Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 30 Issue 5

Editorial: Generative artificial intelligence and entrepreneurial performance

Hanah Tran, Patrick J. Murphy

An elite perspective on interviewing entrepreneurs – methodological considerations for the entrepreneurship field

Patrick Kraus, Peter Stokes, Neil Moore, Ashok Ashta, Bernd Jürgen Britzelmaier

Elite interviewing is a well-established area of interview research methods. Nevertheless, the actual casting of an “elite” has been generally conducted in a prima facie or broad…

How do entrepreneurial firms behave in the face of environmental turbulence and uncertainty? Evidence from the manufacturing sector

Josée St-Pierre, Pierre-André Julien, Nazik Fadil

In a context of greater environmental uncertainty, understanding the practices and strategies adopted by the SME owner-manager to deal with it is an important topic.

How has entrepreneurship opportunity formation amongst immigrants been influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic?

Osa-Godwin Osaghae, Thomas M. Cooney

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how entrepreneurship opportunity formation amongst immigrants has been influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, given that environmental…

Understanding the interplay between immigrant nascent entrepreneurship and cross-cultural adaptation

Lucia Walsh, Thomas Cooney

All entrepreneurs face challenges during their venture start-up process, but immigrant entrepreneurs face additional and distinctive challenges due to their contextual newness…

Exploring the impact of innovation intensity on the growth of female-led entrepreneurial firms

Maria Cristina Arcuri, Gino Gandolfi, Ivan Russo

The purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between gender, innovation and growth in Italian innovative start-ups.

The impact of market information use on entrepreneurial performance: insights from the UK food industry

Simone Regina Didonet, Andrew Fearne

This paper explores the nuanced relationship between individual and firm performance through the lens of market information use, in the specific context of small businesses…

Does adaptability, rurality and previous business ownership matter for entrepreneurial identity?

Dennis Barber III, Ericka R. Lawrence, Kent Alipour, Amy McMillan

This study explores the role of both trait-like (i.e. adaptability) and situational (previous small business ownership and rurality) variables, on entrepreneurial identity (EI…

Innovation and productivity in small and medium-sized enterprises: evidence from the Colombian manufacturing sector

Nadia Albis Salas, Henry Mora Holguin, Diana Lucio-Arias, Erika Celene Sánchez, Nelson Villarreal

This paper aims to explore the factors that influence innovation and productivity in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) manufacturing enterprises in Colombia, in comparison…

Gender diversity and collaboration with universities: drivers of innovation in family firms

María Jesús Rodríguez-Gulías, David Rodeiro-Pazos, Nuria Calvo, Sara Fernández-López

This paper provides empirical evidence for how gender diversity in top management teams (TMTs) and collaboration with university and technological centres lead to innovation…