Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 29 Issue 3

Editorial: Engaging entrepreneurship's largest unanswered questions

Patrick J. Murphy

Fintech, base of the pyramid entrepreneurs and social value creation

Ahmad Arslan, Bonnie G. Buchanan, Samppa Kamara, Nasib Al Nabulsi

Fintech is having a profound impact in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) because it offers more financial inclusion. In this paper, the authors examine the interrelationship of Fintech…

Characteristics of owners and managers in different countries: a meta-analytical investigation of SMEs' growth

Diego Antônio Bittencourt Marconatto, Emidio Gressler Teixeira, Fernando de Oliveira Santini, Wagner Junior Ladeira

The paper aims to provide robust evidence about the relationships between key individual characteristics of owners and managers (OMs) and small and medium enterprises (SMEs)'…

Digitalization and strategic flexibility – a recipe for business growth

Marko Juhani Matalamäki, Sanna Joensuu-Salo

This paper examines how digitalization can affect three aspects of firm growth. The specific objectives are as follows: (1) to increase understanding of how digitalization affects…

Management's knowledge filter: entrepreneurship theory and the historic conceptual evolution of opportunism in management studies

Jeffrey Muldoon, Joshua S. Bendickson, Furkan A. Gur, Patrick J. Murphy

This study aims to argue that opportunism is central to management thought and illustrate its evolution into a central element of the entrepreneurship theory. The authors show…

Innovation in SMEs: the role of employee training in German SMEs

Irem Demirkan, Ravi Srinivasan, Alka Nand

This paper explores the role of effective resource and knowledge management capabilities on product innovation capabilities of the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)…

Consumers' perceptions of product quality and entrepreneurial survival: evidence from the craft brewery industry

Jose Manuel Fernandez, Stephan F. Gohmann

Most studies of entrepreneurial failure do not have good measures of consumers' perceptions of product quality. As a result, perceived quality in entrepreneurial success is often…

Deliberate practice of entrepreneurial learning and self-efficacy: the moderating effect of entrepreneurial parental environment as role modeling

Philippe Chereau, Pierre-Xavier Meschi

This study explores the relationship between intense exposure to entrepreneurship education and training (EET), defined as the deliberate practice of entrepreneurial learning, and…

Campus sustainability in an entrepreneurial framework

Christina Andruk, Zeynep Altinay

This study aims to introduce a new framework for environmental entrepreneurship education.