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Legitimacy spillovers and hybrid rhetoric in crowdfunded microloans Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 James Bort, Todd W Moss, Maija Renko
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) operate in diverse institutional contexts and serve as the backbone for microenterprises typically excluded from traditional financial markets. At the same time, MFIs and the microenterprises they support solve tangible social problems, such as alleviating hunger, lifting people out of poverty and creating more sustainable communities. When appealing for resources,
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Ecosystem pipelines: Collective action in entrepreneurial ecosystems Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Michaela Hruskova
Entrepreneurial ecosystems comprise a range of different actors, structures and processes that support entrepreneurs in starting and growing their ventures. They are governed through collective action, which helps ecosystem actors achieve common goals that otherwise would be beyond the scope of their individual abilities. However, we have a limited understanding of the key mechanisms through which
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Development of transactive memory systems in new venture teams Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Eleni Georgiadou, Marianne Terese Steinmo, Thomas Lauvås
This article examines how new venture teams (NVTs) develop transactive memory systems (TMSs) to integrate and coordinate their member’s collective expertise. Applying a longitudinal case study of five Norwegian NVTs in their first year, we find that the development of TMSs in NVTs unfolds in three stages. At the pre-formation stage, NVTs undergo a TMS enabling process that includes member motivation
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Scratching the surface of urban change: Art collectives as public entrepreneurs Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Valeria Morea, Carolina Dalla Chiesa
This article examines art collectives in Venice that use their artistic and cultural projects to act as public entrepreneurs seeking to improve urban welfare and elicit social change for reasons of societal betterment. These ventures are developed against a backdrop of ongoing socio-economic challenges arising from exploitative tourism in the city. Interviews with some art collective members revealed
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Entrepreneurship as collective action: The next frontier Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Cyrine Ben-Hafaïedh, Claire Champenois, Thomas M Cooney, Leon Schjoedt
Analyses of collective action in entrepreneurship are lacking in the extant literature. Despite entrepreneurship research progressively moving away from a focus on the lone heroic entrepreneur, scholars have yet to absorb the full potential of entrepreneurship as collective action. Also missing is a collective stance on key entrepreneurship concepts such as opportunity discovery or construction and
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It all starts with a story: Questioning dominant entrepreneurial identities through collective narrative practices Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Julie Solbreux, Julie Hermans, Sophie Pondeville, Frédéric Dufays
Taking a multiple-practitioner perspective on entrepreneurial identity construction, we explore how identities can be co-constructed through social interactions. In the context of a social entrepreneurship course at a Belgian business school, we stress the role of collective narratives in breaking free of dominant frames of reference and shaping emancipatory ones. As the stories unfold, collective
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The creation of collective enterprises for social impact: An agency perspective Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Bérangère Deschamps, Romain Slitine
There is growing recognition of the important role that collective enterprises for social impact can play in resolving grand challenges. New forms of collective organisation are appearing on a global basis, yet we still know little about the process by which they are created. Paradoxically, the literature tends to rely on the concept of individual agency to explain the emergence of collective organisations
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Start-ups within entrepreneurial ecosystems: Transition towards circular economy Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Magnus Klofsten, Wisdom Kanda, Dzamila Bienkowska, Nancy Bocken, Sarfraz Mian, Wadid Lamine
This article explores the role of start-ups within entrepreneurial ecosystems in driving the transition towards a circular economy. It emphasises the importance of understanding and supporting circular start-ups for broader sustainability impacts. Unlike established firms, start-ups can readily adopt ambitious circular business models (CBMs) without the risk of business model cannibalisation and with
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The importance of network coopetition for the robustness of micro-enterprises in times of crisis Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Kristin Sabel, Cecilia Dalborg, Yvonne von Friedrichs, Andreas Kallmuenzer
Prior research has highlighted coopetition as a successful strategy for enterprise performance during a crisis; this has largely focused upon large firms therefore, limiting our knowledge of network coopetition in micro-enterprises. This article explores the impact of network coopetition on the robustness of micro-enterprises during COVID-19. A survey and interviews with craft food producers in Sweden
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The interaction of narcissism, agreeableness and conscientiousness in entrepreneurial mentoring: Implications for learning outcomes Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Soumaya Meddeb, Étienne St-Jean, Andreas Rauch
The personality configuration of mentors and mentees is important in understanding mentoring outcomes. While the best mentors appear to have higher degrees of agreeableness and conscientiousness, entrepreneurs generally score lower on agreeableness and have higher degrees of narcissism, a personality trait that could be detrimental to mentoring. We investigated the interaction of narcissism with two
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Affect and adaptation in entrepreneurial goal pursuit Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Lauren A Zettel, Robert P Garrett, Carl P Maertz
An entrepreneur’s motivation to set and strive towards their business goals is an integral part of the venturing process. Research has indicated that positive affect enhances motivation, specifically in terms of the level of effort devoted to achieving a goal. However, motivation is also reflected in the strategy or tactics used to attain goals. Interestingly, scholars know substantially less about
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The entrepreneurial gender gap: The role of in-group support and national embeddedness values in young women’s entrepreneurship Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Jan Weiss, Tatiana Anisimova, Galina Shirokova, Susanne Durst
This article uses a global multilevel sample to advance our understanding of the gender gap in youth entrepreneurship by investigating the joint moderating influence of in-group support and nationa...
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Annual review article: The dual mindset of design-driven entrepreneurship: The case for a pedagogy of making and artefact-centred entrepreneurship education Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Luca Iandoli
In the last decade, new design-driven approaches, such as Design Thinking, Customer Discovery, and Lean Start-up, have gained popularity in entrepreneurship education (EE). However, their adoption ...
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Revision needed? A social constructionist perspective on measurement scales for assessing gender role stereotypes in entrepreneurship Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Franziska Mattner, Janina Sundermeier
This article compares contemporary views of who and what constitutes entrepreneurship with dimensions captured in established scales for determining gender role stereotypes associated with entrepre...
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Do enterprise education competitions have gendered outcomes amongst STEM early-career researchers? Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Sahattaya Achtzehn, Lorna Treanor, Kevin Amess
This article examines whether an enterprise education competition is gendered and so, may have unintended gendered outcomes for male and female Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STE...
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It’s all about identity: The identity constructions of LGBT entrepreneurs from an intersectionality perspective Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Caroline Essers, Beatrice van der Heijden, Luke Fletcher, Roos Pijpers
This article illustrates how lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) entrepreneurs engage in identity construction from an intersectionality perspective. Our empirical findings suggest that the sex...
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Predictors of job crafting in SMEs working in an ICT-based mobile and multilocational manner Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Ursula Hyrkkänen, Outi Vanharanta, Hannele Kuusisto, Kirsi Polvinen, Matti Vartiainen
This article extends the discussion of the predictors of job crafting to include small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) working in an information and communication technologies (ICT)-based mobi...
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Opening up the black box of family entrepreneurship across generations: A systematic literature review Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Paolo Capolupo, Lorenzo Ardito, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, Alfredo De Massis
What makes some families more entrepreneurial than others? How are they able to nurture entrepreneurship across generations? These are fundamental questions for family business and entrepreneurship...
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UK government-backed start-up loans: Tackling disadvantage and credit rationing of new entrepreneurs Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Marc Cowling, Ondřej Dvouletý
In 2012, the UK government made the decision to offer loans to new entrepreneurs who were excluded from the credit market through the start-up loan (SUL) scheme. By 2021, loans totalling £759 milli...
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In search of the next growth episode: How firms catalyse and sustain periods of high growth Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-09-17 Simon Raby, Mark Hart, Brian Harney
This is an introductory article to the special issue In Search of the Next Growth Episode: How Firms Catalyse and Sustain Periods of High Growth. The article reviews alternative streams of research...
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Under which circumstances do family SMES achieve high growth? A behavioural perspective Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-09-17 Tommaso Minola, Massimo Baù, Mara Brumana, Alfredo De Massis
High-growth firms contribute disproportionately to the creation of employment, wealth and economic development on a global basis. Yet, knowledge of the circumstances under which such growth pattern...
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Mid-size firm growth: The process and empirical examination of key drivers Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-09-17 Gary Wolbers, Arun K Pillutla
The growth of the mid-sized enterprise arguably facilitates the resilience and stability needed for a thriving economy, even though such firms are comparatively overlooked or underrepresented in th...
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On the consequences of firm growth Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-09-17 Mark Freel, Ian Gordon
Recent contributions to the literature on small firm growth have been marked by a growing sense of frustration with the state-of-the-art and what it implicates in both theory and policy. In short, ...
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How political connections affect entrepreneurial risk-taking in SMEs: A symmetric assessment and a configurational approach Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Jing A. Zhang, Tao Bai, Conor O’Kane
Drawing on resource dependency theory and the resource-absorbing perspective of risk-taking, this article examines how political connections provide firms with opportunities to gain government fund...
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How do entrepreneurs and their ventures benefit from prior setbacks: The mediating role of attitude towards failure Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Wenwei Zhang, Pek-Hooi Soh, Wenhong Zhao
By integrating an experiential learning view into an attitude model, we propose that an entrepreneur’s attitude towards failure resulting from a prior setback experience can positively affect a new...
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The technological novelty of invention and speed to IPO of high-tech start-ups Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-08-21 Congshan Li, Jieyu Zhou
The technological novelty of inventions signals economic potential while simultaneously indicating considerable technological and market risks. We speculate that unlike early-stage venture capital ...
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Factor markets, institutional quality and firm formalisation: The contingent effect of economic conditions at the founding stage Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Katia M Galdino, Gonzalo Molina-Sieiro, Bruce T Lamont, R Michael Holmes, Jr
The informal economy makes an important contribution to economic activity but knowledge about the country-level conditions that influence an informal firm’s willingness to formalise is limited. Thi...
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Small and medium-sized enterprises response to Covid-19: The effect of external openness and procedural management Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Jonas Fasth, Niklas Åkerman, Viktor Elliot, Mikael Hilmersson
Crisis management research is strongly influenced by the behaviour of large multinationals with few insights into how small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) mitigate the negative effects of exog...
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Legitimacy and innovation in social enterprises Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Raluca Bunduchi, Alison U Smart, Catalina Crisan-Mitra, Sarah Cooper
This article examines the interrelationship between legitimacy building efforts – the different ways in which social enterprises (SEs) conform to stakeholder expectations – and types of innovation – the different approaches by which they create social and economic value through product, process and business model innovation. Using a multi-case study research design of twenty SEs in Scotland and Romania
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From adversity to advice: Survival threats as a trigger for sustained engagement with external business support in small firms Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Halima Jibril, Maria Wishart, Stephen Roper
This article analyses the relationship between the experience of a crisis and advice seeking in small firms. Although the benefits of business advice and support to smaller firms are well documented, smaller firms are often reluctant to seek external advice, relying instead on informal routines and a focus on daily operations. Conceptualising crisis as a trigger for advice seeking, and using survey
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How would foreign entrepreneurs deal with pressures for corruption? A micro-foundational approach Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Kun Liu, Len J Treviño, Ahmad Al Asady
Is corruption good or bad for entrepreneurship? Prior research has presented mixed results when exploring this question. This article takes a micro-foundational approach by focussing on how foreign entrepreneurs cognitively deal with corruption in the host environment. We argue that the entrepreneur’s motivational antecedent to engaging in corruption, or corruption propensity, represents a cognitive
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Multipartner alliances among small firms promoted by external managers: Risk and governance mechanisms Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 María L Vélez, José M Sánchez, Pedro Araújo
External managers may be key to setting up and managing multi-partner alliances (MPAs) among small firms, but their role has not yet been integrated in previous literature on risk and governance structures. This longitudinal matched-pair case study investigates the dynamics between relational and performance risks and control-based and trust-based governance mechanisms, in MPAs promoted and managed
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Individual religious affiliation, religiosity and entrepreneurial intentions among students in four countries Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Olivier Giacomin, Frank Janssen, Rachel S Shinnar, Katherine Gundolf, Nematollah Shiri
This article explores religion and religiosity in the field of entrepreneurship. Based on an original, international dataset of 740 students, we examine the impact of individual religious affiliation (Protestant, Catholic or Muslim) or non-affiliation (Agnostic/Atheist) on entrepreneurial intentions. We further examine the influence of individual religiosity (beyond mere religious affiliation) on entrepreneurial
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Starting up, not slowing down: Social entrepreneurial intentions in later working-life Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-05-14 Zeineb Djebali, MariaLaura Di Domenico, Mark NK Saunders
Despite a growing literature on entrepreneurial intentions, there remain gaps in the understanding of how these are affected by the age of later working-life social entrepreneurs. This research examined the ‘over-50s’ social entrepreneur understandings of age as an antecedent of their social entrepreneurial intentions. In-depth interviews were conducted with 28 UK-based social entrepreneurs. Our findings
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Pace of innovation and speed of small and medium-sized enterprise international expansion Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Mikael Hilmersson, Firouze Pourmand Hilmersson, Sylvie Chetty, Roger Schweizer
The literature emphasises that technological advances have enabled firms to expand internationally at accelerated speed. Yet, technological advances are treated as a contextual variable and little is known about how firm-level technological innovations influence the internationalisation speed of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To address this shortcoming, we draw on insights based on capability
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Mixed embeddedness and entrepreneurship beyond new venture creation: Opportunity tensions in the case of reregulated public markets Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Lena Högberg, Craig Mitchell
The mixed embeddedness (ME) perspective offers a holistic approach to understanding entrepreneurship as embedded in a myriad of contexts. Alone, however, it is not capable of explaining the dynamic interrelations between entrepreneurship and opportunity structures beyond venture start-up. We offer a synthesis between ME and the dynamic states approach, using the concept of opportunity tension to explore
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Entrepreneurial passion and venture profit: Examining the moderating effects of political connections and environmental dynamism in an emerging market Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Samuel Adomako, Kevin F Mole, Rebecca J Franklin, Charles Y Murnieks
This article analyses the contingent factors which influence the relationship between entrepreneurial passion and venture profit. While research on entrepreneurial passion is burgeoning, studies that analyse contingent factors and boundary conditions surrounding entrepreneurial passion theory are sparse. Moreover, we know very little about how the influence of entrepreneurial passion on venture outcomes
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Entrepreneurial Leadership in Austrian Family SMEs: A Configurational Approach Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Andreas Strobl, Andreas Kallmuenzer, Mike Peters
This article explores the role of stewardship practices related to entrepreneurial leadership in turning entrepreneurial orientation (EO) into family firm performance while considering its environmental context. Family business research has not fully investigated how the EO–financial performance relationship depends on configurations of internal and external factors which establish strategic fit. We
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Juggling on a tightrope: Experiences of small and micro business managers responding to employees with mental health difficulties Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-04-23 Jane Suter, Annie Irvine, Carole Howorth
This article presents findings from an in-depth qualitative study focused exclusively on the first-hand experiences of small and micro businesses managers who have responded to employees with mental health difficulties. Despite growing policy focus on workplace mental health, empirical research evidence on management experiences of responding to mental health issues in a small or micro business context
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Coopetition strategy as naturalised practice in a cluster of informal businesses Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 William PK Darbi, Paul Knott
This article builds on existing analyses of coopetition strategy as practice by exploring coopetition as a social-structural and relational phenomenon. We draw on social practice theory to present an analysis of coopetition in a cluster of small informal businesses in Accra, Ghana. In so doing, we adopt a comprehensive socio-cultural perspective enabling us to account for a wider range of antecedents
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Business unpredictability, improvisation and business network commitment in small and medium-sized enterprise market entry Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Mikael Hilmersson, Martin Johanson, Stylianos Papaioannou, Helene Lundberg
Market entry performance is critical during internationalisation; prevailing views suggest that firms need to carefully plan their entry before putting the plan into action. This article focuses on three attributes affecting the possibility and usefulness of making a pre-planned market entry: unpredictability, improvisation and business network commitment. We develop six hypotheses tested on a sample
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Effectual market creation in the cross-border e-commerce of small- and medium-sized enterprises Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Daniel Tolstoy, Sara Melén Hånell, Nurgül Özbek
Cross-border e-commerce can enable smaller firms to quickly reach many foreign markets. This article examines how effectual market creation affects the international performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) engaged in cross-border e-commerce. Building upon effectuation theory, we suggest that firms can drive foreign market demand by creating new ways to interact and engage with customers
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Contextualising rural entrepreneurship – A strong structuration perspective on gendered-local agency Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Nermin Elkafrawi, Annie Roos, Deema Refai
This article employs Stones’ (2005) Strong Structuration Theory (SST) to contextualise rural entrepreneurship. Through shadowing a single case study of a woman entrepreneur from rural Sweden, we propose gendered-local agency as operationalisation of active agency in practice. While SST positions active agency as a property of agents, we demonstrate it is as a property that is intertwined with both
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High growth episodes among R&D intensive firms. Evidence for Europe, US and Japan Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Luigi Aldieri, Vania Sena, Concetto Paolo Vinci
The purpose of this article is three-fold: first, it tests whether inter-industry R&D spillovers are positively associated with the likelihood of experiencing high growth episodes among R&D intensive firms in Europe, US and Japan; second, it tests whether such a relationship is conditional on their level of absorptive capacity (ACAP); third, it tests whether the acquisition of foreign patents please
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Getting a Foot in the Door: Trade Credit Strategies and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Internationalisation Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Richard A Hunt, Mathew LA Hayward, Yue Song, David M Townsend, Maximilian Stallkamp
Trade credit strategies – comprised of the approaches used by internationalising firms to set the payment terms and schedules for their customers – are one of the few levers available to new small firms to overcome the liability of outsidership. They are vital to entrepreneurial firms seeking to achieve international market growth in the context of scarce resources and limited knowledge of foreign
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Book Review: A Research Agenda for the Entrepreneurial University Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Michael Breum Ramsgaard
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Don’t get too emotional: How regulatory focus can condition the influence of top managers’ negative emotions on SME responses to economic crisis Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-02-06 Dario Miocevic
How small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) cope with economic crises and their aftermaths has been engaging both practitioners and academicians for some time. This study sets to explore how the negative emotional reactions of top managers drive an SME’s strategic responses to the economic crisis initiated by the recent COVID-19 pandemic. By drawing on the affect-as-information theory, our survey
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Activating collective agency in disrupted contexts: The social-cognitive context of ad hoc organising in a small and medium-sized enterprise Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-02-06 Marcus Ho, Stephen T T Teo
‘Ad hoc organising’ is becoming an increasingly important topic in the growing literature on disrupted contexts. It is viewed as an emergent, largely unpredictable phenomenon. However, few theoretical frameworks exist for understanding how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) engage in ad hoc organising, via the convergence of people and organisations, to alleviate suffering in a disrupted context
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Start-ups’ business model changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: Counteracting adversities and pursuing opportunities Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-02-06 Peter Guckenbiehl, Graciela Corral de Zubielqui
This article investigates how start-ups have been affected by, and have responded to, the COVID-19 pandemic by analysing interview data from 32 Australian start-ups during Australia’s second wave of COVID-19. A framework and visualisation were developed, capturing unexplored heterogeneity within these start-ups, depending whether the emphasis was upon opportunities or adversity, and the type and extent
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Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship in Times of Crises: The Renaissance of Entrepreneur-Focused Micro Perspectives Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-02-06 Alexander Newman, Martin Obschonka, Joern Block
Prior research examining the consequences of crises for small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures has typically applied a macro-perspective, focussing on the impact of crises on business organisations and the strategies they adopt in times of crisis. In this editorial, we review the articles that form part of our special issue on ‘Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship in Times of Crises’, after
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Predicting future default on the Covid-19 bounce back loan scheme: The £46.5 billion question Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Marc Cowling, Nick Wilson, Paul Nightingale, Marek Kacer
The UK has had a commitment to loan guarantee schemes since 1981 when it introduced the Small Firms Loan Guarantee (SFLG) scheme to address access to debt finance issues for smaller firms. Over the last 40 years, its support has been unwavering, and in the Covid-19 crisis, it once again turned to loan guarantees as a means of supporting smaller firms through the crisis-induced slump in trading activities
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Immanent sensemaking by entrepreneurs and the interpretation of consumer context Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Laura Niemi, Pekka Stenholm, Henri Hakala, Jenni Kantola
Contemporary research has highlighted entrepreneurial sensemaking as a dynamic, socially embedded action undertaken to reduce uncertainty, but scholars have yet to fully address the role of routine-like immanent sensemaking employed when entrepreneurs try to understand their task environment. Defined as a routinised way of making sense of how to proceed in novel situations, we investigate how entrepreneurs
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The impact of trust on social and financial capital acquisition: A resource integration perspective in minority-owned entrepreneurial organisations Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-01-08 Ronald L Pegram, Camelia L Clarke, James W Peltier, K Praveen Parboteeah
Although effective resource integration is a critical requisite for entrepreneurial success, the literature suggests there are crucial gaps for minority entrepreneurs. We examine how interracial distrust (ID), an indicator of the extent to which minority entrepreneurs distrust other races, is related to internal and social capital. We examine the relationships of such capitals on the willingness to
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Engaging symbiotic ecosystems to build community centred business models for the BoP: Evidence from small social enterprises in East Africa Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-01-08 Andrea Sottini, Giacomo Ciambotti, David Littlewood
This article examines how small social enterprises (SSEs) in East Africa build business models for base of the pyramid (BoP) markets, through engaging symbiotic ecosystems. Through in-depth qualitative research, a three-stage process is identified. First, SSEs learn and become sensitised to the manifold challenges of building business models for BoP markets. Second, SSEs identify and connect with key
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Everyday social support processes: Household members’ instrumental and emotional support of entrepreneurs Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Aviel Cogan, Tobias Pret, Melissa S. Cardon
While it is well-established that entrepreneurs benefit from social support, little is known about how and when instrumental and emotional support from household members facilitate entrepreneurial action and persistence. Through a longitudinal, qualitative study, we develop a conceptual framework that shows how social support from the household becomes an integral part of the everyday activities of
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The influence of the positive affective trait on the willingness to act entrepreneurially: The mediating effect of opportunity evaluation Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Celia Díaz-Portugal, Juan Bautista Delgado-García, Virginia Blanco-Mazagatos
This article extends previous literature on opportunity evaluation by analysing how positive affect influences opportunity evaluation and the subsequent willingness to act entrepreneurially. We draw on two mediational channels (i.e., the affect-to-affect-to-outcome and affect-to-cognition routes) regarding the influence of affect on positive outcomes upon arguments that opportunity evaluation comprises
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Crisis and arbitrage opportunities: The role of causation, effectuation and entrepreneurial learning Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Indu Khurana, Dev K Dutta, Mark T Schenkel
This article examines the process by which entrepreneurs identify and work with an arbitrage opportunity emerging from an episodic crisis. Although prior research has investigated the role of entrepreneurial characteristics and context on opportunity development, the specific manner in which these factors emerge in the course of opportunity development during a crisis remain underexplored. By adopting
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Legitimation work in sustainable entrepreneurship: Sustainability ventures’ journey towards the establishment of major partnerships Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Andra Riandita, Anders Broström, Andreas Feldmann, Raffaella Cagliano
Sustainable entrepreneurship, that is, venturing with the aim of contributing to a shift of practices towards environmental and social sustainability, is an increasingly prominent phenomenon. This article investigates how sustainability ventures orient between dual – commercial and environmental – logics when conducting the legitimation work necessary to secure their first major partnership with an
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Interpretation of successful and failed events at entrepreneurial firms: Acknowledgement practice under uncertainty Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2021-12-16 David Johnson, Adam J Bock, Alex Thompson
Event interpretation and acknowledgement drive behaviour and identity formation in organisations. Extant studies exploring this link have focused on large, stable organisations. We extend these studies to entrepreneurial contexts where individual behaviour and organisational identity are especially fluid. We analyse narratives of success and failure in entrepreneurial firms to identify and explore
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SMEs and exogenous shocks: A conceptual literature review and forward research agenda Int. Small Bus. J. Res. Entrep. (IF 6.413) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Jason Miklian, Kristian Hoelscher
Economic crises, natural disasters, armed conflict and infectious disease outbreaks, amongst others, present interlinked challenges for small businesses and have generated a recent wealth of research across varied fields. Therefore, this article outlines an analytical lens suggesting how SMEs experience shocks and crises that focuses on the interlinked nature of (i) the business, (ii) the shock and