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The effects of COVID-19 on small and medium-sized enterprises: empirical evidence from Jordan
Tala Abuhussein, Husam Barham, Saheer Al-JaghoubThe ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in sudden changes in the macro environment and market behaviour, making most enterprises urgently…
Strategic guidelines for community enterprise development: a case in rural Thailand
Harry Jay M. Cavite, Chanhathai Kerdsriserm, Suneeporn SuwanmaneepongIn spite of the government’s support for small-scale rice farmers in rural areas of Thailand, several problems still affect their production and marketing performance…
Changing times and women on the wheels: a qualitative investigation of the experiences of female commercial drivers in Lagos State, Nigeria
Temitope Owolabi, Tunde A. Alabi, Sofiat A. Busari-AkinbodeThis study aims to investigate female commercial drivers in the Lagos metropolis. The study sought to know the circumstances that motivated women to venture into…
Review of employment and disability: bibliographic analysis
Cristina Marín-Palacios, Oliver Carrero Márquez, Rhona Patricia LohanThe social and work inclusion of people with disabilities is an important area of public action and research today. Future trends in the economy and lifestyle represent…
Exploring the perspectives of physically challenged women entrepreneurs in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, Ghana
Shaibu Bukari, Michael Ayikwei Quarshie, Felix Kwame OpokuEntrepreneurship and disability are discordant because of the assumption that the former is only meant for non-disabled people. Drawing on the capability, agency/structure…
Capture coproduction behavior in networking alumni communities: Progress from platform belongingness, knowledge sharing, and citizenship behavior
My-Trinh Bui, Don Jyh-Fu JengThe purpose of this study is to investigate coproduction behavior in networking alumni communities via the progress from platform belongingness, knowledge sharing and…
Towards an agricultural entrepreneurship development model: an empirical investigation in Namibia’s agricultural communities
Alex Bignotti, Alex J. Antonites, Uapirama J. KavariEntrepreneurship is increasingly being recognised as a vehicle for bringing about the development of different economic sectors in various geographical regions, and it is…
The role of entrepreneurship in reducing poverty inagricultural communities
Mufaro DzingiraiEntrepreneurship has increasingly become a subject of interest for scholars and policymakers in an attempt to reduce poverty in agricultural communities across the world…
What determines the performance of SMEs? Evidence from poultry farming in Ghana
Thomas SarpongThe purpose of this paper is to investigate factors influencing the performance of poultry farmers and examine the potential disparities in performance among gender…
Positionality of refugee business support and hospitality building under cognitive dissonance theory: an enterprising route of refugee entrepreneurship
Shuai QinFor the developed economies in Europe, to which refugees move, and as refugees’ enterprising expectations evolve, emerging cognitive factors have become closely…
“Dodging the bullet”: are effectual managers better off in a crisis? A case of Ghanaian agricultural SMEs
Oliver Kwabena Aggrey, Alfred Kwadwo Djan, Naomi Abena Dei Antoh, Louis Numelio TetteyThis study aims to investigate the effectiveness of causation decision-making and effectual decision-making logic in challenging economic situations within agricultural…
Motivational factors into agriculture as a career path: narratives of Black emerging farmers as entrepreneurs in South Africa
Ziyanda Mpetile, Willie ChinyamurindiThe transformation of the agricultural landscape is deemed as an essential nation-building priority in post-democratic South Africa. Part of the activity of transformation…
COVID-19 pandemic, a blessing or a curse for sales? A study of women entrepreneurs from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa community
Said Muhammad, Kong Ximei, Zahoor Ul Haq, Irshad Ali, Nicholas BeutellThe coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had profound economic effects, putting women entrepreneurs at considerable risk of losing income and sales growth as a result. This…
Determinants of the firm performance of returnee entrepreneurs in Somalia: the effects of external environmental conditions
Mohamed-Abdullahi Mohamed, Asmat-Nizam Abdul-Talib, AfifahAlwani RamleeThis study aims to examine the role of returning Somali diaspora entrepreneurs on firm performance and their perceived environmental obstacles.
Community and public-private partnership projects in Uganda: community engagement, trust and performance
Isaac Wanzige Magoola, Rogers Mwesigwa, Ruth NabwamiThe purpose of this paper is to provide the initial evidence of the relationship between the community and public-private partnership (PPP) projects by focusing on…
Exploring women entrepreneurs’ motivations and challenges from an institutional perspective: evidences from a patriarchal state in India
Swati Shastri, Shruti Shastri, Abhishek Pareek, Riddhi Sudhan SharmaThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the motivational drives of women entrepreneurs and highlight the challenges faced by women entrepreneurs operating micro, small and…
Empowerment of rural young people in informal farm entrepreneurship: the role of corporate social responsibility in Nigeria’s oil producing communities
Joseph Ikechukwu Uduji, Elda Nduka Okolo-ObasiThe purpose of this paper is to critically examine the corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives of multinational oil companies in Nigeria. Its main focus is to…
When the sense of place value is challenged by pandemic: value exchange in indigenous community-based tourism in Sade-Lombok, Indonesia
Cicilia Larasati Rembulan, Astrid KusumowidagdoThe purpose of this study is to investigate problems that emerged in indigenous community-based tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic, to identify the actors involved and…
Enterprising profile and career development of Kuwaitiyouth community
Mohammad ZainalThe purpose of this paper is to measure the impact of entrepreneurial profile dimensions on the career development of the youth community in Kuwait. Further, this study…
The gendered effects of entrepreneurialism in contrasting contexts
Malin Tillmar, Helene Ahl, Karin Berglund, Katarina PetterssonContrasting Sweden and Tanzania, this paper aims to explore the experiences of women entrepreneurs affected by entrepreneurialism. This study discusses the impact on their…
A retrospective overview of Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy from2007 to 2021 using abibliometric analysis
Meghna Chhabra, Léo‐Paul Dana, Veland Ramadani, Monika AgarwalThis paper aims to examine the pattern of publications, using a bibliometric analysis of the Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy…
Entrepreneurship education in Post-Soviet states developing programmes for hospitality and tourism students in Samarkand
Leei John, Marc Robertson, Kate Tetley, Claire SeamanThis paper considers a country context where traditional entrepreneurship has not been a major part of the economy and considers current attempts to develop…
Intention of coastal communities to support climate change mitigation policies for fish and marine ecosystem preservation
Antonino Galati, Antonio Tulone, Demetris Vrontis, Alkis Thrassou, Maria CrescimannoThis paper aims to assess the willingness of individuals living in coastal communities affected by climate change to financially support mitigation policies towards the…
Entrepreneurship and agriculture resources on national productivity in Africa: exploring for complementarities, synergies and thresholds
Maryam Kriese, Gladys Awinpoak Abindaw Nabieu, Daniel Ofori-Sasu, Baah Aye KusiExistent literature suggests that Africa is heavily endowed with agriculture resources and entrepreneurship remains an important mechanism for promoting national…
Co-operative behavior of handicraft, low- and high-tech micro-firms: Where do they differ?
Mohsin Shafi, Yongzhong Yang, Zoya , Liu Junrong, Imran Ur Rahman, Hina FatimaThough certain characteristics of micro-firms affect the likelihood of their participation in external relationships, how cooperation in craft enterprises differs from low…
Entrepreneurial alertness and social entrepreneurial venture creation: the mediating role of personal initiative
Isa Nsereko, Juma Wasswa Balunywa, Lawrence Musiitwa Kyazze, Hamidah Babirye Nsereko, Jamidah NakatoThe purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between entrepreneurial alertness, personal initiative and social entrepreneurial venture creation and to examine…
Neo-liberalism translated into preconditions for women entrepreneurs – two contrasting cases
Malin Tillmar, Helene Ahl, Karin Berglund, Katarina PetterssonContrasting two countries with different gender regimes and welfare states, Sweden and Tanzania, this paper aims to analyse how the institutional context affects the ways…
Expanding understanding of family social capital in crowdfunding of migrant entrepreneurial ventures
Nadia Arshad, Adele BerndtThe purpose of this study is to understand the role of the migrant entrepreneur’s social capital and specifically their family social capital in the success of their…
Exploring the next generation socialisation to entrepreneurship in family businesses: insights from the Moroccan community
Widad Ibouder, Alain Jean-Claude Fayolle, Abdenbi LouitriIn Morocco, due to the high rate of failure in generational transfers, many family businesses are threatened with disappearance. This paper aims to focus on…
Life of the Bangladeshi construction workers: an insight observation from the reality of the quality of an isolated community
Md. Saidur Rahaman, Md. Mizanur RahmanConstruction workers contribute significantly to the economic development of a country, but the working conditions and the living standard for construction workers in…
Motivation and the careers of agricultural entrepreneurs in Ivory Coast
Francis Milot-Lapointe, Sika Joëlle Prisca Boua, Etienne St-JeanFollowing an incursion into the business world as an entrepreneur, many people go back to being salaried workers or unemployed. Using self-determination theory (SDT), this…
Spirituality and entrepreneurship: integration of spiritual beliefs in an entrepreneurial journey
Sumayya Rashid, Vanessa RattenThe role of spirituality in entrepreneurship is a new area of inquiry that has emerged from different scholarly fields. There is no specific way to study spirituality as…
From lifelong learning to later life self-employment: a conceptual framework and an Israeli enterprise perspective
Raphael Eppler-HattabThe purpose of this paper is to highlight important aspects of adopting a lifelong learning mindset as a way to improve entrepreneurial employability and self-employment…
Immigrant entrepreneurship motivation – scientific production, field development, thematic antecedents, measurement elements and research agenda
Carson Duan, Kamaljeet SandhuYears of research into immigrant entrepreneurship motivation (IEM) call for a synthesis of the field to note field developments and identify thematic antecedents and…
Career choice, growth and well-being of women entrepreneurs’ community: insights on driving factors in India
Jasmine Banu, Rupashree BaralThis paper aims to explore the entrepreneurial journey of select women entrepreneurs from South India to provide qualitative insights into the factors influencing their…
The role of entrepreneurial orientation in crisis management: evidence from family firms in enterprising communities
Börje Boers, Thomas HenschelThe purpose of this paper is to explore and understand how family firms manage a crisis by applying a processual and longitudinal perspective. The objective is to find out…
Neo-rural small entrepreneurs’ motivations and challenges in Portugal’s low density regions
Ubyrajara Brasil Dal Bello, Carla Marques, Octávio Sacramento, Anderson GalvãoThis study sought to fill a gap in the literature by examining the dynamics of neo-rural small entrepreneurs’ business activities as little research has been done on these…
The influence of institutional context on entrepreneurial intention: evidence from the Saudi young community
Wassim J. AloulouThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of how a country’s institutional environment is impacting the young community’s entrepreneurial…
Self-help group (SHG) production methods: insights from the union territory of Puducherry community
Siddhartha T., Nambirajan T., Ganeshkumar C.The purpose of this paper is to study the production methods and potential of self-help groups (SHGs) for linking to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) in the…
Entrepreneurship, family and migration: a systematic literature review on Vietnamese migrant entrepreneurship
Anh Nguyen Quoc, Dai Nguyen Van, Nu Nguyet Anh NguyenThe purpose of this study is to systematically review the literature on the intersections among family, migration and entrepreneurship in the context of Vietnam. This…
Not without family: refugee family entrepreneurship and economic integration process
Khizran Zehra, Sadia UsmaniRefugee entrepreneurship is increasing because of the increased influx of refugees around the globe. This leaves us with the question that how refugees integrate…
Animating business relationships through community social capital: an insight into conviviality
Simone Guercini, Silvia RanfagniAs conviviality can nurture community social capital, this paper aims to investigate how such capital can give rise to economic behaviour in terms of developing business…
Social capital leading to innovation: understanding moderating effects of the environment in the Zimbabwean small and medium enterprise context
Boris Urban, Kudzanai MutendadzameraRealizing the value of social capital to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing economies, where relationship networks play a big role in filling the gaps that…
Customers’ purchasing behavior toward home-based SME products: evidence from UAE community
Khaula Abdulla AlkaabiThe purpose of this study is to explore factors influencing customers’ purchasing behavior toward home-based small and medium enterprise (SME) products. Moreover, this…
Meritocracy, personality traits and recruitment: some insights from the Qatari enterprising community
AbdulWahab Esmaeel BarounThe purpose of this paper is to provide a picture on the impact of the meritocracy and personality traits on the recruitment process in small and medium-sized enterprises…
When simplicity becomes complexity: negotiations between a Mennonite enterprising community and the Government of Belize
Carel Roessingh, Michiel VerverA central theme in the literature on entrepreneurship in remote communities – be they religious, indigenous, rural or migrant communities – is the balance between…
Rural women characteristics and sustainable entrepreneurial intention: a road to economic growth in Bangladesh
Mohammad Rashed Hasan Polas, Valliappan Raju, Md Muhibbullah, Mosab I. TabashThis study aims to provide a better understanding of the individual-level factors that affect rural women’s sustainable entrepreneurial intention in starting and running a…
Family across borders social capital and diaspora entrepreneurial preparedness
Eva Karayianni, Elias Hadjielias, Loukas GlyptisThe purpose of this paper is to study the way in which family ties influence the entrepreneurial preparedness of the diaspora family business owner.
Service innovation in the hotel industry: the dynamic capabilities view
Babak Ziyae, Hossein Sadeghi, Maryam GolmohammadiConsistent with the dynamic capabilities view tenets, this paper aims to conceptualize a theoretical framework of service innovation in the hotel industry.
Socio-cultural web and environmentally-driven community entrepreneurship: a portrayal of Abia Ohafia community in South-Eastern Nigeria
Ebere Ume Kalu, Leo-Paul DanaThis study is aimed at providing a deduction on the necessity of social and cultural capital for entrepreneurial outcomes on a community-wide scale.
Performance of Ghanaian women businesses community: the moderating role of social competence
Cynthia Ayorkor Sallah, Livingstone Divine CaesarThis paper aims to investigate the moderating dynamics of social competence in the relationship between intangible resources and the performance of women businesses from…
An Islamic perspective of agripreneurs motivation
Khairul Hidayatullah Basir, Siti Fatimahwati Pehin Dato MusaThis paper aims to provide an understanding of agripreneurs motivation from the Islamic perspective. The objective of this paper is to explore the proposition that…
Viability of artisanal timber milling: cases from Ghana
Camillus Abawiera Wongnaa, Michael Nyarko, Monica Addison, Dadson Awunyo-VitorA key strategy in the policy of saw millers and artisanal millers supplying the domestic market with legal and sustainable lumber is the transformation of chainsaw…
Examining network characteristic dynamics of kinship-based families on performance within Indonesian SMEs
Hardo Firmana Given Grace Manik, Nurul Indarti, Andy Susilo Lukito-BudiThis study aims to examine the moderating effect of firm age and size on the relationship between network characteristics (network centrality, network density and tie…
How kinship resources alleviate structural disadvantage: self-employment duration among refugees and labor migrants
Aliaksei Kazlou, Karl WennbergEconomic integration of refugees remains a challenge for developed countries. Although refugees differ greatly from labor migrants in available resources and motivation…
Does family involvement help small migrant businesses survive? A closer examination of family in migrant entrepreneurship
Zonghui Li, Douglas JohansenDrawing on the resource-based view, this study aims to examine how family involvement in migrant-founded small businesses gives rise to distinctive resources that help…
Financial well-being of Retirees Community in Nigeria
Benard Alkali Soepding, John C. Munene, Dagwom Yohanna DangThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the financial well-being of often-neglected group in the society. The authors examined the role of risk management and social…
The marionette: embeddedness in a community of family-controlled firms
Hanna AstnerBeing embedded in family has proven to bring opportunities and facilitate resources for a firm. However, it has its dark side, where too much family involvement may hamper…
Groping environmental sensitivity as an antecedent of environmental behavioural intentions through perceived environmental responsibility
Sandeep Singh, Priyanka Sharma, Nameeta Garg, Rajni BalaThis paper aims to study the mediating role of perceived environmental responsibility on the relationship between environmental sensitivity and pro-environmental…
Regional economic performance and the differential prevalence of corporate and family business
Zografia Bika, Peter RosaPrevious studies have largely examined interregional variations of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) rather than family firm concentrations. This paper aims to…
Social responsibility approach among universities’ community
Marsela Thanasi-Boçe, Selma Kurtishi-KastratiThis study aims to explore the extent to which universities in developing countries have adopted social responsibility (SR) and track its implementation.
How does the territory impact on entrepreneurial family embeddedness?
Paula Martínez-Sanchis, Cristina Aragón-Amonarriz, Cristina Iturrioz-LandartThis paper aims to explore how territory impacts on entrepreneurial families’ (EFs) embeddedness to unveil the role that territories play on the continuity and development of EFs.
Impact of natural disasters on New Zealand regional family businesses: perspectives of baby boomer family business owners
Julia Yonghua WuThis paper aims to describe what baby boomer family business owners in New Zealand perceive the implications of earthquakes on their business and succession planning. The…
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