International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research: Volume 25 Issue 4

Artisan, cultural and tourism entrepreneurship

Vanessa Ratten, Carlos Costa, Marcel Bogers

The purpose of this paper is to focus on emerging research avenues for artisan entrepreneurship. The key findings of the articles in the special journal issue are discussed in…

Artisan entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review and research agenda

Tobias Pret, Aviel Cogan

The purpose of this paper is to review and critique the extant body of literature on artisan entrepreneurship and to develop a research agenda for future studies based on the…

Artisan entrepreneurship: a question of personality structure?

Cherisse Hoyte

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of culture in artisan entrepreneurship. It is argued that culture plays a critical role in entrepreneurial behaviour as culture is…

Rethinking artisan entrepreneurship in a small island: A tale of two chocolatiers in Roatan, Honduras

Ricardo Alonzo Cortez Arias, Allan Discua Cruz

There is a growing interest in artisan entrepreneurs around the world. Scholars are increasingly interested in how artisan enterprises use tourism in a resource-constrained…

Entrepreneurial artisan products as regional tourism competitiveness

Sérgio J. Teixeira, João J.M. Ferreira

The purpose of this paper is to explore and analyse the role of entrepreneurial artisan products in regional tourism competitiveness.

Determinants of livelihood choices and artisanal entrepreneurship in Nigeria

Paul Agu Igwe, Nnamdi O. Madichie, Robert Newbery

The purpose of this paper is to provide fresh insights into rural artisanal activities in a developing world context. It highlights key determinants of the decision to engage in…

Local development through rural entrepreneurship, from the Triple Helix perspective: The case of a peripheral region in northern Portugal

Elisabete Sá, Beatriz Casais, Joaquim Silva

By using the Triple Helix model, the purpose of this paper is to uncover the perceptions of nascent entrepreneurs about a university–industry–government collaboration program, in…

Beekeeping as a family artisan entrepreneurship business

Veland Ramadani, Robert D. Hisrich, Leo-Paul Dana, Ramo Palalic, Laxman Panthi

Throughout Macedonia, beekeeping is becoming popular regardless of ethnicity. Studying ethnicity, the purpose of this paper is to determine what beekeepers in Macedonia thought in…

Creative tourism: catalysing artisan entrepreneur networks in rural Portugal

Fiona Eva Bakas, Nancy Duxbury, Tiago Vinagre de Castro

Given limited research about how artisans become integrated into tourism, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the emergence of artisan entrepreneur–mediators who link…

Innovation as a booster of rural artisan entrepreneurship: a case study of black pottery

Carla Susana Marques, Gina Santos, Vanessa Ratten, Ana B. Barros

Rural entrepreneurship is an emergent field of study, with these start-ups becoming one of the most noticeable ways to promote rural development, but the few studies concerning…