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…
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…
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…
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'…
Management beyond a critical threshold of employees: evidence-based HR solutions for SMEs
Nita ChhinzerThis research identifies human resource (HR) management challenges and associated solutions of a medium-sized organization that reached a critical threshold of employees…
A theoretical framework for identifying appropriate marketing approaches across the product development life cycle for biomedical science SMEs
Shashwati Sanjay Vahadane, Andrew Paul ClarkeAn investigation of the marketing approaches for biomedical science small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and organisations in the United Kingdom (UK) was carried…
The centrality of organisational factors in the growth of new technology-based firms
Caroline TarillonNew technology-based firms (NTBFs) are a great potential source of job creation and economic growth. In France, strong heterogeneity of their growth trajectories is…
Are family firms good neighbours? A spatial analysis of Italian technology-intensive firms
Stefano Amato, Valentina Pieroni, Nicola Lattanzi, Giampaolo VitaliA burgeoning body of evidence points out the importance of spatial proximity in influencing firm efficiency besides internal characteristics. Nevertheless, the family…
Family ownership and the export performance of SMEs: the moderating role of financial constraints and flexibility
Federica Pascucci, Oscar Domenichelli, Enzo Peruffo, Gian Luca GregoriThis article investigates the relationship between family ownership and export performance in the context of SMEs while also considering the moderating role of the…
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…
The effect of small business leaders' organisational mindfulness and social learning on opportunistic behaviour to survive the COVID-19 pandemic
Luluk Lusiantoro, Bernardinus Maria Purwanto, Rokhima RostianiThis research aims to test the relationships between organisational mindfulness, social learning and opportunistic behaviour of small business leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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…
The novelty-centered business model: a transition mechanism between exploration and exploitation in SMEs
Kerim Karmeni, Lorraine Uhlaner, Lorenzo LucianettiAs the transition between exploration and exploitation is a unique challenge for SMEs, what mechanism(s) might facilitate this transition? Building on the entrepreneurship…
Challenges to measuring social value creation through social impact assessments: the case of RVA Works
Balashankar Mulloth, Stefano RumiDespite the prevalence of academic literature debating and proposing competing conceptions of social value creation through socially driven enterprises, there is a lack of…
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…
Let the games begin: the relationship between video gaming and entrepreneurial mindsets
Sascha Kraus, Thomas Niemand, Stephanie Scott, Kaisu Puumalainen, Raphael OberreinerThis article addresses the need for further conceptual development of the factors that influence the development of the entrepreneurial mindset. It focuses on finding a…
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…
Too tied to fail: a multidimensional approach to social capital in crowdfunding campaigns. Evidences from Italian agri-food businesses
Ulpiana Kocollari, Alessia Pedrazzoli, Maddalena Cavicchioli, Andrea GirardiThe authors investigate the contributions of social capital (SC) dimensions (bridging, bonding and linking) in crowdfunding campaigns by comparing the dynamics of…
Collaborative capabilities of cause-based social entrepreneurship alliance of firms
Lamin B. Ceesay, Cecilia Rossignoli, Raj V. MahtoThis study examines the collaborative value practices of cause-based social entrepreneurship alliances. We investigate key drivers of value creation in such alliances.
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…
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.
Reaction or anticipation? Resilience in small- and medium-sized enterprises
Enrico Marcazzan, Diego Campagnolo, Martina GianecchiniBuilding on the recent capability-based conceptualisation of resilience, this paper aims to explore whether the experience of a previous crisis and entrepreneur resilience…
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…
How do transaction costs, capabilities and networks influence the procurement strategies of small agri-food firms? Evidence from the wine industry
Bruno Varella Miranda, Brent Ross, Jason Franken, Miguel GómezThe purpose of this study is to disentangle the drivers of adoption of procurement strategies in situations where small agri-food firms deal with constrained…
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…
The role of green process innovation translating green entrepreneurial orientation and proactive sustainability strategy into environmental performance
Anderson Betti Frare, Ilse Maria BeurenThis paper analyzes the mediating role of green process innovation in the relationships of green entrepreneurial orientation and proactive sustainability strategy with…
How coaching services help early stage entrepreneurs: an exploration of gender differences
Charlene L. Nicholls-Nixon, Mariah M. MaxheimerEntrepreneurial support organizations, such as business incubators and accelerators (BIAs), provide coaching as a core element of their service offering for startups. Yet…
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…
Entrepreneurship education in Brazil: Brazilian and Scottish approaches to policy and provision in vocational education
Adriano Stadler, Anete Alberton, Anne M.J. SmithThis paper examines entrepreneurship education (EE) in Brazil and Scotland and unpacks convergent and divergent practices in vocational education (VE). The authors…
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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