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Navigating gender and culture in constructing network ties: perceptions and behaviors of women founders in Jordanian digital businesses
Wejdan Alakaleek, Sarah Yvonne Cooper, Barbara Orser, Richard HarrisonThis study sought to examine how women founders navigate gender and cultural influences in constructing network ties in Jordan.
Entrepreneurship, subjective risk intelligence and SMEs’ financial stability: evidence from Italy
Vincenzo Fasone, Giulio Pedrini, Mariano PuglisiThis paper applies an original construct of “subjective risk intelligence (SRI)” to the small business context. By leveraging on its multidimensionality, it aims to shed light on…
Directors’ exposure and social enterprise performance: does entrepreneurial mindset and financial resource availability matter?
Awele AchiBuilding on insights from the upper echelons theory and resource-based view (RBV), this study explains how directors’ exposure influences social enterprise performance through the…
Start-ups’ scaling-up strategies at the regional periphery
Christian Felzensztein, Afsaneh BagheriOur understanding of the strategies that lead to the success of start-ups when they scale-up is limited when it occurs at the regional periphery. The main purpose of this study is…
A new approach to entrepreneurship and regional development: key roles of purpose and well-being in the Swansea Bay City Region
Robert Bowen, Samantha Burvill, Beth Cummings, Leonie ThemelidisThis paper critically evaluates regional development through the lens of well-being and purpose. The paper provides insight into the key roles that well-being and purpose play in…
The role of social media in product innovation: a survey of small and medium-sized manufacturing firms
Anders Haug, Kent Adsbøll Wickstrøm, Jan Stentoft, Kristian PhilipsenPrevious studies investigating the effects of using social media in the innovation processes of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) yield mixed results, and the conditions…
A knowledge-based perspective on SME foreign market entry mode choices and changes
Maria-Cristina StoianDespite the importance of foreign market entry mode (FMEM) decisions for the internationalisation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), there is insufficient understanding…
Disentangling the effects of entrepreneurs’ passion and perfectionism on their eudaimonic well-being
Ngoc Luu, Huy NguyenReflecting subjective feelings of aliveness, thrivingness and energy, entrepreneurs’ eudaimonic well-being helps to enhance firm performance, which raises the question how to…
Institutional configurations and social entrepreneurship: a country-based comparison using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis
Juelin Yin, Jiaxin Zhao, Yunzhou DuIntegrating institutional logic theory with institutional configurational perspective, this study proposes a theoretical framework to explore the configurational effect of…
Accelerating start-ups' leap to unicorns: the role of founders' ambidextrous orientation
Vivek Kumar Jha, Ravi Roshan, Sabyasachi SinhaExtant studies in entrepreneurship have explored factors that influence the birth and growth of start-up firms; however, there appears to be a dearth of studies examining the…
Dealing with adversity: innovation among small and medium-sized enterprises in developing economies
Jude Edeh, Nuraddeen Nuhu, Mahdi Tajeddin, Amon SimbaSmall and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries, particularly in the Sub-Saharan African region, find it hard to innovate due to severe resource constraints and high…
Patent uncertainty and survival: a longitudinal study of a Chinese knowledge-based international new venture
Qinghai Li, Junzhe Ji, Jilei Huang, Christiane Prange, Deli YangUnlike well-documented market or behavioral uncertainty, patent uncertainty has been significantly under-explored in the field of international entrepreneurship. Drawing on an…
Organisational sensemaking, outside-in entrepreneurial marketing capability, and effectual problem setting
Zhi Yang, Jinglan Yang, Xiao LiangHow an entrepreneurial organisation sets the problem space determines the future venturing mode. However, the factors that contribute to differences in problem space are still not…
Intergenerational succession and corporate philanthropy: a stakeholder perspective
Lijie Zhang, Zhibin Lin, Wei Huang, Elmira Djafarova, Li RenBased on stakeholder theory, this study aims to examine the impact of family firm succession on corporate philanthropy while considering the potential role of the clan cultural…
Exploring the resource mobilization process in social enterprises in China: a bricolage and social exchange perspective
Xiaoqing Li, David SarpongResource mobilization has come to dominate contemporary discourse on the making and survival of social enterprises (SEs). Emphasizing the socially constructed nature of…
Entrepreneurial actions under uncertainty: the role of psychological variables and decision logics
Tiago Ratinho, Saras D. SarasvathyEntrepreneurial action under uncertainty has captured the interest of scholars and practitioners alike. However, this growing body of research has yet to connect entrepreneurial…
The everyday female entrepreneur and the pursuit of emancipation
Albena Pergelova, Vesna MandakovicThis study takes an “entrepreneurship as emancipation” perspective to study entrepreneurs defined as “others” on multiple categories: women entrepreneurs whose ventures are…
Go big or go home: do narcissistic CEOs pursue affordable loss behaviors?
Wenzhou Wang, Zhe Shen, Wenlong YuanThe affordable loss (AL) heuristic, as one crucial sub-dimension of effectuation, delineates the maximum level of investment entrepreneurs are ready to lose in a worst-case…
Entrepreneurial well-being of expatriate entrepreneurs: self and world
Yu Zhang, Paul LassalleThis paper explores the Entrepreneurial Well-Being (EWB) of expatriate entrepreneurs in China. Through the analysis of their contextualised lived experience across the…
Meandering pathways to success: a careers perspective on self-employment
Vivek G. Nair, Leena Chatterjee, Navya BaggaThe paper aims to provide a career perspective on self-employment (SE) by focusing on how engaging in SE shapes the career experiences of MBA graduates in a distinct cultural and…
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