International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research: Volume 30 Issue 6

Absorptive capacity in family firms: exploring the role of the CEO

Lucía Garcés-Galdeano, Josip Kotlar, Ana Lucía Caicedo-Leitón, Martín Larraza-Kintana, Federico Frattini

Absorptive capacity (AC), the ability to leverage external knowledge for innovation, helps explain the mixed findings on family firms' (FFs) innovation performance. Our research…

Religion, personality traits and the nature of entrepreneurial activities: insights from Scottish Muslim entrepreneurs

Md Zillur Rahman, Farid Ullah, Piers Thompson

Previous studies have shown how the nature of businesses and the strategies pursued by their owners are affected by the personality traits of their owners. These personality…

Unravelling the entrepreneurial ecosystem conditions spurring the global value chains: a configurational approach

Jonathan Mukiza Kansheba, Clavis Nwehfor Fubah, Mutaju Isaack Marobhe

Despite the popularity of the entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) concept, research on its value-adding activities receives less attention. Thus, in this article, the authors…

Exploring the impact of family and organisational values on competence diversity reluctance in rural family SMEs

Kristin Sabel, Andreas Kallmuenzer, Yvonne Von Friedrichs

This paper aims to examine how organisational values affect diversity in terms of different competencies in rural family Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Recruiting a…

Mechanisms for facilitating academic entrepreneurship in higher education

Ana Isabel Gaspar Pacheco, João Ferreira, Jorge Simoes, Pedro Mota Veiga, Marina Dabic

The commercialization of research produced by universities constitutes a core facet of academic entrepreneurship (AE). Academic literature reveals the need to shed light on…

Maintaining life satisfaction when faced with multiple crisis episodes: the role of entrepreneurs’ goal orientation

Mirjam Knockaert, Dawn DeTienne, Karlien Coppens, Johan Lambrecht

The aim is to understand how goal orientation may help entrepreneurs maintain life satisfaction when faced with multiple crisis episodes. To do so, the authors study the early…

Entrepreneurial financing: how global and regional export intentions affect financial and non-financial choices for small and midsized enterprises in low-income countries

Aaron van Klyton, Mary-Paz Arrieta-Paredes, Vedaste Byombi Kamasa, Said Rutabayiro-Ngoga

The study explores how the intention to export affects financing and non-financing variables for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in a low-income country (LIC). The…

A study of entrepreneurial marketing activities and firm performance in an immediate post-COVID-19 era: the moderating role of coopetition

Ali Mahdi, Dave Crick, James M. Crick, Wadid Lamine, Martine Spence

Although earlier research suggests a positive relationship exists between engaging in entrepreneurial marketing activities and firm performance, there may be contingent issues…

Hidden stories and the dark side of entrepreneurial commitment

Laetitia Gabay-Mariani, Bob Bastian, Andrea Caputo, Nikolaos Pappas

Entrepreneurs are generally considered to be committed in order to strive for highly desirable goals, such as growth or commercial success. However, commitment is a…

The moderating role of individual and social resources in gender effect on entrepreneurial growth aspirations

Frederick Wedzerai Nyakudya, Tomasz Mickiewicz, Nicholas Theodorakopoulos

This study aims to examine how the effect of gender on entrepreneurial growth aspirations is moderated differently by individual resources (human and financial capital) compared…