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From “FIBER” to “FIRE”: construct validation and refinement of the socioemotional wealth scale in family firms Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Lucia Naldi, Mattias Nordqvist, Francesco Chirico, Luis Gómez-Mejia, Blake E. Ashforth, Richard Swartz, Leif Melin
The socio-emotional wealth perspective is a framework widely used to examine managerial decisions, particularly within the field of family business. We evaluate, refine, and validate the FIBER 27-i...
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What makes entrepreneurship counter-cyclical? Evidence from a shutdown of start-up subsidies in Denmark Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Marianna Marino, Francesca Melillo, Pierpaolo Parrotta, Nina Smith
This paper examines how the presence of startup subsidies to the unemployed influences the relationship between business cycle and entrepreneurial activity, and the implications on individuals’ lon...
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Types, determinants, and outcomes of entrepreneurial behaviours during crises Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Luca Castellanza, Michael Woywode
Entrepreneurs usually have several means at their disposal to deal with and overcome adverse circumstances, ranging from simple non-resourceful coping strategies to more elaborate resourceful behav...
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Anatomy of a qualitative methods section: embracing the researcher as an engaged author Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Johan Gaddefors, James Cunningham
In this editorial, we explore the content of qualitative methods sections in one year of publications from Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (E&RD). We build a common anatomy of qualitative m...
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Gendered transitions to self-employment and business ownership: a linked-lives perspective Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Shireen Kanji, Natalia Vershinina
We apply the sociological lens of linked lives to show how household contexts channel transitions to self-employment in ways strongly differentiated by gender. We investigate the impact of demograp...
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Business in the backwaters: how ‘distance from the core’ impacts entrepreneurs’ lived experiences Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Andreas Giazitzoglu, Thierry Volery, James Cunningham, Antoine Musu, Carmine Bianchi
Using a phenomenological approach, we analyse the voices of entrepreneurs living in the peripheral ecosystems of Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK), Palermo (Italy) and Perth (Australia). These ecosystems ar...
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Authenticity and craft entrepreneurship: the interplay of passion and place Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Hilary Downey, Maura McAdam, Caren Crowley
Craft-based ventures draw on associations with tradition, place and quality to differentiate their products from mass-produced counterparts. However, ‘place’ in the context of craft entrepreneurshi...
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Human-animal mutualism in regenerative entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Pablo Muñoz, Mauricio Hernandez
In this paper, we explore the micro-interactions through which a regenerative enterprise engages with proximate natural ecosystems in its attempt to repair and protect them. Through an ethnographic...
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Co-creating value in entrepreneurship: an exploratory study of Lebanese women Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Jillian Dawes Farquhar, Jessica Lichy, Doaa Althalathini, Maher Kachour, Nicolette Michels
This study aims to amplify theory and practice at the marketing/entrepreneurship interface (MEI) by proposing a revision to the key concept of value creation. Advances in marketing research suggest...
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Exploring social cognition in an international context: insights from the social representations perspective on legitimacy among French entrepreneurs Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Ali Ghods, Antonin Ricard, Bénedicte Aldebert
In the field of international entrepreneurship, there are increasing calls for the study of cognition in its social context. In this regard, this article draws on social representations theory to e...
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Regional emergency networks: how organizations shape technological collaborations under extreme conditions Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Isabel Díez-Vial, Jose Antonio Belso-Martinez
The aim of this research is to undertake explorative research and present propositions that would identify the drivers of regional emergency networks, i.e. regional technological collaborative agre...
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Organizational ambidexterity in young SMEs? The incompatibility of entrepreneurial orientation and process improvement Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Jesper Raalskov, Jakob Schlichter, Anders Haug, Kim Klyver
Organizational ambidexterity describes firms’ ability to pursue exploration and exploitation strategies simultaneously. It is, however, unclear if young SMEs should seek to develop organizations wi...
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Believing in climate change: help or hindrance for entrepreneurs’ resilience? Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Krista B. Lewellyn, Silviana Falcon, Kaveh Moghaddam
In this paper, we examine in a holistic manner how entrepreneurs’ beliefs in climate change combine with psychological attributes and firm contextual conditions to produce high levels of personal r...
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Employee layoffs in times of crisis: do family firms differ? Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Massimo Baù, Johan Karlsson, Kajsa Haag, Daniel Pittino, Francesco Chirico
In this study, we seek to understand firm behaviour during times of crisis, with a particular focus on family firms in different contexts. We theorize that family control mitigates (i.e. negatively...
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Inspiring role model and compassion in nascent social entrepreneurs: does education matter? Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Mir Shahid Satar
The study examines the influence of inspiring role model (IRM), social entrepreneurship (SE) compassion, and the SE education and their interactions and consequences for nascent SE behaviour. Utili...
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Knowledge creation and knowledge exploitation influencing employee venturing behaviours at the national level: the moderating role of national entrepreneurial values Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Menglei Gu, Chengli Shu, David Urbano
The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship (KSTE) posits that knowledge created but under-exploited in incumbent firms endogenously generates entrepreneurial opportunities for employee vent...
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Bricolage – a systematic review, conceptualization, and research agenda Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Sara Mateus, Soumodip Sarkar
The practice of bricolage, predominantly regarded as a strategy for innovation and overcoming constraints in resource-scarce environments, has garnered increased scholarly attention in recent years...
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Towards an ethical awareness of entrepreneurs: a Nietzschean perspective on creative destruction Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Steven F. Pittz, Thomas G. Pittz
As entrepreneurs engage in a Schumpeterian process of ‘creative destruction’, existing market norms and values are substantially altered, which places entrepreneurship in a central role for conside...
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A structured review of start-up accelerator performance measurement: an integrated entrepreneurial program evaluation approach Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Peter W. Moroz, Oscar Sierra, Robert Anderson
As a distinct type of early-stage entrepreneurial support organization, start-up accelerators are theoretically well positioned as a new and burgeoning phenomenon for fostering the process of new v...
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Margins of intervention? Gender, Bourdieu and women’s regional entrepreneurial networks Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Richard T Harrison, Claire M Leitch, Maura McAdam
In this paper, we apply a feminist interpretation and an extension of Bourdieu’s theory of practice to explore the gap in our understanding between gender gap issues – the institutionalized and str...
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Entrepreneurship in constrained immigration contexts – the liminal integration of Syrian refugees Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Deema Refai, John Lever, Radi Haloub
Drawing on a qualitative study of Syrian refugees in constrained immigration contexts in the North of England, this article explores refugees’ perceptions of integration and social exclusion throug...
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Follow the money: funding acquisition processes of nascent ventures Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Andrea M. Herrmann, Friedemann Polzin, Lukas Held, Dimo Dimov
Answering the call for more process-oriented research into the inception and development of companies, this paper analyses the funding acquisition process of nascent ventures. Based on optimal matc...
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Gender and sex in starting up: a social stereotype approach Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Francisco Liñán, Inmaculada Jaén, Maria J. Rodríguez
This article analyses the influence of gender stereotypes in entrepreneurship by jointly studying the effect of gender-role orientation (GRO) and sex (women vs. men) on the entrepreneurial intentio...
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Responding to financing uncertainty in complex settings: the case of immigrant entrepreneurs from the Arab world in Sweden Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Bryan Malki
This paper investigates the financing decisions of immigrant entrepreneurs (IEs) in complex settings in host countries, where uncertainties surrounding access to finance persist. While previous stu...
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Resilience and entrepreneurial decision-making: the heterogeneity among Italian innovative start-ups Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Sara Baroncelli, Andrea Caputo, Erica Santini, Christina Theodoraki
Despite the increasing attention of researchers to decision-making processes, little is known about start-ups’ reactions to shocks. How entrepreneurs of new ventures face uncertain environments and...
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Private equity and entrepreneurial investments: understanding the determinants of founder-CEO succession in the Caribbean Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Bruce Hearn, Venancio Tauringana, Collins Ntim
Our study develops a contextually embedded institution-theoretic model of the major influences precipitating entrepreneurial founders’ leadership succession. Drawing on a unique sample of 184 liste...
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Exploring the social and spatial role of social media for community entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Josefina Jonsson
This study explores the dynamics of online community entrepreneurship, using a rural grocery store as a case study. I examine the role of social media in community entrepreneurship, revealing insig...
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Patriarchy repackaged: how a neoliberal economy and conservative gender norms shape entrepreneurial identities in Eastern Europe Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Sanita Rugina, Helene Ahl
Using positioning analysis we examine how women entrepreneurs construct their entrepreneurial identities in conversations with journalists. The data consists of every interview with women entrepren...
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Exploring the impact of design thinking on social enterprise mission-aligned innovation Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Catherine Docherty, Micaela Mazzei, Artur Steiner
Despite the growing academic and policy interest in social enterprises, existing debates fail to answer how these organizations innovate without compromising their social mission. In particular, th...
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Resilience and digitally-advanced entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 David B. Audretsch, Maksim Belitski, Rosa Caiazza, Mark D. Drapeau, Matthias Menter, William J. Wales
As digitalization continues to reshape industries and markets, digital transformation and creation of a ‘digital safety net’ has emerged as a prominent mechanism for entrepreneurial resilience. Dig...
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How small firms build resilience to ward off crises: a paradox perspective Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Sanjay Chaudhary, Amandeep Dhir, N. Meenakshi, Michael Christofi
Despite crises being a dominant theme in organizational research, little inquiry has been conducted into how small firms built resilience and coped with uncertainties created by the COVID-19 pandem...
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Cultural diversity: an impetus to economic growth – under what conditions? Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Ratan J. S. Dheer
Realizing cultural diversity’s impact on regional entrepreneurial activity has become crucial for scholars and policymakers. As a step in this direction, this study integrates insights from creativ...
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Entrepreneurial opportunities as expressions of personal identities: interpretative engagement through personal value structures Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Farsan Madjdi, Mark Packard, Badri Zolfaghari
Entrepreneurial identities have a significant influence on new venture emergence. Yet, an entrepreneur’s (meaning-constructing) interpretive engagement with situations such as entrepreneurial oppor...
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Homogenization processes in entrepreneurship education: the case of Junior Achievement Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Catherine Brentnall, Martin Lackéus, Per Blenker
Entrepreneurship Education (EE) programmes world-wide serve a highly standardized menu of activities for student consumption, such as pitching exercises, competitions and mini-companies. This situa...
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When crises meet grand environmental challenges: Navigating intertemporal tensions in European manufacturing family firms Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Sophia Jungk, Matthias Waldkirch
The grand environmental challenge of climate change represents one of the key ongoing, long-term obstacles for organizations. When interrupted by short-term exogenous crises like the COVID-19 pande...
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Employment growth and profitability in European SMEs: the 100% speed limit Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Vivien Lefebvre
We investigated the relationship between employment growth and profitability and propose that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) hire employees, they experience an increase in profitability ...
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Back to work? How employers perceive applicants’ experience of entrepreneurial failure Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Anna Jenkins, Leona Achtenhagen, Karin Hellerstedt
Recent research on entrepreneurial failure has started to investigate the impact of failure on entrepreneurs and how this influences their motivation and willingness to engage in subsequent entrepr...
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Exploring the impact of regional characteristics on social incubators’ mission, structure and activity: a contingency perspective Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Alexandra Gaidos, C. Gurău, F. Palpacuer
Studies of social incubators illustrate the importance of these organizations in promoting social innovations and entrepreneurship at regional level. However, little is known about the main categor...
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An Entrepreneurship-as-practice perspective of next-generation becoming family businesses successors: the role of discursive artefacts Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Bingbing Ge, Eleanor Hamilton, Kajsa Haag
Family is the most important, yet under researched, dimension in family business research. Following recent calls in Entrepreneurship-as-Practice, we bring a practice-based approach to family busin...
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A performative perspective on sensing, seizing, and transforming in small- and medium-sized enterprises Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Alexander Engelmann
This study investigates organizational sensing, seizing, and transforming, which are critical activities in developing and exercising dynamic capabilities (DCs)––an organization’s capacity to recon...
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The distinct nature of U.S. based female immigrant entrepreneurs Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Claudia Gomez, B. Yasanthi Perera, Lucas M. Engelhardt
Despite contributing to host country economies, there is limited examination of self-employed female immigrants in the literature. While human, social, and financial capital are important for entre...
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Necessity entrepreneurship: an integrative review and research agenda Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Helene Mueller, Martina Pieperhoff
Research on necessity entrepreneurship has increased in the last decade, with studies investigating the phenomenon in different contexts and applying numerous theories. Such diverse research activi...
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Overconfidence, misjudgment, and entry in experimental entrepreneurial markets: evidence from Panama Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-08-06 Valentina Rotondi
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the influence of overconfidence and misjudgement of merit on the decision to enter a winner-take-all market. Through a lab-in-the-field experiment conducted in Panama’s dynamic and diverse entrepreneurial ecosystem, the study addresses a research gap by exploring the interplay between overconfidence, institutional factors, and entrepreneurial activities. The findings
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Family structure and entrepreneurship: Evidence from Swedish siblings Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Theodor Vladasel
Family background matters for entrepreneurship, but why do siblings differ in their propensity to become entrepreneurs and the type of ventures they pursue? I draw on family socialization and resou...
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Creating an entrepreneurial story in digital spaces: the journeys and experiences of social media entrepreneurs Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Simon Stephens, Kristel Miller
ABSTRACT The emergence of digital technologies is transforming entrepreneurial processes and outcomes. This creates a plethora of research questions at the intersection of digital technologies and entrepreneurship. A key question is if existing entrepreneurial models are applicable to understanding digital entrepreneurship. In this study we provide novel insights by exploring the following research
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Of resistance to patriarchy and occupation through a virtual bazaar: an institutional theory critique of the emancipatory potential of Palestinian women’s digital entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Doaa Althalathini, Hayfaa A. Tlaiss
This study explores how institutional contexts and digital technologies influence women’s digital entrepreneurship and emancipation potential in the conflict-laden, Arab country-specific context of...
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Entrepreneurial growth aspirations during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of ICT infrastructure quality versus policy response Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Maribel Guerrero, Tomasz Mickiewicz, Fei Qin
We posit that the quality of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure and the effectiveness of crisis-specific policy response are essential for entrepreneurial growth aspirati...
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Regional-level coopetition strategies and company performance: evidence from the Canadian wine industry Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-07-23 James M. Crick, Dave Crick
ABSTRACT Regional-level coopetition (collaboration among competitors in rural communities) has been linked to company performance. That said, there could be conditions (moderators) that help or hinder these networks from fulfilling such outcomes. This investigation examines the nature of the relationship between regional-level coopetition and company performance under key moderating effects. A resource-based
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Women entrepreneurs in the Gulf States: Taking stock and moving forward Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Sumaya Hashim
The Gulf States have dedicated much attention and many resources to entrepreneurship, particularly in supporting women entrepreneurship. These efforts are reflected in the increase in research focu...
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Going the whole nine yards: founder social identities and the nascent-active transition Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Ilija Braun, Philipp Sieger, Heiko Bergmann
What makes nascent entrepreneurs more or less likely to complete the founding process and to actually start their business? To address this fundamental question, we introduce founder social identit...
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The impact of parental emotional support on the succession intentions of next-generation family business members Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-07-09 Roisin Lyons, Farhad Uddin Ahmed, Eric Clinton, Colm O’Gorman, Robert Gillanders
Drawing on social cognitive theory, this study investigates the influence of family business owners as parents on the succession intentions of their children. Measures of parental emotional support...
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Driven to influence: how entrepreneurial drive and political skill influence new venture performance Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Jiaju Yan, Nick Mmbaga, Michael Lerman, Tim Munyon
Dispositional research evaluates how individual differences, such as traits and abilities, impact entrepreneur behaviour and performance. Drawing on social influence capitalization theory, this pap...
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“As if it were home”: an exploratory study of the role of homesickness among migrant entrepreneurs Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Carlos Poblete, Vesna Mandakovic, Mauricio Apablaza
A common pattern observed in the psychological literature on migrants is homesickness, yet there is a lack of research examining if this phenomenon has any effect in the entrepreneurship sphere. Th...
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Barefoot entrepreneurs trapped in liminal spaces: the case of homeless youths in New York City Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Claire Doussard, Julien Billion, Jérémie Renouf, Sylvain Bureau
The barefoot entrepreneurship literature rarely acknowledges the role of space in the development of informal economic activities. However, the concept of liminal space, defined as a place of trans...
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Family firms, Regional Competitiveness and Productivity: A Multilevel Approach Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Stefano Amato, Rodrigo Basco, Fernanda Ricotta
ABSTRACT As not all firms benefit to the same extent from regional competitiveness, this article investigates the influence of the regional context on the productivity of a sample of family and non-family manufacturing firms in Spain. Using a multilevel approach to account for the nested structure of the data, and a composite indicator of regional competitiveness, to capture the spatial endowment of
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Sayings and doings become ‘practice’ through ‘practice thirdness’: pivot in recipes for practice Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Ayoob Sadeghiani, Alistair Anderson, Sadra Ahmadi, Sajjad Shokouhyar, Bahman Hajipour
The abductive logic behind the practice lens allows practice researchers to contextualize theorizing and emphasize non-generalizability of their findings. However, scholars are critical of this non...
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Aesthetic Embeddedness: Towards an Aesthetic Understanding of Cultural and Artistic Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Simony R. Marins, Eduardo P. B. Davel, Samantha Parsley
Aesthetics is quintessential for entrepreneurial practice and theory. Specifically, we argue that aesthetics provides a more sophisticated understanding of the embeddedness of cultural and artistic...
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Is older entrepreneurship being silenced? A policy analysis of Finnish government programmes Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Paula Kupiainen, Katri Komulainen, Päivi Eriksson, Hannu Räty
This post-structural policy analysis examines Finnish government programmes through the lens of neoliberal governmentality and the concepts of the entrepreneurial self and active ageing. In the con...
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Causal Configurations of SME Strategic Renewal in Crisis: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Quebec Entrepreneurs amid COVID-19 Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Yihan Wang, Ekaterina Turkina, Samantha Khoury, Normand Lemay
ABSTRACT In times of crisis, SME entrepreneurs refresh and replace corporate resources and capabilities in the strategic renewal processes to sustain organizational resilience. Appearing in the form of internal development and external sourcing, the strategic renewal outcomes are explained by the synergy of individual, organizational and environmental-level factors that build up SMEs’ dynamic capabilities
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Framing conflicting demands and strategies for managing hybridity in social enterprises Entrepreneurship & Regional Development (IF 6.408) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Ana Maria Bojica, Javier Martínez-Del-Río
Research has shown that social enterprises must constantly balance conflicting demands between their social and economic goals. However, little is known about the factors that shape managers’ strat...