Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies: Volume 15 Issue 5

The impact of entrepreneurs’ decision-making style on SMEs’ financial performance

Sumedha Weerasekara, Ramudu Bhanugopan

This study aims to investigate the impact of entrepreneurs’ decision-making styles on enterprise performance and suggests several entrepreneurial ecosystems – factors are…

Effects of key leadership determinants on business sustainability in entrepreneurial enterprises

Suparak Suriyankietkaew

Today’s small enterprises are forced to rethink their business-as-usual management and shift toward corporate sustainability. The empirical paper responds to a crucial quest for…

Attributes of scaling up SMEs in the IT sector towards sustaining high-performance business results

Juan Martin Ireta Sanchez

This multiple case study research aims to identify the characteristics of scaling up SMEs in Chile for exploring how and why some entrepreneurship in the information technology…

Is entrepreneurship enough to achieve superior performance in SMEs in emerging countries? Multiple mediation of market orientation and marketing capabilities

Martha Lucia Cruz Rincon, Martha Lucia Agredo Diaz, Raquel Castro Puente

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the multiple mediation role of both market orientation (MO) and marketing capabilities (MC) in the relationship between entrepreneurial…

Does social media activity lead to more funds? – A study on Indian start-ups

Nidhi Singhal, Deepak Kapur

This study aims to examine the impact of signaling through social media (SM) on funding achieved by start-ups.

The role of Islamic ethics in shaping passion for social innovation

Samira Boussema, Lotfi Belkacem

This paper aims to study the role of ethics in the social innovation process and its effect on entrepreneurial passion. It explores the factors that encourage social entrepreneurs…

The art of forming a partnership in an entrepreneurial world: the Brazilian case

Antonio Benedito de Oliveira Junior, Mauro Jose De Oliveira

This study aims to design and empirically test a model where autonomy affects partnership (PT) and entrepreneurial orientation (EO), which in turn improves competitive…

The influence of institutions on early-stage entrepreneurial activity: a comparison between men and women in Saudi Arabia

Abdullah Aljarodi, Tojo Thatchenkery, David Urbano

To date, insufficient research has been conducted on gender differences in entrepreneurial activity among entrepreneurs in developing countries. This study aims to analyse the…

Employee’s regulatory focus and intrapreneurship: modeling the mediating role of creative self-efficacy and thriving

Muhammad Muavia, Ghulam Hussain, Umar Farooq Sahibzada, Wan Khairuzzaman Wan Ismail

This research aims to investigate the direct and indirect (via creative self-efficacy [CSE] and thriving) effects of regulatory focus (RF) on employee intrapreneurship (EI) in…

Sustainability and entrepreneurship: emerging opportunities for business and management education

Marta Ortiz-de-Urbina-Criado, Eva-María Mora-Valentín, Juan-José Nájera-Sánchez

Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development defines 17 goals with 169 targets in economic, social and environmental fields to guarantee human rights. Universities and companies are…

Identifying the entrepreneurial environmental challenges in developing countries context: a study of public universities in Kurdistan Region – Iraq

Alvin Aldawod

This study aims to indicate the most significant entrepreneurial environmental challenges that motivate universities of Kurdistan to become more entrepreneurial.

Femininity penalty: challenges and barriers faced by STEM woman entrepreneurs in an emerging economy

Arosha S. Adikaram, Ruwaiha Razik

This study aims to explore the challenges and barriers encountered by Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) women entrepreneurs in an emerging country context  

Performance implications of corporate venture capital investments for entrepreneurial ventures: the differing moderating effects of R&D intensity before and after IPO

Weiqi Dai, Yi Wang, Mingqing Liao, Mei Shao, Yue Jiang, Miao Zhang

One increasingly popular financing option for entrepreneurial ventures is to attract corporate venture capital (CVC) investments. Prior research tends to take a CVC-centric…

New perspectives for dynamic capabilities in meeting needs of startups’ survival

Angélica Pigola, Priscila Rezende da Costa, Naiche van der Poel, Franklin Thiago Ribeiro Yamaçake

The purpose of this study is to analyze the systematic relationships among dynamic capabilities in startups’ survival.

3Ps model of entrepreneurial resourcefulness among micro-youth entrepreneurs

Fanny Adams Quagrainie, Alan Anis Mirhage Kabalan, Samuel Adams, Afia Dentaa Dankwa

The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which entrepreneurial resourcefulness and competencies theories and practice can be applied in small youth entrepreneurship…

The venture creation process and entrepreneurial intention in emerging economies – a system dynamic’s approach

Juan Felipe Parra, Alejandro Valencia-Arias, Jonathan Bermúdez-Hernández

Entrepreneurial intention is one of the main predictors of venture creation. However, the approaches used to analyze the entrepreneurial intention and venture creation are mostly…

Drivers of growth expectations in Latin American rural contexts

Daniel Mahn, Antonio Lecuna, Gonzalo Chavez, Sebastian Barros

Given the importance of growth-oriented entrepreneurship in the context of economic development and the need to understand how rural communities can be developed, the purpose of…

Choosing jobs over entrepreneurship: how do negative emotions demotivate the aspiring entrepreneurs?

Shalaghya Sharma, Amit Kumar

The purpose of this research paper is to understand the effect of negative emotions created from social interactions on the aspiring entrepreneurs. The government of India has…

Gender differences in the entrepreneurial ladder: evidence for Latin America

Luisa Fernanda Bernat, German Lambardi, Paola Palacios

The main objective of this paper is to identify the factors associated with a successful transition through the entrepreneurial ladder for both men and women in a sample of nine…