International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research
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Exploring causal recipes of startup acceptance into business incubators: a cross-country study
Alexandru Capatina, Dragos Sebastian Cristea, Adrian Micu, Angela Eliza Micu, Giuseppe Empoli, Federica CodignolaThis study aims to outline the influence of various combinations of antecedent conditions for startups being accepted into business incubators in Italy and Romania. The…
With a little help from my friends: the interaction between coopetition, an entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance
James M. Crick, Dave CrickUnderpinned by a stakeholder-oriented resource-based theoretical lens, this inter-disciplinary study investigates the association between an entrepreneurial orientation…
Psychological time of green entrepreneurs: a mixed methods study of SMEs
Ekaterina Zabelina, Jorge Cruz-Cárdenas, Olga Deyneka, Aleksandr Maksimenko, Jorge Guadalupe-Lanas, Carlos Ramos-GalarzaGreen entrepreneurship is a topic of transcendental importance for today's societies. Studies on why entrepreneurs engage in green business have primarily focused on…
Digital ethnicity affordances: from a liability to an asset in immigrant entrepreneurship
Quang Evansluong, Lena Grip, Eva KarayianniThis paper aims to understand how immigrant entrepreneurs use digital opportunities to overcome the liability of newness and foreignness and how an immigrant's ethnicity…
Resilient SMEs and entrepreneurs: evidence from the UK craft brewing sector
Nadine Waehning, Gary Bosworth, Ignazio Cabras, Ekatarina Shakina, Franziska SohnsThe paper examines the sudden changes and challenges experienced by British craft breweries because of COVID-19. The purpose is twofold; firstly, to evaluate the overall…
The influence of institutional and in-group collectivism practices on next-generation engagement in the family business
Pedro Torres, Mário Augusto, Rui QuaresmaThis research aims to investigate the influence of country culture on the next generation's intention to become managerial leaders of the family business, focussing on…
Wimp out or take off? Temporal dynamics in new venture effort after exposure to entrepreneurial obstacles
Ci-Rong Li, Yanyu Yang, Jing Liu, Allan LeeThe present research integrates conservation of resources theory (COR) and adaptation theory to investigate the dynamics of entrepreneurs' reactions to obstacles…
Sustainable entrepreneurship in the equestrian sector through horse manure: a PLS-SEM approach
Oana Daniela Lupoae, Riana Iren Radu, Violeta Maria Isai, Oana Iuliana MihaiHorses play an important role in the agricultural industry around the world. The equestrian sector offers new markets and sustainable business opportunities. This paper…
Innovative entrepreneurial behavior in high-income European countries
José Fernando López-Muñoz, Josefina Novejarque-Civera, Mabel Pisá-BóThis study investigates the personal factors influencing innovative entrepreneurship combined with additional contextual insights from high-income European countries…
Does the transcultural problem really matter? An integrated approach to analyze barriers to eHealth SMEs’ development
Guoqing Zhao, Jana Suklan, Shaofeng Liu, Carmen Lopez, Lise HunterIn a competitive environment, eHealth small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs’) barriers to survival differ from those of large enterprises. Empirical research on…
Do government incentives increase indigenous innovation commercialisation? Empirical evidence from local Ghanaian firms
Harrison Paul Adjimah, Victor Atiase, Dennis Yao DzansiGovernment incentives are critical for successful indigenous innovation commercialisation, yet there are concerns about the efficacy of these incentives. Therefore, this…
Parents' support for children's entrepreneurial behavior: incentivizing the next generation of entrepreneurs
Francisco J. García-Rodríguez, Desiderio Gutiérrez-Taño, Inés Ruiz-RosaThe purpose of this paper is to present an explanatory model of the factors that determine parental support for possible entrepreneurial initiatives of the parents'…
The role of marketing agility and risk propensity in resilience and survival of eastern European immigrant entrepreneurs in Denmark
Ismail Golgeci, Ahmad Arslan, Veronika Kentosova, Deborah Callaghan, Vijay PereiraWhile extant research has increasingly examined minority entrepreneurs, less attention has been paid to Eastern European immigrant entrepreneurs and the role that…
Decision-making under extreme uncertainty: eristic rather than heuristic
Rasim Serdar Kurdoglu, Nufer Yasin Ates, Daniel A. LernerThis paper aims to introduce eristic decision-making in entrepreneurship. A decision is eristically made when it utilizes eristics, which are action-triggering short-cuts…
Beyond the nexus family – business: introducing the family business service ecosystem
Kathleen Randerson, Mariana Estrada-RoblesExtant family business research focuses on the understanding of value creation through the binary interactions between the family and its business (the family – business…
Disentangling the performance implications of new venture status: competitive vulnerability, resource scarcity or strategic flexibility?
Lucas Liang Wang, Qing Dai, Yan GaoNew venture status is the most prominent feature of entrepreneurial startups, but its performance implications have remained under-studied. This study aims to bridge this…
Coopetition and the marketing/entrepreneurship interface in an international arena
James M. Crick, Dave Crick, Giulio FerrignoGuided by resource-based theory, this study unpacks the relationship between an export entrepreneurial marketing orientation (EMO) and export performance. This is…
Determinants of SMEs’ performance: amalgamation of entrepreneurial, market and brand orientations
Ahmed Rageh Ismail, Bahtiar MohamadScholars and practitioners alike are paying attention to entrepreneurial orientation (EO) as an antecedent of the financial performance of SMEs. Other factors foster and…
Board diversity as strategic choice and why it should matter to SMEs
Elmar Puntaier, Tingting Zhu, Paul HughesDiversity in boards has gained attention as a reflection of societal imbalances. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of diversity in terms of both…
Integration of outside-in and inside-out entrepreneurial marketing capabilities, marketing agility and resources for entrepreneurial firm performance
Huda Khan, Felix Mavondo, Nadia ZahoorThe resource-based view (RBV) emphasises the importance of resources for firm performance. However, recent research argues that the focus on firm performance should also…
Strategic positioning of projects in crowdfunding platforms: do advanced technology terms referencing, signaling and articulation matter?
Yilong Zheng, Yiru Wang, Sarfraz A. MianTracking trends in new technology funding patterns is essential for venture scaling. The emerging advanced digital technologies (ADT) such as virtual reality (VR)…
Internationalization of transnational entrepreneurial firms from an advanced to emerging economy: the role of transnational mixed-embeddedness
Nicolas Li, Dhruba Borah, Jihye Kim, Junzhe JiThis study investigates the role of transnational mixed-embeddedness when transnational entrepreneurial firms (TEFs) become internationalized. First-generation immigrant…
Process tracing: a methodological proposal for a practice approach to family entrepreneurship
Attilia Ruzzene, Mara Brumana, Tommaso MinolaFollowing the lead of neighboring fields such as strategy and organization studies, entrepreneurship is gradually joining in the adoption of a practice perspective…
Too emotional to succeed: entrepreneurial narratives in a prosocial setting
Asma Naimi, Daniel Arenas, Jill Kickul, Sahar AwanThe purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the effectiveness of cognitive and emotional appeals to mobilize resources in prosocial crowdfunding settings that…
Promoting management skills: an intercultural comparative analysis
Alba Yela Aránega, Rafael Castaño SánchezSince the COVID-19 pandemic, young people have found their development obstructed and in some cases paralysed. Young professionals have had to learn to adapt to this new…
The impact of entrepreneurial passion on entrepreneurial success and psychological well-being: a person-centered investigation
Chunxiao Chen, Jian Zhang, Huirong Tian, Xing BuEntrepreneurial passion has important implications for entrepreneurial success and psychological well-being. But their connections are complicated by the fact that three…
Developing social entrepreneurship through public procurement: a wicked problem!
Alan AitkenThis paper explores attempts to deliver socioeconomic benefit by developing social enterprise within the public sector supply chain.
Public policy responses to COVID-19 and the survival of ethnic minority businesses (EMBs): does entrepreneurial orientation (EO) matter?
Ibrahim Kabir, Yazid Abdullahi AbubakarThe global economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused the closure of countless ethnic minority businesses (EMBs) worldwide, partly due…
Entrepreneurial marketing of small and medium-sized suppliers enhancing technological capability: lessons from industrial suppliers in South Korea
Yongwook Sun, Euehun LeeRapid changes in technologies and customer preferences are increasing market uncertainty. Hence, despite the benefits of reactive and adaptive marketing in the industrial…
Open innovation pathway to firm performance: the role of dynamic marketing capability in Malaysian entrepreneurial firms
Md Imtiaz Mostafiz, Farhad Uddin Ahmed, Paul HughesThis study investigates how firms build strong dynamic marketing capability (DMC) from open innovation (OI) to enhance the performance of entrepreneurial firms. Moreover…
Towards the regional aspects of institutional trust and entrepreneurial ecosystems
Olena Khlystova, Yelena Kalyuzhnova, Maksim BelitskiInstitutional trust is vital for social and economic activity and crucial in reducing uncertainty for entrepreneurs and society. To shed light on the role of institutional…
Sustainable innovation for shared mobility: contextual and consumer factors of an Indian car subscription business model
Ranjan Chaudhuri, Sheshadri Chatterjee, Arka Ghosh, Demetris Vrontis, Alkis ThrassouThe paper aims to examine the nature and scale of the sustainability value of car sharing and to identify, through consumer analysis, the contextual and consumer factors…
Designing AI implications in the venture creation process
Francesco Schiavone, Maria Cristina Pietronudo, Annamaria Sabetta, Fabian BernhardThe paper faces artificial intelligence issues in the venture creation process, exploring how artificial intelligence solutions intervene and forge the venture creation…
Predictions through Lean startup? Harnessing AI-based predictions under uncertainty
Santo Raneri, Fabian Lecron, Julie Hermans, François FoussArtificial intelligence (AI) has started to receive attention in the field of digital entrepreneurship. However, few studies propose AI-based models aimed at assisting…
Artificial intelligence as an enabler for entrepreneurs: a systematic literature review and an agenda for future research
Guglielmo Giuggioli, Massimiliano Matteo PellegriniWhile the disruptive potential of artificial intelligence (AI) has been receiving growing consensus with regards to its positive influence on entrepreneurship, there is a…
Interfirm collaboration as a performance-enhancing survival strategy within the business models of ethnic minority-owned urban restaurants affected by COVID-19
James M. Crick, Dave Crick, Shiv ChaudhryGuided by resource-based theory, this investigation examines the extent to which knowledge sharing as part of interfirm collaboration serves as a performance-enhancing…
Next-generation business models for artificial intelligence start-ups in the healthcare industry
Ignat KulkovValue creation based on artificial intelligence (AI) can significantly change global healthcare. Diagnostics, therapy and drug discovery start-ups are some key forces…
Ethnicity and bank lending before and during COVID-19
Marc Cowling, Weixi Liu, Elaine ConwayUsing ethnicity as our point of focus, the authors consider the dynamics of the demand for bank loans, and the willingness of banks to supply them, as the UK economy…
Quality evaluation model of artificial intelligence service for startups
Chang Hwa Baek, Seong-Young Kim, Sung Uk Lim, Jie XiongThis paper aims to develop a quality evaluation model for artificial intelligence (AI)-based products/services that is applicable to startups utilizing AI technology…
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