Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 28 Issue 6

COVID-19 and necessity-based online entrepreneurship education at US community colleges

Eric W. Liguori, Christoph Winkler, Lee J. Zane, Jeff Muldoon, Doan Winkel

This paper explores community college entrepreneurship education's near-instantaneous transition to online course delivery following the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

The emergence of entrepreneurial team as a research field – way forward

Willy Das, Satyasiba Das, Manojit Chattopadhyay

The purpose of this paper is to review and critique the existing literature on entrepreneurial teams (ET) by taking a multi-disciplinary viewpoint and provide a future research…

The short-term bias in policy programs for small business: exploring discontinuation of a successful growth program

Torben Eli Bager

When a successful policy intervention for small firm growth is ending, a continuation decision may be relevant. However, immediately after program termination, solid analysis of…

SME managers' learning from crisis and effectual behaviour

Dag Håkon Haneberg

The COVID-19 pandemic has entailed a critical situation for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) since restrictions on business activity have been imposed by authorities to…

Which resource acquisition acts drive growth of informal firms? Evidence from Zambia

Yee Kwan Tang, Victor Konde

The study seeks to differentiate informal firms with high-growth prospects by their resource acquisition acts and to improve identification of growth-oriented informal firms for…

Organizational structure and convergent change: explanatory factors in SMEs

Diego Armando Marín-Idárraga, José Manuel Hurtado González

By integrating the structural contingency and the organizational adaptation theories, this study analyzes the impact of the main variables of organizational structure on…

Does the sector matter? An analysis of high-growth firms and industry growth rates

Yannick Dillen, Pieter Vandekerkhof

This paper aims to analyze the effect of industry growth rates on the characteristics of high-growth firms (HGFs) that are active in a particular industry. By making a distinction…

Firm-level attributes of inflationary expectations of entrepreneurs: evidence from the Pakistan economy

Waqqas Qayyum, Wasim Shahid Malik

The purpose of this research is to bring upfront some unconventional attributes of inflationary expectations of entrepreneurs. Firm-level attributes are instrumental in shaping…