International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research: Volume 28 Issue 8

Editorial: Entrepreneurial development and digital transformation in creative and cultural industries: trends, opportunities and challenges

Antonio Lerro, Giovanni Schiuma, Francesco Manfredi

Digital business models in cultural tourism

Salvatore Ammirato, Alberto Michele Felicetti, Roberto Linzalone, Daniela Carlucci

Digitalization had a relevant impact on the cultural tourism sector, both demand and supply. If, on the one hand, advances in digital technologies provided tourists with new…

Digitalization in the cultural industry: evidence from Italian museums

Nicola Raimo, Ivano De Turi, Alessandra Ricciardelli, Filippo Vitolla

This study aims to analyse the level of digitalization in the cultural industry. More in detail, it aims to examine the determinants and effects of the digitalization level of…

Business models for the digital transformation of audiovisual archives

José Coelho Rodrigues

This study contributes to the understanding of how cultural organizations are using digital technologies to redesign their business models and enable sustainable and impactful…

A digital business model: an illustrated framework from the cultural heritage business

Tiziana Russo-Spena, Marco Tregua, Anna D'Auria, Francesco Bifulco

The paper offers a comprehensive understanding of how digital transformation affects business models and how firms operate and compete effectively and successfully in a digital…

Digitalization and collaborative dynamics integrating artistic, technological and co-creative resources: the case of Postmodern Jukebox

Flávio Medeiros Henriques, Maribel Carvalho Suarez

This work investigates how digital technologies and artistic resources interact in order to bring different Creative and Cultural Industry (CCI) actors together in networks. As…

Why are newly established Internet loss-making enterprises always willing to expand overseas rapidly: blocking competitors or seeking opportunity

Xiaobi Zheng, Jiayue Qian, Danbo Chen

Many newly established Internet loss-making enterprises (NEILEs) are always willing to expand overseas within a very short time from their establishment. This phenomenon is…

Accelerating alienation: gender and self-efficacy in the accelerator context

Heatherjean MacNeil, Mary Schoonmaker, Maura McAdam

This study focuses on the lived experiences of early-stage women founders in a venture accelerator context. In particular, this work explores how gender shapes entrepreneurial…

Advancing the institutional perspective on informal entrepreneurship: a study of formalization intentions among street entrepreneurs

Muhammad Shehryar Shahid, Peter Rodgers, Natalia Vershinina, Mashal E. Zehra, Colin C. Williams

Informal entrepreneurship is seen as a direct outcome of either the failure of formal institutions or the asymmetry between formal and informal institutions. These two viewpoints…

Cognitive factors in discouraged borrowers: how entrepreneur's perception affects borrowing discouragement

Adriano Barasal Morales

This paper aims to investigate how cognitive factors affect borrowing discouragement among entrepreneurs. Specifically, the study tests the effects of overconfidence…

Corporate entrepreneurship champions: mapping the past and present states of the field for future advancements

Amarpreet Singh Ghura, Gagan Deep Sharma, Vijay Pereira, Nazrul Islam, Ritika Chopra

The purpose of this study is to critically examine and review the extant research on corporate entrepreneurship champions in the broader area of corporate entrepreneurship and to…

Identities and the pursuit of legitimacy: A study of black women wine industry entrepreneurs

Olufunmilola (Funmi) Ojediran, Allan Discua Cruz, Alistair Anderson

The aim of this study is to better understand how black women utilize capital to frame their entrepreneurial identities in order to become legitimate and thus challenge…