the entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) concept, research on its value-adding activities receives less attention. Thus, in this article, the authors…
The moderating role of individual and social resources in gender effect on entrepreneurial growth aspirations
Frederick Wedzerai Nyakudya, Tomasz Mickiewicz, Nicholas TheodorakopoulosThis study aims to examine how the effect of gender on entrepreneurial growth aspirations is moderated differently by individual resources (human and financial capital) compared…
Maintaining life satisfaction when faced with multiple crisis episodes: the role of entrepreneurs’ goal orientation
Mirjam Knockaert, Dawn DeTienne, Karlien Coppens, Johan LambrechtThe aim is to understand how goal orientation may help entrepreneurs maintain life satisfaction when faced with multiple crisis episodes. To do so, the authors study the early…
How healthcare entrepreneurship enhances ecosystem outcomes: the relationship between venture capital-funded start-ups and county-level health
Yunwei Gai, Alia Crocker, Candida Brush, Wiljeana Jackson GloverResearch has examined how new ventures strengthen local economic outcomes; however, limited research examines health-oriented ventures and their impact on social outcomes…
Entrepreneurial financing: how global and regional export intentions affect financial and non-financial choices for small and midsized enterprises in low-income countries
Aaron van Klyton, Mary-Paz Arrieta-Paredes, Vedaste Byombi Kamasa, Said Rutabayiro-NgogaThe study explores how the intention to export affects financing and non-financing variables for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in a low-income country (LIC). The…
Pursuing entrepreneurial opportunities is not a choice: the interplay between gender norms, contextual embeddedness, and (in)equality mechanisms in entrepreneurial contexts
Saskia Stoker, Sue Rossano-Rivero, Sarah Davis, Ingrid Wakkee, Iulia StroilaAll entrepreneurs interact simultaneously with multiple entrepreneurial contexts throughout their entrepreneurial journey. This conceptual paper has two central aims: (1) it…
Resource allocation in healthcare entrepreneurial ecosystems: the strategic role of entrepreneurial support organizations
Valérie Mérindol, David W. VersaillesInnovation management in the healthcare sector has undergone significant evolutions over the last decades. These evolutions have been investigated from a variety of perspectives…
A study of entrepreneurial marketing activities and firm performance in an immediate post-COVID-19 era: the moderating role of coopetition
Ali Mahdi, Dave Crick, James M. Crick, Wadid Lamine, Martine SpenceAlthough earlier research suggests a positive relationship exists between engaging in entrepreneurial marketing activities and firm performance, there may be contingent issues…
The implications of economic freedom and gender ideologies on women's opportunity-to-necessity entrepreneurship
Diana M. Hechavarría, Maribel Guerrero, Siri Terjesen, Azucena GradyThis study explores the relationship between economic freedom and gender ideologies on the allocation of women’s opportunity-to-necessity entrepreneurship across countries…
Mechanisms for facilitating academic entrepreneurship in higher education
Ana Isabel Gaspar Pacheco, João Ferreira, Jorge Simoes, Pedro Mota Veiga, Marina DabicThe commercialization of research produced by universities constitutes a core facet of academic entrepreneurship (AE). Academic literature reveals the need to shed light on…
Exploring the impact of family and organisational values on competence diversity reluctance in rural family SMEs
Kristin Sabel, Andreas Kallmuenzer, Yvonne Von FriedrichsThis paper aims to examine how organisational values affect diversity in terms of different competencies in rural family Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Recruiting a…
Contextualising gender policy in tech entrepreneurship: a cross national and multiple-level analysis
Anne-Charlott Callerstig, Marta Lindvert, Elisabet Carine Ljunggren, Marit Breivik-Meyer, Gry Agnete Alsos, Dag BalkmarIn order to address the gender divide in technology entrepreneurship, we explore how different national contexts impact policies and policy implementation. We investigate how…
Customer search strategies of entrepreneurial telehealth firms – how effective is effectuation?
Susanna Pinnock, Natasha Evers, Thomas HoholmThe demand for healthcare innovation is increasing, and not much is known about how entrepreneurial firms search for and sell to customers in the highly regulated and complex…
Absorptive capacity in family firms: exploring the role of the CEO
Lucía Garcés-Galdeano, Josip Kotlar, Ana Lucía Caicedo-Leitón, Martín Larraza-Kintana, Federico FrattiniAbsorptive capacity (AC), the ability to leverage external knowledge for innovation, helps explain the mixed findings on family firms' (FFs) innovation performance. Our research…
Institutional pluralism and the implementation of women’s enterprise policy
Oliver Mallett, Robert Wapshott, Nazila WilsonThis research paper generates new insights into the challenges of implementation in women’s enterprise policy. It argues that organisations involved in policy implementation need…
Ideas for bridging the academic-policy divide at the nexus of gender and entrepreneurship
Jessica Carlson, Jennifer JenningsInspired by the “responsibility turn” in the broader organization/management literature, the overarching aim of this article is to help scholars working at the…
Gender and entrepreneurial intention in low-income countries: the relative roles played by anticipated financial returns versus perceived barriers for university students in Sierra Leone
Wendy A. Bradley, Caroline FryThe purpose of the present study is to investigate the extent to which female and male university students from low-income countries express different entrepreneurial intentions…
Subsistence entrepreneurship and intersectional inequalities: a case study of women from Pakistani urban-poor districts
Uzair Shah, Niall Hayes, Asfia ObaidThe study adopts an intersectional approach to identify the key dimension(s) that reproduce inequalities in women's subsistence entrepreneurship within urban-poor settings in the…
Analysing the relevance of value creation in the interconnection amongst entrepreneurship, marketing and innovation: a systematic literature review
Marcello Risitano, Giuseppe La Ragione, Alessandra Turi, Marco FerrettiThe purpose of this article is to better understand the relevance of value creation in the interconnection amongst entrepreneurship, marketing and innovation by reviewing the…
Gender-based policies and women’s entrepreneurship: an fsQCA analysis of sub-Saharan African countries
Abiodun Samuel Adegbile, Oyedele Martins Ogundana, Sola AdesolaEntrepreneurship policy is a vital component of any entrepreneurial ecosystem. However, the specific policy initiatives that have a greater impact on women's entrepreneurship…
Intersectional entrepreneurship: the burden of contextual embeddedness beyond the business
Sakura Yamamura, Paul LassalleThis paper aims to shed new light on the contextual embeddedness of intersectional entrepreneurs, i.e. entrepreneurs situated at the intersection of multiple marginalized…
The relationship between strategic orientations and firm performance and the role of innovation: a meta-analytic assessment of theoretical models
Juan David Reyes-Gómez, Pilar López, Josep RialpThe purpose of this paper is to assess the validity and utility of two theoretical approaches to understanding the relationship between strategic orientations, innovation and firm…
Healthcare entrepreneurship: current trends and future directions
Weng Marc Lim, Maria Vincenza Ciasullo, Octavio Escobar, Satish KumarThe goal of this article is to provide an overview of healthcare entrepreneurship, both in terms of its current trends and future directions.
The impact of local entrepreneurial initiatives on women entrepreneur empowerment: the case of cooperative social ventures in Morocco
Rachid Jabbouri, Yann Truong, Helmi IssaWe explore how NGO’s local entrepreneurial initiatives to empower women entrepreneurs can compensate for weak state policies for women in a context of male-dominated…
Everyday prejudices: an intersectional exploration of the experiences of lesbian and gay entrepreneurs
Etain Kidney, Maura McAdam, Thomas M. CooneyThere is a gap in understanding with regards to the discrimination and prejudice experienced by gay entrepreneurs. To address this, an intersectional perspective is adopted to…
Times of crisis and new entrepreneurial opportunities in highly regulated environments: the case of mRNA-biotechs during COVID-19 pandemic
Yann Truong, Yosr Ben TaharCrises, such as COVID-19 pandemic, are critical events that provoke important changes in organizational practices, regulations and actors' roles. The pharmaceutical sector has…
Identity is a matter of place: intersectional identities of Romanian women migrant entrepreneurs on the Eastern-Western European route
Iuliana M. ChitacRomanian women migrant entrepreneurs (RWMEs) are amongst the largest EU migrant communities in the UK and make significant socioeconomic contributions to both their host and…
Talk the walk: how corporate vision works for performance
Ai Su, Xiaotong Cai, Xue-Song Liu, Xiang-Nan Tao, Lei Chen, Rui WangThe development of an effective corporate vision is a necessary issue for corporate performance, and it is a key issue for corporate sustainable development as well. The…
“Really being yourself”? Racial minority entrepreneurs navigating othering and authenticity through identity work
Maud van Merriënboer, Michiel Verver, Miruna Radu-LefebvreDrawing on an intersectional perspective on racial, migrant and entrepreneurial identities, this paper investigates the identity work of racial minority entrepreneurs with…
Stand-alone or run together: artificial intelligence as an enabler for other technologies
Ignat Kulkov, Julia Kulkova, Daniele Leone, René Rohrbeck, Loick MenvielleThe purpose of this study is to examine the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in transforming the healthcare sector, with a focus on how AI contributes to entrepreneurship and…
“Doing inequality, doing intersectionality”: intersectionality as threshold concept for studying inequalities in entrepreneurial activity
Angela Martinez Dy, Heatherjean MacNeilThis paper intervenes in existing literature on entrepreneurship and inequalities by proposing a novel reframing of intersectionality as a threshold concept, an important idea…
Women's contributions to rural development: implications for entrepreneurship policy
Helene Ahl, Karin Berglund, Katarina Pettersson, Malin TillmarPolicy for women's entrepreneurship is designed to promote economic growth, not least in depleted rural areas, but very little is known about the contributions of rural women…
Intersectionality of place and race: entrepreneurial performance of Arab citizens of Israel
Inas Saleh Said, Vijay VyasThe objective of this study is to understand how Arab entrepreneurs in Israel redress the disadvantage of the intersectionality of place and race by setting up their businesses in…
Talking with venture capitalists: gender perceptions in investment decisions
Birgitte Karlstrøm, Tiril Marie Jansen, Marte C.W. SolheimThe venture capital industry is an important provider of capital to start-ups and has grown considerably in recent decades. This study explores how investors' gender perceptions…
The role of social intrapreneurship and serious games in generating social innovation in the healthcare sector
Insaf Khelladi, Sylvaine Castellano, Edouard Charles VinçotteThis research paper aims to explore how social intrapreneurs use serious games to generate social innovation. In particular, the study depicts the coproduction process between…
Barriers to entrepreneurship: an intersectional analysis of an early-stage refugee entrepreneurship programme in the United Kingdom
Udeni Salmon, Ann SingletonThe study deploys Anthias' intersectional framework of social spaces and her concept of translocational positionality to explore the barriers to entrepreneurship for refugee…
A multi-voiced account of family entrepreneuring research: expanding the agenda of family entrepreneurship
Haya Al-Dajani, Nupur Pavan Bang, Rodrigo Basco, Andrea Calabrò, Jeremy Chi Yeung Cheng, Eric Clinton, Joshua J. Daspit, Alfredo De Massis, Allan Discua Cruz, Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo, William B. Gartner, Olivier Germain, Silvia Gherardi, Jenny Helin, Miguel Imas, Sarah Jack, Maura McAdam, Miruna Radu-Lefebvre, Paola Rovelli, Malin Tillmar, Mariateresa Torchia, Karen Verduijn, Friederike WelterThis conceptual, multi-voiced paper aims to collectively explore and theorize family entrepreneuring, which is a research stream dedicated to investigating the emergence and…
L’instant Taittinger: a champagne family house in its chronotope
Elen Riot, Emmanuelle Rigaud, Ilenia BuaThe purpose of the paper is to describe the attempt of a family champagne house to redefine its business organization as a family in a large family of families. This choice…
Entrepreneuring and family firms cofounders' familiness at work through rhetoric appeals
Alistair Anderson, Anca Maria Clipa, Albrecht Fritzsche, Catalin Ioan Clipa, Daniela Tatiana AgheorghieseiThis research objective was to explore how Romanian IT family businesses' co-founders enable entrepreneuring through familiness practices. The authors explored what familiness…
Senior entrepreneurship dynamics: Latin America perspective
José Ernesto Amorós, Marcelo Leporati, Alfonso Jesús Torres-MarínThe main objective of this research is to exploratorily analyse different factors that influence the decision of the senior population (+50 years) to engage in entrepreneurship…
Time effect and shifted motivations in deprived areas: an overall perspective of entrepreneurial process
Yuxi Zhao, Piers ThompsonWilliams and Williams (2012, 2017) find multiple entrepreneurial motivations are experienced by entrepreneurs in deprived areas at different points in time. Drawing on this prior…
The start-up's roadmap to private equity financing: substituting discounts with a premium in valuation for growth
Anastasia Giakoumelou, Antonio Salvi, Olga Kvasova, Ioannis RizomyliotisAccess to financing is a key success factor for start-ups. High failure rates, long payback periodse and asymmetries lead to conservative pricing and valuation discounts. The…
Entrepreneurial orientation, proactive market orientation and society: evidence from public service organizations in Brazil
Ian R. Hodgkinson, Paul Hughes, Higor Leite, Younggeun LeePublic service organizations (PSOs) face a critical dilemma: how to generate more value for society but with a much-reduced resource base. The article advances the strategy axis…
The impact of entrepreneurial passion on entrepreneurial success and psychological well-being: a person-centered investigation
Chunxiao Chen, Jian Zhang, Huirong Tian, Xing BuEntrepreneurial passion has important implications for entrepreneurial success and psychological well-being. But their connections are complicated by the fact that three…
Understanding the relevance of family business, gender and value chains for SMEs' innovation in the context of COVID-19
José Antonio Clemente-Almendros, Inés González-González, Luis Manuel Cerdá-Suárez, Luis Alberto Seguí-AmorteguiIn this paper, the authors present an empirical framework that incorporates different factors of the impact of COVID-19 on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in La Rioja…
Determinants of SMEs’ performance: amalgamation of entrepreneurial, market and brand orientations
Ahmed Rageh Ismail, Bahtiar MohamadScholars and practitioners alike are paying attention to entrepreneurial orientation (EO) as an antecedent of the financial performance of SMEs. Other factors foster and improve…
Embedding the marketing angle into the pursuit of entrepreneurial propensity: roles of perceived feasibility and desirability and stakeholders' support
Dafna Kariv, Norris Krueger, Luis Cisneros, Gavriella Kashy-RosenbaumThis study endeavors to decode the propensity for entrepreneurial action by addressing the perceptions of feasibility and desirability stemming from entrepreneurs' and…
Board diversity as strategic choice and why it should matter to SMEs
Elmar Puntaier, Tingting Zhu, Paul HughesDiversity in boards has gained attention as a reflection of societal imbalances. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of diversity in terms of both gender and…
Digital ethnicity affordances: from a liability to an asset in immigrant entrepreneurship
Quang Evansluong, Lena Grip, Eva KarayianniThis paper aims to understand how immigrant entrepreneurs use digital opportunities to overcome the liability of newness and foreignness and how an immigrant's ethnicity can be…
Developing social entrepreneurship through public procurement: a wicked problem!
Alan AitkenThis paper explores attempts to deliver socioeconomic benefit by developing social enterprise within the public sector supply chain.
Parents' support for children's entrepreneurial behavior: incentivizing the next generation of entrepreneurs
Francisco J. García-Rodríguez, Desiderio Gutiérrez-Taño, Inés Ruiz-RosaThe purpose of this paper is to present an explanatory model of the factors that determine parental support for possible entrepreneurial initiatives of the parents' children. This…
Sustainable innovation for shared mobility: contextual and consumer factors of an Indian car subscription business model
Ranjan Chaudhuri, Sheshadri Chatterjee, Arka Ghosh, Demetris Vrontis, Alkis ThrassouThe paper aims to examine the nature and scale of the sustainability value of car sharing and to identify, through consumer analysis, the contextual and consumer factors of…
Interlinking institutions, entrepreneurship and economic performance
João J. Ferreira, Cristina I. Fernandes, Pedro Mota Veiga, Stephan GerschewskiThis study holds the objective of evaluating the impact of formal (e.g. ease of doing business score, start-up procedures to register a business, property rights) and informal…
Antecedents and consequences of open innovation: a conceptual framework
Suresh Malodia, Chetna Chauhan, Fauzia Jabeen, Amandeep DhirEntrepreneurship across sectors has been impacted by the paradigm of open innovation in the last few decades. Although Open Innovation is argued to impact firm performance the…
How to secure an innovation grant for firms in new industries? Gender and resource perspectives
David Audretsch, Maksim Belitski, Candida BrushResearch on financing for entrepreneurship has consolidated over the last decade. However, one question remains unanswered: how does the combination of external finance, such as…
The system effects of linkages on actor disposition and resource density: an approach to university-industry linkages
Rafael Ventura, María J. Quero, Sofía Louise Martínez-MartínezLinkages play a strategic role in improving actor disposition and resource density in university–industry ecosystems. Due to the importance of interconnected ecosystems for the…
Entrepreneurial marketing of small and medium-sized suppliers enhancing technological capability: lessons from industrial suppliers in South Korea
Yongwook Sun, Euehun LeeRapid changes in technologies and customer preferences are increasing market uncertainty. Hence, despite the benefits of reactive and adaptive marketing in the industrial market…
Integration of outside-in and inside-out entrepreneurial marketing capabilities, marketing agility and resources for entrepreneurial firm performance
Huda Khan, Felix Mavondo, Nadia ZahoorThe resource-based view (RBV) emphasises the importance of resources for firm performance. However, recent research argues that the focus on firm performance should also be based…
Incentivizing knowledge institutions for entrepreneurship and society
Sebastian Aparicio, Mathew (Mat) Hughes, David Audretsch, David UrbanoGoing beyond the traditional approach of formal and informal institutions as antecedents of entrepreneurship (directly) and development (indirectly), this paper seeks to explore…
The role of marketing agility and risk propensity in resilience and survival of eastern European immigrant entrepreneurs in Denmark
Ismail Golgeci, Ahmad Arslan, Veronika Kentosova, Deborah Callaghan, Vijay PereiraWhile extant research has increasingly examined minority entrepreneurs, less attention has been paid to Eastern European immigrant entrepreneurs and the role that marketing…
Strategic positioning of projects in crowdfunding platforms: do advanced technology terms referencing, signaling and articulation matter?
Yilong Zheng, Yiru Wang, Sarfraz A. MianTracking trends in new technology funding patterns is essential for venture scaling. The emerging advanced digital technologies (ADT) such as virtual reality (VR), artificial…
When does intellectual capital enhance innovation capability? A three-way interaction test
Hande Karadag, Faruk Sahin, Cagri BulutIn the current study based on the resource-based view (RBV), a three-way interaction model tests the relationships among human and social capital resources, innovation orientation…
Process tracing: a methodological proposal for a practice approach to family entrepreneurship
Attilia Ruzzene, Mara Brumana, Tommaso MinolaFollowing the lead of neighboring fields such as strategy and organization studies, entrepreneurship is gradually joining in the adoption of a practice perspective…
Open innovation pathway to firm performance: the role of dynamic marketing capability in Malaysian entrepreneurial firms
Md Imtiaz Mostafiz, Farhad Uddin Ahmed, Paul HughesThis study investigates how firms build strong dynamic marketing capability (DMC) from open innovation (OI) to enhance the performance of entrepreneurial firms. Moreover, this…
Towards the regional aspects of institutional trust and entrepreneurial ecosystems
Olena Khlystova, Yelena Kalyuzhnova, Maksim BelitskiInstitutional trust is vital for social and economic activity and crucial in reducing uncertainty for entrepreneurs and society. To shed light on the role of institutional trust…
Women, polygamy and family entrepreneuring in southwest Benin: the role of endogenous knowledge
Bienvenu Akowedaho Dagoudo, Natalia Vershinina, William Karani MurithiAs families engage in entrepreneurship, particularly in developing economies, women's engagement in such activities is subject to the traditional cultures, norms and values of the…
Coopetition and the marketing/entrepreneurship interface in an international arena
James M. Crick, Dave Crick, Giulio FerrignoGuided by resource-based theory, this study unpacks the relationship between an export entrepreneurial marketing orientation (EMO) and export performance. This is undertaken by…
Do government incentives increase indigenous innovation commercialisation? Empirical evidence from local Ghanaian firms
Harrison Paul Adjimah, Victor Atiase, Dennis Yao DzansiGovernment incentives are critical for successful indigenous innovation commercialisation, yet there are concerns about the efficacy of these incentives. Therefore, this study…
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