International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research
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Exploiting a non-mainstream financial scheme to innovate: SMEs in the developing world
Mahdi Tajeddin, Amon Simba, Eric W. Liguori, Jude Edeh, Nuraddeen NuhuThe study aims to explore the role of non-mainstream financial schemes in supporting innovation within SMEs in developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. It…
Impact of shame on opportunity evaluation and exploitation decisions
Atma Prakash Ojha, M.K. NandakumarEvaluating and exploiting an opportunity is an iterative process, and one of the triggers for the re-evaluation is the feedback received from stakeholders. Most of the time, the…
Females wanna-be entrepreneurs need empathic heroes
Carole Bonanni, Sandrine Stervinou, Giampaolo VigliaDespite the well-documented importance of empathy and mentoring in entrepreneurship, there is a need for a deeper understanding of how empathy influences individuals’ “willingness…
An emotional learning process? The role of socially induced and regulated emotions for the development of an entrepreneurial mindset
Cynthia Maria Katharina Zabel, Alexander Meister, Nicolas Van De Sandt, René MauerAlthough emotional dynamics (EDs) during the entrepreneurial learning (EL) process are acknowledged to promote the growth of an entrepreneurial mindset (EM), while having social…
Honest incompetence: exploring the dark side of social entrepreneurship
Jeffrey Muldoon, William C. McDowell, Robert Konopaske, Matteo CristofaroThis paper explores the often overlooked and novel academic concept of honest incompetence as a potential “dark” side of social entrepreneurship, where well-intentioned but…
Taken for granted or wilfully ignored? Seeking legitimacy for the entrepreneurship educator
Andreas Walmsley, Birgitte WraaeThis study offers insights into how the entrepreneurship educator (EE) is legitimised in higher education.
Beyond teaching: the extended role of informal entrepreneurship education and training in challenging contexts
Grace Akullo, Elisa Aracil, Samuel Mwaura, Carolyn McMillanWe seek to understand how informal entrepreneurship education and training (EET) processes support marginalised women in challenging institutional contexts into gainful…
Who is the entrepreneurial educator? A transferability perspective to tease out antecedents needed to form a signature pedagogy
Gustav Hägg, Colin Jones, Birgitte WraaeEntrepreneurial education (EE) has grown rapidly and become important for how we prepare future generations for work. However, a less addressed piece of the puzzle is: who is the…
You say you can, but can you? The impact of entrepreneurship education on unwarranted and gendered entrepreneurial self-efficacy - a calibration study
Anne Rienke Van EwijkEntrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) has a dark side largely ignored in the field of entrepreneurship education. Research in educational psychology indicates that self-efficacy is…
Entrepreneurship under patriarchy: the intersecting forces characterising everyday life for Nigeria’s women entrepreneurs
Chioma Onoshakpor, James Cunningham, Elizabeth GammieNigeria presents something of an entrepreneurial paradox. Women in entrepreneurship dominate the economy, yet patriarchal structures dominate society. This article investigates…
Religiosity and entrepreneurship: women entrepreneurs in Turkiye
Sibel Ozasir KacarThe purpose of this study is to showcase how entrepreneurial opportunities can be contextually formed differently for women entrepreneurs concerning their relationship with…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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