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Slowed by commitment and hastened by obstacles: Exploring patterns of entrepreneur role exit in the EPOP dataset Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Douglas R. Ewing, Jeffrey Meyer, Kirk D. Kern
Empirical understanding of why individuals become former entrepreneurs is not well-established. This investigation draws upon Identity Theory and Role Exit Theory to explore patterns in Entrepreneurship in the Population (EPOP) Survey Project dataset. The key finding is a theory-consistent tension between commitment and obstacles encountered in predicting exit from the entrepreneur role. The likelihood
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Pivot, persist or perish? Knowledge problems and the extraordinarily tight boundary conditions of entrepreneurs as scientists Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Richard A. Hunt, David M. Townsend, Daniel A. Lerner, Katrina M. Brownell
The characterization of entrepreneurs as scientists (EaS) has become increasingly popular among management scholars because it fits neatly with existing theories of entrepreneurial action grounded in the assumption that entrepreneurs form and test beliefs in an intendedly rational fashion, under conditions of uncertainty, while continually seeking to obtain and process new information. Recent scholarship
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Beyond words: How visual imagery shapes collaborative sensemaking in entrepreneurial ecosystems Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Bernd Wurth, Suzanne Mawson
Entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) are complex social systems dependent on connectivity and shared understanding between diverse actors. An often used, albeit oversimplified view, implies that diverse actors connect, collaborate and contribute to the EE in an almost frictionless way. However, this perspective overlooks the need for deeper forms of communication that can shift actors' perceptions, goals
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Family business successions between desire and reality Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2024-02-24 André Pahnke, Susanne Schlepphorst, Nadine Schlömer-Laufen
Family business successions are commonly considered as one of the most critical events of any family business. Yet, despite extensive research, current evidence on the actual extent to which family business owners accomplish, adapt, or even abandon their initial succession plans is astonishingly still lacking. This paper addresses this issue by overcoming some methodological limitations of previous
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A long and winding road: The hard graft of scaling social change in complex systems Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2024-02-23 John Healy, Jeffrey Hughes, Gemma Donnelly-Cox, Amanda Shantz
Advice abounds on how to implement large-scale social change, much of which emphasizes a simplistic linear process, led by a heroic central actor. Rigorous case studies have shown that social change is far more complex: it is a reciprocal, iterative, and adaptive process, with multiple stakeholders who work backstage in networked, committed teams. Despite this, the myth of the social entrepreneur as
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Community markets and entrepreneurship: A primer Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Jeremy C. Short, Jeffrey A. Chandler, Marcus Wolfe
An increasing number of popularly frequented, but lightly studied, entrepreneurial events such as farmer's markets, festivals, art walks, night markets, and other seasonal gatherings occur regularly as forms of community meetups worldwide. At these events, individuals strive to create and enhance their communities through a series of often loosely organized gatherings that combine art, entertainment
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Unpacking the myth of the entrepreneurial state Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Peter Kalum Schou
The idea of The Entrepreneurial State, a state that acts as an entrepreneur, creating and shaping markets to solve certain missions, has captured the eye of the public and of scholars. Yet, a number of scholars have voiced critique of The Entrepreneurial State Paradigm, arguing that it leads to policy failure. But simultaneously, other scholars argue that policy failures stem from interpretation and
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How and why do social entrepreneurs experience goal conflict differently? Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Rebecca Pieniazek, Kerrie L. Unsworth, Hannah Dean
It is well-known that the need for both social and financial missions creates tension within social enterprises. Less well-known are the specifics around how and why social entrepreneurs themselves construct and experience their situation. Given people vary in their psychological representations of their goals from concrete (i.e., tasks) to more abstract (i.e., values), we anticipated that goal conflict
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What is in a [poverty] label? The effect of regional poverty labeling in the Appalachian region of the U.S. and self-employment Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2024-01-19 R. Gabrielle Swab, Pankaj C. Patel
Extending the growing amount of literature on poverty and entrepreneurship, we draw on stereotype threat theory to test whether labels of regional poverty categories, controlling for regional GDP, influence engagement in self-employment. In using the county designations of at-risk, attainment, competitive, distress, or transitional provided by the Appalachian Regional Commission, the County Business
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Under the weight of heavy tails: A power law perspective on the emergence of outliers in entrepreneurship Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2024-01-16 G. Christopher Crawford, Harry Joo, Herman Aguinis
A fundamental discovery in entrepreneurship is that firm outcomes do not follow a symmetrical Gaussian curve. Instead, most are heavily right-skewed distributions in which a few extreme outliers (e.g., rock star firms like Airbnb, Tesla, and Uber) account for a disproportionate amount of the output. Although past research usually described outcome distributions as shaped following the power law, our
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Governing decentralized autonomous organizations as digital commons Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Sen Li, Yan Chen
Effective governance plays a pivotal role in aligning the interests of diverse stakeholders and shaping the strategic directions of organizations. However, the dominant model of corporate governance often concentrates power among a limited group of directors, leading to concerns about potential power imbalances that may distort fair representation and compromise decision-making integrity. Decentralized
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Can business clinics induce minority entrepreneurship? Treatment effect estimates from Atlanta and New Orleans Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Price Gregory N, Tiffany Bussey
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A tale of two impacts: Entrepreneurial action and the gender-related effects of economic policy uncertainty Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Parul Manocha, Richard A. Hunt, Maximilian Stallkamp, David M. Townsend
The underlying intents and long-lasting impacts of economic policies are not only significant drivers of the quantity and productiveness of entrepreneurial action but also its diversity, equitability, and breadth. Calibrating policies to achieve these varied aims is a persistent challenge, due in no small part to the complex role uncertainty plays in entrepreneurship. While extant research has shown
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Beyond the paradigm of literacy – Developing a research agenda in entrepreneurship Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Pia Arenius, Anna-Katharina Lenz
Illiteracy, the lack of ability to read and write, affects how people engage with entrepreneurship and the possible outcomes of entrepreneurial actions. Yet entrepreneurship as a discipline has paid little direct attention to illiterate entrepreneurs. We offer a glimpse of what recognition of illiteracy in entrepreneurship research might enable, and how it can challenge researchers to reach beyond
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Entrepreneurial ecosystems as multiteam systems: Navigating independence and interdependence in the leadership of startup communities Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Philip T. Roundy, W. Randy Evans
Entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) leadership is the orchestration of multiple groups to influence the effectiveness of an EE. Although singular leaders can influence ecosystems, EE leadership rarely works alone. EE leaders often function in interconnected groups from different organizations and are in the unique position of simultaneously leading their organizations (leadership within EEs) while providing
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Beyond the IPO horizon: Understanding the determinants and consequences of IPO withdrawal Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Jarrod Humphrey
Withdrawn IPOs remain an empirically underexplored topic. Between 1997 and 2021, approximately 1 in 6 IPOs attempted on the NASDAQ and NYSE were withdrawn, collectively amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars in unrealized growth capital. For entrepreneurial ventures, the strategic consequences of the withdrawal decision are severe. My findings indicate that withdrawn IPOs face a considerable
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Pouring the Paycheck Protection Program into craft beer: PPP employment effects in service-intensive industries Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Aaron J. Staples, Kristopher Deming, Trey Malone, Craig W. Carpenter, Stephan Weiler
Small businesses in the food and beverage service industry are particularly vulnerable to crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the most salient vulnerabilities was the drastic decline in consumer spending at eating and drinking places, generating unprecedented swings in employment in this service-intensive sector. Governments across the globe implemented rapid response fiscal policies to mitigate
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Outlier entrepreneurs: Nonlinear paths and novel ventures Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-12-03 G. Christopher Crawford, Christian Linder, Christian Lechner, Elisa Villani
Outliers in entrepreneurship are founders who are markedly different—both quantitatively and qualitatively—relative to the “normal” population. We use a power law perspective to hypothesize that, in order for new ventures to persist, founders with outlier endowments are more likely to have novel expectations about the opportunities they pursue and greater variation in the execution methods they employ
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Whatever the problem, entrepreneurship is the solution! Confronting the panacea myth of entrepreneurship with structural injustice Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Jan Keim, Susan Müller, Pascal Dey
A topic of growing interest in entrepreneurship research is how entrepreneurial ventures address grand challenges. This literature, we argue, tends to produce a panacea myth by suggesting that entrepreneurship is the universal remedy for existing social and environmental ills. Starting from the claim that the persuasive power or ‘stickiness’ of the panacea myth depends not only on what it explicitly
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Crowdfunding and too much choice: A recipe for disappointment Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Ramy Elitzur, Peri Muttath, David Soberman
In this study, we investigate the effects of reward options and their prices on crowdfunding success. Rational economics predicts that the more choice potential contributors have, the more likely it is that they find a reward option that stimulates participation. However, experiments in behavioral economics and marketing show that providing someone with excessive choice (overchoice) might adversely
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How do impact investors leverage non-financial strategies to create value? An impact-oriented value framework Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Pola Nachyła, Rachida Justo
One of the ways to understand the success of impact investing firms is to examine how they add value to the social enterprises they invest. Did their investment boost social and/or environmental change? And what type of support, beyond financial capital, can they provide to enhance impact? Drawing on a design-based methodology, we seek to address some of these questions by developing a tool called
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When the going gets tough: Stressors and purpose in life among social and commercial entrepreneurs Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Sean M. Dwyer, Michael Lerman, David Gras
Described as the presence of significance, meaning, and goal-directedness in one's life, purpose in life has received much attention in psychology and well-being research due to its association with psychological well-being. However, research on the relationship between entrepreneurship and purpose in life remains nascent. In this study, we explore differences in purpose in life between social entrepreneurs
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Why don’t you like me? Exploring the social venture funding gap in angel investing Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-11-04 Henrik Wesemann, Torben Antretter
While many studies on the social venture funding gap have focused on venture-level factors to explain why social ventures receive less funding, the role of investors and their characteristics has received less attention. In this study, we propose that the reason for much of the funding gap is that many angel investors lack the analytical capabilities required to assess double bottom lines. Drawing
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Health resourcefulness behaviors: Implications of work-health resource trade-offs for the self-employed Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Timothy L. Michaelis, Jon C. Carr, Alexander McKelvie, April Spivack, Michael P. Lerman
In this paper, we present an exploratory study to investigate why those who are self-employed in the United States may make more personal health-related trade-offs than adults working in traditional wage-employment jobs. A random sample of 10,663 working adults in the United States indicate that the self-employed engage in higher amounts of health-related resourcefulness behaviors than wage employees
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The deterioration of self-worth in entrepreneurship Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Pablo Muñoz, Marieshka Barton, Susanne Braun, Farzana Chowdhury, Nicola Jayne-Little, Joanne Rowland, Katherine Sykes, Jason Smith, Clare Talbot-Jones, Adele Taggart, Jessica Komes
This paper explores the deterioration of self-worth in entrepreneurship. Using a 15-month participatory action research in the North of England, we found mismatches between expectations and experiences at three interacting levels—purpose, autonomy, and achievement—which surface as entrepreneurs reflect on execution, performance, and fulfillment experiences. Mismatches materialize as incongruence between
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Crisis response efficacy: Perceived ability to respond entrepreneurially to crises Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Kim Klyver, Paul Steffens, Suna Løwe Nielsen
Prior research indicates the importance of entrepreneurial responses to external crises. This article theoretically extends the concept of self-efficacy to the task domain of entrepreneurial response to crisis situations. Crisis response efficacy is conceptualized as a task-specific (perceived) efficacy, a CEO's beliefs in their firm's skills, knowledge, and readiness to respond effectively to an external
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Field dynamics as context – A multi-perspective combined analysis of the effects of context on entrepreneurship Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Alex Alterskye, Ted Fuller, Andrea Caputo
Addressing the growing need for nuanced understandings of entrepreneurial contexts, this article presents a multifaceted pragmatic framework for scrutinising the ‘field of entrepreneurship’ and its associated dynamics. Drawing on Bourdieu's theory of practice and the institutional logics perspective, we introduce the concept of the field as a mid-level analytical lens—positioned between micro and macro
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Exploring objective versus subjective social ties using entrepreneurs’ gmail data Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Joseph Billingsley, Jeffrey M. Pollack, Timothy L. Michaelis, Elizabeth M. Tracy, Dennis Barber, Ace Beorchia, Jon C. Carr, Gabe Gonzalez, Michael L. Harris, Grayson Morrow, Duygu Phillips, Matthew W. Rutherford, Lewis Sheats
It is intuitively appealing and common in the literature to describe social ties as one large category that represents multiple constructs which have similar relations across operationalizations. However, that approach does not capture the nuance in the literature and might obscure notable differences between subjective and objective network tie measures, and how those differences extend to relations
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Exceptionality in entrepreneurship: Systematically investigating outlier outcomes Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Daniel R. Clark, G. Christopher Crawford, Robert J. Pidduck
Entrepreneurship is the study of ordinary people doing extraordinary things: outliers in society, seeing and enacting new venture opportunities, while most others do not. Historically, the field of entrepreneurship has been dominated by competing homogeneity and heterogeneity perspectives. Extending current heterogeneity trends in the domain, this article builds the case for the benefits of examining
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Why are you selling your business? Understanding signaling effects of seller rationale at time of entrepreneurial exit Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Kipp A. Krukowski, Nicole A. Flink, Bryan D. Edwards
Entrepreneurs eventually face the inevitable in which they must exit their firms. Some choose the entrepreneurial exit path of selling to an unaffiliated individual or company. This type of exit can arise due to a variety of reasons, including life situations, strategic reasons, or other interests. The process of selling a small, privately held company, oftentimes facilitated by business intermediaries
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Don't always judge an article by its cover: An examination of proxies for journal impact and citations in entrepreneurship Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Jill Kickul, Mark Griffiths, Malin Brännback, Colleen C. Robb
In many academic circles, promotion and tenure decisions are often driven by the quality of the candidate's research portfolio. In entrepreneurship, as in other disciplines, we tend to judge the quality and impact of our research based on publication in a select few top journals. In our paper, we investigate the incorrect inferences that result from using Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and other rankings
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Students' assumptions of Entrepreneurs’ performance: The paradox of excess entry and missed opportunity Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Kaushik Gala, Carlos D. Valladares, Brandon A. Mueller
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The formation and role of religious social capital in driving entrepreneurial action Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Binyam Zewde Alemayehu, Paul Steffens, Scott R. Gordon
Spiritual capital serves as a unique resource that can contribute to entrepreneurial action. This paper develops the concept of religious social capital, as a distinct component of spiritual capital, and theorizes its role in motivating and supporting entrepreneurial action. This is important because individuals with religious affiliations are often deeply embedded within a religious community yielding
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CEO's industry experience and emerging market SME performance: The effects of corruption and political uncertainty Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Juan Carlos Morales-Solis, Vincent L. Barker III, Arkangel M. Cordero
We examine how Chief Executive Officer (CEO) industry-specific experience influences firm performance in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets. Drawing on the upper echelons perspective and learning theory, we propose an inverted U-shaped relationship between an SME CEO's industry-specific experience and firm performance. We also argue that country corruption and political instability
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Psychological well-being of hybrid entrepreneurs: A replication and extension study using German panel data Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Meike Stephan, Cemre Demir, Frank Lasch, Alexander Vossen, Arndt Werner
This study contributes to new debates about how hybrid entrepreneurship is related to specific psychological well-being dimensions (job, life, and leisure time satisfaction). To address this issue, Ardianti, Obschonka, and Davidsson (2022; AOD) published first empirical results in JBVInsights. They provide evidence for different effects on well-being, depending on how individuals have switched from
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The unrelenting entrepreneur: Taking stock of research on entrepreneurial persistence and related constructs Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Jiaju Yan, Alan D. Boss, Rhonda K. Reger
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Erratum regarding missing declaration of competing interest statements in previously published articles – Part 4 Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-08-07
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Entrepreneurial identity play through cross-cultural experience: Insights from returnees Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Anh Tran Tram Truong
Entrepreneurial identity plays a crucial role in the entrepreneurial process. Although cross-cultural experience likely shapes entrepreneurial identity in enduring ways, we are not clear on how and why. Returnee entrepreneurs, who move between distinct sociocultural contexts, offer a valuable lens to explore how aspects of cross-cultural experience interact with entrepreneurial identity. Incorporating
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Why do user innovators want to pursue user entrepreneurship? On the influence of the communitarian identity Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Xin Yu, Ting Zhang, Marcel L.A.M. Bogers
While users may be an important source of innovation, and even of entrepreneurship, we know little about the exact psychological mechanism that underpins user innovators' transition to user entrepreneurship (UE). In this study, we focus on user innovators' communitarian identity, which is a stable mindset that values the personalized bonds with a user community. Based on the theory of planned behavior
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Visions of futures and futures of visions: Entrepreneurs, artifacts, and worlds Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-07-18
In a recent effort to develop the individual-opportunity nexus, Ramoglou and McMullen (2022) argue that extant conceptualizations of opportunities fail because they reify opportunities by engaging in “thing-talk”. Their proposed alternative ignores concrete things by reinterpreting the nexus in terms of confident entrepreneurs (who imagine world-states) and world-states (that are possible or not).
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Balancing entrepreneurial and learning orientations: A meta-analytic approach to understanding performance variability Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-07-19
The entrepreneurial orientation (EO)-performance correlation varies across firms, traditionally attributed to external moderators. This study introduces a novel perspective, examining the EO and learning orientation (LO) correlation as an internal moderator on the EO-performance relationship. Our meta-analysis of 418 samples from 400 studies and a total of 129,695 firms, reveals a strong positive association
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Processing preferences and crowdfunding pitch evaluations Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Manoj Mahajan, C. S. Richard Chan, Annaleena Parhankangas
We investigate how processing preferences (i.e., individual tendencies for attending to and utilizing different types of information) influence the evaluation of crowdfunding campaigns. We illustrate that a preference for analytical processing may lead to less favorable evaluations, while a preference for heuristic processing or affective processing may result in more favorable evaluations. A randomized
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What does AI think of AI as an external enabler (EE) of entrepreneurship? An assessment through and of the EE framework Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Per Davidsson, Muhammad Sufyan
Recent breakthroughs make Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology a particularly potent enabler of entrepreneurship. Therefore, we use the External Enablement (EE) framework to examine AI’s potentials as enabler of entrepreneurship. In doing so, we involve AI – specifically ChatGPT 4.0 – to enhance the analysis beyond our personal limitations. Through this exercise we provide insights into 1) AI technologies
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B Corp certification in the age of fast fashion: Using hierarchical clustering and correspondence factor analysis to highlight social entrepreneurial advancement in the fashion industry Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Stephanie B. Escudero, Iva Jestratijevic, Jeremy C. Short, Marcus T. Wolfe
To highlight the potential mechanisms heterodox actors use to create meaningful change within established sectors, we examine how B Corps in the fashion industry overcome institutionalized standards of social and environmental mistreatment. Using hierarchical clustering and correspondence factor analysis we provide a content analysis on the self-descriptions of 102 fashion B Corps. We discover that
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Startup grants and the development of academic startup projects during funding: Quasi-experimental evidence from the German ‘EXIST – Business startup grant’ Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Christoph E. Mueller
Public support programs for (academic) startups are an important component of innovation and technology policy. There are many types of startup policy instrument, one of which is supporting prospective founders with startup grants. The present study contributes to the literature by examining the effectiveness of a specific startup grant entitled ‘EXIST – Business Startup Grant’. This measure is Germany’s
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An opportunity to profit from recent entrepreneurship theory Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-06-17 Jeffery S. McMullen, Stratos Ramoglou
We offer a brief rejoinder to a recent critique published in the Journal of Business Venturing Insights. We look past the unprofessional tone of the critique to seek opportunities to clarify the positions we took in our work and to explain the motivations behind them. We do so by articulating seven questions worthy of clarification. We conclude our rejoinder with a discussion about the ludicrous notion
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Bridging worlds: The intersection of religion and entrepreneurship as meaningful heterodoxy Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Brett Smith, Ali Aslan Gümüsay, David M. Townsend
There is a resurgence in both the advancement and critique of research at the intersection of religion and entrepreneurship. It is precisely because there are important conflicts, tensions, and paradoxes in religion and entrepreneurship that this stream of research is important to the field of entrepreneurship as a source of meaningful heterodoxy. Without grappling with these values and concerns, entrepreneurship
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The weaker sex? A tale of means and tails Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Indu Khurana, Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada, David B. Audretsch
One of the most commonly held beliefs prevalent in entrepreneurship research is that women-led ventures tend to generate lower earnings than men-led ventures. We contend that this thinking emanates from empirical analyses that obscure the variation in entrepreneurial performance across the earnings distribution. Relying solely on the mean as a measure of central tendency conceals the heterogeneity
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Integrating entrepreneurial and spiritual identities under uncertainty Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Richard J. Arend
This empirical study begins to explore the complex connections between entrepreneurs, spirituality and uncertainty, grounded in the theoretical, even existential, relationships among these elements. Specifically, our contribution consists of a novel analysis and discussion of the interplay between entrepreneurial and spiritual personal identities in uncertain contexts. We consider three related research
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I wasn't expecting that: How engaging with digital platforms can turn leisure passion into entrepreneurial aspirations Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Donato Cutolo, Rosa Grimaldi
Online digital platforms are rapidly emerging as new avenues for business activities,opening up a plethora of opportunities for aspiring entrepreneurs. These platforms offer a range of resources and incentives that empower passionate users to showcase and cultivate their skills within online communities, creating a platform for these users to transform into producers and entrepreneurs in the digital
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Mirror, mirror—A gendered lens on female entrepreneurs’ facial attractiveness in reward-based crowdfunding Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Benedikt David Christian Seigner, Hana Milanov
Scholars investigating women's attractiveness have documented its disadvantages (the “beauty is beastly” effect), especially in male-typed domains, including entrepreneurship. However, reward-based crowdfunding research demonstrates that these platforms reverse gender biases typically found in traditional entrepreneurial finance. Thus, in reward-based crowdfunding, the adverse effect of women's attractiveness
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Creation of the entrepreneurial personality scale: Removing conceptual and empirical barriers from the study of personality and entrepreneurship Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Matt C. Howard
The goal of the current article is to address systematic barriers that hamper modern research on Entrepreneurial Personality (EP). We provide conceptual clarity to the meaning of EP, which we conceptualize with the dimensions of innovativeness, risk-taking propensity, achievement orientation, proactiveness, locus of control, self-efficacy, and autonomy orientation. We also formalize two competing perspectives
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Nascent entrepreneurs during start-up competitions: Between beauty contests and co-created problematization Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Bob Bastian, Antonella Zucchella
Problem-oriented research is increasingly gaining currency in entrepreneurship research. In this article, we respond to the need for more action-based perspectives in entrepreneurship. By employing an inductive research design based on qualitative interviews and participant observations, we discuss empirical evidence about two alternative problem formulation processes in the context of start-up competitions
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Everything, all the time: Engaging the social problem of homelessness in entrepreneurship research and practice Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Mohamed Hassan Awad
Homelessness is one of the most complex and enduring social problems facing many communities. As the research and practice of prosocial venturing flourish, there remains very limited engagement from scholars and entrepreneurs with this profound problem. Emerging innovations around homelessness have focused on desgining new forms of shelters such as the construction of tiny houses and the conversion
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Why am I so successful? Self-presentation and deliberative attributions of success in entrepreneurship Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Susana C. Santos, António Caetano, Ana Brochado
This study explores the complexities of causes of success mentioned in entrepreneurs' narratives in a broadcasted context. Building on strategic self-presentation and attribution theories, we employed inductive methods to map the configurations of public narratives explaining entrepreneurial success. The data analyzed were gathered from 173 reflective interviews featuring entrepreneurs on the United
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Opportunity on Mars? roving for theory in the re(a)d dust rather than beyond Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Richard J. Arend
What inspires new entrepreneurial theory? And, what should it be – new entrepreneurial phenomena, new and different scholarly voices, or something else? There is recent evidence that it is a ‘something else’ – something that may be interpreted as unusual-yet-too-familiar – where established voices are stretching fictional stories and language games to get to their preferred models and definitions.
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Entrepreneurial alertness: A meta-analysis and empirical review Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Clécio Falcão Araujo, Masoud Karami, Jintong Tang, Lucas Bonacina Roldan, Julia Aita dos Santos
Entrepreneurial alertness (EA) has attracted increasing attention in scholarly work, and a multitude of empirical studies have examined the antecedents and outcomes of entrepreneurial alertness. Although there is consistent evidence for significant associations, ambiguities exist concerning the directions and magnitude of the relationships. The purpose of this study is to meta-analytically assess the
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Explaining the stage of product in pre-seed academic startup ventures: An empirical analysis using monitoring data from a German startup support program Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Christoph E. Mueller
A central prerequisite for market entry and the subsequent economic performance of academic startup ventures is that the product on which the business model is based must be sufficiently well developed. The present research aims to provide answers in the quest to identify the explanatory factors in the development stage of the product of academic spin-offs in the pre-seed phase of their ventures. This
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Keep on keeping on: A psychological approach to entrepreneurial persistence Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Alan D. Boss, Jiaju Yan, Rhonda K. Reger
Persistence typifies the behavior of most successful entrepreneurs. Yet systematic theory about entrepreneurial persistence is lacking. This paper theorizes about psychological differences that lead some entrepreneurs to persist appropriately while others quit too soon or persist excessively. Building on self-regulation literature, we develop a theory of entrepreneurial persistence, called entrepreneurial
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Rapid problem formulation for Societal Impact: Lessons from a decade-long research-practice partnership Journal of Business Venturing Insights Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Natalie Slawinski, Bruna Brito, Jennifer Brenton, Wendy K. Smith
Problem-oriented research enables scholars to directly explore increasingly complex societal challenges, yet we still lack in-depth insight into the process of problem formulation. In this paper, we offer insight into this process by examining our 10-year engaged research study of Shorefast, a social enterprise based on Fogo Island, Canada, whose mission was to revitalize the community. We show how