International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research
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Cognitions affecting innovation among generation Z entrepreneurs: the external enablement of digital infrastructure
Mehrzad Saeedikiya, Aidin Salamzadeh, Yashar Salamzadeh, Zeynab AeeniThe current research aimed to investigate the external enablement role of Digital Infrastructures (DI) in the interplay of entrepreneurial cognitions and innovation.
The role of social start-ups in entrepreneurial behaviour: the search for efficiency
Manuel Sanchez-Robles, Domingo Ribeiro Soriano, Rosa Puertas, José Manuel Guaita MartínezIn a world where sustainability is a major aim at all socioeconomic levels, social entrepreneurship plays an important role in achieving the goals that have been set. The purpose…
Digitalization of customer service in small and medium-sized enterprises: drivers for the development and improvement
Ana Carolina Ferreira Costa, Fernando Capelo Neto, Maximilian Espuny, Aglaé Baptista Torres da Rocha, Otávio José de OliveiraSmall and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are fundamental to the socioeconomic development of a country or region. They directly contribute to increasing employment generation and…
Making sense of identity transitioning within the new venture creation process
Cherisse Hoyte, Hannah NokeThis study aims to explore how aspiring entrepreneurs navigate between their own individual self-concept and the organisational identity of the new venture during the process of…
Business model pivoting and digital technologies in turbulent environments
Maria Elisavet Balta, Thanos Papadopoulos, Konstantina SpanakiThis paper aims to draw on the Dynamic Capabilities View to discuss how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) use digital technologies to develop digital capabilities that will…
Career shock and the impact of stress, emotional exhaustion, and resources on entrepreneurial career commitment during the COVID-19 pandemic
Etienne St-Jean, Maripier Tremblay, Rahma Chouchane, Chad W. SaundersThe purpose of this study is to investigate how a career shock, like the COVID 19 pandemic, decreases entrepreneurial career commitment (ECC). The authors look at the specific…
How is entrepreneurial marketing shaped by E-commerce technology: a case study of Chinese pure-play e-retailers
Yiwen Hong, Sukanlaya Sawang, Hsiao-Pei (Sophie) YangThe focus of this study is on how online-only retailers, known as pure-play e-retailers, leverage e-commerce platforms to identify and pursue market opportunities. Through the…
Ecological resource deficits as opportunities for environmental innovation across countries
Martina Battisti, Shuangfa Huang, David PickernellWhile previous research has identified that environmental innovation is shaped by a variety of drivers, researchers have devoted limited attention to the role of nature-based…
Aligning strategy and digitalisation activity as an incremental or radical innovation in family farms
Samuel Wayne Appleton, Diane HoltDigitalisation is perceived as a new process that may add value to firms. Current theoretical understanding assumes it should be part of a firm's strategy to respond to multiple…
I'll be there for you: coopetition and competitor-oriented activities among South Asian restaurants in two UK regional clusters
Shiv Chaudhry, Dave Crick, James M. CrickThis study investigates how a competitor orientation (knowledge of and acting on competitors' strengths and weaknesses) facilitates coopetition activities (collaboration with…
Does social performance contribute to economic performance of social enterprises? The role of social enterprise reputation building
Caleb Kwong, Charan Raj Bhattarai, Min Prasad Bhandari, Cherry W. M. CheungLiterature on the relationship between social performance and economic performance of social enterprises has long been inconclusive. This paper aims to investigate whether and, if…
The mediating role of planned behaviour in the religiosity and nascent entrepreneurship nexus
Adah-Kole Emmanuel Onjewu, Paschal Anosike, Eun Sun GodwinIncreasingly, there is scholarly recognition that individuals' faith constitutes a background factor much like other antecedents conditioning entrepreneurial inclination. Yet…
Investigating the impact of food tourism vlogger entrepreneurs' language characteristics on audiences' attitude and behaviours
Wei Hutchinson, Elmira Djafarova, Shaofeng Liu, Mahmoud AbdelrahmanDespite entrepreneurial linguistic style gaining increased attention in entrepreneurship studies, the field for digital vlogger entrepreneurs still lacks a comprehensive…
Does managerial training increase SME managers' effectiveness? A capability development approach
Victor Atiase, Yong Wang, Samia MahmoodTraining remains an important factor in developing the managerial effectiveness and capability of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), yet there are concerns regarding the…
IoT-based entrepreneurial opportunities in smart transportation: a multidimensional framework
Mona Jami Pour, Mahnaz Hosseinzadeh, Maryam MoradiThe Internet of Things (IoT), as one of the new digital technologies, has created wide applications in various industries, and one of the most influential industries of this…
Metaverse meets digital entrepreneurship: a practitioner-based qualitative synthesis
Davide Calandra, Michele Oppioli, Razieh Sadraei, Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi, Paolo Pietro BianconeConsidering the pervasiveness of technology, this article offers an understanding of how the metaverse can impact digital entrepreneurship. The objective will be to gather…
Narratives of survival: how entrepreneurial families narrate their longevity
Britta Boyd, Lina Nagel, Shiva Maria Schneider, Heiko Kleve, Tom RüsenThe question of crisis resistance and resilience of long-lived family businesses became particularly volatile with the beginning of the Corona crisis. In this context the project…
The impact of Covid-19 on struggling ethnic minority entrepreneurs' business strategy: the case of Bangladeshi curry houses in the United Kingdom
B M Razzak, Bochra Idris, Rahaman Hasan, George Saridakis, Jared M. HansenThis paper outlines ways in which struggling ethnic minority entrepreneurial service ventures and their owners might respond to unforeseen economic and social shocks. Interviews…
Digital technologies, social entrepreneurship and resilience during crisis in developing countries: evidence from Nigeria
Franklin Nakpodia, Folajimi Ashiru, Jacqueline Jing You, Oluwasola OniSocial entrepreneurship (SE) is a complex phenomenon designed to resolve numerous societal challenges while remaining economically viable. However, how social entrepreneurs in…
Senior entrepreneurship dynamics: Latin America perspective
José Ernesto Amorós, Marcelo Leporati, Alfonso Jesús Torres-MarínThe main objective of this research is to exploratorily analyse different factors that influence the decision of the senior population (+50 years) to engage in entrepreneurship…
Generations and the Future of Work: case study exploration of Business Stakeholder perspectives on Zillennials in the Northern Irish workplace
Stephanie Gabrielle Moffett, Laura Bradley, Alison Hampton, Pauric McGowanThis research aims to better understand the Zillennial Generation within the workplace, specifically using the perspectives of Business Stakeholders within the context of Northern…
Dreaming digital or chasing new real pathways? Unveiling the determinants shaping Saudi youth's digital entrepreneurial intention
Wassim Aloulou, Faouzi Ayadi, Veland Ramadani, Léo-Paul DanaThe purpose of this study, based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and digital entrepreneurship literature, is to unveil the role of digital entrepreneurial knowledge and…
“Stay home, save SMEs”? The impact of a unique strict COVID-19 lockdown on small businesses
Abhishek Mukherjee, Jonathan M. Scott, David Deakins, Paul McGladeIn exploring how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) overcame COVID-19 restrictions by deploying their specific dynamic capabilities to pivot their business models, this…
The institutional impact on the digital platform ecosystem and innovation
Chinedu Ochinanwata, Paul Agu Igwe, Dragana RadicicThe digital platform (DP) develops through a network capability that combines technological infrastructure and resources to provide goods or services. This article investigates…
Entrepreneurial orientation, proactive market orientation and society: evidence from public service organizations in Brazil
Ian R. Hodgkinson, Paul Hughes, Higor Leite, Younggeun LeePublic service organizations (PSOs) face a critical dilemma: how to generate more value for society but with a much-reduced resource base. The article advances the strategy axis…
L’instant Taittinger: a champagne family house in its chronotope
Elen Riot, Emmanuelle Rigaud, Ilenia BuaThe purpose of the paper is to describe the attempt of a family champagne house to redefine its business organization as a family in a large family of families. This choice…
Do small- and medium-sized companies intend to use the Metaverse as part of their strategy? A behavioral intention analysis
Eloy Gil-Cordero, Belén Maldonado-López, Pablo Ledesma-Chaves, Ana García-GuzmánThe purpose of the research is to analyze the factors that determine the intention of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt the Metaverse. For this purpose, the…
How to secure an innovation grant for firms in new industries? Gender and resource perspectives
David Audretsch, Maksim Belitski, Candida BrushResearch on financing for entrepreneurship has consolidated over the last decade. However, one question remains unanswered: how does the combination of external finance, such as…
Female digital entrepreneurship: a structured literature review
Abrar Alhajri, Monira AloudThis study offers a structured literature review (SLR) on female digital entrepreneurship (DE). This is done by providing insights into the recent developments of the topic…
Entrepreneuring and family firms cofounders' familiness at work through rhetoric appeals
Alistair Anderson, Anca Maria Clipa, Albrecht Fritzsche, Catalin Ioan Clipa, Daniela Tatiana AgheorghieseiThis research objective was to explore how Romanian IT family businesses' co-founders enable entrepreneuring through familiness practices. The authors explored what familiness…
Time effect and shifted motivations in deprived areas: an overall perspective of entrepreneurial process
Yuxi Zhao, Piers ThompsonWilliams and Williams (2012, 2017) find multiple entrepreneurial motivations are experienced by entrepreneurs in deprived areas at different points in time. Drawing on this prior…
The start-up's roadmap to private equity financing: substituting discounts with a premium in valuation for growth
Anastasia Giakoumelou, Antonio Salvi, Olga Kvasova, Ioannis RizomyliotisAccess to financing is a key success factor for start-ups. High failure rates, long payback periodse and asymmetries lead to conservative pricing and valuation discounts. The…
Startup category membership and boundary expansion in the field of artificial intelligence
Yann TruongAn important but neglected area of investigation in digital entrepreneurship is the combined role of both core and peripheral members of an emerging technological field in shaping…
Understanding the relevance of family business, gender and value chains for SMEs' innovation in the context of COVID-19
José Antonio Clemente-Almendros, Inés González-González, Luis Manuel Cerdá-Suárez, Luis Alberto Seguí-AmorteguiIn this paper, the authors present an empirical framework that incorporates different factors of the impact of COVID-19 on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in La Rioja…
Embedding the marketing angle into the pursuit of entrepreneurial propensity: roles of perceived feasibility and desirability and stakeholders' support
Dafna Kariv, Norris Krueger, Luis Cisneros, Gavriella Kashy-RosenbaumThis study endeavors to decode the propensity for entrepreneurial action by addressing the perceptions of feasibility and desirability stemming from entrepreneurs' and…
Interlinking institutions, entrepreneurship and economic performance
João J. Ferreira, Cristina I. Fernandes, Pedro Mota Veiga, Stephan GerschewskiThis study holds the objective of evaluating the impact of formal (e.g. ease of doing business score, start-up procedures to register a business, property rights) and informal…
Antecedents and consequences of open innovation: a conceptual framework
Suresh Malodia, Chetna Chauhan, Fauzia Jabeen, Amandeep DhirEntrepreneurship across sectors has been impacted by the paradigm of open innovation in the last few decades. Although Open Innovation is argued to impact firm performance the…
The system effects of linkages on actor disposition and resource density: an approach to university-industry linkages
Rafael Ventura, María J. Quero, Sofía Louise Martínez-MartínezLinkages play a strategic role in improving actor disposition and resource density in university–industry ecosystems. Due to the importance of interconnected ecosystems for the…
Incentivizing knowledge institutions for entrepreneurship and society
Sebastian Aparicio, Mathew (Mat) Hughes, David Audretsch, David UrbanoGoing beyond the traditional approach of formal and informal institutions as antecedents of entrepreneurship (directly) and development (indirectly), this paper seeks to explore…
When does intellectual capital enhance innovation capability? A three-way interaction test
Hande Karadag, Faruk Sahin, Cagri BulutIn the current study based on the resource-based view (RBV), a three-way interaction model tests the relationships among human and social capital resources, innovation orientation…
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 barriers to…
Women, polygamy and family entrepreneuring in southwest Benin: the role of endogenous knowledge
Bienvenu Akowedaho Dagoudo, Natalia Vershinina, William Karani MurithiAs families engage in entrepreneurship, particularly in developing economies, women's engagement in such activities is subject to the traditional cultures, norms and values of the…
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 improve…
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 gender and…
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 can be…
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.
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' children. This…
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 market…
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 be based…
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 marketing…
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), artificial…
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…
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, this…
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 trust…
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 undertaken by…
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 study…
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…
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 of…
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