Authors – E24 – Christina Öberg – The matter of locality: family firms in sparsely populated regions
This paper explores the interaction and interdependence between family firms and sparsely populated regions. Interactivity underlines the dynamics of the setting and how it changes based on activities between...
Editors – E7 – Allan Discua Cruz – Associate-Editor
Dr. Allan Discua Cruz is the director of the Centre for Family Business at Lancaster University Management School. His current research interests relate to entrepreneurship by families in business.
Authors – E23 – Irina Papazu – Entrepreneurial resource construction through collective bricolage on Denmark’s renewable energy Island: an ethnographic study
Entrepreneurial resource construction through bricolage is an underappreciated element in a growing body of entrepreneurship and organization studies examining bricolage as an organizational strategy under conditions of resource scarcity.
Authors – E22 – Rodrigo Basco – Family firms in European regions: the role of regional institutions
Our study investigates whether the quality of regional institutions influences firms’ likelihood of being a family firm. We explore our conjecture using the EU-EFIGE/Bruegel-UniCredit dataset, which provides comparable cross-country...
Authors – E21 – Sheila K. Hanson – The balance that sustains benedictines: family entrepreneurship across generations
The heart of family business and family entrepreneurship is the family. Challenging our current understanding of what constitutes a family is important to advance the emerging field of family...
Authors – E20 – Humera Manzoor – Entrepreneurship through Bricolage: a study of displaced entrepreneurs at times of war and conflict
War and conflict brings about adverse changes for those who are displaced. How do entrepreneurial individuals respond to such adversity to either set-up, or continue with their existing entrepreneurial...
Authors – E19 – Sue Kilpatrick – Social enterprises and regional cities: working together for mutual benefit
Social enterprises respond to local needs through an integrated economic and social model. It is known that social enterprises facilitate outcomes for their participants; less is known about how...
Authors – E18 – Donato Iacobucci – Entrepreneurial ecosystems and economic resilience at local level
The main aim of this paper is to investigate if and to what extent entrepreneurial ecosystems (EE) have an impact on economic resilience at local level.
Authors – E17 – Stephen Knox – Identity work in different entrepreneurial settings: dominant interpretive repertoires and divergent striving agendas
This paper examines how entrepreneurs within different settings reflect on social interactions to work on their identity. Using life story narratives, we explore a business membership network and a...
Authors – E16 – Antje Fiedler – Developing venture opportunities amidst rivalry: entrepreneurs’ backgrounds and the governing role of maintaining confidence
This qualitative, longitudinal study of 12 innovative young New Zealand ventures investigates how individual entrepreneurs develop their venture opportunity amidst emerging rivalry. Two phases are identified: the pursuit of...
Authors – E15 – Eric Clinton – Entrepreneurial learning: the transmitting and embedding of entrepreneurial behaviours within the transgenerational entrepreneurial family
The aim of this paper is to explore how entrepreneurial behaviours are transmitted and embedded across generations within a Transgenerational Entrepreneurial Family (TEF). Although extant family business research has...
Authors – E14 – Mariana Estrada-Robles – Structural coupling in entrepreneurial families: how business-related resources contribute to enterpriseness
This paper examines how family members support each other’s entrepreneurial activities through sharing resources created at the business-level. Drawing on the concept of ‘enterpriseness’ the study examines the flows...
Authors – E13 – Allan Discua Cruz – Understanding entrepreneurial opportunities through metaphors: a narrative approach to theorizing family entrepreneurship
The concept of opportunity is central to entrepreneurship theory. This article contributes to theorizing family entrepreneurship across generations by examining how entrepreneurial opportunities are constructed, communicated, and acted upon...
Authors – E12 – Pablo Muñoz – Living on the slopes: entrepreneurial preparedness in a context under continuous threat
In this paper, we examine how entrepreneurs living in communities under continuous threat prepare themselves to continue with their enterprising activities or engage in new ones after the expected...
Editors – E6 – Ulla Hytti – Associate-Editor
I am a Professor, and head of Entrepreneurship subject at the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Turku.
Authors – E11 – Sergey Anokhin – Flagship enterprises, entrepreneurial clusters, and business entry rates: insights from the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship
Employing a panel setting of 88 counties in the State of Ohio over the five-year period ending in 2006, this study aims to investigate the applicability of the knowledge...
Editors – E5 – Johan Gaddefors – Associate-Editor
“Johan works with research, teaching and administration. He is the coordinator for EIS, a group of about ten researchers and teachers that works with research on Entrepreneurship and Innovation...
Editors – E4 – Natalia Vershinina – Associate-Editor
Natalia Vershinina is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Audencia Business School in Nantes, France, and she previously worked at De Montfort University and University of Birmingham in the UK.
Authors – E10 – Dianne H.B. Welsh – How much do network support and managerial skills affect women’s entrepreneurial success? The overlooked role of country economic development
The success of women-owned businesses with regard to the stages of economic development of countries is under-examined on a global basis.
Authors – E9 – David Pickernell – Innovation and the knowledge-base for entrepreneurship: investigating SME innovation across European regions using fsQCA
Using a 2019 data set, 236 regions across 26 European countries are investigated, focusing on four, interlinked, conditions of potential relevance to SME innovation, specifically measures focused on levels...
Editors – E3 – Maura Mc Adam – Associate-Editor
Maura is a full Professor of Management and the first Director of Entrepreneurship at Dublin City University.
Authors – E8 – Lydia Canovas-Saiz – A quantitative-based model to assess seed accelerators’ performance
Seed accelerators are a new generation of business incubators. While the number of seed accelerators worldwide has grown exponentially, there is as yet no consensus on how to measure...
Editors – E2 – Sarah Jack – Associate-Editor
Associate editor of Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Sarah Jack is the Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg Professor of Innovative and Sustainable Business Development at the House of Innovation, Stockholm School...
Authors – E7 – Stephen B. Adams – From orchards to chips: Silicon Valley’s evolving entrepreneurial ecosystem
The initial development of Silicon Valley and its indigenous start-ups relied on various endowments, including abundant resources and a set of institutions and know-how inherited from previous industrial activity.
Authors – E6 – Roman Martin – When regional meets global: exploring the nature of global innovation networks in the video game industry in Southern Sweden
For firms in symbolic (creative) industries, the region is usually seen as the main arena for knowledge sourcing and exchange. Why and how these firms use global innovation networks...
Authors – E5 – Paul Ryan – The role of MNEs in the genesis and growth of a resilient entrepreneurial ecosystem
This article reports on a longitudinal process study of the critical role of anchor MNEs in the metamorphosis of a high-tech industrial cluster into a local entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Authors – E4 – Aki Harima – The injection of resources by transnational entrepreneurs: towards a model of the early evolution of an entrepreneurial ecosystem
Despite its rapid proliferation, the extant literature on entrepreneurial ecosystems has not paid sufficient attention to the evolutionary nature of entrepreneurial ecosystems, mainly on account of the prevailing structuralist...
Authors – E3 – Allan O’Connor – Time and the dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems
In this article, we are primarily concerned with the influence and role of time on an entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE). Hence, the dynamics incorporated into the conception of the EE...
Authors – E2 – Steffen Korsgaard – It’s right nearby: how entrepreneurs use spatial bricolage to overcome resource constraints
ABSTRACT The mobilization of resources is an essential challenge for entrepreneurs. Existing research suggests that access to standard and high-quality resources is an important condition for entrepreneurial success, yet...
Authors – E1 – Katharina Scheidgen – Degrees of integration: how a fragmented entrepreneurial ecosystem promotes different types of entrepreneurs
ABSTRACT Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EEs) are expected to support high growth entrepreneurship. Yet, little is known about how they actually promote entrepreneurial activities.
Editors – E1 – Miruna Radu-Lefebvre – Editor
Editor of Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Miruna Radu-Lefebvre is Full Professor of Entrepreneurship at Audencia Business School, France.
Authors – E25 – Gagan Deep Sharma – Neuroentrepreneurship: an integrative review and research agenda
There is emergent literature that converges from neuroscience and entrepreneurship research, but the definitions and interlinkages are still inconsistent. We conduct a systematic literature review of 167 papers on...