International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research: Volume 26 Issue 4

Greater fit and a greater gap: How environmental support for entrepreneurship increases the life satisfaction gap between entrepreneurs and employees

Steven A. Brieger, Dirk De Clercq, Jolanda Hessels, Christian Pfeifer

The purpose of this paper is to understand how national institutional environments contribute to differences in life satisfaction between entrepreneurs and employees.

Lean Startup, Agile Methodologies and Customer Development for business model innovation: A systematic review and research agenda

Diego Souza Silva, Antonio Ghezzi, Rafael Barbosa de Aguiar, Marcelo Nogueira Cortimiglia, Carla Schwengber ten Caten

Startups have attracted increased attention over the past years. While entrepreneurs develop startups to capture new business opportunities, also large companies are turning to…

Entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance in Italian firms: The moderating role of competitive strategy

Jeremy Galbreath, Lorenzo Lucianetti, Ben Thomas, Daniel Tisch

Considering that context is important and relying on a contingency perspective, the purpose of the study is to analyze the relationship between an entrepreneurial orientation (EO…

Gender, technology and decision-making: insights from an experimental conjoint analysis

Bari L. Bendell, Diane M. Sullivan, Kathrin J. Hanek

The purpose of this paper is to investigate differences in how men and women small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) entrepreneurs make decisions regarding whether to invest in…

Entrepreneurial opportunity recognition in the face of disasters

Furkan Amil Gur, Joshua S. Bendickson, Laura Madden, William C. McDowell

Disasters drastically affect regional industries; consequently, the study of regional resilience is of much interest to organizational researchers. To that end, this study…

How venture capitalists evaluate young innovative company patent portfolios: empirical evidence from Europe

Federico Caviggioli, Alessandra Colombelli, Antonio De Marco, Emilio Paolucci

This paper analyzes the importance given by venture capital (VC) firms to the different characteristics of the patent portfolio of a young innovative company (YIC). In an attempt…

Entrepreneurs' behavioural competencies for internationalisation: Exploratory insights from the Italian context

Laura Cortellazzo, Sara Bonesso, Fabrizio Gerli

The entrepreneur is the main decision-maker in small and medium-sized enterprises and is the principal force in the implementation of a firm's international strategy. Research has…

Transformational leadership and attorneys' performance in law firms: An examination of multilevel moderated mediation

J. Mark Phillips, Jae Hyeung Kang, David Y. Choi, George T. Solomon

This study examines how transformational leadership on the part of senior attorneys in law firms may affect their subordinate attorneys' performance in an industry experiencing…

Testing mediating effects of individual entrepreneurial orientation on the relation between close environmental factors and entrepreneurial intention

Izaias Martins, Juan Pablo Perez

Drawing on the literature on entrepreneurial intention (EI), this paper develops and tests a model that aims to explain student EI by considering the valuation of entrepreneurship…

Can cognitive biases be good for entrepreneurs?

Haili Zhang, Hans van der Bij, Michael Song

While some studies have found that cognitive biases are detrimental to entrepreneurial performance, others have conjectured that cognitive biases may stimulate entrepreneurial…