Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 28 Issue 3

The imitation game: building cultural intelligence as a social learning capability to boost SMEs' international performance

Rubens Pauluzzo

Drawing on the upper echelons theory and resource-based view, the purpose of this paper is to investigate how SMEs' decision-makers can develop cultural intelligence to improve…

Social support as a driver of social entrepreneurial intentions: the moderating roles of entrepreneurial education and proximity to the US small business administration

Belay Seyoum, Ravi Chinta, Bahaudin Ghulam Mujtaba

The purpose of this paper is two-fold: to examine the relationship between social support and social entrepreneurial intentions and to test the moderating roles of entrepreneurial…

Deconstructing the shared leadership emergence process in entrepreneurial teams

Shiji Lyndon, Ashish Pandey

Entrepreneurship literature has not sufficiently explored the process of how, at different points in time, different members of the co-founding team emerge as leaders. The purpose…

Leveraging Internet capabilities for international business relationships: a comparison between Australian, Chilean and Taiwanese exporting SMEs

Shane Mathews, Keith J. Perks, Constanza Bianchi, Hsiu-Li Chen, Charmaine Glavas

The purpose of this study is to investigate how Internet capabilities influence international business relationships using the resource-based view and capabilities perspective…

Determinants of earnings management in Spanish SMEs and its relationship with CSR: the relevance of sector life cycle stage

Domingo Martinez-Martinez, Javier Andrades, Manuel Larrán, María José Muriel, María Paula Lechuga Sancho

This paper addresses the link between earnings management (EM) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Twenty-five years of the Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: a bibliometric review

Satish Kumar, Jeff Vanevenhoven, Eric Liguori, Leo Paul Dana, Nitesh Pandey

Commensurate with the 25th anniversary of the Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development (JSBED), this retrospective work distils trends across all original articles…

Small business debt financing: the effect of lender structural complexity

Jaume Franquesa, David Vera

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) depend on a large measure on commercial banks for external capital, and US SMEs are increasingly experiencing bank credit constraints…

Major obstacles facing business enterprises in an emerging economy: the case of Ghana using the World Bank Enterprise Survey

Ibrahim Mohammed, Alhassan Bunyaminu

This paper aims at identifying the major obstacles to business enterprise in an emerging economy and how these obstacles are associated with different characteristics of the…