International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research: Volume 29 Issue 3

Guest editorial: The effect of COVID-19 on the performance of ethnic-minority firms in the UK and worldwide

George Saridakis, Bochra Idris, Paul Jones

Public policy responses to COVID-19 and the survival of ethnic minority businesses (EMBs): does entrepreneurial orientation (EO) matter?

Ibrahim Kabir, Yazid Abdullahi Abubakar

The global economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused the closure of countless ethnic minority businesses (EMBs) worldwide, partly due to the…

Interfirm collaboration as a performance-enhancing survival strategy within the business models of ethnic minority-owned urban restaurants affected by COVID-19

James M. Crick, Dave Crick, Shiv Chaudhry

Guided by resource-based theory, this investigation examines the extent to which knowledge sharing as part of interfirm collaboration serves as a performance-enhancing strategy;…

Ethnicity and bank lending before and during COVID-19

Marc Cowling, Weixi Liu, Elaine Conway

Using ethnicity as our point of focus, the authors consider the dynamics of the demand for bank loans, and the willingness of banks to supply them, as the UK economy entered the…

Tensioning as intertwining, competition and superseding: a self-regulation approach to managing hybridity tensions in social enterprises

Anaïs Angelucci, Julie Hermans, Miruna Radu-Lefebvre, Vincent Angel

As hybrid organisations operating at the intersection of opposing institutional logics, social enterprises (SEs) pursue the creation of social value w hile functioning as…

Resilient SMEs and entrepreneurs: evidence from the UK craft brewing sector

Nadine Waehning, Gary Bosworth, Ignazio Cabras, Ekatarina Shakina, Franziska Sohns

The paper examines the sudden changes and challenges experienced by British craft breweries because of COVID-19. The purpose is twofold; firstly, to evaluate the overall growth…

Too emotional to succeed: entrepreneurial narratives in a prosocial setting

Asma Naimi, Daniel Arenas, Jill Kickul, Sahar Awan

The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the effectiveness of cognitive and emotional appeals to mobilize resources in prosocial crowdfunding settings that combine the…

Internationalization of transnational entrepreneurial firms from an advanced to emerging economy: the role of transnational mixed-embeddedness

Nicolas Li, Dhruba Borah, Jihye Kim, Junzhe Ji

This study investigates the role of transnational mixed-embeddedness when transnational entrepreneurial firms (TEFs) become internationalized. First-generation immigrant…

Disentangling the performance implications of new venture status: competitive vulnerability, resource scarcity or strategic flexibility?

Lucas Liang Wang, Qing Dai, Yan Gao

New venture status is the most prominent feature of entrepreneurial startups, but its performance implications have remained under-studied. This study aims to bridge this…

Decision-making under extreme uncertainty: eristic rather than heuristic

Rasim Serdar Kurdoglu, Nufer Yasin Ates, Daniel A. Lerner

This paper aims to introduce eristic decision-making in entrepreneurship. A decision is eristically made when it utilizes eristics, which are action-triggering short-cuts that…

Beyond the nexus family – business: introducing the family business service ecosystem

Kathleen Randerson, Mariana Estrada-Robles

Extant family business research focuses on the understanding of value creation through the binary interactions between the family and its business (the family – business nexus)…