International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research: Volume 27 Issue 4

Entrepreneurial orientation during adversity: differences across ownership categories

Arindam Mondal, Amit Baran Chakrabarti

This study seeks to highlight the dynamic nature of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) by investigating how firms respond to adversity, i.e. performance below aspiration levels…

Researching entrepreneurship: an approach to develop subjective understanding

Duminda Rajasinghe, Chinthaka Aluthgama-Baduge, Gary Mulholland

Entrepreneurship is a complex social activity. Hence, knowledge production in the field requires inclusivity and diversity within research approaches and perspectives to…

Pivot decisions in startups: a systematic literature review

Ximena Alejandra Flechas Chaparro, Leonardo Augusto de Vasconcelos Gomes

Entrepreneurs' pivot decisions are poorly understood. The purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature on pivot decisions to identify the different…

An emotional intelligence model of entrepreneurial coping strategies

Saurav Pathak, Sonia Goltz

The purpose of this article is to recognize emotional intelligence (EI) as a specific emotional competency possessed by entrepreneurs that facilitates their coping with stressors…

Lean startup for opportunity exploitation: adoption constraints and strategies in technology new ventures

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

Most studies investigating the adoption of lean startup (LS) practices by technology new ventures focus on software startups in mature entrepreneurial ecosystems and disregard…

Appraisals matter: relationships between entrepreneurs' stress appraisals and venture-based outcomes

Andrew A. Bennett, Stephen E. Lanivich, M. Mahdi Moeini Gharagozloo, Yusuf Akbulut

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how stress appraisals (i.e. cognitive evaluations) influence entrepreneurial outcomes like expected financial well-being, life…

The role of perceived value of entrepreneurial identity in growth motivation

Bramesada Prasastyoga, Fieke Harinck, Esther van Leeuwen

Three studies aimed to investigate the role of perceived value of entrepreneurial identity (i.e. one's evaluation of the worthiness of one's entrepreneurial role) in the…

What jokes about entrepreneurs tell us about how humour may shape and de-legitimise public perceptions of entrepreneurial identity

Robert Smith, Lorraine Warren

Humour and, in particular, jokes have received little serious academic scrutiny in the entrepreneurship literature to date. To address this, the purpose of this paper is to…

Fading and transformation: how a woman entrepreneur's multiple identities interact throughout her life

Francesca Maria Cesaroni, Annalisa Sentuti, Maria Gabriella Pediconi

This paper aims to further the understanding of women entrepreneurs' multiple identities by exploring how they interact throughout women's life cycles.

Motivational foundations of identifying and exploiting entrepreneurial opportunities

Thomas K. Maran, Anna K. Bachmann, Christine Mohr, Theo Ravet-Brown, Lukas Vogelauer, Marco Furtner

Motivation can serve as the engine that turns intention into action, and, as such, is indispensable in the early phase of the entrepreneurial process, where opportunity…

Creative entrepreneurs' artistic creativity and entrepreneurial alertness: the guanxi network perspective

Ming-Huei Chen, Min Tseng

The dichotomy of views on “arts for arts sake” and “art must meet commerce” elicits the clash about how creative entrepreneurs encounter the dilemma of fulfilling personal…