Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 24 Issue 3

How shared leadership and team personality composition interact to improve entrepreneurial team performance: Evidence from China

Wencang Zhou, Yanli Zhang, Yali Shen

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to explore the contingency effects of personality composition on the shard leadership and entrepreneurial team performance…

Do informal institutions affect entrepreneurial intentions?

Nataliia Ostapenko

The purpose of this paper is to empirically define the ways in which informal institutions influence entrepreneurial intentions. It tests the statement that informal institutions…

Follow for follow: marketing of a start-up company on Instagram

Henrik Virtanen, Peter Björk, Elin Sjöström

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the deliberate social media marketing practices of a start-up company. The study aims to measure the effects of these practices (i.e…

Does dynamic trade-off theory explain Portuguese SME capital structure decisions?

Filipe Sardo, Zelia Serrasqueiro

The purpose of this paper is to analyse if capital structure decisions of small- and medium-sized Portuguese firms are in accordance with the predictions of dynamic trade-off…

Italian craft beer revolution: do spatial factors matter?

Roberto Esposti, Matteo Fastigi, Elena Viganò

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the emergence of microbreweries in Italy over the last 20 years (period 1993-2014) and assess its main determinants.

Antecedents of growth-oriented entrepreneurship before and during the Greek economic crisis

Ioannis Giotopoulos, Alexandra Kontolaimou, Aggelos Tsakanikas

The purpose of this paper is to explore potential drivers of high-growth intentions of early-stage entrepreneurs in Greece before and after the onset of the financial crisis of…

SME heterogeneity and board configurations: an empirical typology

Lotfi Karoui, Wafa Khlif, Coral Ingley

The purpose of this paper is to model SME board configurations and then to examine empirically their diversity. Polarity in corporate board research around two primary tasks…

Applying “attribution theory” to determine the factors that lead to the failure of entrepreneurial ventures in Colombia

Clara Pardo, William Alfonso

The purpose of this paper is to use attribution theory to identify the factors that contribute to the failure of entrepreneurial ventures in Colombia.

The strategic hybrid orientation and brand performance of B2B SMEs

Muhammad Anees-ur-Rehman, Saila Saraniemi, Pauliina Ulkuniemi, Pia Hurmelinna-laukkanen

The purpose of this paper is to learn how strategic hybrid orientation – constructed from brand and market orientations – is related to the brand awareness, brand credibility, and…

Greening competitiveness for hotels and restaurants

Fabio Iraldo, Francesco Testa, Pietro Lanzini, Massimo Battaglia

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a survey-based study performed on Italian SMEs in the “hotel, restaurant, café” (HORECA) sector, aimed at investigating the…

Family influence and SME performance under conditions of firm size and age

Albert Lwango, Régis Coeurderoy, Gabriel A. Giménez Roche

The purpose of this paper is to provide a better assessment of the positive impact of family influence (FI) on the performance of SMEs and investigate a possible shift with firm…

Expectations and achievements in new firms

Lars Kolvereid, Espen John Isaksen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the antecedents of business growth expectations and subsequent accumulated sales revenues and employment costs. Hypotheses are derived…