International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research: Volume 27 Issue 7

Social capital inequality and capital structure of new firms in a developing country: the role of bank ties

Vi Dung Ngo, Quang Evansluong, Frank Janssen, Duc Khuong Nguyen

This article aims to clarify the role of social capital and social capital inequality embedded in bank ties in enabling and diversifying new firms' debt use.

Rural women entrepreneurs in Oman: problems and opportunities

Suhail M. Ghouse, Omar Durrah, Gerard McElwee

This paper examines the challenges associated with rural women entrepreneurs in Oman. The study is based on women living in rural and highland areas who aim to move beyond their…

Entrepreneurial logic and fit: a cross-level model of incubator performance

Charlene L. Nicholls-Nixon, Dave Valliere

Although business incubators are widely used support mechanisms for innovative entrepreneurship, the literature still lacks theoretically based explanations of how the incubation…

Mixed embeddedness of Brazilian entrepreneurs in Toronto

Roberto Pessoa de Queiroz Falcão, Michel Mott Machado, Eduardo Picanço Cruz, Caroline Shenaz Hossein

The purpose of this article is to investigate how social integration, immigrant networks and barriers to ventureing affect the entrepreneurial activities of Brazilians in Canada…

Societal self-control and post-exit entrepreneurial intentions

Saurav Pathak

The study examines the role that societal levels of self-control – behavioral and cognitive self-control – play in shaping entrepreneurial intentions after both favorable and…

Journey's end: a dynamic framework of entrepreneurial processes and capitals relating to early stage business exit

Richard Hanage, Pekka Stenholm, Jonathan M. Scott, Mark A.P. Davies

The purpose of this paper is to respond to the call by McMullen and Dimov (2013) for a clearer understanding of entrepreneurial journeys by investigating the entrepreneurial…

ICT resources and use: examining differences in pathways to improved small firm performance

Malcolm J. Beynon, Max Munday, Neil Roche

The paper shows how small firms perceive the pathways through which access to and adoption of superfast broadband-enabled resources strengthen business performance. Improvements…

Predicting the effect of entrepreneurial stressors and resultant strain on entrepreneurial behaviour: an SEM-based machine-learning approach

Tahseen Anwer Arshi, Sardar Islam, Nirmal Gunupudi

Considerable evidence suggests that although they overlap, entrepreneurial and employee stressors have different causal antecedents and outcomes. However, limited empirical data…

Impulsivity and entrepreneurial perseverance: toward an empirical account and entrepreneurship-prone profile

Michael L. Pietersen, Melodi Botha

Although emerging research has linked impulsivity with the decision to start a business, scholars have yet to draw implications for later-stage entrepreneurial outcomes…

The provenance and effects of entrepreneurial inspiration

Anne Rienke Van Ewijk, Ghulam Nabi, Wiebke Weber

Building on authoritative studies on inspiration in the field of psychology (e.g. Thrash and Elliot, 2013, 2014), this study aims to clarify how entrepreneurial inspiration – an…

Are social and traditional entrepreneurial intentions really that different?

Susana C. Santos, Shahrokh Nikou, Malin Brännback, Eric W. Liguori

Building on construal level theory (CLT), this study explores mental representations of entrepreneurial intentions (EIs) with different foci (i.e. social and commercial) among…