International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research: Volume 25 Issue 6

Is a bit more experience bad? The role of entrepreneurial experience on investment rate

Bach Nguyen

This study investigates the influence of entrepreneurial experience on small business investment. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether entrepreneurs with more prior…

Big five personality traits, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention: A configurational approach

Faruk Şahin, Hande Karadağ, Büşra Tuncer

The literature considers the big five personality traits and entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) to be important individual-level factors that determine entrepreneurial intention…

Entrepreneuring as an everyday form of resistance: An exploration of the experiences of Palestinian women street vendors in the occupied Old City of Jerusalem

Anton Robert Sabella, Mira Taysir El-Far

The purpose of this paper is to problematise the dominant conceptualisation of entrepreneurship by recognising the everyday resistance inherent in mundane entrepreneurial…

The implications of national and regional long-term orientation on entrepreneurial activity

Jason Lortie, Tais Barreto, Kevin Cox

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between culture and entrepreneurial activity at both the national and regional levels of analyses. While there has…

Team entrepreneurial competence: multilevel effects on individual cognitive strategies

Susana C. Santos, Michael H. Morris, António Caetano, Sílvia F. Costa, Xaver Neumeyer

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of team entrepreneurial competence, a team-level construct representing the level of shared abilities toward entrepreneurial…

Gender gap in entrepreneurial growth ambition: The role of culturally contingent perceptions of the institutional environment in China

Jing Wang, Yaokuang Li, Dan Long

Since the limited growth of enterprises has been identified as a deliberate choice of women entrepreneurs, the purpose of this paper is to illustrate how the institutional…

Theoretical perspectives on public entrepreneurship

Joyce Liddle, Gerard McElwee

The interest in entrepreneurship in the public sector is recognized as an emergent phenomenon in the field of entrepreneurship. Existing theoretical work is limited in helping…

Crowdfunding: a systemic framework of benefits

Valerio V. De Luca, Alessandro Margherita, Giuseppina Passiante

Crowdfunding (CF) is a fast-developing and multifaceted phenomenon at the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology, finance and sociology. Although it is an alternative way to…

The early development of International New Ventures: a multidimensional exploration

Paul Kirwan, Tiago Ratinho, Peter van der Sijde, Aard J. Groen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the early development stages of International New Ventures (INVs). Specifically, the authors explore how INVs acquire and leverage four…

Understanding the emergence of entrepreneurial passion: The influence of perceived emotional support and competences

Pekka Stenholm, Mette Søgaard Nielsen

Recent research acknowledges entrepreneurial passion’s outcomes, but far less is known about how entrepreneurial passion comes about. In this study, the authors are interested in…