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Episode 93 – Hilary Downey & Caren Crowley – Authenticity and craft entrepreneurship: the interplay of passion and place
Craft-based ventures draw on associations with tradition, place and quality to differentiate their products from mass-produced counterparts. However, ‘place’ in the context of craft entrepreneurship is both underexamined and...
Episode 92 – Mir Shahid Satar – Inspiring role model and compassion in nascent social entrepreneurs: does education matter?
The study examines the influence of inspiring role model (IRM), social entrepreneurship (SE) compassion, and the SE education and their interactions and consequences for nascent SE behaviour. Utilizing a...
Episode 91 – Pablo Muñoz – Human-animal mutualism in regenerative entrepreneurship
In this paper, we explore the micro-interactions through which a regenerative enterprise engages with proximate natural ecosystems in its attempt to repair and protect them. Through an ethnographic study...
Episode 90 – Alexandra Gaidos – Exploring the impact of regional characteristics on social incubators’ mission, structure and activity: a contingency perspective
Studies of social incubators illustrate the importance of these organizations in promoting social innovations and entrepreneurship at regional level. However, little is known about the main categories of contingency...
Episode 89 – Francisco Liñan – Gender and sex in starting up: a social stereotype approach
This article analyses the influence of gender stereotypes in entrepreneurship by jointly studying the effect of gender-role orientation (GRO) and sex (women vs. men) on the entrepreneurial intentions (EI)...
Episode 88 – Deema Refai – John Lever – Radi Haloub – Entrepreneurship in constrained immigration contexts – the liminal integration of Syrian refugees
Drawing on a qualitative study of Syrian refugees in constrained immigration contexts in the North of England, this article explores refugees’ perceptions of integration and social exclusion through entrepreneurship....
Episode 87 – Josefina Jonsson – Exploring the social and spatial role of social media for community entrepreneurship
This study explores the dynamics of online community entrepreneurship, using a rural grocery store as a case study. I examine the role of social media in community entrepreneurship, revealing...
Episode 86 – Richard Harrison – Margins of intervention? Gender, Bourdieu and women’s regional entrepreneurial networks
n this paper, we apply a feminist interpretation and an extension of Bourdieu’s theory of practice to explore the gap in our understanding between gender gap issues – the...
Episode 85 – Bruce Hearn – Private equity and entrepreneurial investments: understanding the determinants of founder-CEO succession in the Caribbean
Our study develops a contextually embedded institution-theoretic model of the major influences precipitating entrepreneurial founders’ leadership succession. Drawing on a unique sample of 184 listed firms from 10 national...
Episode 84 – Vivien Lefebvre – Employment growth and profitability in European SMEs: the 100% speed limit
We investigated the relationship between employment growth and profitability and propose that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) hire employees, they experience an increase in profitability due to their acquisition...
Episode 83 – Catherine Brentnall – Homogenization processes in entrepreneurship education: the case of Junior Achievement
Entrepreneurship Education (EE) programmes world-wide serve a highly standardized menu of activities for student consumption, such as pitching exercises, competitions and mini-companies. This situation has been called the McDonaldization...
Episode 82 – Ratan J. S. Dheer – Cultural diversity: an impetus to economic growth – under what conditions?
Realizing cultural diversity’s impact on regional entrepreneurial activity has become crucial for scholars and policymakers. As a step in this direction, this study integrates insights from creative cognitive psychology...
Episode 81 – Farsan Madjdi – Entrepreneurial opportunities as expressions of personal identities: interpretative engagement through personal value structures
Entrepreneurial identities have a significant influence on new venture emergence. Yet, an entrepreneur’s (meaning-constructing) interpretive engagement with situations such as entrepreneurial opportunities remain relatively unexplained. This paper explores how...
Episode 80 – Bingbing Ge – An Entrepreneurship-as-practice perspective of next-generation becoming family businesses successors: the role of discursive artefacts
Family is the most important, yet under researched, dimension in family business research. Following recent calls in Entrepreneurship-as-Practice, we bring a practice-based approach to family business research to understand...
Episode 79 – Claudia Gomez – The distinct nature of U.S. based female immigrant entrepreneurs
Despite contributing to host country economies, there is limited examination of self-employed female immigrants in the literature. While human, social, and financial capital are important for entrepreneurship in general,...
Episode 78 – Sumaya Hashim – Women entrepreneurs in the Gulf States: Taking stock and moving forward
The Gulf States have dedicated much attention and many resources to entrepreneurship, particularly in supporting women entrepreneurship. These efforts are reflected in the increase in research focused on women...
Episode 77 – Simon Stephens & Kristel Miller – Creating an entrepreneurial story in digital spaces: the journeys and experiences of social media entrepreneurs
The emergence of digital technologies is transforming entrepreneurial processes and outcomes. This creates a plethora of research questions at the intersection of digital technologies and entrepreneurship. A key question...
Episode 76 – Claire Doussard – Barefoot entrepreneurs trapped in liminal spaces: the case of homeless youths in New York City
The barefoot entrepreneurship literature rarely acknowledges the role of space in the development of informal economic activities. However, the concept of liminal space, defined as a place of transition...
Episode 75 – Yihan Wang – Causal Configurations of SME Strategic Renewal in Crisis: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Quebec Entrepreneurs amid COVID-19
In times of crisis, SME entrepreneurs refresh and replace corporate resources and capabilities in the strategic renewal processes to sustain organizational resilience. Appearing in the form of internal development...
Episode 74 – Theodor Vladasel – Family structure and entrepreneurship: Evidence from Swedish siblings
Family background matters for entrepreneurship, but why do siblings differ in their propensity to become entrepreneurs and the type of ventures they pursue? I draw on family socialization and...
Episode 73 – Julia Korosteleva – Sectoral digital capabilities and complementarities in shaping young firms’ growth: evidence from Europe
We explore how digitalization impacts young firms’ growth. A longitudinal panel analysis of the EU’s new ventures during 2010–2018 reveals that digital sectoral capabilities affect young firms’ growth autonomously...
Episode 72 – Ana Maria Bojica – Framing conflicting demands and strategies for managing hybridity in social enterprises
Research has shown that social enterprises must constantly balance conflicting demands between their social and economic goals. However, little is known about the factors that shape managers’ strategic choices...
Episode 71 – Björn Vollan – The ‘Fetters of the Sib’ in an uncertain business environment – an experimental study in Burkina Faso
We conducted a field experiment in Burkina Faso to investigate the impact of informal sharing obligations within kin networks on entrepreneurial effort. Tailors were incentivized to produce bags and...
Episode 70 – Signe Hedeboe Frederiksen & Lene Tanggaard – Learning to navigate the landscape of participation. On the initiation of students into practices of entrepreneurship (and) education
Practicing entrepreneurship is important for entrepreneurial learning in institutionalized education. However, research is attentive to how this challenges conventional learning arrangements and requires teachers and students to change familiar...
Episode 69 – Caroline Stiel – German financial state aid during Covid-19 pandemic: Higher impact among digitalized self-employed
In response to strong revenue and income losses facing a large share of self-employed individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency-aid program. Based...
Episode 68 – Giulia Giunti – Academic entrepreneurship: work identity in contexts
Through the qualitative analysis of 81 semi-structured interviews of academics from the STEM fields, working in UK, Australia, and Italy, we support and challenge the previous literature on academic...
Episode 67 – Sibel Ozasir Kacar – A contextual analysis of entrepreneurial identity and experience: women entrepreneurs in Turkey
This study aims to understand the complex mechanisms of entrepreneurship in context and explores the entrepreneurial identities and experiences of women entrepreneurs in relation to opportunity structures in Turkey....
Episode 66 – Marieshka Barton – The magical language of un-realistic venture ideas in social entrepreneurship
As social entrepreneurship gains maturity, research has begun to explore the less alluring aspects of the field, including the heroic stance of social entrepreneurs, the assumed moral superiority of...
Episode 65 – Simone Schmid – In danger of being left behind? – Media narratives of the digital transformation in the German Mittelstand
Has the Mittelstand lost its charisma? Based on a corpus of newspaper articles, we use a multi-dimensional approach combining content, framing, and metaphor analysis to expose how media report...
Episode 64 – Alexandre Benzari – Techno-overload and well-being of French small business owners: identifying the flipside of digital technologies
Technostress is an important by-product of information and communication technologies (ICT). The technostress literature suggests focusing on specific dimensions of technostress, such as techno-overload, which describes when ICT usage...
Episode 63 – Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh – Strangers in my home: the 2015 refugee event in Europe and founder social identities of nascent entrepreneurs
How does the grand challenge of refugees influence nascent entrepreneurs in host countries? To explore this question, we build on social identity theory and analyse how the 2015 European...
Episode 62 – Maud van Merriënboer, Michiel Verver & Wouter Stam – Escaping the shadow of the past: historical context and generational identity work among young entrepreneurs in Phnom Penh’s nascent start-up scene
Identity work, the process through which entrepreneurs create a coherent and distinctive identity for themselves and their businesses, constitutes an important source of legitimacy. Yet while the ongoing social...
Episode 61 – Patrick Valéau – Commitment-based persistence in the face of venture decline: towards a renewed approach to small business orientation
The development of a nation or a region depends on saving existing businesses as much as on creating new ones. Small business orientation theories suggest that small business owners’...
Episode 60 – Robert Smith – Conceptualising animation in rural communities: the Village SOS case
This paper introduces and discusses the concept of animatorship in relation to rural enterprise and development. At its simplest level, animatorship is the art of animating others to achieve...
Episode 59 – Natalia Vershinina & Nichola Phillips – Online communities and entrepreneuring mothers: practices of building, being and belonging
Informed by contributions of Professor Alistair Anderson to the social perspective of entrepreneurship, rooted in social relationships and social capital, this article examines how members of an online community...
Episode 94 – Friedemann Polzin – Follow the money: funding acquisition processes of nascent ventures
Answering the call for more process-oriented research into the inception and development of companies, this paper analyses the funding acquisition process of nascent ventures. Based on optimal matching techniques...