International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research: Volume 28 Issue 1

Editorial

Alba Yela Aránega, Rafael Castaño Sánchez

Transmission of family identity and consumer response: do consumers recognize family firms?

María José Ibáñez, Manuel Alonso Dos Santos, Orlando Llanos-Contreras

Communicating the identity of a family business generates positive results in consumer response. The paper aims to understanding how the efficient transmission of family identity…

Career path changer: the case of public and private sector entrepreneurial employee intentions

George Bogdan Dragan, George Cristian Schin, Valentin Sava, Andrei Alexandru Panait

This paper seeks to identify the organisational context and the combinations of antecedent conditions needed to change employee behaviour in public and private sectors towards…

Entrepreneurship, innovation, digitization and digital transformation toward a sustainable growth within the pandemic environment

Sorin Gavrila Gavrila, Antonio De Lucas Ancillo

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has taken society, business and industries by surprise leading to a worldwide economic recession, pushing organizations to rethink…

Holistic configural models for sustainable entrepreneurs

Kun-Huang Huarng, Tiffany Hui-Kuang Yu

This research explores causal combinations (personal traits, external factors and self-fulfillment) that could provide holistic views leading to sustainable start-ups via data…

Social entrepreneurship finance: the gaps in an innovative discipline

Nadiya Parekh, Laurence Attuel-Mendès

Social entrepreneurship is gaining increased attention from academia and practitioners worldwide. Owing to its financing challenges, academic pedagogies are seeking methods to…

Socioemotional wealth and human resource policies: effects on family firm performance

Juan David Peláez-León, Gregorio Sánchez-Marín

This study analyses whether human resource management (HRM), through the use of four sets of high-performance work policies (HPWPs) (i.e. selection, training, motivation and…

Social identity, rationality, creativity

Anna-Maria Kanzola, Konstantina Papaioannou, Panagiotis E. Petrakis

This study examines the relationship between rationality and creativity by means of social identity theory for the Greek society (2019–2020).

An exploration of changing student entrepreneurial motivators – a longitudinal analysis

Ricardo Figueiredo Belchior, Roisin Lyons

Entrepreneurial motivations are considered key determinants of the direction, intensity and duration of entrepreneurial processes and outcomes. To measure attitudes and outcome…

Organizational justice and employee entrepreneurial intentions in South Africa

Boris Urban, Jeremia Moloi

Notwithstanding the extensive body of knowledge on entrepreneurial intentions, there seems to be relatively little research on explaining intentions in the corporate…

Entrepreneurial sensing capabilities: the stimulating role of cross-cultural experience

Robert J. Pidduck, Yejun Zhang

Drawing on image theory, the authors investigate how and when cross-cultural experience cultivates two core entrepreneurial sensing capabilities: opportunity recognition and…

Entrepreneurial influencers and influential entrepreneurs: two sides of the same coin

Nataly Guiñez-Cabrera, Claudio Aqueveque

Drawing on push and pull entrepreneurship theory, this research investigates how and why social media users become social media influencers (SMIs), a specific type of digital…

A quantitative study on crowdfunders' motivations, their sense of meaning and social welfare

Arie Sherman, Hila Axelrad

In recent years, crowdfunding has developed as a new fundraising alternative. Yet, the effects of the backing experience in reward and donation-based crowdfunding (DBCF) on…