Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development
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Algorithms and venture investment decisions: better, fairer or biased?
Matthew Levy, Eric LiguoriThis paper is a rejoinder to the work of Blohm, Antretter, and colleagues recently published in both Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and Harvard Business Review…
Understanding the interplay between immigrant nascent entrepreneurship and cross-cultural adaptation
Lucia Walsh, Thomas CooneyAll entrepreneurs face challenges during their venture start-up process, but immigrant entrepreneurs face additional and distinctive challenges due to their contextual…
Enabling bricolage in resource-constrained contexts: the role of sense of community and passion in African social entrepreneurs
Giacomo Ciambotti, Maria Cristina Zaccone, Matteo PedriniSmall social entrepreneurs (SSEs) who operate in resource-constrained environments frequently use entrepreneurial bricolage (EB) to overcome such limitations. Research in…
Entrepreneurship as a career choice for Emirati women: a social cognitive perspective
Khyati Shetty, Jason R. Fitzsimmons, Amitabh AnandThe purpose of this study is to utilize social cognitive theory to investigate how social comparison orientations, individual cognitive, and environmental factors…
Subcontracting and enterprise development in India's informal manufacturing sector
K. Chandra Shekar, Manikantha NatarajSubcontracting is a crucial cause behind the simultaneous existence of formal and informal entrepreneurship in India. This article aims to provide an over-time comparative…
Management control systems. A non-family stakeholder perspective on the critical success factors influencing continuous stakeholder support during businesses succession
Lil Rodriguez Serna, Dorothea Maria Bowyer, Sheree K. GregoryAlthough the use of management control systems (MCS) is known to support organizational strategic success, the role played by MCS to monitor stakeholder satisfaction, thus…
Virtue or vice? Public policies and Nigerian entrepreneurial venture performance
Damilola Temitope Olorunshola, Temitayo Isaac OdeyemiThe purpose of this paper is to explore how inter-agency engagement across levels of government and the agencies' policies impact the development of Micro, Small and…
Effects of ethnicity and gender on ethically driven small business performance
Denisse Olivas, Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Gary L. FrankwickThe authors test several hypotheses to analyze the influences of community-mindedness, ethical and social responsibility, culture, and gender on performance and job satisfaction.
Diagnosing default syndromes: early symptoms of entrepreneurial venture insolvency
Michele Modina, Stefano ZeddaIn this study, a panel of 74,128 Italian SMEs was analyzed to verify whether any syndromes could be identified and defined through financial ratios. Defining relevant…
International entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa: interfirm coordination and local economy dynamics in the informal economy
Christopher Boafo, Alexis Catanzaro, Utz DornbergerThe International Labor Organization (2020) estimates that eight out of ten enterprises (i.e. own-account workers and small economic units) are informal worldwide…
The impact of entrepreneurial firm social purpose on bank loan officer decisions: a study of loan covenant violations
Rebekah Austin, Andrew Scott Weinberger, Jon MohundroLoan officer decisions are of particular importance to entrepreneurial firms which rely heavily on debt financing as a primary source of capital. The authors investigate…
Bridging theory and practice in the humane entrepreneurship domain: insights from small and medium Italian enterprises
Massimiliano Vesci, Antonio Botti, Rosangela Feola, Emanuela Conti, Ayman El TarabishyHumane entrepreneurship (HumEnt) has been theoretically proposed as a new model of entrepreneurship supporting the idea of an enlarged entrepreneurial strategic posture…
From corporate entrepreneurship to turnover intention: a view from humane entrepreneurship
Jungmin Nam, Do Hui Kim, Jae KangBased on the humane entrepreneurship perspective, this study examines the mediating relationship of organizational trust (OT) between corporate entrepreneurship (CE) and…
Main street business owners: aging in plain sight
Nancy Forster-HoltAging is the most important social-demographic issue worldwide, supported by the initiatives of the World Health Organization (WHO) in its global strategy and action plan…
Job challenges are hindrances too: examining experiences of managers and employees in Finnish SMEs
Outi Vanharanta, Matti Vartiainen, Kirsi PolvinenThe study aims to explore job demands experienced by employees and managers in micro-enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Drawing on the job demands…
Cosmetics companies: income developments in time of crisis
Veronica De Blasio, Pietro Pavone, Guido MigliaccioThis study offers a focus on the income dynamics of the sector, analyzing the evolution of the main profitability indicators (ROE, ROA, ROI and ROS) of 457 Italian…
Dynamic capability, ambidexterity and social network—empirical evidence from SMEs in China
Xin He, Xia Wu, David Croasdell, Yanhai ZhaoThe investigation of organization's ambidextrous innovation is a challenge in the research studies of management sciences. As existent literature showed a positive…
Student entrepreneurship ecosystems at Australian higher education institutions
Alex Maritz, Quan Nguyen, Sergey IvanovDespite the significance, university student start-ups and student entrepreneurship ecosystems (SEEs) have been subject to little research. This study aims to apply a…
Resource type and SME alliance formation: the contingent role of perceived environmental uncertainty
Rohit Prabhudesai, Nitin Pangarkar, Ch.V.V.S.N.V. PrasadThe aim of the study was to determine how the different types of resources possessed by a small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME), in conjunction with the environmental…
The impact of family business professionalization on financial performance: a multidimensional approach
Gülçin Polat, Serap BenligirayThis study aims to broaden the multidimensional conceptualization of family business professionalization, and to investigate how professionalization influences the…
Has COVID-19 pushed digitalisation in SMEs? The role of entrepreneurial orientation
Lara Penco, Giorgia Profumo, Francesca Serravalle, Milena ViassoneThe authors’ aim is to investigate if entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has a role in interpreting an external crisis, such as COVID-19, as an opportunity for investing in…
Trust building in science-based SMEs in the North East of England: an ecosystem perspective
Steven Pattinson, James Cunningham, David Preece, Mark A. P. DaviesThis paper identifies exigent factors that enable and constrain trust building in a science-based innovation ecosystem.
Decision-maker's overconfidence and international performance: the role of the adoption of intuitive practices
Fabio Musso, Barbara Francioni, Ilaria Curina, Fabio Tramontana, Paolo Polidori, Maria Gabriella PediconiThe paper analyses the influence of the decision-makers' overconfidence on the intuitive practices' adoption, as well as on the international performance during…
Adaptive practices in SMEs: leveraging dynamic capabilities for strategic adaptation
Emmanuel Quansah, Dale E. Hartz, Paul SalipanteA global pandemic, broken supply chains, workforce constraints, technological advancements in artificial intelligence, etc. illustrate the continual threats that SMEs…
Analysis of determinants of youth self-employment career choices
Degsew Melak, Tegegne DerbeGiven the different manifestations of the unemployment crisis, the main purpose of this study was to identify what characteristics influence the participation of youth in…
Relationship lending, access to credit and entrepreneurial orientation as cornerstones of venture financing
Federico Beltrame, Luca Grassetti, Giorgio Stefano Bertinetti, Alex SclipThis paper investigates the effect of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) on small- and medium-sized enterprises' (SMEs) access to credit. Starting with the idea that SMEs'…
Testing the EntreComp framework and its relation to start-up behaviour in seven European countries
Sanna Joensuu-Salo, Anmari Viljamaa, Elina VaramäkiThe European Commission has published a general framework of entrepreneurship competence (EC), EntreComp, to create a shared definition and support its development. This…
Entrepreneurial strategies and family firm culture in the Arab world: a systematic literature review
Stavros Sindakis, Fotis Kitsios, Sakshi Aggarwal, Maria KamariotouFamily businesses are value-based enterprises, contributing significantly to wealth creation. Although extensive research is conducted on family businesses, there is no…
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