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The effects of firm-specific incentives (stock options) on mobility and employee entrepreneurship J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Vilma Chila, Shivaram Devarakonda
We consider the effect of employee stock options on employee mobility and employee entrepreneurship. Employee stock options are firm-specific, long-term, equity-based incentive instruments—attractive properties for affecting employee behaviors and decisions. We argue that employee stock options reduce employee mobility levels. By contrast, we posit that employee stock options increase employee entrepreneurship
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Parental divorce in early life and entrepreneurial performance in adulthood J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Mateja Andric, Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh, Thomas Zellweger, Isabella Hatak
We examine how parental divorce in early life affects performance in entrepreneurship in adulthood. Drawing on life course theory and empirical analyses of US self-employment and childhood data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we show that entrepreneurs' experience of parental divorce in childhood benefits their entrepreneurial performance in adulthood through a gain in self-efficacy
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Old but gold? Examining the effect of age bias in reward-based crowdfunding J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Benedikt David Christian Seigner, Aaron F. McKenny, David K. Reetz
While age is positively related to entrepreneurial success, the prevailing stereotype favors younger entrepreneurs. To better understand how these contradictory perspectives influence funding decisions, we examine the role of age in a sample of 41,602 reward-based crowdfunding campaigns from Indiegogo. We find a negative correlation between an entrepreneur's apparent age and funding performance, indicating
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The signaling value of legal form in entrepreneurial debt financing J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Felix Bracht, Jeroen Mahieu, Steven Vanhaverbeke
This study examines the impact of mandatory legal form choices on startups' debt financing opportunities. We posit that an entrepreneur's initial legal form decision serves as a reliable signal to outside lenders, reducing adverse selection concerns. Using data from German startups, we find that limited liability companies with low capital requirements disproportionately secure less debt than their
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When a crisis hits: An examination of the impact of the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic on financing for women entrepreneurs J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Wei Yu, Jipeng Fei, Grace Peng, James Bort
Crises have significant implications for entrepreneurs' businesses. Female entrepreneurs are often found to suffer from crises due to their marginalized positions. Despite the increasing research at the nexus of crisis, entrepreneurship, and gender, how a crisis may influence investors' funding decisions concerning female entrepreneurs and whether different macro crises bring with them different implications
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Flip the tweet – the two-sided coin of entrepreneurial empathy and its ambiguous influence on new product development J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Konstantin Kurz, Carolin Bock, Leonard Hanschur
Is empathy a uniformly good thing for entrepreneurs? Contrasting the hitherto predominantly positive view advocated by the extant entrepreneurship literature, we develop a novel model of entrepreneurial empathy's mechanisms and suggest a ‘too-much-of-a-good-thing’ perspective. We empirically confirm this model using a dataset of 4425 real entrepreneurs, where we find that empathy influences entrepreneurial
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Corrigendum to “Perceived social undermining keeps entrepreneurs up at night and disengaged the next day: The mediating role of sleep quality and the buffering role of trait resilience” [J. Bus. Ventur. 37 (2022) 106186] J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Wei Yu, Zhuyi Angelina Li, Maw-Der Foo, Shuhua Sun
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Sight unseen: The visibility paradox of entrepreneurship in an informal economy J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Robert Nason, Siddharth Vedula, Joel Bothello, Sophie Bacq, Andrew Charman
In many informal economies, entrepreneurs face a visibility paradox: increasing visibility to resource-granting stakeholders simultaneously increases exposure to resource-extracting stakeholders. To investigate this phenomenon, we leverage a unique, hand-collected, small-area census dataset of firms in the township of Delft in Cape Town, South Africa, providing rare insight into a population of otherwise
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Adapting a collective will and a way during a civil war: The persistence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem as an architecture of hope J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Trenton Alma Williams, Ramzi Fathallah
Persistent war is an increasing reality for millions of people worldwide. War contexts create a wide range of problems, but paradoxically may fuel some entrepreneurial activities. This inductive, qualitative study explores how an entrepreneurial ecosystem was launched and sustained amid an ongoing civil war despite repeated setbacks, disruptions, and impediments to pursuing collective goals. Building
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Growing pains in scale-ups: How scaling affects new venture employee burnout and job satisfaction J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Mohamed Genedy, Karin Hellerstedt, Lucia Naldi, Johan Wiklund
Although academic interest in organizational scaling is growing, extant research has focused primarily on the antecedents and processes, neglecting how employees experience scaling. Drawing on the scale-up, firm growth, and well-being literature, we take an employee perspective to examine the impact of scaling on employee burnout and job satisfaction. Using a sample of 10,908 new venture employees
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Scalability, venture capital availability, and unicorns: Evidence from the valuation and timing of IPOs J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Deepak Somaya, Jingya You
The growing phenomenon of highly valued startups (e.g., unicorns) poses fundamental questions for entrepreneurship research. We posit that venture scalability and VC funding availability may explain startups' IPO valuations (and timing). Highly scalable ventures may not only capture very large market opportunities, but their scaling strategies may also be constrained by the governance and regulatory
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Breaking barriers or maintaining status quo? Female representation in decision-making group of venture capital firms and the funding of woman-led businesses J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Lei Xu, Amy Y. Ou, Haemin Dennis Park, Han Jiang
We examine whether and when female representation in decision-making groups of venture capital firms affects the firms' decision to fund woman-led businesses. By developing an intra- and inter-group categorization framework for group decision-making, we argue that, in the male-dominated venture capital industry, decision-making groups with higher female representation are less likely to fund woman-led
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Event-based entrepreneurship J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Greg Fisher, Matthew A. Josefy, Emily Neubert
Many entrepreneurial opportunities are associated with events, including sports competitions, races and tournaments, concerts and music festivals, and conferences and exhibitions, yet this variant of entrepreneurship has not been specifically accounted for in the literature. We integrate insights from entrepreneurship research with research on temporary organizational forms, stakeholder theory, and
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No politics in funding pitches: An expectancy violations theory perspective of entrepreneurs' political expressions in crowdfunding J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-11-05 Jeffrey A. Chandler, Aaron H. Anglin, Fizza Kanwal, Jeremy C. Short
Drawing from expectancy violation theory, we investigate how entrepreneurs' language-based expressions of their political ideology influence the performance of their crowdfunding campaigns. We argue that crowdfunding funders expect campaigns to be apolitical, suggesting that entrepreneurs' expressing their political ideologies – regardless of the specific ideology – create a negative expectancy violation
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Just a number? Using artificial intelligence to explore perceived founder age in entrepreneurial fundraising J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Michael J. Matthews, Aaron H. Anglin, Will Drover, Marcus T. Wolfe
Leveraging work on role theory and age stereotypes, we deploy a randomized experiment that uses AI to manipulate founder age in fundraising appeals. Broadly, we find that age perceptions matter to investors. Using 949 equity crowdfunding observations, we show that entrepreneurs benefit from appearing older when seeking funding. However, these benefits wane as age perceptions increase, and age perceptions
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Climate impact, institutional context, and national climate change adaptation IP protection rates J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Hyungseok Yoon, Peter Tashman, Mirko H. Benischke, Jonathan Doh, Namil Kim
We study how the physical effects of climate change motivate entrepreneurs to develop and protect climate change adaptation (CCA) intellectual property (IP) in heterogeneous ways across countries. Integrating the sustainable entrepreneurship literature with the attention-based view, we show that country-level climate impact redirects managerial attention to the disruptive potential of climate change
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ESG and crowdfunding platforms J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Douglas Cumming, Michele Meoli, Alice Rossi, Silvio Vismara
We hypothesize that environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals enable crowdfunding platforms to attract more investors and thus survive longer. Using data on the population of 508 security-based platforms established in the 38 OECD countries between 2007 and 2020, we document that platforms with higher levels of ESG selection criteria are more likely to survive over time. The importance of ESG
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United we stand? Organizational groups and spinoff mortality in the context of academic entrepreneurship J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Aleksios Gotsopoulos, Konstantinos Pitsakis
We study failures between 1993 and 2017 in the complete population of 1731 English and Scottish university spinoffs founded since 1977. We borrow and expand the concept of density dependence from organizational ecology to theorize that a spinoff's propensity to fail is affected by the number of spinoffs active not only in the aggregate population but also within its parent university's portfolio. We
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A temporal typology of entrepreneurial opportunities: Implications for the optimal timing of entrepreneurial action J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Jeffery S. McMullen, Jason R. Fitzsimmons, Khyati Shetty, Stratos Ramoglou
Entrepreneurial opportunities emerge and dissipate over time, yet little is known about how and why they vary in their ephemerality and what the implications of temporal variance are for the optimal timing of entrepreneurial action. Building on the actualization theory of opportunity and signal processing theory, we propose that profit possibilities exist in the convolution of consumer desire, technical
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What is scaling? J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Sarah Bohan, Esther Tippmann, Jonathan Levie, Josephine Igoe, Blake Bowers
As ‘scaling’ has gained significant attention from different stakeholders, multiple definitions have emerged, endangering the legitimacy of the area as a distinct field of inquiry. Using a mathematics perspective, we define scaling in the business context as a time-limited process of exponential growth. We then identify drivers of scaling and show that scaling for competitive advantage requires increasing
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Social entrepreneurs concerned about Impact Drift. Evidence from contexts of persistent and pervasive need J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Alessia Argiolas, Hans Rawhouser, Alisa Sydow
In the Global North, where social entrepreneurs and their stakeholders agree that social enterprise needs to do more for stakeholders than traditional business, social entrepreneurs balancing financial and pro-social goals seek to avoid mission drift by being responsive to their stakeholders. In many areas of the Global South, despite the work of NGOs and foreign aid, social problems remain persistent
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Star entrepreneurs on digital platforms: Heavy-tailed performance distributions and their generative mechanisms J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Kaushik Gala, Andreas Schwab, Brandon A. Mueller
This study extends emerging theories of star performers to digital platforms, an increasingly prevalent entrepreneurial context. It hypothesizes that the unique characteristics of many digital platforms (e.g., low marginal costs, feedback loops, and network effects) produce heavy-tailed performance distributions, indicating the existence of star entrepreneurs. Using longitudinal data from an online
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Exploring the relative efficacy of ‘within-logic contrasting’ and ‘cross-logic analogizing’ framing tactics for adopting new entrepreneurial practices in contexts of poverty J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Angelique Slade Shantz, Charlene Zietsma, Geoffrey M. Kistruck, Luciano Barin Cruz
Entrepreneurship education and training targeting individuals living within impoverished regions has proliferated. However, empirical results suggest recipients are failing to adopt the newly prescribed practices, particularly the practice of experimenting with product, process, and marketing innovations. Research on institutional logics suggests the way practices are framed plays an important role
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A chip off the old block: Founders' prior experience and the geographic diversification of export sales in international new ventures J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-09-09 Giuseppe Criaco, Lucia Naldi
Integrating the cognition literature in entrepreneurship and strategy with the career imprinting literature, we propose that the geographic diversification of export sales in international new ventures (INVs) resembles that of their founders' most recent (geographically diversified) employer because founders bear a repertoire of the ‘logics of action’ from their employers regarding how to diversify
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Doing the right things at the right times: The role of temporal enactment in venture outcome attainment J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Trey Lewis, Diana M. Hechavarría, David W. Williams, Melissa S. Cardon
Nascent entrepreneurs (NEs) take action in the startup process by initiating startup activities in hopes of manifesting a new firm, though some NEs experience a quit outcome. Other NEs find themselves in a still trying status (i.e., continuing to work on the startup) after a span (window) of time. We draw upon recent entrepreneurial action. theory on how temporal enactment – the ways in which NEs map
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From distinctiveness to optimal distinctiveness: External endorsements, innovativeness and new venture funding J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Kazem Mochkabadi, Simon Kleinert, Diemo Urbig, Christine Volkmann
We examine how external endorsements help new ventures with varying degrees of innovativeness to attract funding. According to optimal distinctiveness theory, new ventures should be as different from competitors as legitimately possible. However, initial research suggests that new ventures can also buffer their legitimacy through external endorsements. We clarify that effects of such legitimacy buffers
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From platform growth to platform scaling: The role of decision rules and network effects over time J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Suzana Varga, Magdalena Cholakova, Justin J.P. Jansen, Tom J.M. Mom, Guus J.M. Kok
Although firms increasingly operate with platform-based business models, only a few have been shown to prosper and survive in the long run. While the literature has traditionally focused on platform growth along with facilitating network effects through value creation, our knowledge around platform scaling remained rather limited. Using an inductive theory elaboration approach with a longitudinal case
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Team resilience building in response to co-founder exits J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Rebecca Preller, Nicola Breugst, Holger Patzelt, Rieke Dibbern
Founding teams often experience the exit of co-founders. To develop theory about how founding teams deal with adversity emerging from the exit of one of their members, we take a team-resilience perspective and study the development of six founding teams. Our inductive model highlights how founding teams take different trajectories following team member exits, leading to different types of psychological
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Entrepreneurs as prime targets: Insights from Mexican ventures on the link between venture visibility and crime of varying severity J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Paul Sanchez-Ruiz, Matthew S. Wood, Timothy L. Michaelis, Jaime Suarez
This study addresses entrepreneurs as targets of crime. Leveraging insights from strategic responses to institutional pressures as the main theoretical frame, coupled with supporting insights from routine activities theory and interview data from 14 entrepreneurs who have been victims of crime, we introduce entrepreneur-led ventures becoming targets of crime via their engagement in routine activities
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Prêt-à-quitter: Career mobility and entrepreneurship in the global high-end fashion industry J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-07-22 Stanislav D. Dobrev, Kim Claes, Frédéric Godart
We test a general model of career mobility and entrepreneurship based on the premise that job transitions between organizations are influenced by the unique role of the organizational founder. Three related ideas inform our inquiry. First, individuals in that role are endowed with the right to act as representatives of their organizations which increases commitment and deters external mobility. Second
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The entrepreneur identity assimilation process: It's not all work and no play J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-07-13
We develop a comprehensive entrepreneur identity assimilation process model by drawing on in-depth interviews with 30 employees who completed the process and 12 employees who initiated but did not complete it. Extending identity process and identity-play theories, we uncover the mechanisms of daydream-play and substantive play undertaken in phases of broad, focused and specific exploration leading
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Work hard or play hard: the effect of leisure crafting on opportunity recognition and venture performance J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Alexander B. Hamrick, Ted A. Paterson, Timothy L. Michaelis, Charles Y. Murnieks, Paraskevas P. Petrou
Given the challenges inherent in starting companies, investigation of how entrepreneurs use their time at work to develop ventures has received prominent attention by scholars. We argue that how entrepreneurs use their leisure time has not received commensurate scrutiny. Leisure crafting, the proactive pursuit of particular leisure activities for specific goals, could play an important role in the
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Visual totality of rewards-based crowdfunding pitch videos: Disentangling the impact of peak negative affective visual expression on funding outcomes J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Yi Huang, Marilyn A. Uy, Chang Liu, Maw-Der Foo, Zhuyi Angelina Li
In this study, we introduce visual totality of a crowdfunding pitch video which considers not only visual segments with human faces but also segments without human faces. Drawing from Emotions as Social Information (EASI) theory and expression theory, we analyze more than 4 million frames in 3184 Indiegogo rewards-based crowdfunding pitch videos using the ResNet 50 deep neural network. Results indicate
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Navigating the highs and lows of entrepreneurial identity threats to persist: The countervailing force of a relational identity with God J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Brett R. Smith, Amanda Lawson, Saulo Dubard Barbosa, Jessica Jones
While an economic paradigm has been productive for entrepreneurship, religion has been proposed as an alternative rationality to advance research in our field. To extend a theological turn in entrepreneurship and identity research, our study inductively develops a conceptual model that explains how individuals navigate entrepreneurial identity threats based on the interaction between a relational identity
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Early-stage business model experimentation and pivoting J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Devin Burnell, Regan Stevenson, Greg Fisher
Recent literature suggests entrepreneurs struggle to pivot—or fundamentally change aspects of their venture—due to identity-based resistance to change. Yet, when entrepreneurs receive negative feedback, overcoming this resistance may be important to pivoting their business model. We adopt a convergent, mixed methods research design to explore when and why some entrepreneurs overcome resistance to change
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Preparing for scaling: A study on founder role evolution J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Evy Van Lancker, Mirjam Knockaert, Veroniek Collewaert, Nicola Breugst
One of the major entrepreneurial challenges faced by scaling firms involves changing their internal organization. Our study focuses on a particular aspect of internal organizing—namely, how founder roles evolve in preparation for scaling. By means of an in-depth case study and a combination of data collection methods, we study the evolution of formal and informal founder roles. For both types of roles
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Network to passion or passion to network? Disentangling entrepreneurial passion selection and contagion effects among peers and teams in a startup accelerator J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Kai Becker, Joris J. Ebbers, Yuval Engel
Entrepreneurial passion is socially contagious. However, do entrepreneurs also select whom they interact with based on passion similarity? The complex interdependencies between social networks and entrepreneurial passion remain undertheorized and empirically puzzling. Using a stochastic actor-oriented model (SIENA) and four waves of panel data, we test hypotheses about the co-evolution of social networks
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A tale of two life stages: The imprinting effect of macroeconomic contractions on later life entrepreneurship J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Panagiotis Sotirakopoulos, Matthew P. Mount, Cahit Guven, Aydogan Ulker, Carol Graham
Studies argue that macroeconomic contractions create immediate incentives for individuals to pursue entrepreneurship. However, research has not addressed whether past macroeconomic contractions imprint on individuals and influence their future entrepreneurship. Integrating literature on the business cycle and imprinting with insights from lifespan psychology, we develop and test competing theoretical
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Not so silent partners: Exploring the interconnected roles of entrepreneurs and their spouses J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Blake D. Mathias, Stephanie Wang
When launching their ventures, the majority of entrepreneurs are married. Yet, our understanding of the spousal influence on the entrepreneurial process remains limited. This is surprising considering the spouse represents one of the most influential figures in an individual's life. Through an inductive qualitative analysis of 18 spouse-entrepreneur pairs, we explore the interactive nature of venture-related
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Moving on: Narrative identity reconstruction after entrepreneurial failure J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Itziar Castelló, David Barberá-Tomás, Eero Vaara
Despite increasing interest in the narratives of entrepreneurial failure, the understanding of how entrepreneurs reconstruct their identity as they advance from experiences of failure to new ventures remains partial. Based on a narrative analysis of 49 entrepreneurs' experiences, we uncover three narrative types used by entrepreneurs when moving on: shielding, transformation, and authenticity. In particular
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Facing the future through entrepreneurship theory: A prospective inquiry framework J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Pablo Muñoz, Dimo Dimov
In this paper, we address a thorny challenge: how can entrepreneurship scholarship enhance its impact without compromising the pursuit of conceptual rigor and theoretical novelty? We propose a prospective inquiry framework for entrepreneurship. It aims to align the scholarly pursuit of theoretical novelty with the entrepreneurs' focus on the future, in a shared aspiration to make a difference in the
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From community rootedness to individuated entrepreneuring: The development of entrepreneurial motivation through a temporary community of practice J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Yuliya Shymko, Theodore A. Khoury
We study the development of entrepreneurial motivation of participants in an Ecuadorian incubator. Using a narrative inquiry approach based on 41 interviews, we uncover how different modes of rootedness in distinct communities shape entrepreneurial dispositions and shed light on the role of a temporary community of practice in intermediating the development and ultimate transformation of these dispositions
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Rationality in the entrepreneurship process: Is being rational actually rational? Introduction to the special issue J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Jeffrey M. Pollack, Melissa S. Cardon, Matthew W. Rutherford, Enrica N. Ruggs, Lakshmi Balachandra, Robert A. Baron
In this special issue, we aim to explore the topic of rationality and its manifestations in entrepreneurship. The six articles in this special issue cover a range of questions about rationality – what it is, where it comes from, how it influences decision-making as well as understanding contextual factors that influence it. Reflecting our call for submissions as well as the accepted articles included
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A system dynamics modelling of entrepreneurship and growth within firms J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Jinfeng Lu, Dimo Dimov
This paper uses system dynamics modelling to explore processes through which entrepreneurial initiatives within firms lead to firm growth. Our model captures the interplay among various sub-processes and finds these processes form a complex system involving multiple interacting feedback processes. Simulation analysis shows that minor changes in firm conditions could lead to qualitatively different
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Progress without a venture? Individual benefits of post-disruption entrepreneuring J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Sara Thorgren, Trenton Alma Williams
Entrepreneurial action only rarely results in the full transition to venture creation. Yet, extant research has focused almost exclusively on explaining how entrepreneurial action influences venture performance outcomes such as emergence and growth. Therefore, to advance theory, there is a need to uncover other outcomes of entrepreneurial action by decoupling it from venture creation. In this study
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Empathy-driven entrepreneurial action: Well-being outcomes for entrepreneurs and target beneficiaries J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-02-01
Empathy is a primary driver of social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial action. However, empathizing individuals can arrive at different conclusions about what targets need. This variance in entrepreneurs' empathy for targets is important because it will help explain the type of interventions they initiate to help targets and the production of a range of benefits and costs for the targets and the
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Crime, community social capital and entrepreneurship: Evidence from Australian communities J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Mathew Hayward, Russell Smyth, Trong-Anh Trinh
Crime is an anti-social blight on communities that increases the cost of doing business, including for entrepreneurs. Drawing on Australian longitudinal data, this study examines the links between crime rates and the propensity for entrepreneurship within communities. We do so by matching propensity for entrepreneurship with types of crime found at the community level where crime occurs. We find that
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Actions in words: How entrepreneurs use diversified and changing speech acts to achieve funding success J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Pyayt P. Oo, Lin Jiang, Arvin Sahaym, Annaleena Parhankangas, Richard Chan
Linguistic attributes in entrepreneurs' funding campaign descriptions play an important role in attracting resources. Going beyond examining the effect of individual linguistic attributes, this study takes a portfolio approach by viewing a narrative as a portfolio or collection of linguistic attributes. Specifically, we posit a narrative as a portfolio of “speech acts” and examine the combined effects
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Childhood adversities: Mixed blessings for entrepreneurial entry J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Wei Yu, Ute Stephan, Jia Bao
The developmental psychology literature has linked childhood adversities to detrimental development outcomes that can undermine labor market participation and performance. In contrast, emerging entrepreneurship studies raise the possibility that childhood adversities may positively affect entrepreneurial action with some diverging findings. We reconcile these opposing theoretical perspectives in their
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The good, the bad and the uncertain: Employers' perceptions of former entrepreneurs J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Alexander Küsshauer, Matthias Baum
Do employers perceive former entrepreneurs as suitable candidates for paid employment? We argue that (positive and negative) stereotypes and uncertainty drive employability perceptions regarding former entrepreneurs; these perceptions are contingent upon job type and the background of both the applicant and the person evaluating them. Two empirical studies yield broad support for our predictions. In
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Community and aftershock: New venture founding in the wake of deadly natural disasters J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Arkangel M. Cordero
The entrepreneurship literature has advanced our understanding of how natural disasters affect new venture founding in their wake. However, despite providing valuable insights, most existing studies focus on theoretical mechanisms that, explicitly or implicitly, invoke material losses or do not hone in on the theoretical effect of human losses caused by these events. This is an important omission because
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Social entrepreneurship and intersectionality: Mitigating extreme exclusion J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Israr Qureshi, Babita Bhatt, Christopher Sutter, Dhirendra Mani Shukla
As social enterprises seek to share knowledge, they must navigate social hierarchy. In this study, we examine social enterprises' efforts to share knowledge in rural areas and how they seek to mitigate some of the consequences of women's marginalization during this process. We use a two-step, multi-method approach. We begin with a quantitative study that explores outcomes for women, and how caste and
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Investing in yourself by investing in the field: The long-term benefits of reviewing J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Jeffery S. McMullen, Scott L. Newbert
This editorial highlights the importance of a robust reviewer pool to the development of the field. We emphasize the role that authors play in ensuring the sustainability of that commons and consider both the field-level and individual-level consequences of failing to do so. In addition, we make a case for the long-term benefits of reviewing, while exploring strategic and tactical concerns such as
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A founding-team model of creating a venture's culture J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Dean A. Shepherd, Nicola Breugst, Holger Patzelt
As many new ventures are started by founding teams, it is these founding teams that likely engage in creating their venture's culture. We draw on theories of cultural dynamics and the literature on team cognitive diversity to investigate the creation of a new venture's culture. Specifically, we theorize how a founding team's cognitive diversity impacts the team's production of cultural information
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Tweeting like Elon? Provocative language, new-venture status, and audience engagement on social media J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Benedikt David Christian Seigner, Hana Milanov, Erik Lundmark, Dean A. Shepherd
This article theorizes and empirically investigates how status and provocative language influence audience engagement with new-venture posts on social media platforms. Using venture capital funding as a status proxy, we analyzed 369,142 Twitter posts by 268 new ventures. We found that status (1) increases engagement with ventures' tweets, and that it (2) moderates the effect of provocative language
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Job burnout and work engagement in entrepreneurs: How the psychological utility of entrepreneurship drives healthy engagement J. Bus. Venturing (IF 13.139) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Martin Obschonka, Ignacio Pavez, Teemu Kautonen, Ewald Kibler, Katariina Salmela-Aro, Joakim Wincent
What is the real value of entrepreneurship? We propose a framework of psychological utility by integrating Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) theory with a recovery approach from a personal agency perspective. We hypothesize that personal agency together with the positive JD-R pattern of entrepreneurship generates outstanding psychological utility, which maintains and rewards a healthy, strong work engagement