Management Decision: Volume 62 Issue 8

Guest editorial: Navigating the role of circular economy in entrepreneurship: opportunities and challenges – part one

Abbas Mardani, Malin Song, Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour, Reza Farzipoor Saen

Establishing linkages between circular economy practices and sustainable performance: the moderating role of circular economy entrepreneurship

Thanh Tiep Le, Abhishek Behl, Vijay Pereira

This paper aims to examine the mechanism of how circular economy practices (CEP) and circular economy entrepreneurship (CEE) promote sustainable supply chain management (SCM) and…

The role of entrepreneurial skills as a vehicle for business growth: a study in Spanish start-ups

Dolores Botella-Carrubi, Samuel Ribeiro-Navarrete, Klaus Ulrich, Cristina Blanco González-Tejero

Business growth is one of the most studied areas over the years. However, with the current uncertainty and entrepreneurial dynamism it becomes relevant to consider new variables…

Adopting digital reservation systems to enable circular economy in entrepreneurship

José Ramón Saura, Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano, Daniel Palacios-Marqués

In the last decade, the hospitality sector has undergone numerous changes in the organization and structure of its business models. Specifically, the adoption of new digital…

Effect of improvisational strategic orientation and entrepreneurial bricolage on new venture performance

Xueling Li, Ting Yu

This paper aims to examine the effects of two types of improvisational strategic orientation on new venture performance: defensive improvisation and creative improvisation…

Performance of small firms in a circular economy: configuring challenges and entrepreneurial orientation

Eijaz Ahmed Khan, Md. Maruf Hossan Chowdhury, Mohammad Alamgir Hossain, A.K.M. Shakil Mahmud, Abdullah M. Baabdullah, Yogesh K. Dwivedi

Society's concerns about environmental degradation have tightened competitive pressure and brought new challenges to small firms. Against this backdrop, this study develops a…

Economic policy uncertainty, entrepreneurial risk appetite, and corporation innovation in innovative cities – empirical evidence from the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone

Mengfei Zhu, Yitao Tao

This study investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty on corporation innovation in innovative cities. The study sheds light on different results from the previous…

The bigger, the better? Optimal NGO size of human resources and governance quality of entrepreneurship in circular economy

Ji Luo, Wuyang Zhuo, Bingfei Xu

The paper sets out to understand the key issues that the various functions and optimal allocation of NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in the circular economy that provide…

The role of entrepreneurship, cooperative innovation, environmental investment in relationship between the Belt and Road Initiative and green innovation upgrading

Jilin Tian

This paper analyzes the effect of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on firm green innovation upgrading using data on Chinese firms between 2009 and 2021.

In the context of mass entrepreneurship network embeddedness and entrepreneurial innovation performance of high-tech enterprises in Guangdong province

Chen Wang, Xuejiao Ren, Xiaolong Jiang, Guangren Chen

The study aimed to analyze the influence of network embeddedness on the innovation performance of high-tech enterprises in Guangdong Province.

It's free! Still, would I learn? Unearthing perceived value of education apps for better entrepreneurial decisions

Omkar Dastane, Juan Carlos Fandos-Roig, Javier Sánchez-García

This study aims to explore customer perceived value (CPV) dimensions in the context of free mobile educational applications (EduApps) which are paramount in learning-based digital…

The effect of digital transformation on intrapreneurship in real economy enterprises: a labor input perspective

Yiran Cheng, Xiaorui Zhou, Yongjian Li

Digital transformation is a confidence booster in intrapreneurship, but few have examined its impact on intrapreneurship. Further, quantitative analyses exploring the impact of…

Entrepreneurial borrowing overdue prediction based on stacking model transfer learning

Mu Shengdong, Liu Yunjie, Gu Jijian

By introducing Stacking algorithm to solve the underfitting problem caused by insufficient data in traditional machine learning, this paper provides a new solution to the cold…

The impact of digital corporate social responsibility on social entrepreneurship and organizational resilience

Khaled Al-Omoush, Belen Ribeiro-Navarrete, William C. McDowell

This study examines the impact of digital corporate social responsibility (CSR) on social entrepreneurship, organizational resilience and competitive intelligence during the…