International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research: Volume 26 Issue 8

Entrepreneurs contextualisation of culture a national setting

Rana Zayadin, Antonella Zucchella, Nisreen Ameen, Craig Duckworth

The purpose of this study is to capture the variation in entrepreneurs' understandings and experiences through which they contextualise cultural factors within a national setting…

Antecedents of entrepreneurial employee activity: does gender play a role?

Andreu Turro, Maria Noguera, David Urbano

The objective of this article is to examine the extent to which the antecedents of entrepreneurial employee activity differ by gender across countries.

Immigrants' entrepreneurial motivation in Europe: liabilities and assets

Antonia Mercedes García-Cabrera, Ana Maria Lucía-Casademunt, Laura Padilla-Angulo

This paper examines how the institutional distance between immigrants' country of residence and country of origin, as well as the regulative and normative aspects of institutions…

The impact of national social capital on business creation rates in the formal vs informal sectors

Mai Thi Thanh Thai, Ekaterina Turkina, Amon Simba

Through utilizing social capital as an overarching concept, the purpose of this article is to investigate cross-country rates of business formation in the formal vs informal…

The sharing economy: a bibliometric analysis of the state-of-the-art

Sascha Kraus, Hongbo Li, Qi Kang, Paul Westhead, Victor Tiberius

Quantitative bibliometric approaches were used to statistically and objectively explore patterns in the sharing economy literature.

Transnational ties and performance of immigrant firms: evidence from Central Italy

Jan Brzozowski, Marco Cucculelli

The purpose of this study is to analyze the determinants of transnational business ties (i.e. ties with the country of origin) and to investigate their impact on the economic…

An economic view of entrepreneurial intention

Walid Adam Nakara, Rahma Laouiti, Roberto Chavez, Samiha Gharbi

The role of macrolevel factors in entrepreneurial intention remains as an underexplored issue in the literature. The purpose of this study is to reduce this gap by testing the…

Does gender equality bridge or buffer the entrepreneurship gender gap? A cross-country investigation

Veselina Vracheva, Irina Stoyneva

Gender equality levels opportunities for men and women and reduces the initial capital constraints women often face, and yet as entrepreneurship opportunities for women open up in…

Experiential learning theory and hybrid entrepreneurship: factors influencing the transition to full-time entrepreneurship

Caitlin Candice Ferreira

Through the lens of experiential learning theory, this conceptual paper examines the factors influencing the likelihood of transitioning from hybrid to full-time entrepreneurship…

Misperception of entrepreneurship and its consequences for the perception of entrepreneurial failure – the German case

Andreas Kuckertz, Elisabeth S.C. Berger, Alicia Prochotta

This study aims to investigate how Germans' misperceptions of the nature of entrepreneurship influence their attitudes towards entrepreneurial failure.